Weidmueller Interface Gmbh & Co.

Weidmuller Interface Gmbh & Co. Kg

Jochen Reese

Manfred Wilmes

Siegfried Storm

Rainer Schulze

Michael Lenschen

Herbert Fricke

Thomas Tappe

Jörg Diekmann

Thomas Wielsch

J&ouml;rg Diekmann

An electrical connector includes a metal housing having at least one side wall, and first and second end walls cooperating with the side wall to define an open-topped chamber, an inverted generally U-shaped resilient contact having first and second leg portions introduced into the chamber adjacent the first and second end walls, respectively, and a bridging portion adjacent the open top of the metal housing, the housing side wall having a bent portion for supporting the resilient contact bridging portion, the resilient contact first leg portion being connected against coplanar movement relative to the housing first end wall. The resilient contact second leg portion is biased outwardly from the first leg portion, thereby to bias a conductor introduced within the housing chamber toward engagement with a bus bar defined adjacent the housing second end wall. The housing may be formed of an electrically conductive metal, such as copper. The free extremity of the second contact leg may be bifurcated to improve the biasing of one or more conductors against the bus bar.

Electrical conductor connecting means

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Lemgo, Germany

Jochen Reese