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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 09, 2016
Filed:
Oct. 29, 2013
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Jonathan David Beck, Mountain View, CA (US);
Jeffrey Scott Spaulding, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Debosmita Das, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Richard Lidio Blanco, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Mark Ramon Imbertson, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
The present disclosure provides various bus bar connectors configured to draw power from a bus bar at non-discrete locations. In one aspect, a bus bar connector may include a connector housing having a slot. The slot may be configured to allow the connector housing to grip a bus bar at different locations. First and second electrical contacts may be disposed on opposite sides of the slot. The bus bar connector includes mounting members for securing the connector housing against an enclosure for the bus bar and a spring clip that can be to attach to upper and lower outer surfaces of the connector housing to provide an amount of contact force onto the outer surface of the connector housing. The amount of contact force enables the first and second electrical contacts to securely grip the bus bar.