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Data or power bus connectable support rail mountable electrical or electronic device with a separately removable circuit board housing

US6172877A · kind A · utility

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11Claims

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Assignee

PHOENIX CONTACT GMBH & CO. KG · DE

Inventors

Jurgen Feye-Hohmann · Detmold, DE
Hartmut Follmann · Bösingfeld, DE
Heinz Reibke · Werl, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Dec 29, 1998
Grant date	Jan 9, 2001
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Dec 29, 2018

Classification

Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
CPC primaryH01R12/721
WIPO fieldElectrical machinery, apparatus, energy
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

An electrical or electronic device (1) for placement on a support rail (2), with a housing (3), with at least one circuit board (4) located in the housing (3), and with contacts (6a, 6b) which point in the lengthwise direction (R) of the support rail for a data and/or power bus connection to adjacent electronic devices which have the corresponding contacts and which are placed on the support rail (2). In order to be able to easily replace the circuit board (4) without interrupting the data and/or power bus connection, the housing (3) is made in at least two parts and there is a top part (7) which holds the circuit board (4) and there is a base part (8) which has contacts (6a, 6b).

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