Abstract: A feedthrough housing, used in the railway sector, is provided wherein the feedthrough housing has at least one plug-in interface, which has plug connector modules, wherein the plug-in interface additionally has at least two sensors, a first sensor and a second sensor, wherein the feedthrough housing has a sensor box, which has at least two sensors, a third sensor and a fourth sensor.

Abstract: A method for monitoring the state of pressing elements of a crimping device of a crimping apparatus includes: setting of a crimping height; measuring of a travel from a rest position to a working position of the pressing elements, which working position corresponds to the set crimping height; comparing of the travel with a travel from the rest position to a working position of the pressing elements of a setting operation of a crimping height, which setting operation was carried out before the setting operation of the crimping height; recording of data, wherein the recorded data comprises at least one result of the comparison; testing of the comparison for the presence of a predefined criterion; and outputting of a signal if the predefined criterion is satisfied.

Abstract: A plug connector module for a modular industrial plug connector is provided, wherein the plug connector module is formed from at least two independent functional units, wherein the functional units enclose a cavity when in the assembled state together. A method for producing a plug connector module for a modular industrial plug connector is also provided, comprising: initially assembling at least two independent functional units, wherein the functional units enclose a cavity when in the assembled state together; and subsequently at least partially filling the cavity with a fixing material, whereby the functional units are fixed to one another.

Abstract: Disclosed is a connector housing module which comprises a housing body having a housing body end region, which surrounds an opening in said housing body, and having a sealing ring, a lateral face of said housing body end region being in detent engagement with a lateral face of the sealing ring. A connector housing is also disclosed. The connector housing comprises a connector housing module and a hood, wherein an end face of the hood surrounding an opening in said hood, when the hood and the housing body are in a closed state, in part directly contacts an end face of the housing body end region and in part presses a curved edge of a bulge of the sealing ring so that the bulge is completely interlockingly engaged with a recess of the housing body, thereby improving the electromagnetic shielding capacity and the water tightness of the entire connector housing.

Abstract: A plug connector housing has receptacles for fastening at least two contact carriers. The plug connector housing has a substantially rectangular cross-section, having two opposite narrow sides and two opposite long sides. The receptacles are integrally formed on the interior within the plug connector housing. In each of the corner regions, a first receptacle is arranged. On each of the long sides, at least one second receptacle is arranged.

Abstract: A contact carrier receives and fixes at least one crimp contact. The contact carrier includes an insulating body and a holding plate that can be mounted on the insulating body on a connection side. The insulating body has a detent element which, in the non-mounted state, can assume both a position in which the crimp contact is latched and a position in which the crimp contact is unlatched. The holding plate has a locking element which, in the mounted state, fixes the at least one detent element in its position in which the crimp contact is latched. It thereby prevents the crimp contact from moving from the latching position to the unlatching position. The detent element is designed as a detent arm which points towards the connection side and has a detent molding for latching in a latching groove of the crimp contact.

Abstract: An arrangement includes a first modular circuit board plug connector and at least one second modular circuit board plug connector for installation on a printed circuit board, wherein the circuit board plug connectors each include a plurality of individual plug connector modules and the plug connector modules are each arranged in rows on at least one connector and reversibly fastened thereto, wherein the first circuit board plug connector and the at least second circuit board plug connector are reversibly connected together via a coupling element.

Abstract: An interface for electrically contacting a printed circuit board housed in a housing is formed as a double-sided and/or two-part interface by a first interface having at least one first contact element which is brought into electric contact with at least one terminal of the printed circuit board; a second interface having at least one second contact element corresponding to the first interface and arranged on an opening of the housing in a stationary manner such that the first and second contact elements are brought into contact with each other. The second contact element provides a terminal which can be contacted from outside the housing, wherein plug-in and/or pulling forces acting on the terminal are received by the second interface and/or the housing. The second interface is designed for connecting a plug connector on the housing exterior, and the first contact element is provided by a stamped bent contact.

Abstract: A method is provided for ensuring and/or checking the quality of a crimping using a crimping machine for crimping a cable with a contact sleeve and using a first optical sensor for detecting and/or recording first image data of the contact sleeve and using an evaluation electronics system. The method includes detecting the first image data of the contact sleeve by the first optical sensor; carrying out, via the evaluation electronics system, a first comparison of the first image data of the first optical sensor with first reference data of a predetermined contact sleeve; checking the first comparison for the presence of a predetermined first criterion; and, if the predetermined first criterion is satisfied, outputting a first signal. The detection of the first image data and the first comparison and the checking for the first criterion and the output of the first signal are carried out before the cable is crimped with the contact sleeve.

Abstract: An adapter housing is provided for receiving a contact carrier, wherein the adapter housing has on its outer wall two connecting structures or means, molded on opposite one another and complementing one another, for reversibly connecting to an adapter housing of the same type and/or to a top-hat rail fixing element and wherein the adapter housing has on the inserting side at least one locking device or means for reversibly locking the adapter housing to a further adapter housing. A system comprising of a first adapter housing, with a first contact carrier received therein, a second adapter housing, with a second contact carrier received therein, and a top-hat rail is also provided.

