Terminal block and function plugs
AssigneeKrone Aktiengesellschaft
InventorsHans-Dieter Bippus, Rafik Munshi, Jeff Glen
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Abstract
A terminal block with a plastic housing and insulation displacement contact elements provided therein for incoming and outgoing conductors. In order to simplify the termination of the conductors at the insulation displacement contact elements and to permit a protection of the conductors against surge voltages and surge currents, it is provided that the insulation displacement contact elements are disposed separately from each other in the plastic housing, and that each insulation displacement contact element is provided with a center tapping. The spaced center tappings opposedly disposed in the plastic housing can be connected with each other by different function plugs.
Claims19
A terminal block, comprising:
- a plastic housing;
- insulation displacement electrical contact elements positioned within said plastic housing for engaging incoming and outgoing conductors, each insulation displacement electrical contact element being disposed separately from other insulation displacement electrical contact elements in said plastic housing, each insulation displacement electrical contact element including a center tapping positioned in a central region of said housing, each center tapping being positioned adjacent to and opposedly disposed from a center tapping of another insulation displacement electrical contact element, at least two pairs of opposed insulation displacement electrical contact elements are disposed in said plastic housing, each of said insulation displacement electrical contact elements including bridge tappings at one side thereof;
- function plug means, said function plug means for engaging said center tappings of said opposed insulation displacement electrical contact elements;
- and a bridge plug for electrically connecting said insulation displacement electrical contact elements to each other upon inserting said bridge plug into two or more of said bridge tappings.
A terminal block, comprising:
- a plastic housing;
- insulation displacement electrical contact elements positioned within said plastic housing for engaging incoming and outgoing conductors, each insulation displacement electrical contact element being disposed separately from other insulation displacement electrical contact elements in said plastic housing, each insulation displacement electrical contact element including a center tapping positioned in a central region of said housing, each center tapping being positioned adjacent to and opposedly disposed from a center tapping of another insulation displacement electrical contact element, each of said insulation displacement electrical contact elements including an insulation displacement portion and a base web connecting a contact portion with said center tapping, said contact portion being disposed at approximately 45 to said base web and said center tapping being disposed at approximately 90 to said base web to define a substantially U-shaped portion, said base web including, below said insulation displacement portion, a contact tongue extending in parallel to said base web and at 45 to said insulation displacement portion, said contact tongue forming, together with a lower edge of said base web, a bridge tapping;
- and function plug means, said function plug means for engaging said center tappings of opposed insulation displacement electrical contact elements.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.