Control and/or indicator unit
AssigneeSchneider Electric SA
InventorPatrick Cuingnet
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Abstract
A control and/or indicator unit with screw terminals includes a one-piece body forming a flange provided with an external screwthread for fitting it by means of a nut to a support and surrounded at the rear by a cap in which are openings for wires and for access to the screws whose axes are parallel to the axis of symmetry of the body. The screws cooperate with connecting areas of bent conductive members held eccentric to the axis of symmetry in the body which provides a cylindrical internal housing open on the same side as the conductive members for at least one mobile contact plunger or a mobile contact plunger and a luminous component or a luminous component.
Claims12
A switch unit which provides at least one of a control signal and an indicator signal comprising:
- (a) a body having:
- (i) first and second ends;
- (ii) a flange adjacent to said first end;
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- (iii) a body opening at said second end;
- (b) a cap having:
- (i) first and second ends;
- (ii) a body receiving opening at said first end through which said second end of said body extends such that said cap at least partially closes said body opening;
- (iii) a cap wall;
- (iv) at least one wire access opening disposed in said cap wall;
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- (v) at least one screw access opening at said second end of said cap;
- (c) at least one screw disposed inside of said cap, said at least one screw having a head inside of said cap, said head exposed to an exterior of said cap by way of said at least one screw access opening of said cap;
- (d) at least one bent conductive member disposed inside of said cap, said at least one bent conductive member including a connecting portion which receives said at least one screw, and wherein said connecting portion is exposed to the exterior of said cap by way of said at least one wire access opening of said cap.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.