Electrical connector device
AssigneeLa Telemecanique Electrique
InventorGuy Lacan
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Abstract
The invention relates to an arrangement for connecting electrical installations or equipment to chassis containing electrical apparatus. Connectors, identical to those used within the chassis, are located on the exterior side walls of the chassis, and cooperate with a series of detachable plugs which are slidably guided into aligned cooperation with the connectors by means of ribs on the side walls, and latchingly engage with the side walls to retain them electrically interconnected with the connectors. The height of each plug is a multiple of the pitch between the rows of connector pins of the connectors, thus enabling several plugs to be plugged, side-by-side, to the same connector.
Claims5
An electrical connection device for making connections between external conductors and a fixed chassis supporting a plurality of removable electrical circuits, said chassis having two parallel side faces and a rear face, the connection device comprising a plurality of interconnector members mounted at the rear face, at least one junction connector member mounted at one of the side faces, said junction connector and interconnector members being of similar construction and each having a front face and a rear face and being provided, at their rear face, with pins adapted to have wound thereonto the bared ends of conductors and, at their front face, with contact members, a plurality of removable plugs each having first and second faces perpendicular to the side faces of the chassis, said first and second faces being spaced apart by a distance which substantially equals a multiple of the pitch of the contact members in the junction connector member, said removable plugs being adapted to receive the external conductors and having pins adapted to engage the contact members of the junction connector member.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.