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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 10, 2003
Filed:
Feb. 17, 2000
Reinhold Berberich, Frankfurt am Main, DE;
Norbert Fleischhauer, Eschborn, DE;
Mannesmann VDO AG, Frankfurt, DE;
Abstract
A modular central electrical unit for motor vehicles, comprising an electrically insulating base body ( ) having plug locations ( ), which are formed on the outer wall of the base body ( ), for accommodating an electrical and an electromechanical functional unit, which plug locations are connected to one another and to a cable harness ( ) and/or an electronic functional unit ( ). In a central electrical unit, which can be upgraded and/or modified without any additional space requirement, an electrical connection ( ) which passes out of the base body ( ) is such that it overhangs the base body ( ), and a base body segment ( ), which is formed from a plug body of a vehicle component ( ) that is to be connected and is composed of insulating material, is mechanically attached to the base body ( ), with the base body segment ( ) and/or the fitted functional unit ( ) being electrically connected to the electrical connection ( ).