Enclosed bus bar fuse holder
AssigneeRegal Beloit America, Inc.
InventorsTimothy Joseph Brakefield, Joseph Brown, James Hemp
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Abstract
There is provided a bus bar fuse holder configured to receive a fuse link and couple each end of the fuse link to a line conductor and a load conductor within the holder. The bus bar holder includes a housing that defines a space in the housing proximate one of a line terminal and load terminal. A clamp unit is configured to receive a portion of a bus bar with the lineup clamp unit disposed in the space defined in the housing. The space configured in the housing also encloses a substantial portion of the bus bar within the housing in a space defined between U-shaped members of the clamp unit.
Claims20
A bus bar fuse holder, the holder configured to receive a fuse link and couple each end of the fuse link to a line conductor and a load conductor within the holder, the bus bar fuse holder comprising:
- a housing;
- a receptacle in the housing configured to receive the fuse link, with the receptacle configured to rotate the fuse link into mechanical and electrical contact with the line conductor and load conductor;
- a line terminal in electrical communication with the line conductor;
- a load terminal in electrical communication with the load conductor;
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- a clamp unit configured to receive a portion of a bus bar, with the clamp unit disposed in a space defined in the housing proximate one of the line terminal and load terminal and in electrical communication with one of the line conductor and load conductor, with the space configured to enclose the portion of the bus bar within the housing.
A bus bar fuse holder array, with each holder of the array configured to receive a fuse link and couple each end of the fuse link to a line conductor and a load conductor within the holder, the bus bar fuse holder array comprising:
- a plurality of bus bar fuse holders, with each fuse holder comprising:
- a housing;
- a receptacle in the housing configured to receive the fuse link, with the receptacle configured to rotate the fuse link into mechanical and electrical contact with the line conductor and load conductor;
- a line terminal in electrical communication with the line conductor;
- a load terminal in electrical communication with the load conductor;
- and
- a clamp unit, the clamp unit disposed in a space defined in the housing proximate one of the line terminal and load terminal and in electrical communication with one of the line conductor and load conductor, with the space configured to substantially enclose the portion of the bus bar within the housing;
- a single bus bar coupled to each fuse holder clamp unit, with each fuse holder positioned adjacent to another fuse holder;
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- a single cover coupled to each fuse holder, the cover extending the full length of the plurality of bus bar fuse holders in the array.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.