Patent ID: 9291184
Filing Date: 2016-03-22
CPC Classification: H01R,Y10T

Claim Text:
1. An electrical connecting device, comprising: a first electrical connector having a first coupling element; a second electrical connector having a second coupling element, wherein said second electrical connector can be connected to the first electrical connector by insertion one in the other; and a coupling lever which is movably mounted on the first electrical connector and which is movable from an open position to a safety position and to a closed position and has a third coupling element which cooperates with the first and second coupling elements, wherein the first and second electrical connectors are incompletely inserted one in the other and loosely connected to each other in the loose state, are incompletely inserted one in the other and prevented from being released from each other in a safety state, and are completely inserted one in the other and rigidly connected to each other in the fixed state, wherein a position of the first and second electrical connectors relative to each other in the loose state does not differ from a position of the first and second electrical connectors relative to each other in the safety state, wherein the first and second electrical connectors can be transferred from the loose state to a safety state by a translational adjusting movement of the coupling lever out of the open position into the safety position provided in the course between the open position and the closed position, wherein said third coupling element is configured in such a way that the first and second electrical connectors can be transferred from the safety state to the fixed state by a rotational adjusting movement of the coupling lever from the safety position to the closed position, and wherein the coupling lever is prevented from performing the rotational adjustment motion in the open position by cooperation with the first electrical connector and with the second electrical connector in the loose state thereof and the coupling lever is prevented from performing the rotational adjustment motion in the closed position by cooperation with the first electrical connector and with the second electrical connector in the fixed state thereof.