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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 30, 1999
Filed:
Aug. 05, 1998
Ralf Geske, Hameln, DE;
Herve Grillot, Longvic les Dijon, FR;
Jean-Luc Bouchard, Dijon, FR;
Christian Pichard, Asnieres les Dijon, FR;
Phoenix Contact GmbH & Co., Blomberg, DE;
Schneider Electric S.A., Boulogne Billancourt, FR;
Abstract
Such a clamp has a clamping spring (5) and a busbar (4) on which the pretensioned clamping spring (5) can be placed. One end leg (8) of the clamping spring (5) has a window (9) penetrated by the tongue of the busbar (4), and a spring-tensioned electrical conductor can be fixed between a front edge (12) and the busbar (4). The other end section (14) of the clamping spring (5) abuts a brace of the busbar (4), and the spring forms a flexible joint (6) between its end leg (8) and the end section (14). To make the design and installation simpler, the clamping spring (5) is bent essentially in the form of a circular arc section at its flexible joint (6). Its end leg (8) and end section (14) are bent away from the open side (7) of the arc-shaped flexible joint (6), and the tongue (10) and brace (15) are in a respectively adapted position on the busbar (4).