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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7648403 | Electrical printed circuit board with a screwless terminal connection A printed circuit board (PCB) assembly includes a PCB and a screwless terminal connection having a conductor rail and a clamping spring. The PCB has a recess on an edge. The conductor rail has a base part soldered to the PCB and bridging the PCB recess. The base par... | 01/19/2010 |
| 7485015 | Electric apparatus comprising at least one spring connection terminal The electric apparatus comprising at least one spring connection terminal according to the invention comprises a body (4) made of insulating material having a rear face (5) comprising means (6) for attachment to the support (3), said at l... | 02/03/2009 |
| 7470158 | Connecting device A connecting device of the present invention includes a contact and a body which accommodates it. Clamp arms of the contact include bent parts, and hold parts continued from the tips of the bent parts and bent opposite to the bent parts. When piece members of the op... | 12/30/2008 |
| 7367852 | Connecting and switching arrangement A terminal block connecting arrangement includes a first terminal block having a first electrical contact, an electrical device having a second electrical contact, a test terminal block arranged between the electrical apparatus and the first terminal block for displ... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7354319 | Electrical terminal An electrical terminal includes an insulating housing, a conductor bar, strain-relief clamp connections and actuating elements located in the insulating housing for opening and closing the strain-relief clamp connections. The electrical terminal enables simple manua... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7322623 | Sawtooth terminal blade gripper and method of gripping A gripping apparatus is disclosed. The gripping apparatus includes a first finger including a plurality of first sawteeth along a first longitudinal end and a receiving area being located between adjacent sawteeth and a second finger including a plurality of complem... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7249963 | Screwless connection frame terminal The invention relates to a screwless connection terminal having a contact part having a connection section to which a conductor can be electrically connected, a clamping spring, a metallic frame which surrounds the clamping spring and is designed to be inserted into... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7240880 | Holding clip A holding clip for tubes, hoses and the like has a pocket and deflectable arms protecting an entrance to the pocket. The arms extend one past another and interdigitate one with another. The arms deflect outwardly in response to force exerted thereagainst from outsid... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7234981 | Spring force terminal The invention describes a spring force terminal (1) for connecting electrical conductors (128), having a contact frame (3, 125), in which an electrical conductor (128) can be clamped against the contact frame (3, 125) by means of a... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7179137 | Electrical connector arrangement An electrical connector arrangement includes slidably connected upper and lower connector body sections, at least one pair of first contacts carried by the upper body section, at least one pair of second contacts of the pin type carried by the lower body section ben... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7173809 | Multiphase busbar system According to the invention, the busbar system comprises at least one first (2) and one second busbar block (3) with busbars (6), whereby the busbars (6) of the first busbar block (2) are electrically connected to a number of supply... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7131857 | Electrical plug, holder, system having an electrical plug and a holder, and method of making a connection between an electrical plug and a holder An electrical plug includes a housing and a spring clamp to connect a flexible electric conductor to an end piece of a rigid holder. The clamp spring includes a contact leg and a clamp leg. The clamp leg is bent closed in a loop onto the contact leg end providing a ... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7115001 | Wire actuated terminal spring clamp assembly A spring clamp assembly for an electrical terminal block includes a termination spring, a trigger and a return spring. The trigger is biased by the return spring into an opening of the termination spring to impede a clamping movement of the termination spring. A wir... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7101231 | Locking spring-clamp terminal block and method for connecting the same A terminal block includes a housing defining at least one bias compartment and at least one terminal compartment. A terminal plate is located within the housing and separates the bias compartment and the terminal compartment, and a bias element is positioned in the ... | 09/05/2006 |
| 6994596 | Terminal fitting, a connector provided therewith and method of forming a terminal fitting A terminal fitting (10) is formed to be mountable into a resin housing (30). A metal lock (11) is formed by cutting and bending in a bottom plate (14) of the terminal fitting (10) and is resiliently engageable with an engaging port... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6875062 | Elastic connection terminal Elastic connection terminal for an electric switch or junction device, comprising an elastic loop placed on a conducting part and an auxiliary part capable of forming a stop for the end of the cable. The assembly and behaviour of the terminal are improved by ... | 04/05/2005 |
| 6827614 | Spring for connecting an electrical conductor The connecting spring is made of a flat elastic material with a certain thickness which has a pressing branch which is intended to rest against a conducting strip of a connection terminal, a moving branch, having on a same side of a free end, a more or less flat par... | 12/07/2004 |
| 6786779 | Electrical plug connector with spring tension clamp An electrical plug connector having a lower part and a cover which form a housing. At least one terminal point having a receiving pocket is formed within the lower part and the cover. A sub-assembly including a spring tension clamp having an arcuate tension spring, ... | 09/07/2004 |
| 6773313 | Connecting spring and junction block employing such a spring A connecting spring for a junction block of the type forming a kind of loop has a pressing branch, a manipulating branch, an elastic bow connecting the pressing branch to the manipulating branch, and a moving connecting branch extending the manipulating branch on th... | 08/10/2004 |
