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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 10, 2002
Filed:
May. 19, 2000
Clemens Simon, Starnberg, DE;
Robert Bosch GmbH, Stuttgart, DE;
Abstract
A method for connecting a probe whose electrical connections end on a circuit board that can be introduced into a receptacle of a connector plug that comprises two half-shells which carry on sides facing one another the mating contacts for the connections of the circuit board and between them form a receptacle for the circuit board, the half-shells being held together under tension by way of a U-shaped spring which surrounds them. Creation of the join can be substantially simplified, with no risk of damage to the parts, by the fact that the connector plug is introduced between two displacing jaws and is positioned such that spreader extensions of the displacing jaws are directed toward the opening of the spring; that by opposite-direction displacement of the spreader extensions introduced into the opening of the spring, the spring is spread apart over a predefined displacement; that the circuit board is introduced into the receptacle, which can now be enlarged, between the half-shells; and that the circuit board is then, as a result of contraction and/or extension of the spreader extensions, held under tension between the half-shells of the connector plug by way of the released spring.