Phoenix Contact Gmbh + Co. Kg

Manuel Camino

Juergen Brand

Ralph Hoppmann

Holger Steinhage

Jürgen Brand

Hans Hilmar Schulte

Hans Hilmar Dipl-Ing Schulte

Jürgen Dipl-Ing Brand

The invention relates to a spring-cage terminal block, having a bus bar and a leg spring for connecting a stripped conductor end piece of an electrical conductor, wherein the conductor end piece is inserted into a material passage of the bus bar and is clamped by means of the leg spring. According to the invention, the contact surface on the metal collar inner wall surface of the material passage has contact ribs extending along the insertion direction in order to form a linear contact pattern which extends in the insertion direction.

Terminal block having a bus bar with a metal collar with a contact surface with ribs

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 manual opening of the clamping site even when the strain-relief clamp connection is designed for leads with large cross section since the actuation element is made as an actuating cam that is eccentrically supported in the insulating housing. The actuating cam can be pivoted by an actuating tool out of a first position in which the strain-relief clamp connection is closed into a second position in which the strain-relief clamp connection is opened so that an electric lead can be inserted between the conductor bar and a through opening in the strain relief clamp connection.

Electrical terminal

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Schieder-Schwalenberg, Germany

Manuel Camino