EP2009745A1 - Appareil électrique doté d' une borne à ressort - Google Patents

Appareil électrique doté d' une borne à ressort Download PDF

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EP2009745A1
EP2009745A1 EP07012787A EP07012787A EP2009745A1 EP 2009745 A1 EP2009745 A1 EP 2009745A1 EP 07012787 A EP07012787 A EP 07012787A EP 07012787 A EP07012787 A EP 07012787A EP 2009745 A1 EP2009745 A1 EP 2009745A1
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Markus Meier
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    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01R—ELECTRICALLY-CONDUCTIVE CONNECTIONS; STRUCTURAL ASSOCIATIONS OF A PLURALITY OF MUTUALLY-INSULATED ELECTRICAL CONNECTING ELEMENTS; COUPLING DEVICES; CURRENT COLLECTORS
    • H01R4/00—Electrically-conductive connections between two or more conductive members in direct contact, i.e. touching one another; Means for effecting or maintaining such contact; Electrically-conductive connections having two or more spaced connecting locations for conductors and using contact members penetrating insulation
    • H01R4/28—Clamped connections, spring connections
    • H01R4/48—Clamped connections, spring connections utilising a spring, clip, or other resilient member
    • H01R4/4809—Clamped connections, spring connections utilising a spring, clip, or other resilient member using a leaf spring to bias the conductor toward the busbar
    • H01R4/4811—Spring details
    • H01R4/4816—Spring details the spring shape preventing insertion of the conductor end when the spring is unbiased
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01R—ELECTRICALLY-CONDUCTIVE CONNECTIONS; STRUCTURAL ASSOCIATIONS OF A PLURALITY OF MUTUALLY-INSULATED ELECTRICAL CONNECTING ELEMENTS; COUPLING DEVICES; CURRENT COLLECTORS
    • H01R4/00—Electrically-conductive connections between two or more conductive members in direct contact, i.e. touching one another; Means for effecting or maintaining such contact; Electrically-conductive connections having two or more spaced connecting locations for conductors and using contact members penetrating insulation
    • H01R4/28—Clamped connections, spring connections
    • H01R4/48—Clamped connections, spring connections utilising a spring, clip, or other resilient member
    • H01R4/4809—Clamped connections, spring connections utilising a spring, clip, or other resilient member using a leaf spring to bias the conductor toward the busbar
    • H01R4/4846—Busbar details
    • H01R4/485—Single busbar common to multiple springs
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01R—ELECTRICALLY-CONDUCTIVE CONNECTIONS; STRUCTURAL ASSOCIATIONS OF A PLURALITY OF MUTUALLY-INSULATED ELECTRICAL CONNECTING ELEMENTS; COUPLING DEVICES; CURRENT COLLECTORS
    • H01R4/00—Electrically-conductive connections between two or more conductive members in direct contact, i.e. touching one another; Means for effecting or maintaining such contact; Electrically-conductive connections having two or more spaced connecting locations for conductors and using contact members penetrating insulation
    • H01R4/28—Clamped connections, spring connections
    • H01R4/38—Clamped connections, spring connections utilising a clamping member acted on by screw or nut
    • H01R4/44—Clamping areas on both sides of screw
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01R—ELECTRICALLY-CONDUCTIVE CONNECTIONS; STRUCTURAL ASSOCIATIONS OF A PLURALITY OF MUTUALLY-INSULATED ELECTRICAL CONNECTING ELEMENTS; COUPLING DEVICES; CURRENT COLLECTORS
    • H01R4/00—Electrically-conductive connections between two or more conductive members in direct contact, i.e. touching one another; Means for effecting or maintaining such contact; Electrically-conductive connections having two or more spaced connecting locations for conductors and using contact members penetrating insulation
    • H01R4/28—Clamped connections, spring connections
    • H01R4/48—Clamped connections, spring connections utilising a spring, clip, or other resilient member
    • H01R4/4809—Clamped connections, spring connections utilising a spring, clip, or other resilient member using a leaf spring to bias the conductor toward the busbar
    • H01R4/484—Spring housing details
    • H01R4/4842—Spring housing details the spring housing being provided with a single opening for insertion of a spring-activating tool

