Conductor terminal

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10014596-B2
Application number	US-201615567778-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 19, 2016
Priority date	May 19, 2015
Publication date	Jul 3, 2018
Grant date	Jul 3, 2018

Abstract

A conductor terminal with an insulating housing that has a conductor insertion opening for inserting an electrical conductor and a contact pin insertion opening for inserting a contact pin, with a clamping spring for clamping an electrical conductor, wherein the clamping spring has a clamping leg with a clamping edge oriented so as to rest against the electrical conductor to be clamped, has a spring bend, and has a support leg, wherein the conductor insertion opening leads to the clamping edge in order to guide the electrical conductor to a clamping point formed by the clamping edge, and wherein the contact pin insertion opening extends into the interior of the insulating housing in the opposite direction to the conductor insertion opening and leads to the support leg in order to guide the contact pin for clamping to the support leg.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A conductor terminal comprising:
an insulating housing that has a conductor insertion opening for inserting an electrical conductor and a contact pin insertion opening for inserting a contact pin; and
a clamping spring for clamping the electrical conductor, wherein the clamping spring has a clamping leg with a clamping edge oriented so as to rest against the electrical conductor to be clamped, has a spring bend, and has a support leg,
wherein the conductor insertion opening leads to the clamping edge in order to guide the electrical conductor to a clamping point formed by the clamping edge,
wherein the contact pin insertion opening extends into an interior of the insulating housing in an opposite direction to the conductor insertion opening and leads to the support leg in order to guide the contact pin to rest against the support leg,
wherein the support leg has a feed-through opening,
wherein a contact element is arranged on the clamping spring in the feed-through opening of the support leg between the inserted electrical conductor and the inserted contact pin, and
wherein the free end section of the support leg forms a clamping section for clamping the inserted contact pin between the clamping section and the contact element.

2. The conductor terminal according to claim 1 , wherein the clamping section is a section of the support leg that is bent away from the plane spanned by the support leg in the region of the feed-through opening.

3. The conductor terminal according to claim 1 , wherein the free end section of the support leg is bent in the insertion direction of the contact pin or opposite the insertion direction of the contact pin.

4. The conductor terminal according to claim 1 , wherein the contact element is arranged in the insulating housing in a fixed position or with a limited mobility, and in that the support leg is movable relative to the contact element.

5. The conductor terminal according to claim 1 , wherein the contact element has at least one contact projection on the contact side of the contact element facing the electrical conductor and/or the contact pin.

6. The conductor terminal according to claim 1 , wherein the contact element is connected in an electrically conductive manner solely to the clamping spring and, in the clamped state, to an electrical conductor and a contact pin.

7. The conductor terminal according to claim 1 , wherein the contact element is pivotably supported in the feed-through opening in a fixed position relative to the support leg.

8. The conductor terminal according to claim 1 , wherein the contact element is movably supported in the feed-through opening.

9. The conductor terminal according to claim 1 , wherein the contact element has, on its mutually opposing faces, notches for accommodating the side webs of the support leg of the clamping spring that delimit the feed-through opening.

10. The conductor terminal according to claim 1 , wherein the conductor terminal is multipole and has a number of clamping springs with associated conductor insertion openings and contact pin insertion openings that corresponds to the number of poles.

11. The conductor terminal according to claim 1 , wherein at least one operating lever is pivotably supported in the insulating housing for applying force to an associated clamping leg.

12. Arrangement composed of a conductor terminal according to claim 1 and a pin connector housing, wherein the contact pins are built into the pin connector housing and the pin connector housing is designed to accommodate the conductor terminal.

Assignees

• Wago Verwaltungs Gmbh

Inventors

• Hartmann Frank

Classifications

• H01R13/50

  formed as an integral body (H01R13/514 takes precedence) · CPC title

• H01R4/4845 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H01R4/4827

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H01R12/88

  acting manually by rotating or pivoting connector housing parts · CPC title

• H01R4/5066

  mounted in an insulating housing having a cover providing clamping force · CPC title