EP1881561B1 - Automatischer Anschluss mit einer Leitwand und elektrisches Gerät mit einem solchen Anschluss - Google Patents

Automatischer Anschluss mit einer Leitwand und elektrisches Gerät mit einem solchen Anschluss Download PDF

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EP1881561B1
EP1881561B1 EP07290772A EP07290772A EP1881561B1 EP 1881561 B1 EP1881561 B1 EP 1881561B1 EP 07290772 A EP07290772 A EP 07290772A EP 07290772 A EP07290772 A EP 07290772A EP 1881561 B1 EP1881561 B1 EP 1881561B1
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Bruno Pujol
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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
    • H01R4/48185—Clamped connections, spring connections utilising a spring, clip, or other resilient member using a leaf spring to bias the conductor toward the busbar adapted for axial insertion of a wire end
    • H01R4/48275—Clamped connections, spring connections utilising a spring, clip, or other resilient member using a leaf spring to bias the conductor toward the busbar adapted for axial insertion of a wire end with an opening in the housing for insertion of a release tool
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01R—ELECTRICALLY-CONDUCTIVE CONNECTIONS; STRUCTURAL ASSOCIATIONS OF A PLURALITY OF MUTUALLY-INSULATED ELECTRICAL CONNECTING ELEMENTS; COUPLING DEVICES; CURRENT COLLECTORS
    • H01R9/00—Structural associations of a plurality of mutually-insulated electrical connecting elements, e.g. terminal strips or terminal blocks; Terminals or binding posts mounted upon a base or in a case; Bases therefor
    • H01R9/22—Bases, e.g. strip, block, panel
    • H01R9/24—Terminal blocks

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  • the present invention generally relates to automatic terminals for electrical connection.
  • an automatic terminal for connecting two electrical conductors to the same electrical potential, comprising a metal body intended to be connected to said electrical potential, delimiting a housing for receiving the two conducting cores of said electrical conductors, an access opening intended to to be traversed by said conductive cores to engage in said receiving housing, a partition wall which extends substantially perpendicularly to the plane of said access opening to separate in two parts said receiving housing and pressure means reported on said body, adapted to bear resiliently on either side of said partition on said conductive cores to keep them in contact with said body, said pressure means being arranged so that the passage of conductive cores of said electrical conductors to through the open The access method directly causes the elastic deformation of said pressure means.
  • connection terminal is advantageously integrated in a modular electrical equipment, that is to say an apparatus intended to be disposed contiguously next to another modular electrical equipment on the same support.
  • It also relates to electrical equipment whose insulating housing houses such an automatic terminal connection.
  • the inner receiving housing In the automatic terminals of the aforementioned type admitting two electrical conductors, the inner receiving housing must be large enough to accommodate the conductive cores of the electrical conductors.
  • the access opening to the double receiving housing is accordingly wide enough to allow the introduction of said conductive cores side by side through said opening in said receiving housing.
  • the conductive core is introduced through its access opening. stripped of the electrical conductor so that the conductive core causes the elastic deformation of said pressure means of the terminal which then bear elastically on the conductive core to press against the metal body of the terminal.
  • said terminal comprises arrangements for guiding the conductor cores of the conductors towards the contact portion of said terminal and to prevent one of the conductors badly introduced into said terminal hinders the introduction of the other driver or induces a bad positioning of this other driver.
  • Known arrangements for guiding conductors in a dual automatic terminal include partitions of insulating material reported in the housing housing said automatic terminal.
  • the installer must intervene positively on said pressure means, for example using the tip of a tool, to deform them in order to be able to introduce conductive cores conductors in the housing of reception of said terminal. Then the installer releases the deformation exerted on said pressure means so that they support against conductive cores introduced into said receiving housing to press and hold against the metal body of the terminal.
  • the present invention proposes an automatic terminal as defined in the introduction, wherein said partition wall is formed with said body to form with it a single piece.
