EP2424045B1 - Installationsschaltgerät mit einer Anschlussklemmenanordnung - Google Patents

Installationsschaltgerät mit einer Anschlussklemmenanordnung Download PDF

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EP2424045B1
EP2424045B1 EP11005495.4A EP11005495A EP2424045B1 EP 2424045 B1 EP2424045 B1 EP 2424045B1 EP 11005495 A EP11005495 A EP 11005495A EP 2424045 B1 EP2424045 B1 EP 2424045B1
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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
    • H01R4/38—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
    • H01R4/30—Clamped connections, spring connections utilising a screw or nut clamping member
    • H01R4/34—Conductive members located under head of screw

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  • the invention relates to a service switching device with an insulating material housing and with a connection arrangement for clamping a connection conductor, wherein the connection arrangement comprises a connection conductor with an annular clamping shoe and a device-mounted connection plate and a threaded element and a clamping screw, which has a screw head and a screw shaft, wherein the screw shaft when clamping the terminal lead, penetrates the annular terminal shoe and threadably engages the threaded member, and a terminal receiving space having an insertion opening for the terminal lead and an access opening to the screw head for operating the same.
  • the terminal assembly is specially designed to connect a connecting conductor with a so-called annular clamping shoe, in particular with a clamping shoe with a closed ring.
  • annular clamping shoe In the annular clamping shoe so there is a hole through which the clamping screw is guided during clamping.
  • the DE 78 27 465 U1 shows a screw terminal, which consists of a rigid contact piece, which can be attached via a tongue. Furthermore, the screw connection contact has a clamping screw and a clamping plate. The wire end pieces of conductors to be clamped are clamped between the contact piece and the clamping plate. The thread for the clamping screw is located in the clamping plate.
  • the DE 10 2007 039 709 A1 shows a generic service switching device in which the threaded element, with which the screw shaft is engaged, is designed as a threaded bore in the connection plate.
  • the clamping screw is bolted directly to the connection plate there.
  • the connection plate must be made correspondingly thick and stable, so that they can also accommodate a larger torque when tightening the clamping screw, without warping or without the thread breaking out. This requires higher material costs and a more complex production.
  • connection plate has a holding section which locks the threaded element.
  • the threaded element is inventively designed as a separate part, regardless of the connection plate, for example as a mother.
  • the connection plate itself has no thread for the clamping screw, but only a through-hole, through which the screw shank of the clamping screw can be inserted in order to then screw it to the threaded element.
  • the threaded member is held in position by the retaining portion on the terminal plate. The tightening torque of the clamping screw is thus taken over the holding part of the terminal plate, the housing parts of the service switching device are not charged.
  • the holding section can be designed so that it distributes the tightening force of the clamping screw as wide as possible on the cross section of the connection plate, so that local force peaks avoided and thus the risk of distortion of the connection plate is reduced. Since the connection plate itself is designed without its own thread, it can be made of a high-quality metal with high current conductivity, at -
  • the terminal receiving space on a first recess with boundary walls for receiving the threaded element facilitates insertion of the threaded member and allows the threaded member to be inserted independently of the lead and prior to feeding the lead and held in the terminal receiving space.
  • the special housing contour of the franking prevents the threaded element applying all the force when tightening the clamping screw on the housing parts, since the threaded element itself is always locked by the metal holding section on the connection plate and not by a housing part and thus a larger torque without a excessive housing load can be achieved.
  • the one or more holding portions is an L-shaped or U-shaped integrally formed on the free end of the connecting plate web.
  • the holding portion is an integrally formed on the terminal plate end portion with a second recess for locking receiving the threaded element.
  • the threaded element is a nut with internal thread, in particular a square nut.
  • the FIG. 1 shows schematically and as a partial section of an installation switching device 1, which has an insulating material 2.
  • the FIG. 2 shows a detailed view of the terminal receiving space of the embodiment according to FIG. 1 ,
  • the service switching device 1 is for example a circuit breaker.
