US 11,707,998 B2
Electrical plug connector and electric plug-in connection
Dirk Duenkel, Bensheim (DE); and Gregor Panitz, Soergenloch (DE)
Assigned to TE Connectivity Germany GmbH, Bensheim (DE)
Filed by TE Connectivity Germany GmbH, Bensheim (DE)
Filed on May 6, 2020, as Appl. No. 16/868,227.
Claims priority of application No. 102019111749.6 (DE), filed on May 7, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2020/0353830 A1, Nov. 12, 2020
Int. Cl. B60L 53/302 (2019.01); B60L 53/16 (2019.01); H01R 13/00 (2006.01)
CPC B60L 53/302 (2019.02) [B60L 53/16 (2019.02); H01R 13/005 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An electrical plug connector, comprising:
a connector housing receiving an electrical terminal, the connector housing having an outer cooling gas connection cooling an electrical plug-in connection of the plug connector with a mating plug connector, a cooling gas is brought into the plug connector by the outer cooling gas connection through a cooling gas channel of the connector housing, the cooling gas channel opens at at least one terminal chamber of the connector housing that receives the electrical terminal, the cooling gas runs through an area of the at least one terminal chamber in which the electrical terminal is mated with a mating terminal of the mating plug connector, the outer cooling gas connection and the cooling gas channel extend perpendicular to a mating direction of the electrical terminal with the mating terminal.