  • said partition wall passes through said access opening to extend on either side thereof, on one side inside said housing. receiving and on the other side outside said receiving housing.
  • said partition partition guides at best and in depth each conductor core of electrical conductor towards the contact portion of said terminal.
  • This separation wall prevents cross positioning of one of said conductors in said terminal and thus avoids any bad electrical contact between a conductor and the terminal.
  • the invention also proposes an electrical apparatus comprising an insulating casing which houses an automatic terminal as mentioned above and which comprises two inner ducts, one end of which opens out on one side of said casing and of which another end emerges opposite said access opening of said automatic terminal on one side of said partition wall.
  • the electrical equipment according to the invention is a modular apparatus whose housing consists of a stack of insulating partitions.
  • FIG. 1 there is shown a modular electrical equipment which comprises an insulating housing 10 in the form of a generally rectangular wafer.
  • This housing 10 has two parallel main lateral faces 17 which rise over the entire height of said housing, a front face 11, a rear face 12, an upper transverse face 13 and a lower transverse face 14 all perpendicular to said lateral main faces 17.
  • base module which is of the order of 18 mm.
  • the housing 10 comprises conventionally in its rear face 12 a notch 12A for mounting the electrical equipment on a rail (not shown).
  • the front face 11 of the housing 10 parallel to the rear face 12, has in projecting, in its central zone, a front portion 11A through which said housing 10 is intended to emerge from a plastron (not shown), through a window of this plastron, when it is in place on a rail, for example in an electrical cabinet.
  • the housing 10 consists of a stack of a plurality of insulating partitions.
  • the partitions have lateral main faces contiguous to each other, their slices forming by stacking the front, rear, transverse upper and lower transverse faces of said housing.
  • the housing consists of two semi-thick shells assembled by their edges in a median joint plane, each shell having a side main side of the housing.
  • the housing 10 houses automatic terminals 100 of electrical connection for serving the electrical equipment via electrical conductors from the network.
  • each automatic terminal 100 is a dual terminal which allows the connection of two electrical conductors 1 to the same electrical potential.
  • It comprises a metal body 110 intended to be connected to said electrical potential, delimiting a receiving housing 101 of the two conductive cores 1B of said electrical conductors 1, and an access opening 114 intended to be traversed by said conductive cores 1 B for s' engage in said receiving housing 101.
  • the body 110 is here in the form of a metal blade cut and folded so as to form, on the one hand, a rear portion 111 of electrical connection to the electrical elements of said electrical equipment, and, on the other hand, a part before 112, to which belongs said access opening 114, attached to said rear portion 111 by a bent portion 113, said receiving housing 101 being defined between said front portions 112 and rear 111 of the metal blade.
  • Each automatic terminal 100 further comprises a partition wall 116 which extends substantially perpendicularly to the plane of said access opening 114 to separate in two parts said receiving housing 101.
  • the partition wall 116 has a certain height, so it extends beyond the thickness of said access opening 114 outside thereof.
  • said partition wall 116 is formed with said body 110 to form with it a single piece. It is therefore part of the metal blade that constitutes said body 110.
  • the partition wall 116 of the terminal crosses said access opening 114 to extend on either side thereof.
  • a portion 116A of the partition wall 116 extends from one side of the plane of the access opening 114 to the interior of said receiving housing 101 and another portion 116B of the partition wall 116 extends from the other side of the plane of the access opening 114 outside said receiving housing 101 towards the faces of the housing 10.
  • said partition wall 116 is attached by a lug 115 to a side edge 111B of the rear portion 111 of said body 110.
  • this partition wall 116 is attached to the end of a portion of this tab 115 which extends cantilevered above the rear portion 111 of said body 110 so that said partition wall 116 shares in two equal parts the access opening 114.
  • said partition wall 116 comprises a portion 116C engaged in a notch 117 provided in the middle of an edge 114A delimiting said access opening 114.
