Weidmuller Interface Gmbh & Co. Kg

Weidmueller Interface Gmbh Co. Kg

Ralf Schumacher

Walter Hanning

Christian Heggemann

Peter Stuckmann

Marc Böcker

Michael Schnatwinkel

Stephan Fehling

Jens Oesterhaus

Matthias Niggemann

Marco Waldhoff

Klaus Pueschner

Klaus Wohlgemuth

Klaus Püschner

Michaela Muecke

Andreas Muhs

Georg Kulturidi

Till Schmitz

Karlo Stjepanovic

Volker Schröder

Jörg Münstermann

Jürgen Ziemke

Holger Wehmeier

Andreas Rutz

Frank Hackemack

Michael Lenschen

Uwe Arlitt

Stefan Aporius

Stefan Reker

Michael Kroner

Gerald Busch

Genadij Neumann

Gerhard Eggert

Marc Strünkmann

Juergen Ziemke

Stefan Fischer

Simon Seereiner

Michaela Mücke

Peter Meyer

Thomas Wielsch

Gorm Rose

Ingo Gurlt

Steffen Niggemann

Andreas Hoffmann

Ulrich Trapp

Hermann Krause

Timo Berger

Daniela Luecke-Janssen

Gordon Opitz

Volker Schroeder

Stefan Schumann

Mike Beermann

Ulrike Klasing

Niklas Wendt

Barbara Weithaas

Tobias Klug

Kurt Hermanns

Björn Griese

Daniela LÜCKE-Janssen

Markus Gagel

Anreas Muhs

A terminal strip is formed as a printed circuit board plug connector and has a strip-like housing composed of a plurality of terminal housings which are arranged alongside one another in an arranging direction X. The housings are mechanically connected to one another. The terminal housings each have a plugging face side on which they have at least one first plugging contact which can be plugged together with a corresponding plugging contact of a corresponding plug connector.

Printed circuit board plug connector

A connecting element for mounting an electrical circuit board to an electrical flat conductor, in particular a busbar, has a flat or substantially flat mounting surface for applying and mounting the connecting element to the circuit board, and a tulip contact for receiving the flat conductor in an electrically contacting manner. The tulip contact includes at least one clamping element and a support element, between which a receptacle for the flat conductor is provided, and wherein the tulip contact preferably extends at a mounting angle greater than 45° and less than 135° with respect to the mounting surface. An electrical circuit board having such a contact element, a terminal block having such an electrical circuit board, and a method for automated mounting of such a terminal block are also provided.

Connecting element for mounting an electrical circuit board to a flat electrical conductor

A controller for an industrial automation system includes a main module having a housing, which can be fitted onto a DIN rail via a base, at least two printed circuit boards arranged in the housing, and a heat sink also arranged in the housing and connected with the base. One of the circuit boards is a backplane bus printed circuit board, which provides a backplane bus, and the other is a main printed circuit board. The heat sink is attached to at least one of the printed circuit board to cool its components.

Controller and modular control system of an industrial automation system

Electrical connector plug

A connection terminal for connecting a conductor is formed as a direct plug-in terminal and includes a clamping spring arranged in a housing. The clamping spring includes a resilient clamping leg which can move into an open and locking position by pressing down an actuating device. The housing contains a conductor insertion channel for insertion of the conductor into a clamping point between the free end of the clamping leg and a busbar. The actuating device includes a pressing element and a pivoting element which interacts with the pressing element at least when the clamping point is being opened. At least one release device is provided for releasing the locking state of the clamping leg of the clamping spring. The release device is designed in such a way that the locking position can be released again by the action of the conductor on the release device when it is inserted, wherein the pivoting element acts on the pressing element and the pressing element acts on the clamping leg.

Connection terminal for conductors

A modular plug connector in a strip-shaped design can be plugged together with a corresponding mating plug connector such as a printed circuit board plug connector. The modular plug connector has a plurality of plug connector modules which are arranged alongside one another and are connected mechanically to one another using mechanical connectors to form the strip shape. The plug connector modules each have a module housing, at least one plugging surface with at least one plugging contact and preferably at least one conductor or solder terminal for connection to a printed circuit board. The plug connector has at least two plug connector modules of different designs and an adapter plug connector module is provided therebetween.

