US 12,244,111 B2
Fabric-contact device, system, in particular heating system for a motor vehicle, and method for producing such a system
Christopher Muth, Langen (DE); Uwe Bluemmel, Hemsbach (DE); and Marcel Baltes, Floersheim (DE)
Assigned to TE Connectivity Germany GmbH, Bensheim (DE)
Filed by TE Connectivity Germany GmbH, Bensheim (DE)
Filed on Feb. 22, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/181,516.
Application 17/181,516 is a continuation of application No. PCT/EP2019/072027, filed on Aug. 16, 2019.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2018 120 473.6 (DE), filed on Aug. 22, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0175641 A1, Jun. 10, 2021
Int. Cl. H01R 4/18 (2006.01); H01R 43/048 (2006.01); H05B 3/06 (2006.01); H05B 3/34 (2006.01); H01R 4/58 (2006.01)
CPC H01R 4/182 (2013.01) [H01R 43/048 (2013.01); H05B 3/06 (2013.01); H05B 3/347 (2013.01); H01R 4/58 (2013.01); H01R 2201/26 (2013.01); H05B 2203/016 (2013.01); H05B 2203/017 (2013.01); H05B 2203/029 (2013.01)] 24 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A fabric-contact device, comprising:
a first contact section having a first contact face on a first upper side;
a second contact section having a second contact face on an underside facing the first contact section, the first contact face faces the second contact section and the first contact section is connected to the second contact section on a first side of the first contact section, the second contact section has a first indentation on a second upper side facing away from the first contact section; and
a retaining device having a first retaining element connected to a second side of the first contact section at a first fixed end, the first retaining element is guided laterally past the second contact section by a first section of the first retaining element bordering the first fixed end, a second section of the first retaining element bordering the first section of the first retaining element on a side opposite the first fixed end engages behind the second contact section in the first indentation and affixes the second contact section to the first contact section.