Harting Electric Gmbh &Co. Kg

Ludger Sorig

Hartwig Stein

Martin Schmidt

Andreas Naβ

Dirk-Peter Post

An electrical press-in contact element with at least one press-in section, which extends in a direction of extension from a root area, in which the press-in section is connected with a contact body, up to a free end, and which has a middle zone flanked on either side by a respective edge zone from the root area up to the free end, wherein the edge zones form contact surfaces facing away from each other that, once the press-in section has been inserted into a press-in opening, for example of a circuit board, abut against the wall of the press-in opening. In order to improve the stability and contact reliability, it is provided that the edge zones are bent away from the middle zone around a bending line, so that the press-in section has a U- or C-shaped cross section. The edge zones form webs that project from the middle zone.

Electrical press-fit contact element

In order to deliver the current generated by means of photovoltaic solar elements, the invention proposes a connector for a solar module that is accommodated in a connector housing and can be connected to the solar elements. The solar elements are interconnected by means of flat connecting lines and embedding in a translucent sandwich panel. The current is delivered through an opening in one of the sheets of the sandwich panel by means of springable contact elements that are in electric contact with the connecting lines of the solar elements.

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