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  • the invention relates to an electrical device with a connection zone and with a mounted in the connection zone spring terminal unit, by means of which at least one electrical conductor is electrically connected.
  • the connecting unit designed as a spring clamping unit comprises an approximately U-shaped support part, on whose one U-leg a spring part is arranged and whose U-bottom is screwed to the connection zone of the electrical device.
  • This screw connection must be fitted before the final assembly of the spring clamp unit, as the spring element in the final assembled state denies access to the screw joint. This results in a complex manufacturing process.
  • the object of the invention is therefore to provide an electrical device of the type described, which allows a simple and flexible installation of the unit intended for electrical connection.
  • the provided for connection of the electrical conductor spring terminal unit can be particularly easy to attach to the connection zone in the electrical device according to the invention due to the mounting extension.
  • the e.g. spring clamp unit designed as a spring-loaded connection can therefore be easily mounted at any time and, if required, can be dismantled without difficulty.
  • the realization according to the invention thus does not require compliance with a specific production sequence.
  • the manufacturing process can be made completely independent and flexible in this respect. In particular, a costly manual assembly of the spring terminal unit is not necessary until the device is mounted. Because of the ever-present access to the screw joint namely no subsequent insertion of the spring member by hand is required. Overall, therefore, the production processes can be simplified and the manufacturing costs can be reduced.
  • connection zone for mounting the spring clamping unit has a first threaded bore and for mounting a screw clamping unit provided instead of the spring clamping unit has a second threaded bore. This further increases the flexibility of the manufacturing process. Depending on whether a spring or a screw clamping unit is to be used for the electrical connection of the conductors, no separate variants of the connection zone are to be provided.
  • the connection zone is equally suitable for both connection units.
  • the first threaded bore preferably lies deeper inside the housing than the second threaded bore.
  • the external dimensions of the device are then identical for both connection variants.
  • no undesirable enlargement of the outer dimensions is required when using the spring terminal unit.
  • the spring terminal unit Due to the spring part, the spring terminal unit has a slightly larger footprint than a fferklemmhim. Above all, it has a greater extent in the depth direction, that is to say in the direction in which the mounting leg also extends.
  • the first threaded hole provided for mounting the spring clamp unit is placed further inside the housing than the second threaded hole, the greater space requirement of the spring clamp unit does not affect the external dimensions.
  • the spring clamp unit is completely pre-assembled. This eliminates a final assembly of the spring terminal unit during or after the attachment of the support member to the connection zone.
  • the spring clamp unit can be made completely independent of the mounting progress of the rest of the electrical device. It is to be screwed as a completely pre-assembled subcomponent during assembly of the electrical device only at the connection zone. This separate and in particular automated prefabrication of the spring clamp unit offers cost advantages.
  • the support member is also integrally formed. This makes it particularly easy and inexpensive to manufacture be, for example, as a sheet punched and bent component.
  • the carrier part consists of two mechanically fixed interconnected subcomponents, wherein a first sub-component comprises the holding leg and a second sub-component comprises at least the mounting extension of the mounting leg.
  • a support contour can preferably be integrally formed on the subcomponent of the retaining leg, on which a tool can be supported for releasing a clamping connection. In the one-part embodiment described above, this support function is perceived in particular by another element provided within the electrical device, for example by an element formed on the inside of a terminal cover.
  • FIG. 1 an embodiment of an unspecified electrical device 1 is shown, which has a connection zone 2 for electrical connection of the electrical device 1 to at least one externally brought up electrical conductor.
  • connection zone 2 mounting plates 3, each with a front and a rear threaded bore 4 and 5 are provided.
  • the front threaded hole 4 is intended for screw fastening a fferklemmiki and the rear threaded hole 5 for screw mounting a spring clamp unit 6.
  • spring clamp units 6 are attached.
  • the basic unit including the connection zone 2 with the mounting plates 3 remains the same for both connection variants.
  • the electric appliance 1 is shown in an assembled state in which all three spring clamp units 6 are mounted.
  • the in FIG. 1 and 2 shown separate spring clamp units 6 are combined to form a common assembly. They then form a single spring clamp unit for connecting all electrical conductors.
  • FIG. 3 the electrical device 1 is shown in the finished mounted final state, in which the spring terminal units 6 are covered by a terminal cover 7.
  • the latter has conductor openings 8 for inserting the electrical conductors to be connected, plug openings 9 for inserting additional plugs and tool openings 10 into which a tool for releasing the clamping connection of a connected conductor can be inserted.
  • FIG. 4 an embodiment of a partially assembled electrical device 11 is shown, in which in the connection zone 2 erklemmiseren 12 are mounted.
  • the fferklemmiseren 12 each comprise a screwed into the front threaded hole 4 screw 13 and a clamping plate 14 with obliquely inclined in the direction of the associated mounting plate 3 side cheeks.
  • a conductor to be connected is clamped between one of these inclined side walls and two protruding from the plane of the mounting plate 3 and provided with oblique bearing surfaces projections 15.
  • the four in particular embossed projections 15 are placed close to, but still with sufficient distance to the front threaded hole 4, so that a clamped conductor does not come into contact with the respective screw 13.
  • FIG. 5 one of the spring clamp units 6 is shown in unmounted state. It has in the illustrated embodiment, three main components, namely two identical spring parts 16 and 17 and a support member 18.
  • Each of the spring members 16 and 17 is an integrally formed by punching and bending operations of a spring plate element having a support arm 19, a connecting portion 20 and a with a guide opening 21 provided clamping arm 22 has.
  • the clamping arm 22 is so far bent back by means of the connecting portion 20 in the direction of the support arm 19, that the support arm 19 with its free end 23, the guide opening 21 passes through.
  • the support member 18 is composed of two firmly interconnected, for example, welded subcomponents together.
  • the first subcomponent is formed by an approximately U-shaped sheet metal stamped part. Whose first U-leg is a holding leg 24.
  • the second U-leg is shorter than the first and forms a Abstützkontur 25.
  • Both U-legs are connected to each other by means of a U-bottom, wherein each of the U-bottom with an opening angle protrude from more than 90 °.
  • the second sub-component is mounted on the side facing away from the U-legs side. It is designed as a flat sheet metal stamping assembly extension 26 which forms a mounting leg 27 of the support member 18 together with the U-bottom.
  • the holding leg 24 terminates in two holding webs 28 and 29, on which the two spring parts 16 and 17 are attached. If the spring parts 16 and 17 as in FIG. 5
  • the support arms 19 of the spring parts 16 and 17 are at least in the region of their rounded transition zone to the respective associated connection portion 20 on the holding leg 24 on.
  • Each of the spring parts 16 and 17 is thus largely on the supporting contour 25 side facing the retaining leg 24, wherein the respective spring member 16 and 17 extends with its clamping arm 22 but also on the other side of the retaining leg 24.
  • the amount of space the spring members 16 and 17 occupy on either side of the retaining leg 24 depends on the current clamping condition, i. of whether an electrical conductor is clamped between the holding limb 24 and the longitudinal edge of the guide opening 21 of the respective clamping arm 22 facing away from the connection region 20.
  • the maximum space requirement of the spring parts 16 and 17 on each side of the retaining leg 24 is determined by a spring zone 30 and 31 respectively.
  • the mounting leg 27 extends from the retaining leg 24 in the direction of the spring zone 30 and beyond the spring zone 30 also. In this beyond the spring zone 30 beyond End portion of the mounting extension 26 is a through hole 32 is provided, through which a screw inserted through and can be screwed into the rear threaded hole 5 of the mounting plate 3.
  • the term "rear” is to be understood with reference to a lateral housing wall 33 of the terminal cover 7.
  • the threaded hole 5 is located further away from this housing wall 33 and thus seen in a longitudinal direction of the mounting leg 27 deeper in the housing interior than the threaded bore 4th
  • the mounting extension 26 has four recesses 34 for receiving the projections 15.
  • the mounting plate 3 therefore need not be changed when using spring clamp units 6.
  • the projections 15 that are actually only required when using screw clamping units 12 can be retained. They do not interfere with the assembly of spring clamp units 6. Due to the engagement in the recesses 34 they even cause a favorable rotation of the spring clamp unit. 6
  • FIG. 6 is a sectional view through an assembled spring clamp unit 6 is shown.
  • An inserted through the conductor opening 8 and in the spring zone 31 between the clamping arm 22 and the holding leg 24 pinched electrical conductor 35 is released by means of a tool through the opening 10 and supported on the Abstützkontur 25 tool 36. Due to the support, the tool 36, the spring member 16 continue to compress and thus cancel the clamping force effect. The electrical conductor 35 can then be removed again without problems.
  • the tool 36 can also be supported on an integrally formed on the terminal cover 7 extension 37.

