Bus bar
AssigneeAptiv Technologies AG
InventorsPawel Kot, Dariusz Hebda, Dawid Bebenek, Konrad Stefanski
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Abstract
A straight bus bar includes an axial direction and having a rigid first portion with a first contact surface connectable to a first fuse, an axially spaced rigid second portion with a second contact surface connectable to a second fuse, and a connecting portion electrically connecting the first portion and the second portion. The connecting portion is a resilient compensation portion having at least two lateral recesses extending from opposite sides into the bus bar making the connecting portion elastically bendable to allow a relative axial movement of the first and second portions when an axial force is applied to the bus bar.
Claims15
A straight bus bar defining an axial direction and having
- a rigid first portion with a first contact surface connectable to a first fuse,
- an axially spaced rigid second portion with a second contact surface connectable to a second fuse, and
- a connecting portion mechanically and electrically connecting the rigid first portion and the second portion, wherein
- the connecting portion is a resilient compensation portion having at least two lateral recesses extending from opposite sides into the bus bar making the connecting portion elastically bendable to allow a relative axial movement of the rigid first portion rigid and second portion when an axial force is applied to the bus bar.
An electric assembly comprising:
- a bus bar according to any one of the preceding claims, a fuse and a housing made of a material having a different coefficient of thermal expansion than the bus bar, and
- a first end of the fuse is mechanically and electrically connected to the first contact surface of the rigid first portion of the bus bar and a second end of the fuse is mechanically connected to the housing.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.