Industrial Automation Technology Input/Output Module

Abstract

An industrial automation technology input/output module includes a base section with a front side and a rear side, a printed circuit board, a contact strip disposed on the front side with a plurality of contact elements configured to make an electrical connection with corresponding mating contact elements of a connector strip, wherein the contact elements are electrically connected to the printed circuit board, wherein a device for forwarding a supply voltage for the printed circuit board is disposed in parallel to the contact strip, wherein the device includes a terminal point and the connector strip is formed to include a plurality of mating terminal points electrically connected to the respective mating contact elements, and wherein the supply voltage is switched to the printed circuit board via a link element that is insertable into the terminal point and the mating terminal point.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.