Housing assembly for instruments

US4322835A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• VDO Adolf Schindling AG · DE

Inventors

• Heinz Ernst
• Gerhard Wesner · Pocking, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 15, 1980
• Grant date: Mar 30, 1982
• Expiry date: Sep 15, 2000

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G01R1/04
• WIPO field: Measurement
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

Housing for measuring instruments comprising at least two interconnectable housing elements, at least one of which includes the viewing window, and a resilient stirrup clamp including shanks engaging two opposite wall surfaces of the housing, having recesses and/or projections provided on two opposite wall surfaces, which are formed by at least two housing elements, on each side of a separating line, which recesses or projections correspond with projections and/or recesses of intermediate elements on the wall surfaces, being engaged by the stirrup clamp under elastic pressure directed toward the two wall surfaces.