Contact arrangement for connection with a polygonal socket

US8317551B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Tyco Electronics AMP GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Mohamed Aboulkassem · Darmstadt, DE
• Bert Bergner · Rimbach, DE
• Rudolf Kraemer · Herbstein, DE
• Luis Javier Puras Trueba · Mannheim, DE
• Thomas E. Scharf · San Jose, US
• Christian Schrettlinger · Bensheim, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 15, 2011
• Grant date: Nov 27, 2012
• Expiry date: Apr 15, 2031

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H01R12/585
• WIPO field: Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

The invention relates to an electrical contact arrangement for high pulsed currents and for connection with a polygonal socket. The electrical contact arrangement includes first contact, arm, a second contact arm, an intermediate space provided between the first and second contact arms, and a third contact arm. The second contact arm positioned apart from the first contact arm in a deflection direction extending perpendicularly to the plug-in direction. The first contact arm and second contact arm extend substantially in a plug-in direction, and one of the first contact arm or second contact arm resiliently deflectable relative to the other contact arm in the deflection direction. The third contact arm extends in the plug-in direction and is positioned apart from the first contact arm and the second contact arm in a transverse direction extending perpendicularly to the plug-in and deflection directions. The third contact arm movable in the deflection direction and into the intermediate space.