Abstract: A high-current connector includes an insulating body which has at least one contact carrier having at least one contact chamber, which has at least two through-openings on the plug-in side, and at least two electrically conductive plug-in contacts which are arranged parallel to one another in the contact chamber and each have a cable connection region at a first end and a plug-in region opposite at a second end, the plug-in regions of the plug-in contacts being guided through one of the through-openings each of the contact chamber. The high-current plug connector also has an electrically conductive connection element which is inserted into the contact chamber and which has at least two contact receptacles, into each of which one of the plug-in contacts is inserted interlockingly and frictionally by its plug-in region, and the at least two plug-in contacts are electrically conductively connected to one another by the connection element.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of holding frames (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7) for modules (9) and in particular of holding frames (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7) for a plug connector for receiving similar and/or different modules (9).

Abstract: The invention relates to a data transmission module for use in a connector with a modularly configurable supporting frame, said data transmission module being designed for transmitting electrotechnical signals using at least one data cable. The data transmission module also comprises a housing and an insulating body which can be inserted into the housing, the insulating body accommodating at least two contact elements which are each connected to at least one wire of the data cable, and the insulating body accommodating at least one contact carrier which accommodates at least the two contact elements of the data cable.

Abstract: A module element is provided for accommodating pluggable contact means and/or functional elements to provide an assembled plug connector module. The module element has a retaining contour arranged and designed in such a way that a first module element can be joined with a second module element in a transverse direction, and/or the module element has a fastening contour and at least one fastening element, which are arranged and designed correspondingly in such a way that a first module element can be joined with a second module element in the transverse direction to form the plug connector module. A plug connector module composed of at least two of the module elements described above is also provided.

Abstract: A round plug connector for releasably connecting lines has at least one housing element for receiving at least one insulating body and at least one locking element for releasably connecting to a mating plug connector. The housing element receives at least one circumferential spring element, and the spring element is made of an electrically conductive material in order to attach to an electromagnetic shielding, wherein the spring element is held in a circumferential recess of the housing element and has at least two bulges facing radially outwards.

Abstract: A holding frame is provided, into which plug connector modules can be inserted, wherein the holder frame comprises or consists of two halves which can be connected to each other, a first half and a second half, wherein the halves each have a lateral surface and a cover surface, wherein the holding frame has at least one first blocking element, via which the halves can be fixed in a closed position, and wherein the at least one blocking element is movably held on the first half or on the second half. The blocking element is held on the first half or on the second half in a displaceable or rotatable or pivotable manner.

Abstract: Holding frames for modules are provided and in particular holding frames for a plug connector for receiving similar and/or different modules and fixedly securing the modules within the holding frames.

Abstract: A printed circuit board plug-in connection is provided for transmitting the highest possible currents between a printed circuit board and an electrical cable, the printed circuit board plug-in connection being manufactured as simply and economically as possible. For this purpose, a plug-in connection having a slotted pin contact is proposed. Said pin contact is arranged in an insulating body and can be inserted directly into a passage contact opening of a printed circuit board in order to establish electrical contact. The insulating body has detent arms, which releasably engage in detent openings of the printed circuit board in a locking manner at the same time. By means of dovetail connections, several insulating bodies can be fastened to each other, i.e., can be cascaded with each other. A strain relief element can also be fastened to an insulating body by means of the dovetail connection in order to provide strain relief for individual conductors of the cable.

Abstract: An add-on housing for a plug-in connection is provided and includes a frame-like basic form, wherein fastening devices for fastening the add-on housing to a wall aperture are integrally formed within the frame-like basic form, wherein the add-on housing has at least one clamping element which can be captively clamped within the frame-like basic form, and wherein a holding frame or a contact insert can be fixed to the at least one clamping element. A method for fastening an add-on housing to a wall aperture is also provided, wherein: a frame-like basic form is fixed to the wall aperture by internal fastening devices; then, at least one clamping element, but preferably two clamping elements, is/are fixed within the frame-like basic form without tools; and a holding frame which is fitted with plug-in connector modules or a contact insert is then mounted onto the clamping elements and fixed thereto.

Abstract: A contact carrier receives and fixes at least one crimp contact. The contact carrier includes an insulating body and a holding plate that can be mounted on the insulating body on a connection side. The insulating body has a detent element which, in the non-mounted state, can assume both a position in which the crimp contact is latched and a position in which the crimp contact is unlatched. The holding plate has a locking element which, in the mounted state, fixes the at least one detent element in its position in which the crimp contact is latched. It thereby prevents the crimp contact from moving from the latching position to the unlatching position. The detent element is designed as a detent arm which points towards the connection side and has a detent molding for latching in a latching groove of the crimp contact.