Plug connector

• US 6,280,229 B1
• Filed: 09/01/2000
• Issued: 08/28/2001
• Est. Priority Date: 09/03/1999
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Harting Electric Gmbh & Co. Kg (Harting KGaA), Murrelektronik GmbH
• Original Assignee: Harting KGaA
• Inventors: Engelmann, Gunter, Schoch, Volker, Wellmann, Christa, Schreier, Stephan, Harting, Dietmar
• Primary Examiner(s): PATEL, TULSIDAS C
• Application Number:
  US09/653,811
• Time in Patent Office: 361 Days
• Field of Search: 439/393, 439/395, 439/398, 439/365, 439/362, 439/361, 439/359, 439/372, 439/320, 439/312, 439/323
• US Class Current: 439/393
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/622 Screw-ring or screw-casing H01R13/623 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 2107/00 Four or more poles
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 24/20 Coupling parts carrying sockets, clips or analogous contacts and secured only to wire or cable
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 4/2433 one part of the base being movable to push the cable into the slot

Abstract

The invention relates to a plug connector comprising an insulation displacement contact carrier which accommodates insulation displacement contacts, and a plug contact carrier which accommodates plug contacts. The plug connector further comprises a housing which connects the insulation displacement contact carrier with the plug contact carrier. The insulation displacement contact carrier is provided with a thread for a first coupling ring and the plug contact carrier is provided with a connecting section for a complementary plug connector.

Claims

1. A plug connector comprising:

an insulation displacement contact carrier which accommodates insulation displacement contacts,

a plug contact carrier which accommodates plug contacts, and

a housing which connects said insulation displacement contact carrier with said plug contact carrier,

said insulation displacement contact carrier being provided with a thread for a first coupling ring and said plug contact carrier being provided with a connecting section for a complementary plug connector.

2. The plug connector according to claim 1, wherein said insulation displacement contacts are snapped into place in said insulation displacement contact carrier.

3. The plug connector according to claim 1, wherein said plug contacts are snapped into place in said plug contact carrier.

4. The plug connector according to claim 1, wherein said insulation displacement contact carrier is provided with polarization pins which engage corresponding bores at said plug contact carrier and ensure its correct polarization relative to said insulation displacement contact carrier.

5. The plug connector according to claim 4, wherein means for ensuring a correct polarization are provided in both an area of said connecting section and an area of said plug contacts.

6. The plug connector according to claim 1, wherein said plug contacts are designed as socket contacts and said connecting section of said housing is provided with a second coupling ring.

7. The plug connector according to claim 1, wherein said plug contacts are designed as pin contacts and said connecting section of said housing is provided with a thread for a coupling ring.

8. The plug connector according to claim 1, wherein said housing connects in non-detachable manner said insulation displacement contact carrier with said plug contact carrier.

9. A plug connector for connection to a cable having individual wires comprising:

a first coupling ring;

an insulating insert positioned within said first coupling ring and coaxially disposed relative to the cable;

a pressure member including guide bores for receiving individual wires of the cable;

an insulation displacement contact carrier which accommodates insulation displacement contacts;

a plug contact carrier which accommodates plug contacts; and

a housing which connects said insulation displacement contact carrier with said plug contact carrier;

said insulation displacement contact carrier being provided with a thread for engagement with said first coupling ring and said plug contact carrier being provided with a connecting section for a complementary plug connector.

10. The plug connector according to claim 9 wherein said insulation displacement contacts are snapped into place in said insulation displacement contact carrier.

11. The plug connector according to claim 9 wherein said plug contacts are snapped into place in said plug contact carrier.

12. The plug connector according to claim 9 wherein said insulation displacement contact carrier is provided with polarization pins which engage corresponding bores at said plug contact carrier and ensure its correct polarization relative to said insulation displacement contact carrier.

13. The plug connector according to claim 12 wherein means for ensuring a correct polarization are provided in both an area of said connecting section and an area of said plug contacts.

14. The plug connector according to claim 9 wherein said plug contacts are designed as socket contacts and said connecting section of said housing is provided with a second coupling ring.

15. The plug connector according to claim 9 wherein said plug contacts are designed as pin contacts and said connecting section of said housing is provided with a thread for a coupling ring.

16. The plug connector according to claim 9 wherein said housing connects in non-detachable manner said insulation displacement contact carrier with said plug contact carrier.