Patent ID: 6336825
Filing Date: 2002-01-08
Classification: G02B,H01R,Y10S

Abstract:
Electrical connector with electrical connection elements, which electrical connector exhibits on one side a receiver part (14), wherein a light-guiding body 2 made of a transmitting material with at least one illuminating body (11) is inserted into said receiver part (14), and wherein feed lines (24, 25) for the contact pins (12, 13, 19) are guided through said receiver part (14), wherein the light-guiding body (2) has at least two arms (4, 5, 6, 7), which arms exhibit in each case an ellipsoidal or paraboloidal or cylindrical shaped or planar-pyramidal formed surface in direction of a longitudinal axis (22) of a main radiation direction of the illuminating body (11) at abutting ends of the arms (4, 5, 6, 7) on a side disposed opposite to the illuminating body (11), wherein said planar, inclined or curved surfaces form in each case a reflecting deflection face of the respective arm (4, 5, 6, 7), and wherein said surfaces are capable of deflecting light mainly in axial direction within the respective arm (4, 5, 6, 7) at an angle of about 90 degrees relative to a main radiation direction of the illuminating body, wherein the reflecting deflection faces (8, 9, 10, 18) of the arms (4, 5, 6, 7) in each case jointly connect in a tip (23) or edge directed into the light-guiding body (2) at an axis (22) of the main radiation direction of the illuminating body (11), wherein the light-guiding body (2) exhibits a recess (15) below the tip (23) or edge, wherein the illuminating body (11) is disposed in the recess (15), wherein the illuminating body (11) reaches within the recess (15) into the region of the abutting ends of the arms (4, 5, 6, 7) and the recess reaches up to below the tip (23).