Contact block with resilient socket contacts
OwnerArtur Fischerinventor
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Abstract
A contact block has a plurality of contact units each formed by two U-shaped strips inserted one inside the other. The strips have base portions connected with one another and with a support member by rivets. Each strip has two lateral portions each provided with a slot extending over a part of the length thereof so as to form two resilient tongues in each lateral portion. Thereby, each contact unit has eight tongues forming four contacts. The contacts are separated from one another by a grid of insulating material.
Claims12
A contact block of an experimental construction kit for connecting electrical and electronic construction elements, comprising a support element;
- a plurality of contact units supported by said support element and each composed of two U-shaped contact strips inserted in one another, said strips having base portions connected with one another so as to form a common base, and each of said strips having two lateral portions extending from the base portion of the respective strip, each of said lateral portions having a free end spaced from the base portion and being provided with a slot extending from the free end of the respective lateral portion in the direction toward the base portion of the same strip and over at least a part of the length of the respective lateral portion, so that each of said lateral portions is subdivided into two resilient tongues and thereby each of said contact units comprises eight tongues which form four contacts each composed of two of said eight tongues and arranged to receive a conductor therein;
- and means for electrically separating said contacts from each other.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.