Abstract: An assembly includes an electrical connection terminal electrically connectable to a pin of a connector socket, the electrical connection terminal including a connecting portion and a crimping portion, and a ring assembled around the connecting portion. The crimping portion receives and crimps an electrical cable to be connected with the pin of the connector socket. The connecting portion receives the pin of the connector socket and has a side wall forming a circular cylinder structure. The side wall has an opening. The ring is connectable in a positive fit with a coding housing such that the coding housing is rotatably movable with respect to the electrical connection terminal.

Abstract: An electrical contact for a male electrical connector includes an electrical contact pin and an O-ring, the pin comprising a first part, a second part, and, between the first part and the second part, a narrowed part adapted to house an O-ring, the O-ring being arranged at the pin, so as to be housed in the narrowed part. An electrical contact pin, a connector housing, and a male electrical connector are provided.

Abstract: An electrical connector configured to be mated with an electrical counter-connector, the electrical connector comprising a housing member, an electrical terminal housed in a corresponding terminal cavity of the housing member, and an anti-vibration element. The electrical connector is characterized in that the housing member further comprises a traversing groove traversing the housing member from an external housing member surface to an internal housing member surface that defines the corresponding terminal cavity, and the anti-vibration element is arranged in the traversing groove. The invention further relates to an electrical connector assembly comprising the electrical connector and an electrical counter-connector, to a method of assembling the electrical connector assembly, and to a method of manufacturing an electrical connector, in particular the electrical connector of the invention.

Abstract: A connector includes an inner shell, an outer shell, and a gear wheel, wherein the gear wheel is arranged in a rack-and-pinion configuration with a first linear gear, the gear wheel being hinged on the inner shell rotatably with respect to a hinge axis orthogonal to the mating direction. The gear wheel comprises a first set of external gear teeth configured to engage with the first linear gear in the rack-and-pinion configuration, and a second set of external gear teeth configured to engage with a second linear gear of a mating connector, wherein the first set and the second set of external gear teeth are arranged in a same plane. The invention further relates to a connector system comprising the connector.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a female electrical terminal includes the steps of providing a sheet metal blank and forming the sheet metal blank to include a wiring portion for the attaching of an electrical wire and a receiving portion for the receiving of a male electrical terminal in a receiving direction. The receiving portion includes a base portion and two lateral portions. Each lateral portion including an end portion configured to form a top surface of the receiving hollow, at least one link beam linking the end portion to the base portion, and a support beam also linking the end portion to the base portion. The method includes a further step of bending the lateral portions to form the receiving hollow and an additional step of modifying, in particular, reducing, at least one dimension of the support beam.

Abstract: A socket for a high-voltage socket connector includes a conductor connection section adapted for being connected to a conductor of a cable, and a pin receptacle section adapted for receiving a pin of a mating plug connector along a mating direction, wherein the pin receptacle section is integral with the conductor connection section, and wherein the pin receptacle section comprises at least two free ends that extend in opposite circumferential directions around the mating direction and at least in sections face each other.

Abstract: An electrical high-voltage tab terminal for a high-voltage connector, preferably for a vehicle, in particular a vehicle with an electric traction motor, includes an electrical high-voltage tab contact means extending in the longitudinal direction and an electrically insulating touch protection means provided on a free longitudinal end portion of the high-voltage tab contact means, wherein the high-voltage tab contact means has, in its free longitudinal end portion, at least one stud-like plug base arranged in the width direction of the high-voltage tab contact means, and the touch protection means has at least one plug socket which is at least partially complementary thereto, the at least one plug base being plugged together with the at least one plug socket.

Abstract: A seal for an angled connector includes a rim wall enclosing a central opening and a sealing passage extending from outside the seal through the rim wall into the central opening. The seal has a planar plate-shaped configuration.

Abstract: An electrical connector for a safety restraint system of a motor vehicle comprises a housing, a pair of electrical terminals, a shunt and a connector position assurance (CPA) device. The housing includes a first end and a second end, the second end extending in a mating direction of the connector. Each of the electrical terminals traverses the housing from the first end to the second end. The shunt is adapted to short-circuit the pair of electrical terminals, and comprises two shunt arms each having a contact portion and a linking portion, and a shunt bridge linking the linking portions of the shunt arms. The CPA device is moveably arranged in the housing between an unlocked position and a locked position. In the locked position the CPA device lifts the shunt from a short-circuiting position across the terminals.

Abstract: An electrical connector includes a housing formed in a single piece and including a recess, a compression spring disposed in the recess, and a position assurance element having a head disposed in the recess and inserted through a first end of the compression spring. The compression spring is unloaded in a plugged-in position of the electrical connector into a mating connector and opposes plugging of the electrical connector into the mating connector in a loaded state. The first end of the compression spring exerts a force only on the position assurance element, the position assurance element exerts a force on the one-piece housing, and a second end of the compression spring opposite the first end along a longitudinal axis of the compression spring exerts a force only on the recess of the housing.

