Contact spring strip for attaching to a holding strip and contact part with a contact spring strip and a holding strip, especially a front panel of a printed circuit module

US6500012B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• Rittal Electronic Systems GmbH & Co. KG · DE

Inventors

• Ernst Billenstein · Burgbernheim, DE
• Werner Körber · Betzenstein, DE
• Siegfried Kurrer · Wendelstein, DE
• Kurt-Michael Schaffer · Seckau, AT

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 29, 2001
• Grant date: Dec 31, 2002
• Expiry date: Oct 29, 2021

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10S439/939
• WIPO field: Audio-visual technology
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A contact spring connector that contains a holding strip, from which a contact spring leaf and a clamping leaf alternatingly extend in rows. A contact spring leaf has a contact leg, which is spread away from the holding strip and is connected with the holding strip via a cap area. A clamping leaf has a clamping leg connected with the holding strip by spring bands and from which a clamping element is spread away from between the spring bands. The decoupling of the contact spring leaf from the clamping leaf in particular results in ruggedness in respect to mechanical effects.