Connector bank for telecommunication devices
AssigneeKrone Aktiengesellschaft
InventorEberhard Klaiber
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Abstract
A connector bank for telecommunication devices is disclosed which includes a plastic housing with at least one series of connection contacts arranged in connection chambers to receive cable wires, in particular dropwire cable wires. A connector bank includes a series of contact elements for overvoltage suppressors formed in plug sockets. A second series of plug contact elements. The test plug sockets are arranged between two adjacent connection chambers for cable wires. By the arrangement according to the invention, the insertion of test plugs into the test plug sockets may be effected with a completely wired connector bank and under the protection of the overvoltage suppressors.
Claims7
A connector bank for telecommunication devices comprising:
- a plastic housing;
- a series of connection contacts for cable wires positioned in connection chambers defined by said housing;
- a series of overvoltage suppressor contact elements positioned in overvoltage plug sockets defined in said housing, said overvoltage plug sockets and said overvoltage suppressor contact elements adapted to receive an overvoltage suppressor at an overvoltage suppressor space;
- and, a series of test plug sockets, each test plug socket being positioned between two adjacent connection chambers associated with said series of connection contacts, each plug socket being provided with pickup contact elements adapted to engage a test plug received by the test plug socket said pickup contact elements being connected with a connection contact of said series of connection contacts, each of said test plug sockets of said series of test plug sockets being positioned between two adjacent connection contacts such that one pickup contact of each of the two adjacent connection contacts enters into a single test plug socket of said series of test plug sockets.
A connector bank for telecommunication devices comprising:
- a plastic housing having a top portion and a side portion, said housing defining an accommodation chamber in the housing top portion, a series of connection chambers in said housing side portion and a series of test plug sockets in said housing top portion adjacent said accommodation chamber, each of said test plug sockets being positioned between adjacent connection chambers of said series of connection chambers;
- a series of contact elements each including a cutting/clamping connection contact positioned in a connection chamber, an overvoltage contact element positioned in said accommodation chamber, each of said overvoltage contact elements being connected to a cutting/clamping connection contact of a corresponding one of said series of contact elements, each of said overvoltage contact elements in said series of contact elements being adapted to receive an overvoltage suppressor and first and second test plug contact elements connected to opposite sides of each of said cutting/clamping contacts of each of said series of contact elements, each of said test plug sockets of said series of test plugs sockets being positioned between two adjacent cutting/clamping connection contacts such that one test plug contact element of each two adjacent cutting/clamping connection contact enters into a single test plug socket of said series of test plug sockets thereby allowing the insertion of a test plug into one of said test plug sockets of said series of test plug sockets with connected incoming and outgoing cable wires under simultaneous protection by a corresponding overvoltage suppressor.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.