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US 2024/0055210 A1Published application
Distributor block and method for producing distributor blocks
AssigneePhoenix Contact GmbH & Co. KG
InventorEugen SILBERNAGEL
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Abstract
A distributor block includes: a supply input having an input terminal for connecting an electrical conductor; and a plurality of outputs, each output of the plurality of outputs having an output terminal for connecting an electrical conductor. The supply input is electrically conductively connected to a first current bar. Each output is electrically conductively connected to a second current bar. Between the first current bar and the second current bar, a fuse and/or a switch is arranged to connect the first current bar to the second current bar. A receptacle configured to hold the fuse and/or the switch is provided between the first current bar and the second current bar.
Claims13
1:
- A distributor block, comprising:
- a supply input having an input terminal for connecting an electrical conductor;
- and
- a plurality of outputs, each output of the plurality of outputs having an output terminal for connecting an electrical conductor,
- wherein the supply input is electrically conductively connected to a first current bar,
- wherein each output is electrically conductively connected to a second current bar,
- wherein, between the first current bar and the second current bar, a fuse and/or a switch is arranged to connect the first current bar to the second current bar, and
- wherein a receptacle configured to hold the fuse and/or the switch is provided between the first current bar and the second current bar.
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2:
- The distributor block of claim 1, wherein the receptacle is riveted to the first current bar and/or that the receptacle is riveted to the second current bar.
3:
- The distributor block of claim 1, wherein the receptacle is welded to the first current bar, and/or
- wherein the receptacle is welded to the second current bar.
4:
- The distributor block of claim 1, wherein the fuse comprises a vehicle fuse, or
- wherein fuse comprises a G-fuse.
5:
- The distributor block of claim 1, wherein the first current bar has a larger conductor cross-section and/or a greater wall thickness than the second current bar.
6:
- The distributor block of claim 5, wherein the first current bar has a wall thickness of 1 mm or more or has a wall thickness of at most 2 mm, or
- wherein the second current bar has a wall thickness less than or equal to 1 mm.
7:
- The distributor block of claim 1, wherein the distributor block has exactly one supply input and/or the distributor block has more than four outputs.
8:
- The distributor block of claim 1, wherein the supply input and/or the outputs comprise push-in connections.
9:
- The distributor block of claim 1, wherein the outputs are arranged in two rows and/or mirror-symmetrically and the supply input is arranged with an offset to the outputs, and/or
- wherein the supply input and the outputs have openings for inserting conductors disposed on one side of a housing of the distributor block.
10:
- A method for producing distributor blocks, comprising:
- producing a first distributor block of and a second distributor block of claim 1;
- wherein the receptacle for holding the fuse and/or the switch of the first distributor block and the receptacle for holding the fuse and/or the switch of the second distributor block are not structurally identical, and
- wherein the first current bar of the first distributor block and the first current bar of the second distributor block are structurally identical, and/or
- wherein the second current bar of the first distributor block and the second current bar of the second distributor block are structurally identical.
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11:
- The distributor block of claim 6, wherein the wall thickness of the first current bar is 1.1 mm, or
- wherein the wall thickness of the second current bar is 0.8 mm.
12:
- The distributor block of claim 7, wherein the distributor block has more than four outputs, and
- wherein distributor block has more than ten outputs.
13:
- The distributor block of claim 12, wherein the distributor block has at most twenty outputs.