Abstract: A fastening device for fastening an electrical terminal to an electrically conducting post includes a spring and a locking device retaining the electrical terminal on the electrically conducting post in a locked position of the fastening device. The spring is at least partially loaded in the locked position.

Abstract: A contact element includes a frame and a contact spring fixed to the frame. The frame has a first region and a second region opposite the first region. The second region is spaced apart from the first region by a gap. The contact spring has a fixed end fixed to the first region of the frame and a free end opposite the fixed end. The contact spring extends from the first region across the gap to the second region. The free end of the contact spring overlaps the second region.

Abstract: An assembly includes an electrical connection terminal electrically connectable to a pin of a connector socket, the electrical connection terminal including a connecting portion and a crimping portion, and a ring assembled around the connecting portion. The crimping portion receives and crimps an electrical cable to be connected with the pin of the connector socket. The connecting portion receives the pin of the connector socket and has a side wall forming a circular cylinder structure. The side wall has an opening. The ring is connectable in a positive fit with a coding housing such that the coding housing is rotatably movable with respect to the electrical connection terminal.

Abstract: A connector assembly includes a connector, and a connector position assurance (CPA) device movably arranged with the connector between a first position and a second position. The CPA device assures mating in a mating direction between the connector and a second connector in the second position. The CPA device includes a body and a latching arm extending therefrom in the mating direction. The latching arm defines at least one chamfered surface portion facing at least partially in a force direction perpendicular to the mating direction and abutting against a stopping surface of the connector in the first position.

Abstract: An electrical connection device includes a first jaw and a second jaw facing the first jaw in a closed state. The first jaw has a first insertion surface perpendicular to an insertion direction into a connection casing, a first surface facing the second jaw that is substantially parallel to the insertion direction, and an opposite first surface opposite the first insertion surface. The first jaw has a first recess. The second jaw has a second surface facing the first jaw and extending substantially parallel to the insertion direction, a second insertion surface introduced over the connection casing and perpendicular to the insertion direction, and an opposite second surface opposite to the second insertion surface. The second jaw has a second recess facing the first recess in the closed state. The first recess and/or the second recess has a rod at the first edge and/or the second edge.

Abstract: A crimp terminal includes a crimping segment having a base, a first side wall extending from the base, and a second side wall extending from the base opposite the first side wall. The crimping segment has a first surface adapted for arranging a wire thereon along a longitudinal axis and a second surface opposite the first surface. The first side wall has a first serration on the second surface. The second side wall has a pair of second serrations on the second surface. The first serration is displaced from the second serrations along the longitudinal axis and, in a crimped state, a portion of the first serration is positioned between a pair of portions of the second serrations along the longitudinal axis.

Abstract: A connector assembly device includes a connector element and a connector position assurance (CPA) device mounted to move relative to the connector element between a delivery position and a locking position. The connector element includes a first locking device and a second locking device. The CPA device includes a locking lance that has an associated first locking device configured to implement a first form-fitting connection with the first locking device of the connector element and an associated second locking device configured to implement a second form-fitting connection with the second locking device of the connector element in the locking position. The form-fitting connections prevent any movement of the CPA device in a direction from the locking position towards the delivery position and take place in different planes.

Abstract: An electrical connector for connecting with a mating electrical connector in a mating direction includes an electrically conductive terminal having an electrical contact, a housing having a plug-in portion insertable into the mating electrical connector along the mating direction, the plug-in portion having a receptacle receiving the electrical contact, a compressive member arranged within the housing and compressed along the mating direction, and a connector position assurance element (CPA) slidable from an unlocked position to a locked position along the mating direction. The locked position allows the electrical connector to be locked to the mating connector when the electrical connector is connected to the mating connector. A central axis of the compressive member is aligned with a central axis of the plug-in portion in the mating direction.

Abstract: A connection device electrically connects a textile to an electrical contact of a connector. The connection device is received in an insertion direction in the connector. The connection device includes a body and an attachment device. The body has a first end and a second end opposite the first end in the insertion direction. The body has a first surface extending between the first end and the second end and a second surface opposite to the first surface. The body has a portion at the first end extending essentially transversely from the first surface, the portion having an aperture into which the textile is inserted. The attachment device for the textile is connected to the second surface at the first end.

Abstract: An electrical connector includes a housing formed in a single piece and including a recess, a compression spring disposed in the recess, and a position assurance element having a head disposed in the recess and inserted through a first end of the compression spring. The compression spring is unloaded in a plugged-in position of the electrical connector into a mating connector and opposes plugging of the electrical connector into the mating connector in a loaded state. The first end of the compression spring exerts a force only on the position assurance element, the position assurance element exerts a force on the one-piece housing, and a second end of the compression spring opposite the first end along a longitudinal axis of the compression spring exerts a force only on the recess of the housing.