Modular plug connector for a printed circuit board

A disconnect terminal includes an enclosure, a first conductor rail, a second conductor rail, a switching device, and an actuation device. The switching device can be switched by the actuation device from a connecting position, in which the first conductor rail and the second conductor rail are electrically connected by the switching device into a disconnecting position in which the electrical connection of the first conductor rail and the second conductor rail is separated or disconnected, and back. A visible portion of the actuation device aligns with a surface of a portion of an upper side of the enclosure or with a part connected with the enclosure. In the disconnecting position, the visible portion of the actuation device protrudes from a surface of a portion of an upper side of the enclosure or of a part connected with the enclosure in a clearly visible manner. An assembly is provided of at least two aligned disconnect terminals.

Disconnect terminal

An electronics module includes a housing having a mounting foot or component suitable for mounting on a support rail and for fastening the electronics module to the support rail which is mounted on a mounting base. At least one spring element is provided in the lower region of the housing facing the mounting base when mounted. The at least one spring element is configured to provide a damping effect when the housing vibrates relative to the mounting base.

Electronics module and mounting base

A housing to hold at least one electromechanical, electrical and/or electronic component includes at least one fastening element arranged on a portion of the housing for the component. A recess is formed in the housing portion and the fastening element is arranged in the recess.

Housing for receiving at least one electromechanical, electrical and/or electronic component

A module latching arrangement for mounting and dismounting on a generally U-shaped support rail at least two module base bodies arranged orthogonally above and extending transversely across the support rail, each of the base bodies having a pair of bottom corner portions arranged on opposite sides of the support rail. At least one foot member is connected for horizontal longitudinal sliding movement relative to one of the base body corner portions relative to the adjacent support rail horizontal flange portion. A lateral displacement arrangement on the foot member is operable, when the foot member is displaced from a locked position toward an unlocked position relative to the support rail, to displace the first base body laterally away from an adjacent second base body mounted on the support rail. The foot member is latched in either a locked or an unlocked position relative to the base member.

Mounting rail and module latching system

An electrical module includes a rectangular carrier frame adapted for vertical transverse mounting on a horizontal support rail, a housing for mounting an electrical component in an open-top chamber contained in the carrier frame, and a rectangular electrical connector mounted on and extending across the upper end of the carrier frame, thereby to enclose the component and afford electrical connection with upper terminals thereof. The connector is pivotally connected at one end with the carrier frame for displacement between open and closed positions, and a fastener device serves to lock the connector in the closed position to the carrier frame. Alternatively, the ends of the connector are removably fastened to the carrier frame. Lower terminals of the component are connected with lower contacts arranged at the bottom of the chamber for connection with corresponding lower contacts of adjacent modules mounted in stacked relation on the support rail.

Connection module being capable of serving as a bus

An electrical contact arrangement includes a planar conductive metal blank having sections that are foldable to define pairs of orthogonally arranged component contacts and bus blade contacts. Connected with a first pair of opposed side edges of a horizontal rectangular core section of the blank are a pair of rectangular component contact sections that are upwardly bent to define a pair of component contacts for receiving therebetween an electrical component, such as a printed circuit board. Connected with the orthogonally arranged second pair of opposed side edges of the core section are a pair of rectangular support sections that are bent downwardly, whereby a corresponding pair of bus blade contact sections connected with corresponding edges of the support sections extend in vertical parallel spaced relation to define a pair of bus blade contacts adapted for insertion between the downwardly bent support sections of a corresponding second electrical contact arrangement.

Electrical contact part

A plug and jack electrical connector arrangement for connecting together the conductors of a pair of cables, comprising a connector housing containing an open-ended chamber, a plurality of contacts adapted for connection with the bare ends of the conductors, and a contact mounting unit for mounting the contacts in the connector housing chamber, which mounting unit includes a contact support member containing a plurality of parallel longitudinal passages, a contact holder member arranged to retain the contacts relative to the contact support member, and a connecting arrangement connecting together the contact support and contact holder members. In one embodiment, the contact hold member contains a plurality of bores in alignment with the contact support member passages. In a second embodiment, the contact holder member contains a through passage for receiving the contact support member, thereby to retain certain contacts in external grooves contained in the support member.

Plug connector with adapter

Connector

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Ralf Schumacher