Electrical pressfit plug connector having a laterally bent power pin

• US 8,187,007 B2
• Filed: 03/17/2009
• Issued: 05/29/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 05/15/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
• Original Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
• Inventors: Emde, Christoph, Schoen-Hermenau, Ruediger, Buhmann, Mitja
• Primary Examiner(s): Paumen, Gary F.
• Application Number:
  US12/736,824
• Publication Number:
  US 20110130053A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,169 Days
• Field of Search: 439/78, 439/82, 439/751
• US Class Current: 439/78
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 12/585 Terminals having a press fit or a compliant portion and a shank passing through a hole in the printed circuit board
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 43/16 for manufacturing contact members, e.g. by punching and by bending

Abstract

An electrical pressfit plug connector for fastening to a printed circuit board includes contacts, which on the front side and back side of the plug connector are each situated as a single or multi-row male multipoint connector, and which are configured on the front side of the plug connector as contact pins for contacting a counterplug, and are configured on the back side as pressfit pins for pressfitting into metallized bores in the printed circuit board, according to the present system, either the contact pin or the pressfit pin of at least one contact of the male multipoint connectors being situated laterally offset with respect to its associated pressfit pin and contact pin, respectively, in the longitudinal direction of the male multipoint connectors.

Claims

1. An electrical pressfit plug connector for fastening to a printed circuit board, comprising:

contacts, which on a front side and a back side of the plug connector, are each situated as a single or multi-row male multipoint connector, and which are configured on the front side of the plug connector as contact pins for contacting a counterplug, and are configured on the back side as pressfit pins for pressfitting in metallized bores in the printed circuit board;

wherein one of the contact pin and the pressfit pin of at least one contact of the male multipoint connectors is situated laterally offset with respect to its associated pressfit pin and contact pin, respectively, in the longitudinal direction of the male multipoint connectors;

wherein the contact, having the contact pins and pressfit pins that are situated laterally offset with respect to each other, between its contact pins and pressfit pins has a middle contact section running in a longitudinal direction of the male multipoint connectors, with respect to which the contact pins and pressfit pins are each bent off;

wherein the contacts are fastened in a contact carrier plate between the two male multipoint connectors, and wherein the middle contact section is situated entirely within the contact carrier plate.

2. The pressfit plug connector of claim 1, wherein at least one end of the male multipoint connectors, there is a contact having contact pins and pressfit pins that are laterally offset to one another.

3. The pressfit plug connector of claim 1, wherein the lateral distance between the pressfit pin of the contact, which is situated laterally offset, and the pressfit pin of its adjacent non-offset contact corresponds to an integer multiple of the contact spacing of the back side of the male multipoint connector.

4. The pressfit plug connector of claim 1, wherein the lateral distance between the contact pin of the contact, which is situated laterally offset, and the contact pin of its adjacent non-offset contact corresponds to an integer multiple of the contact spacing of the front side of the male multipoint connector.

5. The pressfit plug connector of claim 1, wherein the contact having the contact pins and pressfit pins, which are situated laterally offset with respect to each other, has a greater cross section than the remaining contacts that are not laterally offset.

6. The pressfit plug connector of claim 1, wherein the contact pins and pressfit pins are each bent off by 90°

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7. An electrical pressfit plug connector for fastening to a printed circuit board, comprising:

contacts, which on a front side and a back side of the plug connector, are each situated as a single or multi-row male multipoint connector, and which are configured on the front side of the plug connector as contact pins for contacting a counterplug, and are configured on the back side as pressfit pins for pressfitting in metallized bores in the printed circuit board;

wherein one of the contact pin and the pressfit pin of at least one contact of the male multipoint connectors is situated laterally offset with respect to its associated pressfit pin and contact pin, respectively, in the longitudinal direction of the male multipoint connectors;

wherein all contact pins are situated in parallel, having identical contact spacing, in at least one male multipoint connector except for an outermost contact at at least one end of the male multipoint connector, the outermost contact being configured as a power pin and having the contact pin and the pressfit pin that are situated laterally offset with respect to each other, a middle contact section running in the longitudinal direction of the male multipoint connector between the contact pin and the pressfit pin, with respect to which the contact pin and the pressfit pin are each bent off.

8. The pressfit plug connector of claim 7, wherein the contact pin and the pressfit pin are each bent off by 90°

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9. The pressfit plug connector of claim 7, wherein the contacts are fastened in a contact carrier plate between the two male multipoint connectors, and wherein the middle contact section is situated within the contact carrier plate.

10. The pressfit plug connector of claim 7, wherein the lateral distance between the pressfit pin of the contact, which is situated laterally offset, and the pressfit pin of its adjacent non-offset contact corresponds to an integer multiple of the contact spacing of the back side of the male multipoint connector.

11. The pressfit plug connector of claim 7, wherein the lateral distance between the contact pin of the contact, which is situated laterally offset, and the contact pin of its adjacent non-offset contact corresponds to an integer multiple of the contact spacing of the front side of the male multipoint connector.

12. The pressfit plug connector of claim 7, wherein the contact having the contact pin and pressfit pin, which are situated laterally offset with respect to each other, has a greater cross section than the remaining contacts that are not laterally offset.