Adapter housing for a contact insert for fixing on a top-hat rail
AssigneeHARTING Electric GmbH & Co. KG
InventorPeter Giesbrecht
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Abstract
An adapter housing is provided for receiving a contact carrier, wherein the adapter housing has on its outer wall two connecting structures or means, molded on opposite one another and complementing one another, for reversibly connecting to an adapter housing of the same type and/or to a top-hat rail fixing element and wherein the adapter housing has on the inserting side at least one locking device or means for reversibly locking the adapter housing to a further adapter housing. A system comprising of a first adapter housing, with a first contact carrier received therein, a second adapter housing, with a second contact carrier received therein, and a top-hat rail is also provided.
Claims14
An adapter housing for receiving a contact carrier and for fixing to a top-hat rail, the adapter housing comprising:
- a first connecting structure integrally formed on a first side of an outer wall of the adapter housing and a second connecting structure integrally formed on a second side of the outer wall of the adapter opposite the first side, the first and second connecting structures being positioned opposite one another and configured to be complementary to one another, for reversibly connecting to a similar adapter housing and/or to a top-hat rail fixing element to enable the adapter housing and one or more similar adapter housings to be attached together side-by-side in a direction that is perpendicular to a plug-in direction of the contact carrier and perpendicular to a longitudinal direction of the top-hat rail;
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- at least one locking device provided on a mating side of the adapter housing for reversibly locking the adapter housing to a further adapter housing in the plug-in direction of the contact carrier.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.