Siemens Aktiengesellschaft

Claus-Peter Heitzig

Lothar Rapp

Dietmar Schuetz

A holder is provided for a cylindrical electrical safety fuse having conductive end caps. A hollow housing receives the fuse therein through a front side which is closeable with a closure cap. A compression spring at a back end of the housing biases the fuse against a conductive metal inner cap disposed interiorly of the end cap. The inner cap has a radially extending contact tab. A terminal pin is provided to conductively engage the contact tab. The terminal pin has a contact portion with a perpendicularly-extending base, a cantilevered front leg extending from and overlying the base, and a cantilevered spring leg extending from a second end of the base so that the spring leg is disposed intermediately between the front leg and the base and also overlies the base. A clamp slot is defined between the front leg and the spring leg to form an electrical contact with the contact tab.

Holder for an electrical safety fuse

A holder for a tubular safety fuse providing an insulating ring that surrounds the safety fuse which prevents short circuits during removal of the fuse. It can occur that when the safety fuse blows, an axially displaceable contact piece which is wired to a first terminal welds to a back contact cap of the safety fuse. When the safety fuse is thereafter pulled, there is a risk that the back contact cap, adhering to the displaceable contact piece, will come into electrical contact with a middle contact which is wired to a separate terminal pin. If the first terminal pin and the separate terminal pin are at different electrical potentials a sparking can result. The insulating ring prevents this electrical contact between the back contact cap and the middle contact.

Holder for a tubular safety fuse

For the cooling of electronic assemblies or components which are accommodated in slide-in circuits disposed one above the other in a rack, cooling air is supplied to the individual slide-in circuits from the respective underside thereof, which after having been heated by the respective slide-in issues therefrom as warm air. On the rack underside and on at least one rack side and/or on the back of the rack a channel arrangement is provided which is connected with a cooling air supply system provided on the rack underside and which is in communication with the open undersides of all slide-ins for the uptake of cooling air.

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Pfaffenhofen/Glonn, Germany

Claus-Peter Heitzig