SOCKET CONNECTION SYSTEM

Abstract

A connection system for a socket, wherein the connection system comprises a junction box for electrically connecting the socket to a flat cable as a through-line and wherein the socket can be placed directly onto the junction box. The junction box comprises multiple penetration contact elements for contacting the flat cable without stripping insulation, wherein the junction box comprises connection elements which electrically connect the penetration contact elements to socket contacts via the connection elements. The socket contacts electrically connect a plug plugged into the socket to cores of the flat cable. The flat cable can be put into an area of the junction box that is separate from the socket and upon actuating a clamping mechanism the penetration contact elements contact the cores of the flat cable without stripping insulation.

Claims

1. A connection system for a socket, wherein the connection system comprises: a junction box for electrically connecting the socket to a flat cable as a through-line, wherein the socket can be placed directly onto the junction box, wherein the junction box comprises penetration contact elements for contacting the flat cable without stripping insulation, wherein the junction box comprises connection elements that electrically connect the penetration contact elements to socket contacts, wherein the socket contacts electrically connect a plug plugged into the socket to cores of the flat cable via the connection elements, wherein the flat cable can be put into an area of the junction box that is separate from the socket and upon actuating a clamping mechanism the penetration contact elements contact the cores of the flat cable without stripping insulation.

2. The connection system according to claim 1, wherein the connection elements are provided in the junction box, wherein the connection elements each have at least one of the penetration contact elements with a connection for one of the socket contacts of the socket.

3. The connection system according to claim 2, wherein at least one plug contact of the plug inserted into the socket reaches through to contact one of the connection elements.

4. The connection system according to claim 1, wherein the connection elements are interchangeable, wherein a specific set of connection elements serves for electrical connection of the cores of the flat cable to the socket of a specific type with specific socket contacts.

5. The connection system according to claim 1, wherein an insulating body is provided between the placed socket and the flat cable.

6. The connection system according to claim 5, wherein multiple connections for socket contacts are provided on the side of the insulating body facing the socket in such a way that the connections contact the socket contacts of the socket of a specific type placed onto the junction box.

7. The connection system according to claim 6, wherein multiple sets of connections for socket contacts of sockets of a specific type are provided, wherein a specific set of connections is associated with a specific socket type, respectively, wherein different socket types can be electrically connected to the flat cable by means of the junction box.

8. The connection system according to claim 5, wherein at least one plug contact of the plug inserted into the socket ends at a connection provided for the plug contact on the insulating body.

9. The connection system according to claim 5, wherein the socket is of the specific type according to Swiss standard, according to German standard, in particular a Schuko socket, according to French standard, according to UK standard, or according to US standard.

10. The connection system according to claim 1, wherein the socket is a multifunctional socket which provides plug contacts for plugs of different types, in particular for plugs according to Swiss standard and German standard.

11. The connection system according to claim 1, wherein the flat cable comprises at least one phase conductor, a neutral conductor, a protective conductor and preferably at least one data conductor as a cable core and corresponding connections of the placed socket are connected via the junction box to the respectively associated cable core.

12. The connection system according to claim 1, wherein the junction box comprises a lever element as the clamping mechanism, wherein upon actuation of the lever element the penetration contact elements are pressed into the flat cable in order to contact the cores of the flat cable without stripping insulation.

13. The connection system according to claim 1, wherein the junction box is constructed in multiple parts and a first part of the junction box, through which the flat cable is passed, has anchoring elements in order to anchor a lower part of the junction box in a wall opening, and wherein a second part of the junction box, which comprises an insulating body, comprises the penetration contact elements and the clamping mechanism and can be placed onto the first part of the junction box.

14. The connection system according to claim 13, wherein the clamping mechanism comprises a lever element that is mounted on outer sides of the second part of the junction box which comprises the insulating body.

15. A socket installation, comprising: a flat cable; at least one connection system according to claim 1, connected to the flat cable without stripping insulation; and a socket placed onto the at least one connection system.

