Resilient connector having an insertable stop member

US5879204A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Weidmüller Interface GmbH & Co. KG and PH · DE

Inventors

• Bernhard Delarue · Bensheim, DE
• Friedrich W. Schmidt · Lage, DE
• Gerhard Huiskamp · Lage, DE
• Heike Neumann · Hamburg, DE
• Jörg Diekmann · Bielefeld, DE
• Klaus Endres · Homburg, DE
• Manfred Lange · Königstein, DE
• Rainer Schulze · Detmold, DE
• Ralf Beller · Schloß Holte-Stukenbrock, DE
• Werner Radde · Babenhausen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: May 5, 1997
• Grant date: Mar 9, 1999
• Expiry date: May 5, 2017

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H01R4/4816
• WIPO field: Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A resilient connector for maintaining an electrical conductor in side-by-side conductive engagement with a bus bar includes a generally loop- or O-shaped resilient contact body having a first end portion, an intermediate portion arranged generally normal to the intermediate portion, and a second end portion that is normally arranged at an acute angle relative to the contact intermediate portion, the contact first end portion containing a window opening having first and second opposed edges remote from and adjacent the intermediate portion, respectively, the second contact end portion being displaceable from a normal first position adjacent the first window edge toward a second position adjacent the second window edge, whereby when the second contact end is displaced to its second position and a conductor and a bus bar are introduced in side-by-side electrically conductive relation within the window, release of the second end portion causes the conductor and the bus bar to be clamped in tight electrical contact by the cooperation between the second contact end portion and by the first window edge. In order to prevent permanent distortion of the contact body, a stop member is mounted…