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Galvanically separating coupling location for energy and/or signal transmission
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Inventors: Weller, Gerhard; Rosenfeldt, Bernd; Reis, Edmund;
Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft (Berlin and Munich, DE)
Primary Examiner: Orsino, Jr.; Joseph A.
Assistant Examiner:
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Hill, Van Santen, Steadman & Simpson
In an exemplary embodiment, primary and secondary coupling elements are disposed in a recess of a first housing and in a second housing which can be inserted into the recess of the first housing as a plug part. The coupling elements exhibit connection surfaces which are fitted to one another and via which a coupling location is produced upon production of the plug-type connection. The goal of the disclosure is to construct a galvanically separating coupling location of the type initially cited which, given particularly high electric strength and given optimum insulation, allows energy and/or signal transmission with an optimally high efficiency. This object is inventively achieved in that the coupling elements are suspended in a floating and resilient manner in the respective housings relative to at least one connection surface, preferably, however, relative to respective connection surfaces which enclose the respective coupling elements. |
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DETAILED DESCRIPTION The object of the present invention is to construct a coupling location of the type initially cited which, given particularly high electric strength and given optimum insulation, allows energy and/or signal transmission with an optimally high efficiency.
This object is inventively achieved in that the coupling elements are suspended by means of a floating and resilient mounting relative to at least one connection surface, preferably, however, relative to respective connection surfaces relatively allocated to one another.
The floating and resilient suspension of the coupling elements renders particularly intensive contact possible in the transmission path at the separation location of the transmission between the coupling elements respectively allocated to one another.
Due to this intensive connection, leakage losses hardly occur; despite the optimum insulation at the separation location, thus, the highest efficiency of the transmission ensues.
In the case of coupling locations where energy and signals are transmitted, both the coupling elements for the energy transmission as well as the coupling elements for the signal transmission can be suspended floating and resiliently.
By and large, the floating suspension will always be recommendable where the coupling elements exhibit relatively large connection surfaces.
Due to unavoidable fabrication tolerances, more or less intensive misconnections occur again and again insofar as care is not taken that the respective coupling element itself seeks the optimum coupling connection with its connection surfaces, this, of course, being achieved according to the invention by means of the floating and resilient suspension.
Relatively large connection surfaces, however, always exhibit such coupling elements as serve for energy transmission.
For this reason, in an advantageous development of the invention, it is specifically the primary and/or allocated secondary transmitter component of an energy transmitter which should always be suspended floating and resiliently
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