| 6736683 | Electrical terminal An electrical terminal, for example a terminal block which includes a terminal housing having at least one terminal element located within, such as a tension spring terminal, and with at least one current bar. The terminal housing also includes at least one lead ins... | 05/18/2004 |
| 6689955 | Connecting device with a connection spring operated by a cam The device includes an insulating casing defining at least one connecting housing and, in each connecting housing, an interconnection piece arranged in the casing and provided with at least one connecting branch, a connecting spring, a cam for compressing... | 02/10/2004 |
| 6663441 | Electric switch appliance and quick-assembly An electric switch assembly including a multipolar quick-assembly appliance and a quick-connect appliance, wherein the body of an appliance, or its power terminal strip, is directly fixed and interlocked with to the body of an adjacent appliance. The inte... | 12/16/2003 |
| 6464545 | Electrical device connection terminal The present invention provides an electrical device connection terminal capable of preventing improper insulation owing to lead wire chips being dropped and built up. To attain this feature, a side wall 26 for separating a lead wire holding portion 25 fro... | 10/15/2002 |
| 6350162 | Resilient electrical contact for large conductors A resilient contact assembly for biasing a bare electrical conductor having a relatively large diameter into lateral engagement with a bus bar, characterized by the provision of a separate auxiliary electrically conductive contact that extends between the... | 02/26/2002 |
| 6270383 | Resilient terminal including conductor centering means A resilient electrical terminal includes a pair of beveled centering surfaces that cooperate to center a conductor relative to the side walls of the clamping opening through which a bus bar and the conductor extend in clamped side-by-side conductive relat... | 08/07/2001 |
| 6196883 | Connection spring for electrical connections This spring allows an electrical connection to a stripped wire to be made in a terminal strip. It has bearing branch intended to bear against a conducting fixed part and a rear branch, facing the bearing branch, linked via a springy linking region to the ... | 03/06/2001 |
| 6126494 | Electrical connector for a printed-circuit board A connector for electrically connecting a wire to a conductive strip on a face of a printed-circuit board has a dielectric housing formed with a cavity, with a slot extending from the cavity and adapted to receive an edge of the circuit board, and with a ... | 10/03/2000 |
| 6123587 | Electrical receptacle An electrical contact (6) has a base (18) for surface mount engagement with a circuit board (4), first spring fingers (19) on a first edge of the base (18), and second spring fingers (21) on a second edge of the base (18), the first spring fingers (19) an... | 09/26/2000 |
| 6004168 | Electrical connector for a printed-circuit board A connector has a housing formed with a cavity, with a slot extending from the cavity, adapted to receive an edge of a circuit board, and having a width substantially greater than the circuit-board width, and with a hole opening outward from the cavity an... | 12/21/1999 |
| 5938484 | Resilient terminal means including sharp conductor-retaining edges A resilient electrical terminal includes a loop-shaped conductive resilient compression spring having a body portion, a clamping leg portion extending generally normal to said body portion, and a contact leg portion extending generally normal to said clam... | 08/17/1999 |
| 5879204 | Resilient connector having an insertable stop member A resilient connector for maintaining an electrical conductor in side-by-side conductive engagement with a bus bar includes a generally loop- or O-shaped resilient contact body having a first end portion, an intermediate portion arranged generally normal ... | 03/09/1999 |
| 5860837 | Spring clamp terminal A spring clamp terminal for clamping connection to a conductor, comprises an anti-overstress member for preventing overstressing of the spring section of the terminal. Integral stamping and forming of the anti-overstress member from the spring clip provid... | 01/19/1999 |
| 5816867 | Curved wire spring clamp with optimized bending stress distribution A curved wire spring clamp which distributes bending stresses linearly based on the distance from the point of load application while maintaining torsional integrity. Bending stresses are distributed by providing apertures which change the effective width... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5679021 | Spring clamp actuator An actuator for opening and closing a spring clamp terminal mounted within a connector housing is receivable within a cavity of the housing. The actuator comprises a tapered first camming surface for progressively biasing the spring clamp open, and a seco... | 10/21/1997 |
| 5432690 | Luminaire The luminaire has a base wall (1) bearing contact elements (2, 3). These elements are bent from metal sheet to have a base (20) and opposite arms (2, 3) extending therefrom each having a contact portion (23, 24) to contact a lamp terminal (43). The arms (... | 07/11/1995 |
| 4954088 | Socket for mounting an IC chip package on a printed circuit board A socket for mounting IC chip package on a printed circuit board has an elongated socket body having a plurality of contact elements aligned along the length of the socket body for contact with corresponding one of leads extending laterally from the IC ch... | 09/04/1990 |
| 4892492 | Device with openings for receiving pins of electrical components In a device with openings for receiving pins of electrical components therein an including spring elements which are bowed in toward the center of the opening at the bottom thereof, and is then bowed out in the middle of the opening and drawn back towards... | 01/09/1990 |
| 4768981 | Connecting clamp for electrical conductors The invention concerns a connecting clamp for electrical conductors with a clamping spring disposed on a current bar, where said clamping spring clamps at least two conductors. The object is to manufacture such clamps economically and appropriately for au... | 09/06/1988 |
| 4767340 | Connecting clamp for electrical conductors The invention concerns a connecting clamp for electrical conductors (17, 18) which can be manufactured and assembled automatically as a mass-produced product, in an especially economical manner. This objective is achieved by a clamp without a current bar,... | 08/30/1988 |
| 4708417 | Threadless electric terminal A threadless electric connector includes a V-shaped plate spring having wing sections joined together to form a vertex at one end and overlapping arms at opposite ends having openings therein spaced from terminal ends of the arms such that an end portion ... | 11/24/1987 |