  • Its insulating housing comprises a front and rear front 3,4, a front and rear narrow side 5,6 and a mounting side 7.
  • a terminal receiving space 10 is provided in the housing 2, in which a terminal assembly 11 is housed.
  • the terminal receiving space 10 is accessible at the rear narrow side 6 through an insertion opening 27 for a terminal conductor 12 and at the rear front side 4 through an access opening 28 for an actuating tool, such as a screwdriver 22.
  • the terminal conductor 12 which carries an annular clamping shoe 14 with a central opening 13, screwed by a clamping screw 15 to a connection plate 16.
  • the clamping screw 15 has a screw head 17 designed in the form of an elongate cylinder and a shaft 18.
  • the shaft 18 carries an external thread 19.
  • a slot 21 for receiving the operating tool, such as a screwdriver 22, is provided.
  • connection plate 16 carries a hole 23. It is aligned approximately parallel to the rear front side 4.
  • the connection plate 16 is integrally formed on a discharge bar 37, to which further, in the interior of the service switching device 1 outgoing conductor can be connected.
  • these are not shown here, as well as all other required for operating a service switching device other components and assemblies, such as a thermal and electromagnetic release, a derailleur, a lever with a contact point, an arc extinguishing system, etc.
  • the discharge bar 37 and the connection plate 16 are fixedly mounted in the housing 2 of the service switching device 1 by web-like housing projections 32.
  • the clamping screw 15 is guided in an approximately cylindrical guide channel 24 in the terminal receiving space 10.
  • the guide channel 24 extends approximately parallel to the rear narrow side 6, so that the clamping screw 15 is guided by him perpendicular to the hole 23 in the connection plate 16 out.
  • the clamping screw 15 is shown in a Aufsetzwolf, that is, the free end of the screw shaft 18 is located just at the height of the hole 23. In this position, the annular clamping shoe 14 can not be inserted into the terminal receiving space 10, since it from the screw shaft 18th would be blocked. Before inserting the clamping shoe, the clamping screw 15 must be lifted so far in the direction of arrow P upwards from the connection plate 16, that at least the thickness of the clamping shoe 14 corresponding space between the free end of the shaft 18 and the connection plate 16 is opened so that then the Clamping shoe 14 can be inserted through the insertion opening 27 until its opening 13 comes to lie exactly above the hole 23.
  • the Ableitschiene 37 comes here as the second function of the Ein Siliconstops for the clamping shoe 14, thereby avoiding too far insertion of the clamping shoe and thus the assembly of the connecting conductor 12 is further facilitated.
  • the screw head 17 carries in its upper part an external thread 38.
  • On the inner wall of the guide channel 24 is an internal thread 39 or a housing contour, so a partial thread, introduced with threading. This starts in the lower part of the guide channel 24, see Fig. 2 .
  • the clamping screw 15 When the clamping screw 15 is moved from above in the direction of the hole 23 in the connection plate 16, it slides first in the upper portion of the guide channel 24 along the inner wall along, and in the lower part it engages with its external thread rotation in the Internal thread 39 a. The further movement of the clamping screw 15 can then be done only by turning and corresponding screw in the internal thread 39. As a result, a centered guidance of the clamping screw on the hole 23 is ensured.
  • the undercut 40 may be formed as an annular bead or a cross-sectional constriction of the guide channel 24 upwards.
  • the reduced by the undercut 40 cross-sectional area of the guide channel 24 is still so large that a screwdriver 22 can be carried out to actuate the clamping screw 15, but it is smaller than the cross section of the screw head, so that this somewhat captive in the guide channel 24 is caught. If the clamping screw 15 has pushed after unscrewing from the internal thread 39 upwards into the guide channel 24, the open position of the screw is reached. In this position, the clamping screw 25 has no threaded engagement and can not exert destructive pressure on the housing when turning the screw and automatically ensures the mounting position of the connecting conductor.
