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Weidmuller Interface Gmbh & Co. Kg

Weidmueller Interface Gmbh & Co.

Thomas Wielsch

Manfred Wilmes

Peter Stuckmann

Ralf Schumacher

Jens Oesterhaus

Siegfried Storm

Rainer Schulze

Andreas Rutz

Marco Waldhoff

Michael Lenschen

Herbert Fricke

Volker Schröder

Gerald Busch

Jörg Diekmann

Peter Meyer

Thomas Tappe

J&ouml;rg Diekmann

Jochen Reese

Genadi Neumann

Kurt Hermanns

Jasper Schreiber

Stephanie Schlake

Matthias Oehl

Ulrich Lütkemeier

Stefan Rührup

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

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

A resilient electrical terminal includes a pair of beveled centering surfaces that cooperate to center a conductor relative to the side walls of the clamping opening through which a bus bar and the conductor extend in clamped side-by-side conductive relation. A groove contained in the adjacent surface of the bus bar centers the conductor relative to the bus bar.

Resilient terminal including conductor centering means

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Horn, Germany

Thomas Wielsch