16. An installation kit, wherein the installation kit comprises: at least one through-line formed by a flat cable; at least one socket; and at least one connection system according to claim 1 in order to connect the at least one socket to the flat cable at predefined locations by means of the at least one connection system.

Description

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

[0046] The drawing serves to illustrate the socket connection system described above, the socket installation described above and the installation kit described above by means of exemplary embodiments. In the drawings:

[0047] FIG. 1 schematically shows a slotted wall with a cable duct running in the wall, which is accessible through a wall opening,

[0048] FIG. 2 schematically shows a socket placed onto the wall opening shown in FIG. 1, which is connected to a flat cable guided through the cable duct,

[0049] FIG. 3 schematically shows a socket that can be connected to a flat cable by the connection system described herein,

[0050] FIG. 4 schematically shows the socket from FIG. 3 over a flat cable,

[0051] FIG. 5 schematically shows a socket placed onto a two-part junction box above a flat cable, wherein the junction box has a wall anchoring on both sides,

[0052] FIG. 6 schematically shows a plan view of the junction box with connections for the socket placed onto the junction box and connection elements to the flat cable which end in these connectionsthe flat cable is here guided through the multi-part junction box,

[0053] FIG. 7 schematically shows the junction box in a plan view, wherein the junction box is mounted in the wall opening via anchoring elements,

[0054] FIG. 8 schematically shows the resting part of the junction box, via which the entire junction box is anchored in the wall opening, together with a flat cable which is guided through the resting part of the junction box and rests on a resting surface of the resting part of the junction box,

[0055] FIG. 9 schematically shows a resting part of the junction box with one-sided wall anchoring,

[0056] FIG. 10 schematically shows the resting part of the junction box from FIG. 9 with a hook placed onto it as an mounting aid, wherein the resting part of the junction box is anchored to the wall with screws inserted therein,

[0057] FIG. 11 schematically shows the resting part of the junction box from FIG. 10, wherein the wall anchor is loosened in order to change the position of the junction box relative to the wall,

[0058] FIG. 12 schematically shows the resting part of the junction box from FIG. 11 with the flat cable put therein,

[0059] FIG. 13 schematically shows a complete connection system with a socket placed onto the junction box and a flat cable guided through the junction box,

[0060] FIG. 14 schematically shows a junction box with a lever element and a two-part insulating body and penetration contact elements protruding from the latter, which can be pressed into the flat cable guided through the junction box via the lever element, in a side view,

[0061] FIG. 15 schematically shows the junction box from FIG. 14 in plan view,

[0062] FIG. 16 schematically shows the two-part insulating body with connections for the socket and lever element mounted on it,

[0063] FIGS. 17 and 18 schematically show one or more connection systems together with sockets mounted thereon and the flat cable thus contacted,

[0064] FIG. 19 shows a multifunctional socket, which serves as a socket according to

[0065] both the German standard (Schuko) and the Swiss type.

DESCRIPTION OF EMBODIMENTS WITH THE AID OF THE DRAWINGS

[0066] A slotted wall 50 with a cable duct 52 running in the wall 50 and accessible through a wall opening 51 is schematically shown in FIG. 1.

[0067] The cable duct 52 runs behind the wall 50 and is accessible through the opening 51.

[0068] A socket 10 placed onto the wall opening 51 shown in FIG. 1, which is connected to a flat cable 20 guided through the cable duct 52, is schematically depicted in FIG. 2.

[0069] The flat cable 20 runs along a cable duct across the wall 50 and is connected to the socket 10 at the location depicted in FIG. 2.

[0070] An example of a socket 10 that can be connected to a flat cable by the connection system 100 described herein (see FIG. 17 and FIG. 18) is schematically depicted in FIG. 3.

[0071] The socket 10 has a cover 11, as well as a neutral or phase conductor contact 12 and a protective contact (PE contact) 13. The socket is shown as a Schuko socket, which is commercially available in Germany, for example.

