Connector bank with voltage surge protection

US5086368A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Krone Corporation · DE

Inventors

• Dieter Gerke · Berlin, DE
• Lutz Biederstedt · Berlin, DE
• Manfred Muller · Berlin, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 23, 1990
• Grant date: Feb 4, 1992
• Expiry date: Apr 23, 2010

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H01R4/2429
• WIPO field: Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A connector bank with two rows of insulation displacement contacts for connecting insulated conductors, in particular of cables for telecommunication and data systems, comprising a surge arrester magazine to be inserted into the connector bank. In order to provide a connector bank having a voltage surge protection and allowing connecting and disconnecting as well as testing the attached cable conductors at the insulation displacement contacts even with inserted voltage surge protection, the two rows of insulation displacement contacts are arranged on different sides of the connector bank. An insulation displacement contact of the first row is connected over a connecting element with an insulation displacement contact of the second row. The surge arrester magazine is arranged laterally approximately centrally between the two rows of insulation displacement contacts.