Equipment quick-connect terminal for connecting electrical conductors to electrical equipment

A quick-connect terminal for connecting electrical conductors to a bus bar of electrical equipment, comprising:

• a cover having a longitudinal channel with an opening at one end, an opening for entry of the equipment bus bar and funnels for entry of the electrical conductors, the longitudinal channel being arranged with respect to the bus bar entry opening such that the direction of bus bar entry is transverse to the longitudinal channel;
• a conductor frame terminal assembly comprising a conductor frame extending around the conductors and having a thread for a terminal screw, a U-shaped pressure piece having first and second legs and a bridge connecting the legs, the terminal screw surrounded by the U-shaped pressure piece with the second leg of the pressure piece withing the conductor frame, the terminal screw having a head guiding the first leg of the U-shaped pressure piece, the conductor frame terminal assembly being inserted into the opening of the longitudinal channel of the cover;
• means securing the assembly within the longitudinal channel of the cover in a snap-in manner;
• the cover has N parallel longitudinal channels, where N is a number greater than or equal to 2, a corresponding number N of terminal assemblies, a corresponding number N of means for securing the N assemblies in the cover and N-1 recesses having an approximately rectangular cross-section and means located at each recess for securing the terminal to the equipment in a snap-in manner, the electrical equipment to be connected further including means for blocking the releasing of the N means securing the N terminal assemblies within the cover when the terminal assembly is connected to the electrical equipment, the N-1 recesses having the approximately rectangular cross section and the means for securing the terminal to the equipment are each located between two adjacent parallel longitudinal channels.