[0072] The socket 10 from FIG. 3 is schematically depicted in FIG. 4 above a flat cable 20.

[0073] An example of a socket 10 placed onto a two-part junction box 1 above a flat cable 20, wherein the junction box 1 has a wall anchoring 31, 32 on both sides, is schematically depicted in FIG. 5.

[0074] Here, a resting part 30 of the junction box 1 is provided with two lateral wall anchorings 31, 32, which can be anchored in a wall via screws 33 (see FIGS. 1 and 2). The flat cable 20, the junction box 1 and the socket 10, for example, provide the connection system 100 described herein.

[0075] The flat cable 20 is guided through the resting part 30 of the junction box and rests on a resting surface which, when installed, typically runs parallel to the wall and the cable duct behind it (see FIGS. 1 and 2).

[0076] The socket 10 is placed onto the junction box 1 in such a way that its neutral conductor or phase conductor contacts 12 and the protective conductor contacts 13 are electrically connected to the cores of the flat cable 20 (see FIG. 17). In the example, the neutral conductor core of the flat cable 20 is connected to the neutral conductor connection of the socket 10 and the phase conductor core of the flat cable 20 is connected to the phase conductor of the socket 10, just as the protective conductor core of the flat cable 20 is connected to the protective contact 13 of the socket. A representation of the cable cores of the flat cable can be found in FIG. 17.

[0077] The junction box 1 is depicted in FIG. 6 in a plan view with connections for the socket 2a to 2c and 5a to 5c, respectively, placed onto the junction box and connection elements to the flat cable which end in these connections-the flat cable 20 is here guided through the multi-part junction box.

[0078] As before, the flat cable 20 is guided through a resting part 30 of the junction box 1. The top of the junction box 1 has an insulating template 4 with various connections 2a to 2c and 5a to 5c designed as openings.

[0079] The connections 2a to 2c on the top of the junction box 1, which are formed in a template 4, lead to corresponding connection elements 3a to 3c, which at one end end in the connections 2a to 2c, but at the other end are connected, for example in one piece, to penetration contact elements 7 (eg contact blades, spikes, etc.) (see FIG. 14). For example, connections 2a to 2c are intended for sockets according to Swiss standard. The connections 5a to 5c can be selected so that other sockets, for example sockets according to UK standard, US standard or DE standard, can be electrically connected to the flat cable 20 via the junction box 1.

[0080] The junction box 1 from FIG. 6 is schematically shown in a plan view in FIG. 7, wherein the junction box 1 is mounted via its anchoring elements 31, 32 in the wall opening 51 on the wall 50.

[0081] The resting part 30 of the junction box, via which the entire junction box is anchored in the wall opening, together with a flat cable 20 which is guided through the resting part 30 of the junction box and rests on a resting surface of the resting part 30 of the junction box, schematically shown in FIG. 8. The resting part 30 is anchored on both sides by anchoring elements 31, 32 via screws at the perimeter of the wall opening 51.

[0082] An embodiment of the resting part 30 of the junction box with one-sided wall anchoring 31 is schematically shown in FIG. 9. The resting part 30 of the junction box can be identical to the resting part 30 of the junction box shown in FIG. 8, except for the absence of a wall anchoring 32 on the opposite side of the wall anchoring 31. The two wall anchorings 31, 32 (see FIG. 8) can be designed to be removable, so that at least one of the two wall anchorings 31, 32 (see FIG. 8) can be removed in order to retrieve the flat cable 20 from the wall opening 51 or to insert it into the wall opening.

[0083] The resting part 30 of the junction box from FIG. 9 with a hook 35 placed onto it as an mounting aid, wherein the resting part 30 of the junction box is anchored to the wall with screws inserted therein, is schematically depicted in FIG. 10 The hook 35 can be used to either insert the flat cable together with the resting part 30 of the junction box into the wall opening 51 or to retrieve it from the wall opening 51.