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AT07012787T ATE490573T1 (de) 2007-06-29 2007-06-29 Elektrisches gerät mit einer federklemmeinheit

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EP2293387A1 (fr) 2009-09-02 2011-03-09 Siemens Aktiengesellschaft Elément de raccordement combiné pour le raccordement de conducteurs électriques

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DE29619139U1 (de) * 1995-11-06 1997-01-09 Siemens AG, 80333 München Anschlußstück für Cageclamp-Anschlußtechnik
EP0893847A1 (fr) * 1997-07-21 1999-01-27 Schneider Electric Sa Appareil électrique à bornes dotées de cages élastiques
DE19934550A1 (de) * 1999-07-20 2001-02-08 Hager Electro Gmbh Anschlußklemme für elektrische Leiter

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DE29619139U1 (de) * 1995-11-06 1997-01-09 Siemens AG, 80333 München Anschlußstück für Cageclamp-Anschlußtechnik
EP0893847A1 (fr) * 1997-07-21 1999-01-27 Schneider Electric Sa Appareil électrique à bornes dotées de cages élastiques
DE19934550A1 (de) * 1999-07-20 2001-02-08 Hager Electro Gmbh Anschlußklemme für elektrische Leiter

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EP2293387A1 (fr) 2009-09-02 2011-03-09 Siemens Aktiengesellschaft Elément de raccordement combiné pour le raccordement de conducteurs électriques

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