Grounding device with plastic housing
AssigneeAlcatel
InventorsMichael Stansbie, Thomas Martin, Peter Niederfofer
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Abstract
A grounding device including a plastic body, the plastic body including a base internal structure made of a soft elastic material, the soft elastic material including a thermoplastic elastomer having a plastic hardness within the Shore Hardness scale A range, and the base internal structure being coupled to and covered by an external structure made of a plastic material having a greater plastic hardness.
Claims12
A grounding device comprising a plastic body and a contact element, said plastic body comprising a base internal structure comprising a soft elastic material, said soft elastic material comprising a thermoplastic elastomer having a plastic hardness within the Shore Hardness scale A range, wherein said base internal structure is coupled to and covered by an external structure comprising a plastic material having a greater plastic hardness;
- and said contact element being embedded into the plastic housing and connecting to a grounding wire conductor.
Method for manufacturing a grounding device, the method comprising
- connecting a contact element, comprising a sheet of metal matching in form the surface of a metal body to be grounded, to a grounding wire conductor,
- molding an internal structure comprising a soft elastic material having a plastic hardness within the Shore Hardness scale A range,
- molding an external structure comprising a plastic having a plastic hardness greater than the internal structure, and
- coupling the internal and external structure;
- said contact element being embedded into the plastic housing and connecting to a grounding wire conductor.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.