  • the notch 117 whose side faces are close to the opposite side faces of the partition wall 116, maintains in position said partition wall 116 in the middle portion of the access opening 114 and the receiving housing 101 of the automatic terminal 100.
  • each automatic terminal 100 has pressure means 120 attached to said body 110 and adapted to bear elastically on either side of the partition wall 116 on the conductive cores 1 B of the conductors 1 to keep them in contact with said body 110.
  • said pressure means 120 attached to said body 110 are arranged on the body 110 so that when the conductive core stripped of an electrical conductor is introduced into the terminal through said access opening 114, it itself causes the elastic deformation of said pressure means 120 which then bear elastically on said conductive core to press against the metal body 110 of the terminal.
  • said pressure means comprise a prestressed metal leaf spring 120 attached to the front face 112A of said front portion. 112 of the metal blade constituting said body 110 so as to hook on an edge 114B of said access opening 114.
  • the spring blade 120 here generally has the shape of a hairpin with two branches 121,122 connected by a bend.
  • One of the branches 121 of the leaf spring 120 has on its free end edge returns 123 which engage in said access opening 114 and bear against its edge 114B.
  • the other branch 122 of the spring blade 120 is slotted longitudinally to divide into two spring strips 122A, 122B positioned on either side of said partition wall 116 and whose free ends are adapted to bear on said webs conductors 1B engaged through said access opening 114 (see figure 4 ) to press them against the edge 114A of the access opening 114.
  • the slot 124 In order to impart sufficient elasticity to said spring blades 122A, 122B of the spring blade 120, the slot 124, dividing in two longitudinal parts the branch 122, extends on the elbow connecting the two branches 121,122 of the leaf spring 120 (see figure 4 ).
  • Said front portion 112 of the metal blade constituting the body 110 of the automatic terminal 100 carries uprights 118 bearing on said spring blade 120 which is also supported on internal parts 3, 4 of the housing 10.
  • the insulating housing 10 comprises for each automatic terminal 100 two inner ducts 15, one end of which opens on one of the lower transverse faces 14 and upper 13 of said housing 10 and of which another end opens out facing the access opening 114 of said automatic terminal 100 on one side of said partition wall 116.
  • two guide walls (not shown) of insulating material extending parallel to said partition wall 116 are provided on both lateral sides of said access opening 114 of each automatic terminal 100.
  • each electrical conductor 1 introduced "blindly" into the housing 10 of the electrical equipment is guided by the wall of the inner conduit 15 and then by the partition wall 116 to which is associated a lateral guide wall .
  • the partition wall 116 guides in depth each conductor conductor core 1B to ensure its correct insertion into said access opening 114 and into the receiving housing 101 of the automatic terminal 100.
  • each conducting core 1B causes the elastic deflection of a leaf spring 122A, 122B of the leaf spring 120 which bears on said conductive core 1 B to block it in the housing receiving 101 of the terminal, bearing against its metal body 110, to establish the electrical connection between said terminal and said electrical conductor.
  • the partition wall 116 prevents mispositioning of a conductor in the automatic terminal 100, which avoids the risk of overheating thereof.
  • the integration of the partition wall within the body of the automatic terminal allows a mounting by stacking the housing of the electrical equipment.

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  1. Automatische Anschlussklemme (100) für zwei elektrische Leiter (1) mit demselben elektrischen Potenzial, die ein Metallgehäuse (110) für den Anschluss an dieses elektrische Potenzial umfasst, welches eine Aufnahmeaussparung (101) für die beiden Drahtadern (1B) der beiden elektrischen Leiter abgrenzt, sowie eine Zugangsöffnung (114) für das Durchführen dieser Drahtadern bis zur Aufnahmeaussparung, eine Trennwand (116), die sich im Wesentlichen senkrecht zur Ebene der Zugangsöffnung erstreckt, um die Aufnahmeaussparung in zwei Abschnitte aufzuteilen und auf dem Gehäuse (110) zugefügte Druckmittel (120), die sich federnd auf beiden Seiten der Trennwand (116) auf den Drahtadern abstützen können, um sie mit dem Gehäuse (110) in Kontakt zu halten, wobei diese Druckmittel angeordnet sind, damit der Verlauf der Drahtadern der elektrischen Leiter durch die Zugangsöffnung (114) direkt eine elastische Verformung der Druckmittel verursacht, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die Trennwand (116) zusammen mit dem Gehäuse (110) gebildet wird, um mit ihm ein einziges Teil zu bilden.
