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US 7,871,287 B2Granted
Branching device for an electric line
AssigneeCooper Crouse-Hinds GmbH
InventorsGerd Hofmann, Reiner Naumann
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Abstract
A branching device for at least one electric line exhibits branching contacts and a housing in which at least one electrically conducting wire terminal is accommodated in a holder. The device is characterized in that contact lips with cutting edges for cutting through the insulation of the wires of the electric line are provided on the wire terminals in that the wire terminals represent the branching contacts and in that a through-channel for the uninterrupted passage of a wire is provided in each wire terminal.
Claims22
A branching device for at least one electric line, the branching device comprising:
- a housing comprising a housing base section and a housing upper section to be connected with each other;
- at least one electrically conducting wire terminal that provides a branching contact is accommodated in a holder, and includes contact lips with cutting edges for cutting through insulation of a wire to be connected to the wire terminal;
- wherein the at least one wire terminal further includes at least one connecting lug, a through-channel for the uninterrupted passage of the wire, and at least one holding-down clamp which holds the wires in the through-channel of the wire terminal and which is inserted in the housing;
- at least one of the contact lips is located diagonally to the through-channel so that the tip of the edge of the contact lip protrudes into the through-channel;
- at least one of the contact lips is flexible in a direction pointing away from the through-channel;
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- the holding-down clamp exhibits a transverse plate that closes off the through-channel and has an opening through which the connecting lug of the wire terminal protrudes.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.