Electromagnetic relay with a fuse
AssigneeTyco Electronics Logistics AG
InventorsRoman Dietrich, Peter Ritter
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Abstract
The relay has a structure with a coil, yoke and armature as well as contacts, whereby one of the contacts is connected to a terminal element via the yoke and a plug fuse. The yoke has a yoke section that extends laterally at the relay into the proximity of the bottom side. A laterally projecting spring clip is respectively secured both to the yoke section as well as to the appertaining terminal element. The two spring clips are bridged by the plug fuse attached laterally to the relay.
Claims8
An electromagnetic relay having a coil, a yoke, a first contact being directly connected to a first terminal element and a second contact being connected to a second terminal element via two conductor sections bridged with a pluggable, meltable fuse and the terminal elements emerging downward through a bottom side of the relay, the improvement comprising the second contact being connected to the yoke, which has a yoke leg extending perpendicular to the bottom side in a region of an end of the coil, the second terminal element extending through the bottom side in an area of the yoke leg and being electrically insulated therefrom, both the yoke leg and the second terminal element carrying a spring clip projecting laterally to an outside of the relay, and the two spring clips being aligned with one another at a predetermined distance for the acceptance of the meltable fuse.
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