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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 09, 2024
Filed:
Dec. 22, 2021
Schneider Electric Usa, Inc., Andover, MA (US);
Matthew Alan Williford, Nashville, TN (US);
Edgar Avalos Ortiz, Murfreesboro, TN (US);
Amol Shrirang Bagaitkar, Mount Juliet, TN (US);
Eldridge R. Byron, Murfreesboro, TN (US);
Sergio Flores, Smyrna, TN (US);
Bhushan Kumbalwar, Smyrna, TN (US);
Gregory O. Motley, Murfreesboro, TN (US);
Schneider Electric USA, Inc., Boston, MA (US);
Abstract
A connector assembly is provided for facilitating live connection of equipment in a switchgear. The assembly includes two circular plates, and conductive fingers which are arranged and spaced apart around the two plates to form a finger cluster with first open-end on a first cluster end and second open-end on an opposite second cluster end. Each open-end can receive a conductor therein. Each finger can include a first finger end and an opposite second finger end which form respective first and second cluster ends; two first interior grooves which are spaced-apart on an interior surface to receive a portion of respective plates; and first and second exterior grooves on an exterior surface around the first and second finger ends respectively. The assembly also includes first and second garter springs which are arranged around the fingers in respective first and second exterior grooves to apply a force against the fingers.