FR2873240A1 - Electrical connection box for electrical installation, has network with interconnections between conductors to form supply circuits for equipment and to control circuits by low/extra low voltage supply controls connected on female sockets - Google Patents

Abstract

The box has male sockets, and a group of female sockets on which an equipment requiring a low voltage power supply is connected. Another group of female sockets are provided on which extra low voltage or low voltage power supply controls (CD) are connected. A network has interconnections between electrical conductors to form power supply circuits for the equipment and to control the circuits by the controls. The male sockets are provided for connecting low voltage power supply of an electrical network to the box.

Description

MULTIFUNCTION ELECTRICAL CONNECTION HOUSING.

  The invention relates to a multifunction electrical connection box.

  There are many electrical connection boxes allowing the power supply of several equipment. Such boxes are known as multi-socket. Some of these power supply boxes have a switch with LED to protect the installation by turning off the housing by pressing the switch. The housing is provided with a power cord that plugs into the mains and several sockets connected by wires to the power supply leads possibly through the switch when the latter is provided.

  Following various difficulties encountered on construction sites of residential houses or business premises about the electrical installation and various connections to provide, the applicant had the idea to simplify the task for the trades involved in the construction by offering a multifunction connection box.

  To this end, the invention proposes a power supply box providing low voltage and very low voltage electrical connections and controlling the supply voltages by commands connected to said housing.

  Low voltage refers to commonly used mains (AC) voltages such as 110V or 220V.

  By very low voltage supply is meant any voltage supply lower than these voltages in continuous current 01 65-P YRENELEC that respond to home automation applications, the supply voltage being of the type 25 V or 29V and less.

  The invention therefore relates to an electrical connection box, mainly characterized in that it comprises: - at least one low-voltage and / or low-voltage electrical supply inlet plug, - a first set of outlets on which can be connected equipment requiring a low voltage power supply that can be controlled by very low voltage or low voltage controls, - a second group of outlets on which can be connected power supply commands very low voltage or low voltage; and a network of electrical conductors forming power supply circuits for the outlets of the first group and for controlling these power supply circuits by the controls connected to the outlets of the second group.

  According to an embodiment corresponding in particular to home automation applications that is to say to control equipment from very low voltage controls, - the first group of outlets have a power supply controlled by very low voltage controls connected to the sockets of the second group, said commands are push-switches, the electrical conductor network comprises a first network connecting the sockets of the first group to a controlled power input, a second network connecting the sockets of the second group to the power socket. very low voltage supply, - the conductors of these two supply inputs are connected by a remote interconnection board outside the housing, 01 65-P YRENELEC - the equipment connected to the outlets of the first group can thus be controlled by the controls connected to the outlets of the second group according to the interconnections defined in the table .

  According to this embodiment, each plug of the first group comprises three conductors, a first conductor of each plug is connected to the same conductor connected to the piloted power input, a second conductor of each plug is connected to another common conductor connected to the controlled power input and the third conductor of each socket is connected to the same socket.

  In one embodiment for low-voltage power supply applications, the housing comprises at least one socket of the second group intended for a low-voltage control of the switch type, and at least two outlets of the second group intended for a low-voltage control of the va type. Next, the electrical conductor network comprises: a first set of electrical conductors connected to each socket of the first and second group; a second set of electrical conductors connected to the electrical conductors of the low voltage supply inlet socket; a third set of electrical conductors 25 connected to conductors of the first set and to conductors of the second set.

  According to this embodiment, the first set of electrical conductors connected to each socket of the first group comprises three electrical conductors, one of which corresponds to one phase, the other to the neutral and the third to ground, - the first set of conductors Electrical connections to each socket of the second group consists of two conductors for the switch type controls and three electrical conductors for the two-way controls, 01 65-P YRENELE C - the second set of electrical conductors connected to the electrical conductors of the socket low-voltage supply line comprises three conductors, one of which corresponds to the phase, the other to the neutral and the third to ground, - the third set of electrical conductors, connected to conductors of the first set and to drivers of the second set has four drivers.

  In this second embodiment, the housing comprises a fourth set of electrical conductors connected to each socket of the third group, and a fifth set of electrical conductors connected to the electrical conductors of the low-voltage supply inlet socket. and to the driver of the fourth set.

  According to a variant of these two embodiments, the housing may comprise: a second low-voltage electrical supply inlet socket; a third group of outlets on which equipment requiring a low-voltage electrical supply can be connected; the electrical conductor network having interconnections so as to provide power supply circuits for the third group sockets from the supply inlet socket.

