Plug-in socket system
AssigneeHager Industrie AG
InventorsMartin KÄMPF, Tobias WICKI
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Abstract
The invention relates to a plug-in socket system (100) for one or more rail-mounted devices (400, 600, 610) to be releasably fastened to an advantageously designed electrically conducive mounting rail that can be connected to the ground and acts as a protective conductor
Claims22
A plug-in socket system for one or more rail-mounted devices for detachable fastening to an electrically conductive mounting rail acting as a protective conductor, comprising:
- an electrically insulating busbar component for receiving current-carrying busbars;
- an electrically insulating protective part detachably mounted on the busbar component and comprising an exterior surface, an interior surface, and a plurality of access slots with protection against direct access;
- wherein the plurality of access slots is configured and arranged to be detachably mounted on one or more rail-mounted devices on the exterior surface;
- and wherein the plurality of access slots is configured and arranged to allow one or more electrical contacts of the one or more rail-mounted devices to provide an electrical contact with the one or more busbars;
- wherein the one or more rail-mounted devices comprise one or more locking protrusions;
- wherein the busbar component comprises one or more interlocks configured and arranged adjacent to the access slots to mechanically lock the one or more rail-mounted devices after attachment such that the one or more locking protrusions of the rail-mounted device are passed through the protective part and the protective part is also mechanically locked to the busbar component;
- at least one protective conductor terminal, which is designed and can be arranged on the busbar component in such a way that it provides electrical grounding for the one or more rail-mounted devices of the mounting rail acting as protective conductor.
A protective conductor terminal for a plug-in socket system which can be fastened in a releasable manner to an electrically conductive mounting rail that can be connected to the ground and acts as a protective conductor, having a busbar component, wherein there is at least one insertion opening, the protective conductor terminal, being designed in such a manner that it can be inserted into an insertion opening of the busbar component in such a way that by means of one or more electrical contacts of the protective conductor terminal to the mounting rail an electrical grounding can be provided for one or more rail-mounted devices or electrical loads connected thereto.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.