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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 07, 2000
Filed:
Nov. 01, 1999
Perle Marcel, Feldkirch, AT;
Hirschmann Austria GmbH, Rankweil, AT;
Abstract
An electrical plug connection has a first plug part having first contact elements and a second plug part having second contact elements. The plug parts being moved in a common plane toward one another until a contact position is reached in which the contact elements establish electrical contact with one another. A wire spring is mounted on the second plug part and has at least one spring leg that is moved from an initial position by the movement of the first plug part relative to the second plug part into a locking position in which the spring leg locks the first plug part and the second plug part in the contact position. The spring leg is a freely projecting spring wire and has a free end. The second plug part has a guide member for the free end of the freely projecting spring wire. The guide member is comprised of a first portion extending parallel to the moving direction and a slanted second portion slanted outwardly away from the second plug part. The free end of the spring leg rests slidably against the guide member so that, when the spring leg is moved by the movement of the first plug part relative to the second plug part, the free end of the spring leg moves in a parallel plane extending parallel to the common plane when sliding on the first portion and moves in a direction extending obliquely to the parallel plane when sliding on the slanted second portion. The spring leg is returned into the initial position when its free end has reached the end of the slanted second portion, wherein the initial position now corresponds to the locking position.