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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 17, 1996
Filed:
May. 26, 1994
Werner Hofmeister, Muehlacker, DE;
Michael Schoenfeld, Leinfelden-Echterdingen, DE;
Robert Bosch GmbH, Stuttgart, DE;
Abstract
A plug connection with a plug (11) and an associated counterpart plug or socket (12) is intended to be formed such that shaping strains acting upon it have no or only slight disturbing influence on the contacts (25, 28) of the plug connection. To that end, the plug (11) has a packing element (19), supported on its outside in a contact carrier (14), in the form of an uninterrupted, encompassing radial rubber elastic element which, in addition to a framelike basic body (37), engages socket (12), also contains pinlike retaining segments (41), which are oriented inward, press resiliently against the contact elements (25) of the plug (11) and stabilize them in their position. This plug connection is preferably used in motor vehicles, in whose operation strong shaking strains must be expected, e.g. having Diesel engines.