Circuit for conducting an electric current

• US 9,796,348 B2
• Filed: 07/26/2012
• Issued: 10/24/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 07/28/2011
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Continental Teves AG & Co. OHG (Continental AG)
• Original Assignee: Continental Teves AG & Co. OHG (Continental AG)
• Inventors: Schillinger, Jakob, Huber, Dietmar, Rink, Klaus, Jckel, Wolfgang, Haverkamp, Martin
• Primary Examiner(s): BARNIE, REXFORD N
• Assistant Examiner(s): Dhillon, Jagdeep
• Application Number:
  US14/234,702
• Publication Number:
  US 20140239711A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,916 Days
• Field of Search: 307 91, 307 101, 307 66, 307 43, 307 80, 307 64, 307 82, 348143, 348373, 439 762, 439559
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 16/033 characterised by the use of electrical cells or batteries for propulsion puposes B60K1/04; supplying batteries to, or removing batteries from, vehicles B60S5/06; testing of charge state G01R31/36
• CPC Class Codes: G01R 1/203 Resistors used for electric measuring, e.g. decade resistors standards, resistors for comparators, series resistors, shunts resistors in general H01C; microwave or radiowave terminations H01P1/26; coupling devices H01R
• CPC Class Codes: G01R 31/364 Battery terminal connectors with integrated measuring arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: G01R 31/382 Arrangements for monitoring battery or accumulator variables, e.g. SoC
• CPC Class Codes: H02G 3/18 providing line outlets
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 13/00 Apparatus or processes specially adapted for manufacturing or adjusting assemblages of electric components
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/49117 Conductor or circuit manufacturing

Abstract

The invention relates to a circuit for conducting an electric current, by an electrical component, between a vehicle battery and an electrical network component that can be connected to the vehicle battery. The circuit includes a first electrical line segment and a second line segment that is separated from the first line segment by a spacer. The line segments are connected to one another by the electrical component.

Claims

1. A circuit for conducting an electric current between a vehicle battery and an electrical network component, the circuit comprising:

a first electrical line section;

a second electrical line section connected to the first electrical line section via an electrical element; and

a spacer separating the second electrical line section from the first electrical line section,

wherein the first electrical line section and the second electrical line section are interlocked with one another on a first axis and on a second axis in a labyrinth to impede movement between the first electrical line section and the second electrical line section in the first axis and the second axis.

2. The circuit as claimed in claim 1, wherein the labyrinth interlocking of the electrical line sections is resilient.

3. The circuit as claimed in claim 1, wherein the spacer is a premold material.

4. The circuit as claimed in claim 3, wherein the premold material envelops a surface of the electrical line sections in such a way that an opening for making electrical contact with the electrical element remains free on the electrical line sections.

5. The circuit as claimed in claim 1, wherein a distance between the first electrical line section and the second electrical line section is dependent on a breakdown field strength of the spacer.

6. The circuit as claimed in claim 1, wherein contact areas on the electrical line sections for making contact with the electrical element are coated.

7. The circuit as claimed in claim 1, comprising the electrical element, which is covered by a protective compound.

8. The circuit as claimed in claim 1, wherein the electrical line sections are mounted on a component part mount, referred to as leadframe.

9. A method for producing a circuit for conducting an electric current between a vehicle battery and an electrical network component which can be connected to the vehicle battery via an electrical element, comprising:

arranging a first electrical line section and a second electrical line section with a gap separating the first electrical line section from the second electrical line section,

introducing a spacer into the gap, and

bridging the gap having the spacer with the electrical element, with the result that the electrical element electrically connects the first and second electrical line sections to one another,

wherein the first electrical line section and the second electrical line section are interlocked with one another on a first axis and on a second axis in a labyrinth to impede movement between the first electrical line section and the second electrical line section in the first axis and the second axis.