  2. Automatische Klemme (100) nach vorausgehendem Anspruch, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die Trennwand (116) die Zugangsöffnung (114) durchquert, um sich auf beiden Seiten davon, zum einen innerhalb der Aufnahmeaussparung und zum anderen außerhalb der Aufnahmeaussparung, zu erstrecken.
  3. Automatische Klemme (100) nach einem der Ansprüche 1 und 2, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die Trennwand (116) durch eine Klammer (115) mit einem Seitenrand (111 B) des Gehäuses (110) verbunden ist.
  4. Automatische Klemme (100) nach einem der vorausgehenden Ansprüche, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die Trennwand (116) einen in eine Kerbe (117) eingreifenden Abschnitt (116C) umfasst, die an einem Rand (114A) vorgesehen ist, der die Zugangsöffnung (114) für deren Halt in der Aufnahmeaussparung abgrenzt.
  5. Automatische Klemme (100) nach einem der vorausgehenden Ansprüche, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass das Gehäuse (110) in Form eines Metallbands mit einem hinteren Abschnitt (111) für den elektrischen Anschluss und einen vorderen Abschnitt (112) vorliegt, zu dem die Zugangsöffnung (114) gehört und der über einen abgewinkelten Bereich (113) mit dem hinteren Abschnitt verbunden ist, wobei die Aufnahmeaussparung (101) zwischen dem vorderen Abschnitt (112) und dem hinteren Abschnitt (113) des Metallbands definiert ist.
  6. Automatische Klemme (100) nach Anspruch 5, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die Druckmittel ein auf der Vorderseite des vorderen Abschnitts des Metallbands aufgesetztes Federblatt (120) umfassen, das derart das Gehäuse bildet, dass es sich an einem Rand (114B) der Zugangsöffnung (114) einhängt, wobei das Federblatt über einen Bereich seiner Länge hin gespalten ist und sich in zwei Federblätter (122A.1228) teilt, die sich auf beiden Seiten der Trennwand befinden und deren freie Enden sich auf den Drahtadern abstützen können, die durch die Zugangsöffnung verlaufen.
  7. Automatische Klemme nach Anspruch 6, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass am vorderen Abschnitt des das Gehäuse bildenden Metallbands Stützen (118) vorhanden sind, die sich auf dem Federblatt (120) abstützen.
  8. Elektrisches Gerät mit einem isolierenden Gehäuse (10), in dem eine automatische Klemme (100) nach einem beliebigen der vorausgehenden Ansprüche untergebracht ist und das innen zwei Durchführungen (15) hat, wobei ein Ende der Durchführung zu einer Seite des Gehäuses führt und das andere Ende der Durchführung zur Zugangsöffnung der automatischen Klemme auf einer Seite der Trennwand führt.
  9. Elektrisches Gerät nach Anspruch 8, bei dem an den zwei Seiten der Zugangsöffnung für die automatische Klemme zwei Führungstrennwände aus einem isolierenden Material vorgesehen sind, die sich parallel zur Trennwand erstrecken.
  10. Elektrisches Gerät nach einem der Ansprüche 8 oder 9, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass es sich um ein bausteinartiges Gerät handelt, dessen Gehäuse aus einer Stapelung von isolierenden Trennwänden gebildet wird.
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