US 12,136,788 B2
Shielding spring contact, plug-in connector comprising a shielding spring contact, and plug-in connector system comprising a shielding spring contact
Jochen Fertig, Bensheim (DE); Maximilian Veihl, Bensheim (DE); Martin Listing, Bensheim (DE); Christoph Kosmalski, Bensheim (DE); Uemit Bulduk, Bensheim (DE); Eike Luellich, Bensheim (DE); Kevin Scheer, Bensheim (DE); and Ivan Ivanov, Bensheim (DE)
Assigned to TE Connectivity Germany GmbH, Bensheim (DE)
Filed by TE Connectivity Germany GmbH, Bensheim (DE)
Filed on Feb. 2, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/591,284.
Claims priority of application No. 102021102778.0 (DE), filed on Feb. 5, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0255267 A1, Aug. 11, 2022
Int. Cl. H01R 13/6581 (2011.01)
CPC H01R 13/6581 (2013.01) [H01R 2201/26 (2013.01)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A plug-in connector system, comprising:
a first plug-in connector having an assembly housing portion and a shielding spring contact connected to the assembly housing portion, the assembly housing portion has a bottom side and a first passage opening, the shielding spring contact has a flat base portion and a shielding portion, the flat base portion has a top side and a cutout, the shielding portion has a wall connected to the flat base portion and encircling the cutout, the wall has an outer side, an inner side, an upper side, and a lower side, the lower side of the wall is arranged on the top side of the flat base portion with the lower side of the wall laterally surrounding the cutout; and
a second plug-in connector having a shielding housing connected to shielding spring contact, the shielding housing has a shielding housing wall with a second passage opening facing the assembly housing portion, the shielding spring contact bears, by way of the top side of the flat base portion, against the bottom side of the assembly housing portion, the shielding portion of the shielding spring contact projects through the first passage opening in the assembly housing portion and projects through the second passage opening in the shielding housing wall into the shielding housing, the shielding portion bears against the shielding housing wall in a region of the second passage opening.