Patent ID: 6563088
Filing Date: 2003-05-13
Classification: B60N

Abstract:
Electrical plug-type connector, in particular a socket or a cigar(ette)-lighting device in motor vehicles or the like, comprising a sleeve-like guide part (1) for the axially displaceable acceptance of a cigar(ette) lighter or of a connector plug of an electrical device, with a fixed contact (5) being arranged on an insulation carrier (4) in the base section of the guide part (1), and the at least sectionally electrically-conducting guide part (1) forming a second fixed contact that acts upon other counter contacts, and there further being provided an overload protection (6),characterized by the following featuresa) the thermal and electrical overload protection (6) displays, parallel to it and at a distance from the insulation carrier (4), a sheet metal insert (7) extending in the base section (3) on whose underside (8) is fixed an electrically-conductive bimetal-switch spring (9), which in the non-operative condition acts upon the first fixed contact (5) or upon a side contact (10) connected with this latter; b) the diameter of the sheet metal insert (7) is less than the internal diameter of the sleeve-like guide part (1); c) the sheet metal insert (7) can be introduced axially from the opening side into the guide part (1); d) in the final-assembly condition, the sheet metal insert (7) is connected, in particular with a snap/catch connector (11), with the insulation carrier (4) spaced such that there remains a pivot-region opening for the bimetal-switch spring (9) in the energized condition.