[0084] Such a condition is schematically shown in FIG. 11, where the wall anchoring 31 of the resting part 30 of the junction box is loosened (in FIG. 11 the screws visible in FIG. 10 are removed) in order to change the position of the junction box relative to the wall.

[0085] The resting part 30 of the junction box from FIG. 11 with the flat cable 20 put therein is schematically depicted in FIG. 12. The depiction in FIG. 12 shows the flat cable 20 put into the resting part 30 of the junction box outside a wall opening 51.

[0086] A complete connection system 100 with a socket 10 placed onto the junction box 1 and a flat cable 20 guided through the junction box 1 is depicted in FIG. 13. The flat cable 20 here is guided through the resting part 30 of the junction box 1.

[0087] A junction box 1 with a lever element 8 and a two-part insulating body 46 and penetration contact elements 7 protruding from the latter, which can be pressed into the flat cable 20 guided through the junction box 1 via the lever element 8, is depicted in FIG. 14 in a side view.

[0088] The flat cable 20 rests on a support surface of the resting part 30 of the junction box 1. Penetration contact elements 7 protrude from a first part 6 of the insulating body 46 in the direction of the flat cable 20. The penetration contact elements 7 are, for example, integrally joined to connection elements 3a to 3c (see FIG. 6) or are connected to them in a modular manner.

[0089] The connection elements 3a to 3c (see FIG. 6) extend, for example for each of the penetration contact elements 7, separately from one another within the first part 6 (carrier for the penetration contact elements) of the insulating body 46 up to the template 4 with the connections (see FIG. 6). The template 4 and the first part 6 (carrier for the penetration contact elements) together form an insulating body 46 in which the connection elements 3a to 3c run electrically separated from one another.

[0090] A lever element 8 is mounted on both sides of the insulating body 46. The lever element 8 serves as a clamping element to press the insulating body 46 with the penetration contact elements 7 upon activation in the direction of the flat cable 20, thus in the direction of the resting part 30 of the junction box 1, in order to contact the cores of the flat cable 20 without stripping insulation and thus to put the flat cable cores via the connection elements 3a to 3c to the connections shown in FIG. 6 and FIG. 15 for the socket 10 (see e.g. FIG. 13), onto which the socket 10 is then placed.

[0091] The junction box from FIG. 14 is depicted in FIG. 15 in plan view. In this plan view, the connections 2a to 2c or 5a etc. are shown on the template 4 as second part of the two-part insulating body 46.

[0092] The multi-part insulating body 46 with connections 2a to 2c or 5a to 5c for the socket (for example connections 3a to 3c for sockets according to Swiss standard) on the template 4 and the lever element 8 mounted thereon is depicted separately again in FIG. 16.

[0093] For example, connections 2a to 2c are intended for sockets according to Swiss standard. The connections 5a to 5c can be selected so that other sockets, for example sockets according to UK standard, US standard or DE standard, can be electrically connected to the flat cable 20 via the junction box 1.

[0094] One or more connection systems 100 together with the sockets mounted thereon and the flat cable 20 thus contacted are depicted in FIG. 17 and FIG. 18.

[0095] The flat cable 20 here has five cable cores 20a, 20b, 20c, 20d, 20e. The cable cores 2a-2c are, for example, phase conductors, while the cable core 20d is, for example, a neutral conductor and the cable core 20e is, for example, a protective conductor.

[0096] A multifunctional socket 10a, which serves as a socket according to both the German standard (Schuko) and the Swiss type, is depicted in FIG. 19.

[0097] The multifunctional socket 10a has an adapter 60, which is compatible with both the German standard and the Swiss standard. The socket openings 61a, 16b, 61c, as well as the protective conductor contacts 62a, 62b are compatible with plugs according to the Swiss standard as well as with plugs according to the DE standard. The Swiss plug contacts the openings 61a, 61b, 61c, the DE plug contacts the openings 61a, 61c, as well as the protective contacts 62a, 62b.