3m Innovative Properties Company

Wolf-Dieter Fischer

Michael Mansholt

Klaus Werner Bohle

Michael Bake

Achim Halfmann

Axel Koruschowitz

Udo Bendig

Peter R Orda

A contact bank, which can be terminated, or is terminated, at least one terminal module serving for signal communication and being adapted to allow telecommunications lines to be connected therewith, or at least one supplementary module, of a telecommunications distribution point, which is connected to a terminal module, whereby the contact bank further is mountable or mounted in the telecommunications distribution point, includes: (a) a plurality of tapping contacts directly and permanently electrically connected to the contacts of the module in the terminated condition of said contact bank; (b) a smaller number of outlet contacts than of tapping contacts; (c) a plurality of remote-controllable switches for selectively electrically connecting said outlet contacts to said tapping contacts; and (d) a control device for controlling the plurality of switches.

Contact bank

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Wuppertal, Germany

Wolf-Dieter Fischer