C.a. Weidmuller Gmbh & Co.

C. A. Weidmuller Gmbh

Bernd Haller

Manfred Wilmes

Rainer Schulze

Michael Schnatwinkel

Ernst Herkner

Georg Wagner

Paul P Stenz

Horst Conrad

Peter E Murray

Jorg Diekmann

Heinrich Franke

Rudiger Strate

Gunter Rubroder

Herbert Henning

Volker Riesenberg

A conductor connection assembly includes a U-shaped receptacle into which one can insert from above a screw-clamping assembly comprising a screw, a nut threadably connected with the screw, and a wire protection part in the form of a barrel spring or collar connected with the screw. On the nut, there are provided lateral protrusions adapted to fit within corresponding recesses provided in the side walls of the U-shaped receptacle. The screw clamping mechanism and the U-shaped receptacle are locked into position since the collar includes in the upper area thereof lateral shoulder projections which abut against the side edges of the side walls of the U-shaped receptacle upon activation of the screw to displace the clamping mechanism downwardly into the receptacle.

Conductor connection assembly

An assembly for supporting an electrical terminal housing on a carrier rail is provided, including a pair of slide members connected with a guide portion of the housing for sliding movement between latched and released positions. The thickness of the guide is slightly greater than the thickness of the slide members to define a gap therebetween. Each of the slide members includes a lower hook portion engaging a leg of the carrier rail when the slide members are in the latched position to connect the terminal housing with the rail, and a spring is connected with the slide members for normally biasing the hook portions toward the latched position. A first abutment is connected with the housing and a second abutment is connected with the slide members, the second abutment being normally vertically offset from the first abutment by a distance corrsponding with the thickness of the gap. When the housing is lifted with respect to the slide members, the gap is closed and the first and second abutments are arranged opposite each other to prevent lateral movement of the slide members toward the released positions, thereby to prevent unintentional removal of the terminal housing from the carrier rail.

Support assembly for an electrical terminal housing

A conductor connector arrangement includes an elongated current bar having two end portions each of which is bent back on itself. An upwardly open elongated insulating material housing accommodates the current bar and has guiding grooves extending in the longitudinal direction of the current bar. At least one clamping body includes a clamping member and has laterally projecting guiding lugs which are introducible into the guiding grooves of the housing at a longitudinally central region of the current bar and guide the clamping body in the guiding grooves during displacement of the clamping body from the longitudinally central region into juxtaposition with the respective bent-back one end portion of the current bar for clamping an electric conductor to the bent-back end portion of the current bar and thus for electrically connecting the conductor with the current bar.

Conductor connector

A connector for clamping one or more electrical conductors has a shackle which cooperates with a screw serving to urge one end portion of a rail toward a bottom wall of the shackle. The bottom wall has a central portion flanked by two convergent lateral portions which guide one or more conductors against the internal surface of the central portion when the screw causes the end portion of the rail to approach the bottom wall. The underside of the end portion of the rail has a centrally located platform whose underside urges the conductor or conductors against the central portion of the bottom wall and which is assisted by two ridges disposed between pairs of recesses in the end portion of the rail. The lateral portions of the bottom wall have notches which receive portions of the platform, and the recesses receive portions of the corresponding lateral wall portions. The undersides of the ridges can constitute concave surfaces to further enhance the gathering, centering and clamping effect of the end portion of the rail when the screw is rotated in a direction to advance the end portion toward the inner side of the bottom wall.

Clamping connector for electrical conductors

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Detmold, Germany

Bernd Haller