Contact apparatus and medical device
AssigneeSiemens Healthineers AG
InventorsChristian Bruno Bosch, Florian Fleischmann, Norbert Scherer
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Abstract
A contact apparatus having at least one conductive, elastic, structured contact unit that may assume a first state and a second state and may be brought by supplying energy, such as pressure, from the first state into the second state, is provided for a particularly rapid and simple electrical contacting with a ground potential of cable shields of electrical cables with different diameters. The contact unit is configured so that, in the first state, the contract unit has a preparation for detachably inserting a plurality of electrical cables, and that, in the second state, the contract unit fixes the cables and establishes an electrical contact with the cable shields of the cables.
Claims19
A contact apparatus for electrically contacting cable shields of electrical cables with a ground potential, the contact apparatus comprising:
- at least one contact unit that is conductive, elastic, and structured, and is operable to assume a first state and a second state, the at least one contact unit being operable to be brought from the first state into the second state by supplying energy,
- wherein the at least one contact unit is configured so that:
- in the first state, the at least one contact unit has a preparation for detachably inserting a plurality of electrical cables;
- and
- in the second state the at least one contact unit fixes the electrical cables and establishes an electrical contact with the cable shields of the electrical cables.
A medical device comprising:
- a contact apparatus for electrically contacting cable shields of electrical cables with a ground potential, the contact apparatus comprising:
- at least one contact unit that conductive, elastic, and structured, and is operable to assume a first state and a second state, the at least one contact unit being operable to be brought from the first state into the second state by supplying energy,
- wherein the at least one contact unit is configured so that:
- in the first state, the at least one contact unit has a preparation for detachably inserting a plurality of electrical cables;
- and
- in the second state the at least one contact unit fixes the electrical cables and establishes an electrical contact with the cable shields of the electrical cables.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.