  • a threaded member 50 On the clamping screw 15 opposite side of the connection plate 16 is a threaded member 50, here in the form of a square nut, with a threaded hole and an internal thread.
  • the screw Upon further rotation of the clamping screw 15, the screw is guided through the hole 23 by a centered guide and the threaded engagement between the external thread 19 on the shaft 18 and the internal thread of the threaded element 50 is automatically achieved.
  • the clamping screw 15 is further drawn in further rotation in the threaded member 50, until the clamping shoe 14 is clamped between the screw head 17 and the terminal plate 16. In this way, a solid screw with a good surface contact can be produced.
  • the terminal receiving space 10 has a first recess 52 with boundary walls 55 for receiving the threaded element 50. This facilitates insertion of the threaded member 50 and allows the threaded member 50 to be inserted independently of the lead and prior to feeding the lead and held in the terminal receiving space. However, the threaded element 50 is not held captive lock by the boundary walls 55 of the first recess 52 when the clamping screw 15 is screwed and a tightening torque is applied to the threaded member 50, whereby the threaded member 50 will rotate in the first recess 52.
  • connection plate 16 has at its free end an L-shaped integrally formed web 51, which serves as a holding portion 51 for locking the threaded element, ie the square nut 50.
  • the threaded member 50 is held by the holding portion 51 on the terminal plate 16 in its position.
  • the tightening torque of the clamping screw 15 is thus received on the holding part 51 of the terminal plate 16, the housing parts of the service switching device are not charged.
  • FIG. 4 shows that the boundary wall 55 of the first recess 52 has a clearance 53 toward the threaded member 50, so that the threaded member 50 is rotatably received in the first recess 52, wherein the rotation angle limited by the arresting concerns on the holding portion 51 of the terminal plate 16 is.
  • the boundary wall 55 is formed in its cross section approximately like a roof with sloping roof surfaces.
  • the square nut 50 can rotate around the top of the roof into the clearances 53 formed between the sloping roof surfaces and the sidewalls of the square nut. However, before the side wall of the square nut 50 comes to rest on one of the sloping roof surfaces, the further rotation of the square nut 50 is blocked by engagement with the holding section 51.
  • the holding section 51 ' is an end section 56 integrally formed on the connecting plate 16 and having a second recess 54 for arresting the threaded element.
  • the end portion 56 has approximately a U-shape, and the square nut 50 is held arresting between the two longitudinal legs of the U-shape.
  • the terminal plate with the U-shaped end portion or the L-shaped web can be made using a low-cost threaded element, such as a low-cost square nut 50, without a separate thread, a low material thickness (cost savings) of a high-quality metal (eg copper) is good Current conductivity and tightening torque of the clamping screw 15 possible.
  • a low-cost threaded element such as a low-cost square nut 50
  • a low material thickness (cost savings) of a high-quality metal eg copper
  • the threaded member 50 has over the holding portion 51, 5 'a slight backlash, and can be easily screwed by the play of the threaded member in the U- or L-shape and also remains due to tolerance-related axial offset of Clamping screw 15 and the threaded hole in the threaded member 50 easy to use.
  • U or L shape of the holding portion 51, 51 'of the terminal plate 16 is that no cross-sectional reduction of the metal (e.g., locking holes or fixing tabs for holding the threaded member) becomes necessary. This has a positive effect on tightening torques and the current conductivity.
  • the entire terminal assembly 11 can also be inexpensively preassembled in a rational production before installation in the device.
  • connection plate 16 is arranged in the housing such that the holding section 51, 51 'comes to rest in the vicinity of the rear narrow side 6 and is accessible from the outside for contacting for test or calibration purposes by means of a test probe through a test opening 36.
  • the present invention also encompasses any combinations of preferred embodiments as well as individual design features or developments, provided that they are not mutually exclusive.

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