Current conductor

• US 20080083553A1
• Filed: 10/09/2007
• Published: 04/10/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 10/09/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Delphi Technologies, Inc. (BorgWarner Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: Delphi Technologies, Inc. (BorgWarner Incorporated)
• Inventors: Gaertner, Markus
• Application Number:
  US11/973,634
• Publication Number:
  US 20080083553A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 174/68.3
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 25/161 Details
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 4/28 Clamped connections, spring connections made by means of terminals specially adapted for contact with, or insertion into, printed circuits H01R12/00
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 4/5041 using a tapered groove
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/49117 Conductor or circuit manufacturing

Abstract

The invention relates to a current conductor, in particular for motor vehicles, to which at least one electrically conductive connector element can be fastened to make an electrical contact, with the current conductor having a recess which includes a wall section which is pierced by at least one plug opening for the connector element.

Claims

1. A current conductor, to which at least one electrically conductive connector element can be fastened to form an electrical contact, wherein the current conductor has a recess that includes a wall section that is pierced by at least one plug opening for the connector element.

2. An apparatus in accordance with claim 1, wherein two plug openings each piercing the wall section are provided.

3. An apparatus in accordance with claim 2, wherein the plug openings are oppositely disposed with respect to a central axis of the recess.

4. An apparatus in accordance with at claim 1, wherein at least one adjacent opening is provided for the plug opening, said adjacent opening piercing the current conductor, and wherein the adjacent opening is positioned such that a web portion is formed that is arranged in the region of the wall section.

5. An apparatus in accordance with at claim 1, wherein the recess is pot-shaped.

6. An apparatus in accordance with claim 1, wherein the recess includes a recess base that is pierced by a contact opening into which a spigot of the connector element can be plugged or pressed to form an electrical contact.

7. An arrangement comprising at least one current conductor in accordance with claim 1, to which at least one electrically conducting connector element is fastened to form an electrical contact, said connector element including a contact section that is pressed into the at least one plug opening of the current conductor.

8. An arrangement in accordance with claim 7, wherein the connector element includes a spigot that is plugged or pressed into a contact opening of the current conductor piercing a recess base of the recess to form an electrical contact.

11. An apparatus in accordance with at claim 1, wherein at least one adjacent opening is provided for the plug opening, said adjacent opening piercing the current conductor, and wherein the adjacent opening is positioned such that a web portion acts as a bending beam between the plug opening and the adjacent opening.

12. An apparatus in accordance with at claim 1, wherein the recess is tub-shaped.

13. An apparatus in accordance with at claim 1, wherein the recess is rotationally symmetrical with respect to a central axis.

14. An apparatus in accordance with at claim 1, wherein the recess is pot-shaped and is rotationally symmetrical with respect to a central axis.

9. A method of manufacturing a current conductor, to which at least one electrically conductive connector element can be fastened to form an electrical contact,

wherein:

a region of the current conductor is selected for the fastening of the connector element;

in that the region is worked, in particular by deep drawing, such that a recess is formed; and

in that a marginal section or wall section of the region is worked, in particular by stamping out, such that at least one plug opening is formed;

wherein a contact section of the connector element is able to be pressed into the at least one plug opening.

10. A method in accordance with claim 9, wherein first the recess is made and then the plug opening, or vice versa.