Electric connection for a component arranged in a liquid-carrying housing

• US 5,607,324 A
• Filed: 06/07/1995
• Issued: 03/04/1997
• Est. Priority Date: 06/22/1994
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Behr-Thomson Dehnstoffregler GmbH
• Original Assignee: Behr-Thompson-Dehnstoffregler GmbH & Company
• Inventors: Frunzetti, Barbu, Saur, Roland
• Primary Examiner(s): Paumen, Gary F.
• Assistant Examiner(s): PATEL, TULSIDAS C
• Application Number:
  US08/479,438
• Time in Patent Office: 636 Days
• Field of Search: 439/544, 439/565, 439/563, 439/347, 248/27.1, 248/27.3
• US Class Current: 439/565
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/745 separate from the housing

Abstract

An electric connection for an element arranged in a liquid-carrying component and from which at least one electric line leads to an outside contact of a plug housing which is contained in a frame of the component is provided. The plug housing of a connector plug is held in the frame using a bow-shaped spring. A bow-shaped spring is laterally fitted from an exterior side onto the frame. The frame is provided with recesses into which legs of the bow-shaped spring project and, in each case, reach over one stop respectively of the plug housing.

Claims

1. An electric connection comprising an element arranged in a liquid-carrying component and from which at least one electric line leads to an outside contact of a plug housing which is contained in a frame of the component, further comprising:

a bow-shaped spring, the plug housing of a connector plug is held in said frame with said bow-shaped spring, said bow-shaped spring being fitted laterally from the outside onto said frame; and

wherein said frame is provided with recesses into which legs of said bow-shaped spring project and, in each case, reach over one stop respectively of the plug housing.

2. A connection according to claim 1, wherein the frame is provided with slot-shaped incisions situated at diametrically opposite points.

3. A connection according to claim 1, wherein legs of said bow-shaped spring are each provided with a right-angle bend directed toward an interior of the frame and which engage in said recesses of said frame.

4. A connection according to claim 3, wherein the frame is provided with slot-shaped incisions situated at diametrically opposite points.

5. A connection according to claim 1, wherein said bow-shaped spring has a rectangular cross-section at least in an area of its legs.

6. A connection according to claim 5, wherein the frame is provided with slot-shaped incisions situated at diametrically opposite points.

7. A connection according to claim 3, wherein said bow-shaped spring has a rectangular cross-section at least in an area of its legs.

8. A connection according to claim 7, wherein the frame is provided with slot-shaped incisions situated at diametrically opposite points.