Fuse holder
AssigneeGeneral Automotive Specialty Co., Inc.
InventorMark Levine
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Abstract
A fuse holder has a base, an electrically conductive element and a cover which secures the element to the base. The base has opposite sides formed with projections and recesses which are releasably engageable with complementary recesses and projections of another base. The conductive element is arranged to contact a conductive element on the other base when the releasable locking position is reached. The conductive element has arms from which project contacts that are electrically isolated from other cooperating contacts. By inserting fuse terminals through slots in a cover that are directly over the contacts and cooperating contacts, electrical connection is made between the contacts and the cooperating contacts. Preferably, four, six or fourteen fuses may be held at the same time by any one fuse holder.
Claims23
A fuse holder adapted to be coupled to another fuse holder of like structure, comprising:
- an insulating base;
- an electrically conductive element mounted on said base;
- contact means including first contacts in electrical connection with said conductive element and second contacts which are electrically isolated from said first contacts and from said conductive element, said first and second contacts being arranged in pairs adapted for holding the fuse terminals of fuse elements;
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- releasable engaging means for releasably locking together said base with another like base and for simultaneously electrically connecting said conductive element with another conductive like element located on said other base as said bases are releasably locked together.
In combination, a pair of fuse holders,
- (i) each having an insulating base,
- an electrically conductive element on said base,
- said conductive element having a plurality of first contacts connected thereto, and
- a like plurality of terminals on said base, each having a second contact separated from a respective first contact, with each pair of one said first contact and one said second contact being adapted to engage the terminals of a fuse, and
- (ii) releasable engaging means for releasably locking one end of the base of the holder to the opposite end of the base of the other holder and for simultaneously connecting said conductive elements of said two bases.
A fuse holder, comprising:
- an electrically conductive element having
- a substantially flat elongated central portion,
- arms projecting from said central portion and spaced apart from each other,
- first biased contacts which extend substantially perpendicular to and from said first arms,
- terminals which extend in line with said first arms but are electrically isolated therefrom,
- second biased contacts which extend substantially perpendicular to and from said terminals, said terminals having holes, said first and second biased contacts being arranged relative to each other for enabling insertion of one fuse terminal of one flat fuse to be releasably held by said first biased contacts of one of said arms and of another fuse terminal of the one flat fuse to be releasably held simultaneously by said second biased contacts of a corresponding one of said terminals that is in line with said one arm,
- a first end extending from said conductive element central portion and having a hole spaced from an edge of said first end by a first distance, and
- a second end of said conductive element central portion being raised to extend at a different elevation than that of said first end by an amount which is at least equal to a thickness of said first end, said second end having a slot which extends in the direction of elongation of said central portion and by a distance from the edge of said second end by substantially said first distance.
A ground contact holder, comprising:
- a base which is electrically non-conductive;
- an electrically conductive element secured to said base, said element having a plate portion and a plurality of terminals extending from said plate portion substantially perpendicular relative to said plate portion;
- engaging means extending from said base for resiliently engaging complementary engaging means on a base of a fuse holder;
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- a wall portion which is electrically non-conductive and extends from said base at a location which is between where said element and said engaging means are located on said base.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.