US 11,774,024 B2
Connector for connecting two fluid-conducting elements
Iris Barthel, Schauenburg (DE); Kay Bube, Schenklengsfeld (DE); and Reiner Rohde, Malsfeld (DE)
Assigned to TI AUTOMOTIVE (FULDABRUECK) GMBH, Fuldabrueck (DE)
Filed by TI Automotive (Fuldabrück) GmbH, Fuldabrück (DE)
Filed on Jul. 6, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/367,980.
Claims priority of application No. 202020103903.2 (DE), filed on Jul. 6, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0003347 A1, Jan. 6, 2022
Int. Cl. F16L 37/12 (2006.01)
CPC F16L 37/1225 (2013.01) [F16L 2201/10 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A connector for connecting two fluid-conducting elements, one fluid-conducting element having a male plug-in part, the connector comprising:
a female plug-in part configured to receive the male plug-in part inserted in an insertion direction;
a retainer hooked up to the female plug-in part, and structured to fix the male plug-in part to the female plug-in part;
wherein the female plug-in part has at least one verification element in the form of a code, which in an unfixed state of the male plug-in part is covered at least in areas by at least one aperture arranged on the female plug-in part and is unreadable and/or the female plug-in part has at least one part of a verification element in the form of a part of a code, wherein the verification element or the code is incomplete and unreadable in the unfixed state of the male plug-in part; and
wherein at least one additional or the missing part of the verification element or the code is arranged on the at least one aperture on the female plug-in part, wherein the at least one aperture is shifted in such a way during insertion of the male plug-in part into the female plug-in part that the verification element or the code is complete and/or readable in a fixed or completely inserted state of the male plug-in part.