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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 07, 2015
Filed:
Jan. 18, 2013
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Munich, DE;
Peter Donhauser, Amberg, DE;
Gennadij Drehmann, Nürnberg, DE;
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Munich, DE;
Abstract
An industrial automation technology input/output module includes a base section with front and rear sides, a printed circuit board, a contact strip on the front side with a plurality of contact elements configured to make an electrical connection with corresponding mating contact elements of a connector strip, wherein the contact elements are electrically connected to the printed circuit board, a device for forwarding a supply voltage for the printed circuit board is disposed parallel to the contact strip, the device includes a terminal point and the connector strip is formed to include a plurality of mating terminal points electrically connected to respective mating contact elements, and the supply voltage is switched to the printed circuit board via a link element that is insertable into the terminal point and the mating terminal point to interconnect a pair of opposed contact elements and to supply voltage to the printed circuit board.