Electrical terminal used for wiring fluorescent light fixtures, and the like

US7097492B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Vossloh-Schwabe Elektronik GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Bernhard Albeck · Warstein, DE
• Stefan Koller · Graz, AT

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 28, 2001
• Grant date: Aug 29, 2006
• Expiry date: Dec 12, 2023

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T29/53243
• WIPO field: Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

For automatic wiring of terminals of electrical apparatus, for example fluorescent lamp luminaires, a line or wire-laying tool is used which has a finger (31) on which a pressure element (37), movable between three positions I, II, III with respect to the finger, and the terminal, respectively, is retained. The pressure element presses a wire (20) in an insertion slit (12) of a slit blade insulation piercing connector SBIPC (11). The pressure element (37) has a cutter blade at an end surface, and further has two pressure sections (46, 47). One section (46) is used to effect a connection at the beginning of a wire run, or for through-wiring, and the other (47) is used to terminate the end of a wire line, and to cut the wire. The finger (21) is always outside of a contacting zone (3), thus permitting miniaturization of the terminal to a degree limited only by insulation requirements of air or creep paths between adjacent SBIPCs. The terminals can thus be fitted into a raster, and are formed with grooved extensions (16) to form wire retention and introduction slots.