Modular electrical device

US6881101B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignees

• Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc. · US
• Weidmüller Interface GmbH & Co. KG and PH · DE

Inventors

• Gregg M. Sichner · Mentor, US
• Douglas A. Lostoski · Broadview Heights, US
• Robert J. Hager · Loveland, US
• Robert A. Kozlowski · Twinsburg, US
• Torsten Wünsche · Witten, DE
• Klaus Püschner · Detmold, DE
• Walter Hanning · Detmold, DE
• Michael Höing · Lemgo, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 17, 2003
• Grant date: Apr 19, 2005
• Expiry date: Nov 17, 2023

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10S439/929
• WIPO field: Audio-visual technology
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A modular base for an electrical device and an electrical device including same and also removable modules are disclosed. The modular base comprises a plurality of base components adapted to be arranged relative to each other to define a backplane comprising a plurality of module mounting locations, wherein each mounting location comprises a first electrical base connector of one base component and a second electrical base connector of another base component. A plurality of removable modules are adapted to be respectively removably connected to the backplane in the mounting locations to provide a modular electrical device. Each of the modules comprises a first module connector adapted to be mated with a first base connector of a mounting location and a second module connector adapted to be mated with a second base connector of the mounting location The backplane comprises one or more coupling devices for releasably engaging a module.