Siemens Aktiengesellschaft

Michael Roth

Ernst Liebich

Josef Dirmeyer

Richard Flieger

Egbert Wagner

Karl Schneider

Peter Moerkerke

Martin Strab

Werner Bittner

Marcus Schulte

A hybrid connector with electric plug-in connections and fiber-optic demountable connections for an electronic built-in unit. The hybrid connector has a female connector and an angular male connector strip having long side walls. The female connector has a cover cap with module chambers for holding electric receptacle modules and fiber-optic modules. Electrooptical transducers having connecting leads with ends defining solder terminals are assigned to the fiber-optic connectors of the fiber-optic modules. The electrooptical transducers are disposed in a base of the angular male connector strip. The electrooptical transducers are aligned in a row parallel to the long side walls on a side on which solder terminals of the male connector strip are located. In this manner, the length of the connecting leads including the solder terminals is as small as possible.

Hybrid connector

A plug connector includes a housing being made of insulating material and having a lower surface for the passage of plug pins, an upper surface opposite the lower surface, and an open end between the lower and upper surfaces. Contact elements are disposed between the lower and upper surfaces and form plug elements being directed toward the lower surface for connection to leads in the direction of the upper surface. A lead exit duct is disposed in the vicinity of the upper surface and the open end, for routing the leads out of the housing. A closure plate covers the open end of the housing, except for the lead exit duct. The upper surface of the housing has a recess formed therein being open in the direction of the open end of the housing, to permit a lead to exit. As a result, a variable outgoing lead connection is made possible through an angular range of approximately 90.degree. due to a shortened lead exit duct integrated into the housing.

Plug connector having a lead exit duct

In order to provide a simple connection between a shield housing and a strip body, the shield housing, which has resilient side parts with spring arms being bent inwards, is pushed over lead-in and sliding inclines on the strip body and automatically latches on an insertion side or front thereof. The spring arms of each side part, which are located alongside one another, alternately form contact elements providing contact between the shield housing and a mounting panel and sliding and latching elements for connecting the shield housing to the strip body. The invention is suitable for motor vehicle filter plug connectors.

Filter plug connector having a shield housing

A plug-in connector includes a trough-shaped socket unit and a plug unit to be fittingly inserted into the socket unit. The socket unit has a plug channel with an elongated, approximately rectangular cross section, longer longitudinal side walls and shorter transverse side walls defining the plug channel, an inner end with a bottom closing off the plug channel, and a multiplicity plug pins protruding at right angles from the bottom. The longitudinal side walls have guide segments and recesses. The plug unit has a substantially rectangular cross section with longitudinal lateral surfaces, transverse lateral surfaces and a front closure surface having insertion openings formed therein for passage of the plug pins through the insertion openings to plug sockets. The transverse lateral surfaces are guided along the transverse side walls and the longitudinal lateral surfaces are guided on the guide segments. Both of the longitudinal lateral surfaces have respective opposed safety ribs extending in an insertion direction in the vicinity of two end edges. The longitudinal side walls have complementary safety grooves in the vicinity of two end edges for receiving the safety ribs. The opposed safety ribs define a width of the plug unit greater than a greatest clear opening defined between the recesses.

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Munchen, Germany

Michael Roth