US 12,113,311 B2
Variable plug connector module for a modular industrial plug connector
Peter Giesbrecht, Porta Westfalica (DE); and Thomas Beischer, Espelkamp (DE)
Assigned to HARTING Electric Stiftung & Co. KG, Espelkamp (DE)
Appl. No. 17/638,974
Filed by HARTING Electric Stiftung & Co. KG, Espelkamp (DE)
PCT Filed Sep. 17, 2020, PCT No. PCT/DE2020/100806
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Feb. 28, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/058058, PCT Pub. Date Apr. 1, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2019 125 856.1 (DE), filed on Sep. 25, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0302631 A1, Sep. 22, 2022
Int. Cl. H01R 13/506 (2006.01); H01R 4/18 (2006.01); H01R 13/42 (2006.01); H01R 13/424 (2006.01); H01R 13/46 (2006.01); H01R 13/502 (2006.01); H01R 13/514 (2006.01)
CPC H01R 13/506 (2013.01) [H01R 4/18 (2013.01); H01R 4/183 (2013.01); H01R 13/42 (2013.01); H01R 13/424 (2013.01); H01R 13/46 (2013.01); H01R 13/502 (2013.01); H01R 13/514 (2013.01)] 10 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A plug connector module (1) for a modular industrial plug connector, comprising:
a base body (2);
a holding plate (3); and
a contact element (4),
wherein plates (3, 3′), and wherein the first of at least two different contact elements (4) is a socket contact and the second of the at least two different contact elements (4′) is a pin contact (4) has a contact region (4a) and a cable connection region (4b) and is held in the plug connector module (1) by the holding plate (3),
wherein the base body (2) has an opening (11) for receiving the contact region (4a) of the contact element (4),
wherein the holding plate (3) has an opening (10) for receiving the cable connection region (4b) of the contact element,
wherein the holding plate (3) is a first of at least two different holding plates (3, 3′) configured to alternatively reversibly latch to the base body (2), and
wherein the contact element (4) is a first of at least two different contact elements (4, 4′), a second of the at least two different contact elements (4′) being configured to be received in a second of the at least two different holding plates (3, 3′), and
wherein the first of the at least two different contact elements (4) is a socket contact and the second of the at least two different contact elements (4′) is pin contact.