Electrical relay with mounting bracket
AssigneeAlbright International Limited
InventorMichael SHERIDAN
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Abstract
The present invention relates to the field of electrical relays. In particular the invention relates to a bracket a relay and bracket combination which permits the relay to be mounted on a surface or panel in a plurality of angular rotational orientations. There is provided a relay and mounting bracket combination comprising a relay having a body with a terminal end portion provided with one or more electrical terminal connectors and a base end portion adapted for engagement with the bracket, wherein the bracket is provided with attachment features which facilitate the mounting of the bracket to an external object or surface when the bracket is engaged with the base end portion of the relay.
Claims18
A relay and mounting bracket combination comprising a relay having a body with longitudinal axis defined between a terminal end portion provided with one or more electrical terminal connectors and a base end portion adapted for engagement with the bracket, wherein the bracket is provided with one or more attachment features which facilitate the mounting of the bracket to an external object or surface when the bracket is engaged with the base end portion of the relay, wherein the engagement between the base end portion and the bracket is made by the inter-engagement of one or more protruding nubs with one or more constraint features thereby providing axial constraint against withdrawing of the base end portion from engagement with the bracket, said one or more nubs and one or more constraint features being configured so as to be capable of co-operating at any one of a plurality of rotational orientations of the base end portion with respect to the bracket, whereby the relay may be mounted on the bracket in a selected one of a plurality of rotational orientations.
A combination of a relay and mounting bracket comprising a relay having a body with a terminal end portion provided with one or more electrical terminal connectors and a base end portion adapted for engagement with the bracket, wherein the bracket is provided with one or more attachment features which facilitate the mounting of the bracket to an external object or surface when the bracket is engaged with the base end portion of the relay, wherein an engagement between the base end portion and the bracket is made by the co-operation of one or more protruding nubs with one or more constraint features which provide axial constraint against withdrawing of the base end portion from the bracket aperture or seat, wherein the bracket is provided with a generally annular aperture or seat sized to accommodate the base end portion therein and the protruding nub or nubs are radially extending, wherein the body portion is provided with said one or more radial nubs which are each radially oversized with respect to the radius of the bracket aperture or seat, the aperture or seat having an inside surface provided with one or more axially extending open bypass slots each capable of receiving an oversized nub when circumferentially aligned therewith, so that the base end portion may axially enter the bracket aperture or recess with the nubs passing through the slots, and wherein said inside surface of the aperture or recess is further provided with one or more inwardly directed shoulder features, sized to accommodate the nub or nubs therein but providing axial constraint which prevents axial withdrawal of the nub or nubs when the shoulder feature covers the nub, the arrangement being such that the relay base portion may be engaged with the bracket by aligning the nub or nubs with the axial slots, and then twisting the bracket with respect to the base portion so that the nub or nubs are accommodated in a shoulder feature or features, which shoulder feature or features prevent axial disengagement of the base portion from the bracket by acting upon the nub or nubs.
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