Patent ID: 6422903
Filing Date: 2002-07-23
Classification: H01R

Abstract:
A plug-in socket for an electronic plug-in connector, the plug-in socket comprising:a housing having a mounting surface with socket receptacles for receiving electrical contact elements, the housing having an insertion limit stop; a bayonet ring circumferentially extending around the housing for locking the housing to a first end of a guide sleeve, the bayonet ring having a mounting end and an inserting end, the inserting end having an insertion means; and a plug-in part arranged on the opposite end of the guide sleeve, the plug-in part carrying complimentary plug-in part contact elements; wherein the bayonet ring is longitudinally displaceable relative to the housing between a mounting position for enabling electrical contact elements to be mounted through the socket receptacles of the mounting surface of the housing and an inserting position for enabling mounted electrical contact elements to engage with the complementary plug-in part contact elements, wherein in the mounting position the mounting end of the bayonet ring is arranged in the plane of the mounting surface of the housing, wherein in the inserting position the insertion end of the bayonet ring is arranged within a region of the mounting surface of the housing and the insertion means of the inserting end of the bayonet ring engages with the insertion limit stop of the housing in order to insert the housing into the guide sleeve in response to an insertion force applied to the bayonet ring; wherein the bayonet ring includes a snap-in connection cooperating with the housing for holding the bayonet ring in the mounting position while electrical contact elements are mounted through the socket receptacles of the mounting surface of the housing, wherein the snap-in connection includes snap-in beads of the bayonet ring which engage into snap-in depressions of the insertion limit stop of the housing.