US 12,476,420 B2
Housing of an electrical plug connector and electrical plug connector
Torben Oberhommert, Porta Westfalica (DE); and Rudolf Mastel, Minden (DE)
Assigned to Wago Verwaltungsgesellschaft MBH, Minden (DE)
Filed by WAGO Verwaltungsgesellschaft mbH, Minden (DE)
Filed on Mar. 9, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/119,516.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2022 105 676.7 (DE), filed on Mar. 10, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0291144 A1, Sep. 14, 2023
Int. Cl. H01R 13/627 (2006.01); H01R 13/50 (2006.01); H01R 13/502 (2006.01); H01R 13/639 (2006.01)
CPC H01R 13/6273 (2013.01) [H01R 13/50 (2013.01); H01R 13/502 (2013.01); H01R 13/639 (2013.01)] 15 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A housing of an electrical plug connector, the housing comprising:
at least one plug chamber, which is accessible from a plug face of the plug connector, into which a mating plug connector designed as a mating piece for the plug connector is adapted to be inserted;
four circumferential walls that surround at least the plug chamber on a circumferential side and extend substantially in parallel to an insertion direction, in which the mating plug connector is adapted to be inserted into the plug chamber;
at least one elastically resilient locking tab formed on at least one circumferential wall for locking the mating plug connector on the plug connector, the at least one locking tab being designed as a material tongue, which is separated from a material of the circumferential wall by cutaway sections on both sides, and the locking tab being elastically deflectable in a direction substantially perpendicular to the insertion direction of the mating plug connector into the plug chamber; and
at least one frame part that spans the locking tab and the cutaway sections on both sides of the locking tab,
wherein, the at least one frame part is positioned exterior to the locking tab, such that when the locking tab is deflected outward, in a direction away from the plug chamber, the locking tab contacts the at least one frame part so that the at least one frame part limits outward movement of the locking tab and forms a stop for the locking tab.