Electrical connection system for motor-vehicle subassembly

• US 5,959,366 A
• Filed: 06/02/1998
• Issued: 09/28/1999
• Est. Priority Date: 07/26/1997
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Kiekert AG (Lingyun Industrial Corporation Limited)
• Original Assignee: Kiekert AG (Lingyun Industrial Corporation Limited)
• Inventors: Menke, Johannes-Theodor
• Primary Examiner(s): PALADINI, ALBERT WILLIAM
• Application Number:
  US09/088,930
• Time in Patent Office: 483 Days
• Field of Search: 307/10.1, 307/42, 439/76.2, 439/34, 439/65, 361/728, 361/826, 701/49, 174/72 A
• US Class Current: 307/10.1
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 1/189 characterised by the use of a flexible or folded printed circuit H05K3/326 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 2201/10393 Clamping a component by an element or a set of elements
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 3/326 the printed circuit having integral resilient or deformable parts, e.g. tabs or parts of flexible circuits H05K3/365 takes precedence

Abstract

An electrical connection system for interconnecting an electrical element of a mount with an electrical element of a subassembly has a foil secured to a face of the mount and provided with a plurality of conductive strips connected to the respective electrical element and a plurality of contacts fixed on a face of the subassembly and engageable with the strips of the foil. The two faces are pressed together as the subassembly is secured to the mount to press the two faces together and thereby engage the contacts against the strips. The contacts project from the face of the subassembly.

Claims

1. An electrical connection system for interconnecting an electrical element of a motor-vehicle door mount with electrical elements of a subassembly mounted in a motor-vehicle door, the connection system comprising:

a foil secured to a face of the motor-vehicle door mount and provided with a plurality of conductive strips connected to the respective electrical elements;

a plurality of contacts fixed on a face of the subassembly and engageable with the strips of the foil; and

securing means for pressing the two faces together and thereby engaging the contacts against the strips.

2. The electrical connection system defined in claim 1 wherein the contacts project from the face of the subassembly.

3. The electrical connection system defined in claim 1, further comprising

an insulating layer overlying the foil and strips and exposing selected areas of the strips aligned with the contacts.

4. The electrical connection system defined in claim 1, further comprising

respective compressible bumper bodies between the foil and the face of the mount and each aligned with a respective contact, whereby the bumper bodies are compressed when the subassembly is bolted to the mount to press the respective conductive strip against the respective contact.

5. The electrical connection system defined in claim 1, further comprising

a layer of compressible material overlying the foil and conductive strips and formed with holes exposing selected areas of the strips aligned with the contacts.

6. The electrical connection system defined in claim 1, wherein one of the faces is formed with a recess open toward the other face and the other face is formed with a projection extending through the foil into the recess.