Plug connection device

• US 6,692,038 B2
• Filed: 01/03/2001
• Issued: 02/17/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 01/07/2000
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
• Original Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
• Inventors: Braun, Hans-Peter
• Primary Examiner(s): Nicholson, Eric K.
• Application Number:
  US09/753,478
• Publication Number:
  US 20010017466A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,140 Days
• Field of Search: 285/319, 285/921, 285/382, 285/423
• US Class Current: 285/319
• CPC Class Codes: F16L 37/1205 using hooks hinged about an axis placed behind a flange and which act behind the other flange
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 285/921 Snap-fit

Abstract

A plug connection device for pressure medium conduits, for binding or connection of fuel conduits has a housing provided with arresting edges, a plug insertable in the housing and having holding elements which form-lockingly engage the arresting edges, the plug having a coupling region which in a not plugged in condition of the plug is formed as a substantially ring-shaped circumferential collar and during insertion in an associated receiving portion of the housing is deformed so that the holding elements engaging the arresting edges are formed, or the holding elements are formed at an end side on a tubular plug portion produced by extrusion.

Claims

1. A plug connection device for pressure medium conduits, for binding or connection of fuel conduits, comprising a housing provided with arresting edges;

a plug insertable in said housing, said plug having a coupling region which is not plugged-in condition of said plug is formed as a substantially ring-shaped circumferential collar, said collar being bent back at an acute angle to an axis of said plug during and after so that holding means engaging said arresting edges are formed at said collar, said receiving portion of said housing having a sleeve which is radially spaced from a radial tubular portion and has an open end side facing a coupling-side end of said tubular portion, and said sleeve having two opposite throughgoing openings which are located geometrically opposite to one another in a Peripheral direction and form inner-side arresting edges which face said open end side of said sleeve.

2. A plug connection device as defined in claim 1, wherein said plug has a plug shaft formed as a tube and having a coupling-side end with a coaxial collar.

3. A plug connection device as defined in claim 1, wherein said tubular portion of said plug has an inner diameter which substantially corresponds to an outer diameter of said tubular portion of said housing.

4. A plug connection device as defined in claim 2, wherein said receiving portion of said housing has a sleeve which is radially spaced from a radial tubular portion and has an open end side facing a coupling-side end of said tubular portion, said collar having a greater outer diameter than said open end side of said sleeve.

5. A plug connection device as defined in claim 1, wherein said throughgoing openings in said outer jacket of said sleeve have a substantially rectangular opening cross-section.

6. A plug connection device as defined in claim 1, wherein said sleeve in said outer jacket has two guiding jaws which are diametrically opposite in a peripheral direction so that said throughgoing openings are located between said guiding jaws.

7. A plug connection device as defined in claim 6, wherein said guiding jaws have a same radius and a smaller diameter than limiting portions which face said throughgoing openings.

8. A plug connection device as defined in claim 7, wherein in an anchored condition, regions of said collar which are associated with said guiding jaws angularly abut against inner surfaces of said guiding jaws in frictional manner.

9. A plug connection device for pressure medium conduits, for binding or connection of fuel conduits, comprising a housing provided with arresting edges;

a plug insertable in said housing and having a coupling region with holding means which form-lockingly engage said arresting edges and which are formed at an end side on a tubular plug portion produced by extrusion, wherein the holding means has the shape of a collar which is bent back at an acute angle to an axis of said plug, said receiving portion of said housing having a sleeve which is radially spaced from a radial tubular portion and has an open end side facing a coupling-side end of said tubular portion, and said sleeve having two opposite throughgoing openings which are located geometrically opposite to one another in a peripheral direction and form inner-side arresting edges which face said open end side of said sleeve.