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AssigneeABB Patent GmbH
InventorsKlaus-Peter Eppe, Volker Schmitt, Ralf Weber, Alexander Orban
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A connection for two items of installation equipment lined up beside each other with their end or broad sides against each other, in particular line-protection circuit breakers, residual current circuit breakers and the like, whose housings are each formed from two shell-shaped housing parts. The connecting element has an approximately cylindrical base body with a first outer diameter onto which, on both sides, two radially springy spreading arms projecting axially in opposite directions are integrally molded. The outside diameter of the spreading arms is smaller than the outside diameter of the base body and free ends of the spreading arms have radially protruding lugs which, when assembled, latch in behind protrusions on the housings of the items of installation equipment located beside each other and to be connected by the connecting element.
A connecting element for connecting two items of installation equipment to each other, the two items of installation equipment each having a housing formed of two shell-shaped housing parts having protrusions extending out from the housing parts, the housing having an end side and the end side of each housing being lined up beside each other and against each other, the connecting element comprising:
A method for connecting two items of installation equipment, which comprises the steps of:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.