Housing for an electrical component, particularly for a relay
AssigneeSiemens Aktiengesellschaft
InventorHorst Hendel
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Abstract
The housing cap comprises a bevel at one of its upper corners, a rib corresponding to the original housing contour projecting out of this bevel. An aeration channel that is initially closed toward the outside is situated in this rib, this aeration channel being capable of being opened from obliquely above with a diagonal cutting nipper after the washing of the relay on the printed circuit board.
Claims6
A housing for an electrical component, particularly for a relay, comprising a cuboid cap having a plurality of outside walls perpendicularly intersecting one another to form a cuboid configuration of said cuboid cap and to form a plurality of corners of said cuboid cap;
- an upper corner defined by three adjoining walls being set back to form an oblique wall portion that intersects said three adjoining walls at an oblique angle thereto;
- a projection projecting outward from said oblique wall portion, and
- said projection having a channel, said channel being open to an interior of said cuboid cap and being closed by an end portion of said projection.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.