Framatome Connectors International

Gustav Hopf

Helmut Steinhardt

An electric connector, in particular between a generator and an electronic controller for inflatable motor vehicle airbags, with a connector housing for housing contact tubes with leads. In the coupling position, the connector housing lifts a jumper, disposed in a receptacle for the generator-sided plug pins, from the plug pins. To simplify the assembly and mount the connector reliably on the generator, the connector housing (1) has an assembly opening (2) which can be closed by a cover member (11) which is slidable over the assembly opening (2) and can be retained on the connector housing (1) by a pin (16), arranged in front of the cover member in the push-on direction. Guide elements (12, 13, 14, 15) are attached to the front and rear regions of the longitudinal sides, and which can be arrested at the connector housing (1) in a preclick-stop position and click-stop position by shoulders (21) on the longitudinal sides, and strip-shaped extensions (18), which reach in the click-stop position as the blocking element behind hook-shaped spring elements (19, 20), which are attached to the connector housing (1) and engage with recesses (24) of the generator (29), and prevent a return swing of the spring elements.

Electric connector

In the case of an electric socket contact for insertion into a socket housing with a sleeve body and a laminated cage, which is attached axially to said sleeve body, for the displaceably pressing reception of a contact pin and attachment means, which are designed at the sleeve body, e.g. crimp extensions for connecting leads, there are for the purpose of making early contact and a reliable central guide of the contact pin the laminated cage (4), which is formed by a cylindrically rolled flat sheet metal blank (6), which exhibits a cylindrical base member (7) with two contact tongues (8), which are punched diametrically to each other and which are bent into the laminated cage in the direction of the free end and then are bent back toward the outside; and a cylindrical annular member (9) reaches at a distance over the free ends (8') near the plug opening (13); and wherein at a distance there are strip elements (14), which are connected rigidly to the annular member (9) and the base member (7) next to the contact tongues (8) and which exhibit depressions (10), hollows or the like, which point in the direction of the center longitudinal axis of the laminated cage, as mechanical guide members for the contact pin (11).

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Schnaittach, Germany

Gustav Hopf