Electrical terminal and coupling connector
AssigneeVossloh-Schwabe GmbH
InventorsBernhard Albeck, Dieter Hammer, Christian Gerstberger
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Abstract
An electrical terminal or coupling connector with two spatially separated terminal connections for electrical conductors and having contact elements assigned to the connections comprises at least two parts (2, 3), each of which has at least one connection part (14, 16), and which are positively joined together to make a single unit. At least one connection (18) of this single unit is in the form of a slit-blade insulation piercing connector arranged for automatic wiring. At the same time, the single unit has devices (50, 51) for positive coupling with other single units of the same or different function.
Claims37
Electrical terminal and coupling connector having at least two spatially separated terminal connections adapted for connection to external electrical conductors;
- contact elements associated with each one of the connections, said contact elements being electrically interconnected interiorly of said coupling connector,
- wherein, in accordance with the invention,
- the connector comprises at least two parts (2, 3;
- 2a, 3a, 2b, 3b),
- each one of said parts having at least one of the terminal connections (14, 16;
- 14a, 16a;
- 14b, 16b);
- said parts including interengaging interlocking means (6, 7, 8;
- 10, 11), locking said parts together into a single unit and thereby forming said connector;
- at least one of said terminal connections comprising a slit-blade insulation piercing connector (SBIP) (18);
- wherein said connector includes interengaging locking means (50, 51) for interengaging locking connection with another connector, wherein said other connector has complementary interengaging locking means;
- wherein said single unit comprises a two-part housing 1a;
- 1b), the parts of said housing being joined together at a parting face (5);
- and
- wherein at least one contact spring (20;
- 20a;
- 20b), forming one of the contact elements, is located in said single unit.
A set of modular electrical terminal and coupling connectors to form multi-pole electrical connections, said set comprising a plurality of single- or multi-pole terminal and coupling connector units each having
- a plurality of connections (14, 16, 18),
- of which at least one (18) is formed as a slit-blade insulating piercing connector arranged for automatic wiring;
- and
- wherein at least one other connection (14, 14a) is formed as a screw connection or a screwless connection, and
- wherein, in accordance with the invention,
- all the single units have identical laterally located interengaging means (50, 51), which are arranged for positive coupling of single units, of the same or different function, lined up with one another to make multi-pole connectors or connector strips.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.