US 12,149,018 B2
Contact device and method for producing the contact device
Harald Kraenzlein, Woert (DE); Daniel Leiminger, Woert (DE); Andreas Oettle, Woert (DE); Stefan Raab, Woert (DE); Thomas Liebl, Bensheim (DE); and Marina Hertlein, Woert (DE)
Assigned to TE Connectivity Germany GmbH, Bensheim (DE)
Filed by TE Connectivity Germany GmbH, Bensheim (DE)
Filed on Jan. 14, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/576,373.
Claims priority of application No. 102021100806.9 (DE), filed on Jan. 15, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0231444 A1, Jul. 21, 2022
Int. Cl. H01R 13/432 (2006.01); H01R 13/50 (2006.01); H01R 43/16 (2006.01)
CPC H01R 13/432 (2013.01) [H01R 13/50 (2013.01); H01R 43/16 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A contact device, comprising:
a contact housing, including:
a contact receptacle; and
a latching receptacle opening into the contact receptacle; and
a contact element, including:
a contact body arranged in the contact receptacle and extending in a longitudinal direction, the contact body adapted to contact a mating contact of a mating contact device; and
a latching spring connected to the contact body at a fixed end and extending along a spring axis into the latching receptacle, the latching spring having:
a stop face defined at a free end of the latching spring and that inclining obliquely with respect to the spring axis, a displacement of the contact element in the longitudinal direction in the contact receptacle is at least partially blocked by the stop face bearing against a first receptacle side face of the latching receptacle; and
an embossed portion arranged at a first distance from the stop face, the embossed portion is a slot in an outer side of the latching spring facing away from the contact body.