Junction box including connector deformation means
AssigneeWeidmüller Interface GmbH & Co. KG
InventorsFrank Hackemack, Werner Radde
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Abstract
A junction box containing at least one electrical terminal is connected for displacement between unfastened and fastened positions relative to a carrier element, whereby during movement of the housing toward the fastened position, a U-shape contact spring is progressively displaced on a contact tab portion of the terminal within the junction box from a retracted position to a clamping position, thereby to bend a deformable relatively small thin conductor into contiguous lateral engagement with the contact tab portion.
Claims16
A junction box adapted for mounting on a carrier element so as to connect one end of a deformable small first conductor with a terminal, comprising:
- (a) a carrier element (24);
- (b) a junction box housing (2) displaceable between unfastened and fastened positions relative to said carrier element, said housing containing at least one chamber (5, 6) adjacent said carrier element;
- (c) terminal means (34) arranged in said chamber, said terminal means including a bus bar (10) having a contact tab portion (13) extending generally in the direction of said carrier element, said contact tab portion containing a conductor opening (14) for receiving the conductor end;
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- (d) means for deforming the conductor end into electrical engagement with sad bus bar contact tab portion, including a clamping spring (15) mounted on said bus bar tab portion for displacement from a first released position toward a second clamping position relative to said tab portion when said housing is displaced from the unfastened position to the fastened position relative to said carrier element, thereby to deform and clamp portions of said conductor into contiguous lateral engagement with said contact tab portion.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.