Fuse holder assembly
AssigneeGeneral Electric Company
InventorsMadhu Sudan, Javier Gomez Martin, Jorge Vallejo, Anilkumar Dinker Pandit
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Abstract
A fuse holder comprising: a housing defining an enclosed region, the housing comprises a base and a cover, the base and cover adapted to accept differently configured cage holders within the enclosed region; a pair of contacts within the housing at opposite ends of the enclosed region and spaced to engage terminals on ends of a fuse; and a first cage holder and second cage holder configured to fit within in the housing, each cage holder of the first and second cage holders includes either a single pole cage or a plurality of pole cages.
Claims19
A fuse holder comprising:
- a housing defining an enclosed region, said housing comprises a base and a cover, said base and said cover adapted to accept differently configured cage holders within said enclosed region;
- a pair of contacts within said housing at opposite ends of said enclosed region and spaced to engage terminals on ends of a fuse;
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- a first cage holder and a second cage holder configured to fit within in said housing, each cage holder of said first and said second cage holders includes either a single pole cage or a plurality of pole cages.
The fuse holder of clam 1 wherein said single pole cage is electrically connected to said contacts.
A fuse system for fuse protection to a distribution circuit including a first phase, a second phase, and a neutral, said fuse system including;
- a first fuse holder including:
- a first housing,
- a single pole cage holder within said first housing, said single pole cage holder including a single pole cage for electrical connection to the first phase, and
- a second fuse holder including:
- a second housing identical to said first housing,
- a two-pole cage holder within said second housing, said two-pole cage holder including a first pole cage for electrical connection to the second phase and a second pole cage for electrical connection to the neutral.
The fuse system of claim 111 wherein each pole cage of said single pole cage and said first and second pole cages comprises:
- four generally planer sides with a flange depending generally perpendicularly from an edge forming one of said planar sides, and a screw threadably engaged with a side opposite said one of said planar sides for retaining an electrical wire entering an interior portion formed by said planar sides.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.