Electrical connecting device for contacting conductor wires

Electrical connection device for contacting conductor wires of a strip-type conductor element extending in a given direction in said connection device with conductor wires of an electrical consuming unit, said connection device comprising:

• a coupling part and a counter-coupling part configured to be plugged together, each of said parts having plural contact elements, the plural contact elements of one of said coupling part and said counter-coupling part being connected to an associated conductor wire and the plural contact elements of the other of said coupling part and said counter-coupling part being connected to the conductor wires of said electrical consuming unit, said contact elements being arranged such that upon plugging together of said parts, said contact elements make current connections between selected ones of said conductor wires of said strip-type conductor element with said conductor wires of said electrical consuming unit, the contact elements of each of said coupling and said counter-coupling parts being arranged in a first row and in a second row, each of said rows extending in a direction transverse to said given direction;
• a first contact position selection device in at least one of said coupling part and said counter-coupling part and associated with said first row, said first contact position selection device being mounted to displace at least one contact element arranged in said first row between at least two contact positions corresponding to positions of contact elements of the other of said coupling part and said counter-coupling part along said first row;
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• a second contact position selection device in said at least one of said coupling part and said counter-coupling part and associated with said second row, said second contact position selection device being mounted to displace at least one of the contact elements arranged in said second row to the positions of said contact elements of said coupling part and said counter-coupling part along said second row,
• each of said first and second contact position selection devices comprising first and second displacement guides on said at least one coupling part and said counter-coupling part, and sliders configured to slide along said displacement guides, said sliders each carrying an associated one of said contact elements.