  According to an exemplary embodiment, the sockets are distributed on the side walls of the housing.

  According to another embodiment, the sockets are distributed on one face of the housing.

  0165-PYRENELEC Other features and advantages of the invention will become clear from reading the description which is given below and which is given by way of illustrative and non-limiting example and with reference to the figures in which: FIG. 1A , a perspective view of a connection box according to the invention, - Figure 1B, a top view of a housing according to the invention, - Figure 2, a detailed view of an exemplary embodiment of a network of electrical conductors for providing the housing with low voltage power commands.

  Figure 3 is a detailed view of an exemplary embodiment of a network of electrical conductors for conferring to the housing functions of very low voltage power control.

  The casing shown in FIGS. 1A and 1B is in the form of a rectangular parallelepiped provided with a bottom 1 and a hermetically sealed lid 2 and having on its lateral faces 3 a plurality of receptacles on which can be connected to other outlets connected to a power cord of an electrical appliance connected to a CD electrical control or other electrical outlet.

  Other housing formats can of course be provided without change on the principle of the invention.

  Among the outlets of the housing, two sockets A1 and A2 are provided to bring the low voltage power supply of the electrical network to the housing in order to power the various elements connected to this housing. These catches are preferably male catches.

  01 65-PYRENELEC Another set of sockets LI1, LI2, LI3, LVV1 which are preferably female sockets, makes it possible to connect electric lamps or any other element requiring a network power supply, driven by a control.

  Another set of sockets I1, I2, I3, also female sockets, is provided to connect simple switch type commands Il, I2, I3, or type VV1, VV2, to stop the power supply of one of the devices, connected to the housing (case of the switch) or to control the power supply from two electrical controls (case of the back and forth).

  As will be seen in the case of Figure 3, a plug A3 supply of very low DC voltage (29 V) can be provided for home automation applications of the housing. Among home automation applications can be mentioned the control of the opening or closing of lamps or shutters connected to the housing, from push switches powered at very low voltage by means of this housing.

  To provide the box with low-voltage control power supply functions corresponding to the embodiment of FIG. 2, the box comprises an electrical conductor network R comprising interconnections between electrical conductors creating power supply circuits for the connected equipment. on proper catches.

  The network R comprises in this example two independent subsets, the subset R1 allowing a direct power supply connected to the plugs and the subset R2 which allows a supply of the plugs connected thereto through commands which are connected thereto. are also connected.

  In the exemplary embodiment illustrated in this FIG. 2 the housing comprises: 0165-PYRENELEC a power supply circuit Cl-F4 comprising connections with a low-voltage power supply inlet A1 (called grid voltage: 220V) and one or more PR1, ... PR4 jacks for supplying equipment requiring a network supply.

  a C2-CI power supply circuit comprising connections with LI1 sockets for powering electrical equipment and I1 sockets on which can be connected a switch to control the supply of these electrical equipment.

  - A C2-CVV power supply circuit comprising connections with LV1 plugs for powering electrical equipment and VV1, VV2 plugs on which can be connected back and forth to control the power of these electrical equipment.

  In the exemplary practical embodiment that is given the housing has six outlets PR1, ..., PR6, with ground on which can be connected the power cords of six equipment not shown, the arrival of the power supply electrical taken by the A1 plug through the circuit C1 result of the interconnection between the conductors F4 and the conductor R1.

  The housing comprises a LVV1 socket for the connection of equipment whose power is controlled by a reciprocating control connected to the VV1 and VV2 sockets, this equipment can be a lamp for example.

  The housing comprises two other jacks LI1 and LI2 for the connection of equipment whose power supply can be 0165-PYRENELEC controlled by switches respectively I1 and I2. The equipment may for example be lighting lamps.

  Thus according to the invention, the housing comprises a network of electrical conductors R made by a set of interconnected electrical conductors so as to form the supply circuits for performing the various functions by simply connecting the various equipment and controls to the outlets adequate.

  In the embodiment illustrated in FIG. 3, the housing comprises two separate compartments, one corresponding to the low voltage supply (LV: 220V) and the other to the very low voltage supply (TBT: 29V).

  The very low voltage part makes it possible to bring a very low voltage supply to the jacks connected to the network R4, that is to say the jacks I1 to I8. On these sockets can be connected push switches capable of controlling the power supply of equipment connected to the sockets LI1 to LI8. The equipment connected to the sockets LI1 to LI8 can be lights (lamps) or electric controls for opening / closing gate shutters or other.

