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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 25, 2000
Filed:
Oct. 30, 1998
Jason Abraham Kay, Morristown, NJ (US);
Ronald Marchisin, Toby Hanna, PA (US);
Paul Raymond Briggs, Newton, NJ (US);
Adam Stuart Kane, Morristown, NJ (US);
Peter F Eckhardt, Gladstone, NJ (US);
Lucent Technologies Inc., Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Abstract
In a connector block of the type including a body and at least one end cap supported on the body, the end cap housing a plurality of terminals with conductive contacts extending therefrom into the body. A conductive power bus including a rail, a plurality of fingers and a leaf-spring tail is coupled to the connector block, with the power bus positioned clear of electrical contact with the terminals or the conductive contacts. The power bus rail is seated within the connector block between the body and the end cap. The power bus fingers extend within the body from the rail and are positioned between the conductive contacts. The power bus leaf-spring tail extends external of the body. The connector block can cooperate with a suitably configured mounting bracket having a power bus and plural fingers which terminate in electrical contacts to transfer power therebetween to energize subsystems such as protector circuits that may be coupled to the connector block.