Patent ID: 6722894
Filing Date: 2004-04-20
Classification: H01R

Abstract:
A plug connector for establishing an electrical contact between first and second conducting track carriers, in particular between a flexible conductor foil and a circuit board, said plug connector comprising a plug part that has a plug housing provided with a cam surface, said first conducting track carrier being shiftably mounted to said plug housing such that it can be shifted, parallel to a plug-in direction of said plug part, starting from an advanced initial position into a retracted contact position, and further comprising a socket part that includes a socket housing, a pressure application spring and said second conducting track carrier which is received in said socket housing, said pressure application spring having two ends, one end of which forming a supported end received in said socket housing and the other end forming a pressing end cooperating with said first conducting track carrier if the latter is in said contact position, said pressing end of said pressure application spring being set under tension by said cam surface during inserting said plug part into said socket part and being released not until said plug part is inserted in said socket part to such an extent that said first conducting track carrier has reached its contact position.