  The supply of very low voltage power supply is via the A3 socket and comes from the electrical panel T connection configuration. This table T is conventional in itself and its configuration is usually made by an electrician who will fix by connections which switch Il-I8 the LI1-LI8 or the sockets.

  The LV low voltage supply arrives on this board T 30 and by means of a transformer (not shown) makes it possible to supply the very low voltage to the socket A3.

  The network of conductors R3 makes it possible to make the connections between the sockets LI1-LI8 and the power supply input of these sockets arriving from the panel T on the socket A5.

  0165-PYRENELEC The R1 network allows a classic distribution of the low-voltage power supply arriving at the Al socket to the PR1-PR8 jacks on which equipment requiring a low-voltage (220V) supply can be connected.

  Signage will advantageously be provided to identify each socket and allow easy identification for operators.

  The housing according to the invention allows a saving of time in the connection operations for the operators and a multiplicity of possible power commands that are low voltage or very low voltage commands.

  It also provides a simple and inexpensive solution for electrical connections that can easily be set up by non-professionals.

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Claims (9)

  1. Electrical connection box, characterized in that it comprises: at least one power supply inlet (Al, A2, A3) low voltage (LV) and / or very low voltage (TBT), - a first group of sockets (LIl ... L18, LVV1) on which can be connected equipment requiring a low voltage power supply that can be controlled by very low voltage or low voltage controls, - a second group of sockets (I1 ... I8, VV1) to which can be connected power commands very low voltage or low voltage; - And a network of electrical conductors (R) forming power circuits for the outlets of the first group and driving these power supply circuits by the controls connected to the outlets of the second group.   2. Electrical connection box according to claim 1, characterized in that in the case where the outlets of the first group have a power supply controlled by very low voltage controls connected to the sockets of the second group, said commands being push switches, the electrical conductor network (R) comprises a first network (R3) connecting the outlets of the first group to a piloted power input (A5), a second network (R4) connecting the outlets of the second group (I1 ... I8) at the very low voltage power supply, the conductors of these two power inputs being 01 65-P YRENELEC connected by a remote interconnect board (T) outside the housing, the power supply of the equipment connected to the outlets of the first group can be controlled by the controls connected to the outlets of the second group according to the interconnections defined in this table.   3. Electrical connection box according to claim 2, characterized in that each tap of the first group (LI1 ... LI8) comprises three conductors, a first conductor of each socket is connected to the same conductor connected to the input of controlled power supply (A5), a second conductor of each plug is connected to another common conductor connected to the controlled power input and the third conductor of each plug is connected to the same power input (A5).   4. Electrical connection box according to claim 1, characterized in that in the case where the housing comprises at least one socket of the second group for a low-voltage switch type control, and at least two outlets of the second group for a low-voltage control type reciprocating, the electrical conductor network comprises: - a first set (F1) of electrical conductors connected to each socket of the first and second group, - a second set (F2) of electrical conductors connected to the electrical conductors of the low-voltage supply inlet plug, - a third set (R2) of electrical conductors connected to conductors of the first set and to conductors of the second set.   01 65-P YRENELEC 5. electrical connection box according to claim 4, characterized in that: - the first set (F3) of electrical conductors connected to each socket of the first group comprises three electrical conductors, one corresponding to a phase, the other to neutral and the third to ground, - the first set of electrical conductors connected to each socket of the second group comprises two conductors for the switch-type controls and three electrical conductors for the two-way controls, - the second set (F2 ) of electrical conductors connected to the electrical conductors of the low-voltage supply inlet socket has three conductors, one of which corresponds to the phase, the other to the neutral and the third to the ground, - the third set (R2) of electrical conductors, connected to conductors of the first set and to conductors of the second set comprises four conductors.   6. An electrical connection box according to any one of claims 1 and 5, characterized in that it comprises: - a fourth set (F4) of electrical conductors 25 connected to each tap of the third group (PR1), - a fifth set of electrical conductors (F5), connected to the electrical conductors of the low voltage supply inlet and to the driver of the fourth set.   7. An electrical connection box according to claim 1, characterized in that it further comprises: 01 65-P YRENELEC - a second intake (Al) of low voltage power supply inlet, - a third group of outlets ( PR1) on which can be connected equipment requiring a low-voltage power supply, - the electrical conductor network having interconnections so as to provide power circuits for the third group of outlets from the intake of d 'food.   8. Electrical connection box according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the sockets are distributed on its side walls of the housing.   9. Electrical connection box according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the sockets are distributed on one side of the housing. 0165-PYRENELEC