US 2007/0178747 A1Published application

Electrical terminal

AssigneePhoenix Contact GmbH & Co. KG

InventorAndreas SCHRADER

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Abstract

An electrical terminal with a housing having a terminal chamber formed in it, and two conductor inlets which lead into the terminal chamber for electrical conductors to be connected with a respective conductor connection arrangement formed of a current bar and a clamping leg of a clamping spring, the clamping leg and the current bar forming a spring force clamping terminal for an electrical conductor to be connected, and the two clamping legs each being connected to a contact leg. The electrical terminal can have especially small dimensions by there being only one clamping spring in the housing, the two contact legs being connected to one another and adjoining the housing wall on the edge of the terminal chamber, and by the current bar and the clamping springs being made and arranged such that the current bar is located between the two clamping legs.

Claims18

Dependent claims

Electrical terminal, comprising a housing with a terminal chamber formed in the housing and two conductor inlets which lead into the terminal chamber for the electrical conductors to be connected, a conductor connection arrangement located in the terminal chamber for each conductor inlet, each conductor connection arrangement having a current bar and a clamping leg of a clamping spring, the clamping leg and the current bar forming a spring force clamping terminal for an electrical conductor to be connected, and each clamping leg being connected to a contact leg,

wherein only one clamping spring is located in the housing, the two contact legs being connected to one another on an end which is away from the clamping legs and adjoining a housing wall on an edge of the terminal chamber, and
wherein the current bar and the clamping spring are made and arranged such that the current bar is located between the two clamping legs and runs essentially parallel to an insertion direction of the conductors to be connected.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 11/670,518Filed 2 Feb 2007
Priority: DE 10 2006 005 260.92 Feb 2006
Published: 2 Aug 2007
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification6 codes

H01R 4/485
Busbar details: single busbar common to multiple springs
H01R 4/4821
The spring shape allowing insertion of the conductor end when the spring is unbiased: single-blade spring
H01R 4/4833
Spring-activating arrangements mounted on or integrally formed with the spring housing: sliding arrangements, e.g. sliding button
H01R 4/4837
Spring-activating arrangements mounted on or integrally formed with the spring housing: single arrangement activating multiple springs