Electrical contact part

US8764497B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

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

Inventors

• Stephan Fehling · Lage, DE
• Georg Kulturidi · Bielefeld, DE
• Matthias Niggemann · Dörentrup, DE
• Klaus Pueschner · Detmold, DE
• Michael Schnatwinkel · Herford, DE
• Ralf Schumacher · Lemgo, DE
• Klaus Wohlgemuth · Bad Salzuflen, DE
• Marco Waldhoff · Steinheim, DE
• Gerhard Eggert · Detmold, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jul 13, 2011
• Grant date: Jul 1, 2014
• Expiry date: Aug 16, 2031

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H01R12/721
• WIPO field: Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

An electrical contact arrangement includes a planar conductive metal blank having sections that are foldable to define pairs of orthogonally arranged component contacts and bus blade contacts. Connected with a first pair of opposed side edges of a horizontal rectangular core section of the blank are a pair of rectangular component contact sections that are upwardly bent to define a pair of component contacts for receiving therebetween an electrical component, such as a printed circuit board. Connected with the orthogonally arranged second pair of opposed side edges of the core section are a pair of rectangular support sections that are bent downwardly, whereby a corresponding pair of bus blade contact sections connected with corresponding edges of the support sections extend in vertical parallel spaced relation to define a pair of bus blade contacts adapted for insertion between the downwardly bent support sections of a corresponding second electrical contact arrangement.