Multipole plug connector for electronic signal lines

• US 6,478,626 B2
• Filed: 07/23/2001
• Issued: 11/12/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 08/26/2000
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Microtech Group, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Microtech Group, Inc.
• Inventors: Dingenotto, Meinolf, Kühle, Jörg
• Primary Examiner(s): Sircus, Brian
• Assistant Examiner(s): Prasad, Chandrika
• Application Number:
  US09/910,743
• Publication Number:
  US 20020025719A1
• Time in Patent Office: 477 Days
• Field of Search: 439/620, 439/607, 439/333, 333/181, 333/166
• US Class Current: 439/620.14
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/6625 with capacitive component
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/7195 with planar filters with openings for contacts

Abstract

A plug connector having a housing and an insulating body in the housing is described. Contact inserts are provided and correspond to the total number of lines passing through, each with a connecting sleeve, insert foot, insert body and with sockets/pins, and at least one line is electrically connected via a matching circuit to the housing. The matching circuit is accommodated by the plug connector housing and is connected to the signal conductors and the housing ground. For this purpose, the connector receptacles are in the form of roughly cylindrical apertures with circumferential inner rings which, facing the filter chamber, have an axial groove, with a window toward the filter chamber. Each of the inserted contact inserts has a matching ring interacting with the inner ring and has a device to ensure that the contact insert is seated without any play, and that contact is made with the matching circuit.

Claims

1. A multipole plug connector for holding a mating connector, comprising:

a housing;

a plurality of contact inserts corresponding to a number of lines passing through for signals, control currents, and power currents, each of said contact inserts having a connecting sleeve, an insert foot, an insert body, and one of a socket and a pin for connecting to a line, said insert body including a matching ring;

a matching circuit for at least one of the lines and having a signal contact surface and a ground contact surface, said matching circuit being a planar insert having at least one capacitor and is electrically connected to an associated line through said signal contact surface and to said housing through said ground contact surface; and

an insulating body disposed in said housing and having connector receptacles formed therein and a filter chamber formed therein, said connector receptacles have a substantially cylindrical aperture form with a circumferential inner ring which, facing said filter chamber, has an axially running groove formed therein located such that it opens a window toward said filter chamber, and each of said contact inserts inserted into one of said connector receptacles and said matching ring of each of said contact inserts interacting with said circumferential inner ring, said contact inserts each having a first device for ensuring that said contact inserts are seated substantially without any play and a second device for ensuring that contact is made with said matching circuit.

2. The multipole plug connector according to claim 1, wherein each of said contact inserts has a annular groove formed therein and said first device for ensuring that said contact inserts are seated substantially without any play is a circlip disposed in said annular groove and fixes a respective contact insert of said contact inserts in a respective one of said connector receptacles, said matching ring has a given height matching a height of said circumferential inner ring such that, when said respective contact insert is inserted, said insert foot rests on a surface of said circumferential inner ring which forms an upper rest, and including a contact ring disposed between said insert foot and said circumferential inner ring, and, said circlip engaging behind said matching ring ensures that said respective contact insert is seated substantially without any play.

3. The multipole plug connector according to claim 2, wherein said circlip has an internal diameter and said annular groove has an external diameter less than said internal diameter of said circlip, said circlip has a slot formed therein with a width set so that said circlip can be compressed to said external diameter of said annular groove.

4. The multipole plug connector according to claim 2, wherein said second device for ensuring that contact is made is said contact ring inserted, at least partially surrounding said contact insert, between said insert foot and said circlip, said contact ring has at least one contact spring arm passing through said axially running groove to said filter chamber and makes contact with said signal contact surface of said matching circuit.

5. The multipole plug connector according to claim 4, wherein said contact ring has two contact spring arms disposed diametrically opposite one another.

6. The multipole plug connector according to claim 5, wherein said insulating body has a strip bounding said filter chamber and extending along sides of said contact inserts beyond bent free ends of said contact spring arms and, in a region of said contact spring arms said strip has a chamfer formed thereon in a form of a wedge pointing toward said contact arms, said chamfer being a pressure strip and interacting with said bent free ends of said contact arms, presses said contact arms against said signal contact surfaces of said matching circuit.

7. The multipole plug connector according to claim 6, wherein said contact ring has a device for increasing a contact pressure.

8. The multipole plug connector according to claim 7, wherein said device for increasing the contact pressure is selected from the group consisting of corrugations and teeth projecting out of a plane of said contact ring on a side facing said insert foot of said contact insert.

9. The multipole plug connector according to claim 7, wherein said device for increasing the contact pressure are pushed-through contact claws formed on a surface of said contact ring.

10. The multipole plug connector according to claim 1, wherein said connecting sleeve is provided for connecting the line to said contact insert and said connecting sleeve is a solder sleeve.

11. The multipole plug connector according to claim 1, wherein said connecting sleeve is provided for connecting a line to said contact insert and said connecting sleeve is a crimping sleeve.

12. The multipole plug connector according to claim 1, wherein said matching circuit is a filter having a parallel capacitor connected to ground through said ground contact surface.