US 11,834,107 B2
Steering device having a plug connector unit for electrically contacting a steering sensor unit
Waldemar Mattus, Schwaebisch Gmuend (DE); Marten Weber, Huettlingen (DE); Tobias Isdebski, Kernen (DE); and Philipp Seibold, Fellbach (DE)
Assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH, Stuttgart (DE)
Appl. No. 17/278,300
Filed by Robert Bosch GmbH, Stuttgart (DE)
PCT Filed Sep. 11, 2019, PCT No. PCT/EP2019/074287
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Mar. 20, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/064335, PCT Pub. Date Apr. 2, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2018 216 477.0 (DE), filed on Sep. 26, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0354745 A1, Nov. 18, 2021
Int. Cl. B62D 5/04 (2006.01); B62D 6/10 (2006.01); G01L 5/22 (2006.01); H01R 24/00 (2011.01)
CPC B62D 5/0403 (2013.01) [B62D 6/10 (2013.01); G01L 5/221 (2013.01); H01R 24/005 (2013.01); H01R 2201/20 (2013.01); H01R 2201/26 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A steering device comprising:
a steering gear housing defining a sensor receptacle region and a contacting clearance;
a steering sensor unit disposed, in an assembled state, in the sensor receptacle region;
a plug connector unit configured, in the assembled state, for electrically contacting the steering sensor unit in the contacting clearance of the steering gear housing, the plug connector unit comprising:
a plug-in unit configured for connecting to the steering sensor unit; and
a support unit which, at least in a preassembled state of the plug connector unit, is connected to the plug-in unit; and
an uncoupling unit configured to transmit force exerted in an assembly procedure of the plug connector unit to the plug-in unit and/or the support unit such that the connection between the plug-in unit and the support unit is released in the assembly procedure of the plug connector unit.