ELECTRICAL CONNECTION SYSTEM

• US 20130065407A1
• Filed: 05/03/2011
• Published: 03/14/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 05/10/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Rosenberger Hochfrequenztechnik GmbH & Company KG (Rosenberger Technology (Kunshan) Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Rosenberger Hochfrequenztechnik GmbH & Company KG (Rosenberger Technology (Kunshan) Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Michelmann, Folke, Schichl, Markus
• Granted Patent: US 8,894,420 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 439/39
• CPC Class Codes: F42B 4/20 characterised by having holder or support other than casing, e.g. whirler or spike support supports for flares or torches F42B4/26
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/22 Contacts for co-operating by abutting
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/562 Bending-relieving
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/5841 allowing different orientations of the cable with respect to the coupling direction
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/6205 Two-part coupling devices held in engagement by a magnet
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/631 for engagement only
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/64 Means for preventing incorrect coupling
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 2107/00 Four or more poles
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 2201/12 for medicine and surgery

Abstract

An electrical connection system includes a plug having contact elements, and a socket having mating contact elements. The plug can be connected magnetically to the socket by means of a magnet device for transmitting signals or current. The magnet device has at least one connection pair, which comprises a magnet and a connecting element, which can be attracted by the magnet, but itself is not in the form of a permanent magnet, wherein respectively the magnet of a connection pair is arranged in the socket, and the connecting element which is not in the form of a permanent magnet is arranged in the plug.

Claims

1-14. -14. (canceled)

15. An electrical connection system having a plug which has contact elements, and having a socket which has mating contact elements, wherein the plug can be magnetically connected to the socket by means of a magnet device in order to transmit signals or current, wherein the magnet device has at least one pair of connections which comprise a magnet and a connection element which can be attracted by the magnet but is not itself permanently magnetic, wherein the magnet on each pair of connections is arranged in the socket, and the connection element which is not permanently magnetic is arranged in the plug.

16. An electrical connection system according to claim 15, wherein the plug and the socket can be connected to one another exclusively by the magnet device.

17. An electrical connection system according to claim 15, wherein the magnet device has two or more pairs of connections.

18. An electrical connection system according to claim 15, wherein the connection element, which is not permanently magnetic, is a soft-magnetic material.

19. An electrical connection system according to claim 15, wherein the connection element which is not permanently magnetic is formed by a soft-iron core.

20. An electrical connection system according to claim 15, wherein the contact elements are inserted into the plug such that their contact surfaces are arranged essentially on a plane with a front face, facing the socket, of the plug, and the mating contact elements are inserted into the socket such that their mating contact surfaces are arranged essentially flush on a plane with a front face, facing the plug, of the socket, with the contact elements and the mating contact elements making contact over an area by means of their mutually aligned contact surfaces and mating contact surfaces, when the plug is magnetically connected to the socket.

21. An electrical connection system according to claim 15, wherein the magnets in the socket and/or the connection element which is not permanently magnetic are held in the plug by adhesive bonding, clamps or clips.

22. An electrical connection system according to claim 15, wherein the socket is integrated in an electronic component or an electronic appliance, in particular a medical appliance.

23. An electrical connection system according to claim 15, wherein the plug has a ball joint and/or a rotating joint and/or a hinge, via which a cable outlet is connected such that it can move to a housing of the plug.

24. A plug for an electrical connection system according to claim 15.

25. A plug according to claim 24, wherein a ball joint and/or a rotating joint and/or a hinge, which connects a cable outlet such that it can move to a housing of the plug.

26. A socket for an electrical connection system according to claim 15.

27. An electronic component or electronic appliance having a socket as part of an electrical connection system according to claim 15.

28. Use of an electrical connection system according to claim 15 for connection of a plug to a socket of an electronic medical component or electronic medical appliance in a medical care facility, in particular in a hospital.