Sliding contact arrangement for transmitting heavy currents from and to bus bars with slide surfaces

US4509807A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Leybold-Heraeus GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Uwe Reimpell · Hanau, DE
• Otto W. Stenzel · Zöblitz, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Aug 27, 1982
• Grant date: Apr 9, 1985
• Expiry date: Aug 27, 2002

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H01R39/26
• WIPO field: Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A sliding contact arrangement for transmitting heavy currents to and from a bus bar has a cage with conductive contact faces and an arrangement to cause a conductive sliding contact to bear on the bus bar and only one of the contact faces.