Patent ID: 7520787

Claim:
A device for a releasable electrical connection of a contact pin with a sheet metal component, wherein the sheet metal component ( 40 ) has at least one opening ( 41 ), the device comprising: a contact element ( 1 ) including a sleeve ( 10 ) placed in an electrically conducting manner in the opening ( 41 ), the sleeve ( 10 ) including an interior detent ( 14 ); a spring element ( 20 ) enveloped by the sleeve ( 10 ) and adjacent the interior detent ( 14 ), wherein, in a mounting position, the contact pin ( 50 ) is received by the spring element ( 20 ) in the sleeve ( 10 ), and the contact pin ( 50 ) is connected in an electrically conducting manner with the sheet metal component ( 40 ) via the spring element ( 20 ) and the sleeve ( 10 ); a locking ring ( 30 ) disposed within the sleeve ( 10 ) and disposed on a side of the spring element ( 20 ) that is opposite the interior detent ( 14 ), the locking ring ( 30 ) formed as a longitudinally slit clamping sleeve, and in an area of the locking ring ( 30 ) the sleeve ( 10 ) having an interior diameter which is widened in comparison with an area of the spring element ( 20 ).