TE Connectivity Solutions

An insulation displacement connector, an IDC (100) is disclosed, including at least one piercing terminal (110), for penetrating wire insulation and making electrical contact to a respective insulated wire in a wire holder (200); and a closable housing (300). The closable housing includes a cavity (150), for holding the wire holder (200) and the at least one piercing terminal (110); and an internal latching mechanism (310). The cavity (150) is configured for insertion of the wire holder (200) along an insertion direction (199).

A connector (100) for electrically and fluidly connecting a cooled electrical cable (110) to a cooled busbar (140) is disclosed. The connector (100) includes a terminal body (120); a busbar coupling (180) configured to couple the terminal body (120), at an orifice (124) thereof, to the cooled busbar (140); and a clamp (160). The terminal body (120) includes: a first and second orifice (122, 124); a channel (150) extending through the terminal body (120), the channel (150) connecting the first and second orifices (122, 124). The channel (150) can pass a coolant (130) between the cooled electrical cable (110) and the cooled busbar (140). The terminal body (120) includes a hose fitting (190) for coupling the terminal body (120) to a hose (118) of the cooled electrical cable (110), the hose fitting (190) including the first orifice (122). The clamp (160) can sandwich an annularly disposed electrical conductor (116) of the cable (110) between the clamp (160) and the terminal body (120) adjacent to the hose fitting (190).

A connector health monitoring device (100) for health assessment testing of an electrical connector includes a device housing (140) that includes a body (142) forming a cavity (150). The device housing has a mating end (112) configured for mating with the electrical connector. The connector health monitoring device includes a control element (160) received in the cavity. The control element includes a processor (165) for performing a health assessment of the electrical connector. The connector health monitoring device includes a testing probe (110) held by the device housing. The testing probe includes a mating interface (102) for mating with a testable contact of the electrical connector. The testing probe arranged at the mating end for mating with the testable contact. The testing device is operably coupled to the control element.

A connector health monitoring system (70) for health assessment testing of an electrical connector (10) includes a connector health monitoring device (100) that includes a device housing (140) and a testing probe (110) held by the device housing and arranged at the mating end (112) for mating with a testable contact of the electrical connector to generate testing data. A communication module (166) transmits the testing data. The connector health monitoring system includes a health assessment device (200) communicatively coupled to the connector health monitoring device that receives the testing data from the communication module of the connector health monitoring device. The health assessment device includes an analyzer module (260) that includes a processor (165) for performing a health assessment of the electrical connector based on the testing data.

A foreign object detection (FOD) testing device 100 for a separable connector interface 12 comprises of a testing probe 110 having a testing pin 112 configured to be mated with the separable connector interface and a testing sensor 120 at the testing pin. The testing sensor is configured for multiparameter FOD analysis of the separable connector interface.

An inline power connector (200) for connecting a first power cable (110) and a second power cable of a power cable harness (102) is provided. The inline power connector includes a conductor termination (210) for electrically connecting a first cable conductor (110) of the first power cable and a second cable conductor of the second power cable. The inline power connector includes a power connector insulator (220) surrounding the conductor termination to isolate the conductor termination. The inline power connector includes a power connector shield (250) surrounding the power connector insulator. The power connector shield includes a first shield end (260) and a second shield end (262). The first shield end is configured to be coupled to a first cable shield (118) of the first power cable. The second shield end is configured to be coupled to a second cable shield (128) of the second power cable. The inline power connector includes a power connector housing (152) has a housing cavity (282) that receives the power connector shield. The power connector insulator, and the conductor termination. The power connector housing holds a first seal (290) at a first housing end (286) is configured to be sealed to the first power cable and a second seal (295) at a second housing end (288) is configured to be sealed to the second power cable.

Insulating housing (100) for providing a heat insulation around a cable (190). The insulating housing (100) comprises a main body (110) having a plurality of longitudinal grooves (111) along a longitudinal axis (102) of the main body (110) and further comprises two peripheral regions (120). The main body (110) is arranged between the peripheral regions (120), and the insulating housing (100) is foldable along the plurality of longitudinal grooves (111) to form an enclosure. Each peripheral region (120) is configured to contact the cable (190). Further, an installation kit (140) for installing a heat shrink sleeve (170) is provided. The installation kit (140) comprises the insulating housing (100), a heat shrink sleeve (170), a heating unit (174), and a control unit (176) arranged at a base plate (178).

The invention relates to a contact assembly (1) for a plugging device (2) of a charger, wherein the contact assembly (1) is configured to be held in the plugging device (2) and to be contacted by a mating contact (6) of the charger, wherein the contact assembly (1) comprises an electrically conductive contact element (8) and a holding body (10) that surrounds the contact element (8) at least in part from outside, wherein the holding body (10) comprises at least one other material than the contact element (8). The use of different materials for the holding body (10) and the contact element (8) and the resulting flexibilized material selection leads to freedom of design. The invention further relates to a contact bundle (4) and a plugging device (2).

The invention relates to a contact module (14, 14a, 14b, 14c) for monitoring a substack (18, 18a, 18b, 18c) of bipolar plates (4, 4a, 4b, 4c) of a fuel cell stack (10) that are stacked on top of one another in a stacking direction (6), with a plate contacting assembly (20) which is configured to electrically contact the bipolar plates of the substack, and with a measuring device (24) which is electrically connected to the plate contacting assembly and is configured to measure a differential voltage (28) between each two neighboring bipolar plates of the substack and generate a voltage signal (70) that is representative of this differential voltage. The object of the invention also includes a set of such contact modules as well as a fuel cell system with such a set of contact modules. The cell voltages of a fuel cell stack can be measured precisely with the devices according to the invention. At the same time, a complex structure of the devices according to the invention is prevented.

An electrical plug is disclosed which can be connected in a plugging direction to an electrical plug socket module, the plug socket module comprising, in a first configuration, a plug socket with a socket latching element and, in a second configuration, the plug socket as well as a frame, connected to the plug socket, with a frame latching element, the electrical plug comprising:a plug contact region, arranged on a plug body, with at least one electrical contact for establishing an electrical connection between the plug and at least one corresponding electrical mating contact of the plug socket;a lever structure extending at least partially in the plugging direction and being deflectable substantially perpendicularly to the plugging direction at least between a first latching position and a second latching position;and, arranged on the lever structure,a first plug latching element, configured to lock the plug to the socket latching element when the lever structure is in the first latching position; anda second plug latching element, configured to lock the plug to the frame latching element when the lever structure is in the second latching position;whereinthe first plug latching element is configured not to lock the plug to the socket latching element in the second latching position.A corresponding plug socket module is moreover disclosed.