Hirschmann Automotive Gmbh

Hirschmann Austria Gmbh

Thomas Bürk

Alexander Denz

Gerald Schreiber

Georg Geismayr

Dietmer Kammerer

Alexander Schmid

Dagmar Dirnbauer

Klaus Plangger

A plug-in connection has a housing having a pair of spaced sides between which can fit a plug or socket. Each side is formed with an aperture with the apertures aligned transversely with each other. The housing further having a latch element and a locking element. A pair of spaced side walls are fixed to and project outward from one of the sides of the housing. The aperture of the one side of the housing is between the side walls, and the aperture on the other side of the housing is at least as large as the aperture of the one side. A cover bridges the side walls and forms therewith a recess adapted to receive the locking element movable therein. The cover and side walls at least almost completely enclose the latch element and locking element and are almost completely enclosed in an end region of the recess.

Closed housing for a locking element of a plug-in connection

An electrical connector has a dielectric body having longitudinally opposite inner and outer faces and formed with a central cavity opening longitudinally outward at the outer face and a pair of side cavities flanking the central cavity and also opening longitudinally outward at the outer face, respective stiff contacts fixed in the side cavities and each having an outer end projecting longitudinally outward from the respective side cavity past the outer face, an elastically deformable generally U-shaped bridge clip having a bight in the central cavity and a pair of generally longitudinally extending arms each having an outer end projecting longitudinally outward from the central cavity past the outer face, each of the arm outer ends bearing transversely on a respective one of the contact outer ends in an uncoupled position of the connector. The bight is held in the cavity to retain the clip therein against longitudinal movement.

Electrical connector with shorting clip for vehicular use

An electrical connector has a multiconductor plug strip and a multiconductor socket strip fittable complementarily and transversely with the plug strip. A pivot seat on one of the strips defines a pivot axis, and a lever formed with a pivot is fittable with the seat and pivotal on the one strip about the axis. An actuating formation on the lever offset from the axis and another actuating formation on the other strip are engageable with each other when the other strip is at least partially fitted to the one strip to disengage and engage the strips with each other.

Electrical strip connector with lever assist

A connector () with a contact carrier () which has several receiving areas () for contact partners and a contact carrier sleeve () which can be moved over the contact carrier () and fixed there and which has a catch device () for locking the connector () to a mating connector. The invention providing that the contact carrier () and the contact carrier sleeve () are made symmetrical to each other such that the contact carrier sleeve () can be moved both into a first position and also into at least one second position over the contact carrier () and can be fixed in the selected position.

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Bad Liebenzell, Germany

Thomas Bürk