Filter plug connector having a shield housing

Claim 1

A filter plug connector, comprising: a strip body being formed of insulating material and having a front with latching devices, a rear and side walls; a ferrite core configuration having holes formed therein; a chamber being formed by said strip body, having an open rear for receiving said ferrite core configuration and having a base; a number of parallel plug pins being disposed in a grid, entering said chamber from the rear and emerging through said base of said chamber to the front of said strip body, at least some of said plug pins being guided in said chamber by said holes in said ferrite core configuration; a shield housing covering said side walls and at least part of the rear of said strip body and of said chamber, said shield housing having a cut out formed therein for said plug pins, having resilient side parts engaging over said side walls of said strip body, having bends on said side parts latching onto said latching devices on the front of said strip body, and having an outer surface; a capacitive filter element for receiving a number of said plug pins, said filter element being soldered to said plug pins and to said shield housing at said outer surface of said shield housing opposite said rear of said chamber; said bends on said resilient side parts of said shield housing being mutually separate and mutually parallel individual spring arms, said spring arms having a section being bent inwards from said side parts approximately at right angles and a section being bent outwards from said inward bent section at an angle less than 180° to form a radius, said inward bent section forming a sliding and latching element, and said outward bent section forming a contact element for said shield housing to make contact with a mounting panel; and said side walls of said strip body being tapered towards the open rear of said chamber at least over a subregion extending in a plugging direction, forming lead-in and sliding inclines for said sliding and latching element to expand said side parts of said shield housing during connection of said shield housing and said strip body, and at least one of said sliding and latching elements having a latching device in the vicinity of said inward bent section for automatically latching said at least one sliding and latching element on said latching devices on the front of said strip body, with said latching device springing inwards after passing over said side walls of said strip body.