Switchgear cabinet arrangement with cable entry

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12424829-B2
Application number	US-202118036178-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 14, 2021
Priority date	Dec 14, 2020
Publication date	Sep 23, 2025
Grant date	Sep 23, 2025

Abstract

A switchgear cabinet arrangement having at least one switchgear cabinet housing which has a cable entry on its upper side, wherein the cable entry has a baffle along which at least one cable, conductor or line with a predetermined radius of curvature is introduced into the switchgear cabinet housing.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A switchgear cabinet arrangement comprising at least one switchgear cabinet housing, which has a cable entry on its upper side, the cable entry having a preferably removable baffle, along which at least one cable, a conductor or a line with a predetermined radius of curvature is introduced into the switchgear cabinet housing, wherein the baffle is formed on or replaces a width or depth strut of a rectangular horizontal roof frame of a frame of the switchgear cabinet enclosure.

2. The switchgear cabinet arrangement according to claim 1 , wherein the at least one cable, the at least one conductor, or the at least one line is guided along the baffle from the horizontal to the vertical.

3. The switchgear cabinet arrangement according to claim 1 , wherein the baffle is designed as a horizontal width strut or depth strut which extends between opposing profile struts of a frame of the switchgear cabinet housing.

4. The switchgear cabinet arrangement according to claim 3 , in which the width strut or the depth strut has fastening means on the fastening flanges facing opposite profile struts, via which fastening means the width strut or the depth strut is suspended in the respective profile strut of the frame.

5. The switchgear cabinet arrangement according to claim 4 , in which the fastening means engage in a system perforation of regularly spaced fastening receptacles of the profile struts, so that the fastening position of the baffle is variable with respect to the frame.

6. The switchgear cabinet assembly according to claim 4 , wherein the fastening means comprises fastening means for pre-positioning the baffle with respect to the frame and fastening means for force-fit connection of the baffle to the frame.

7. The switchgear cabinet arrangement according to claim 6 , in which the means for the non-positive connection have an opening in the fastening flange which is aligned with a preferably geometrically identically formed opening of the system perforation of the frame, a snap-in connector being inserted through the aligned openings of the fastening flange and of the frame.

8. The switchgear cabinet arrangement according to claim 1 , in which the baffle delimits an insertion gap of the cable entry with an opposite delimiting element.

9. The switchgear cabinet arrangement according to claim 8 , wherein the opposite delimiting element is a further baffle which is oriented mirror-symmetrically to the first baffle so that cables, conductors, or lines can be fed from opposite sides to the insertion gap along a respective curvature of the respective baffle.

10. The switchgear cabinet arrangement according to claim 9 , wherein the further baffle is integrally formed on a roof panel of the switchgear cabinet housing or is provided as an edging of the roof panel.

11. The switchgear cabinet arrangement according to claim 1 , in which the baffle and/or the further baffle has/have a radius of curvature in the vertical plane which is at least 0.5 cm.

12. The switchgear cabinet arrangement according to claim 1 , in which a brush strip is plugged onto a free horizontal edge of the baffle, which extends in the width direction in the case of a width strut and in the depth direction in the case of a depth strut of the switchgear cabinet housing and which faces an interior space of the switchgear cabinet housing.

13. The switchgear cabinet assembly according to claim 12 , wherein a plurality of bristles of the brush strip extend in a horizontal direction.

14. The switchgear cabinet assembly according to claim 12 , wherein the bristles of the brush strip extend perpendicularly to an insertion direction of a plug-in groove of the brush strip.

15. The switchgear cabinet arrangement according to claim 12 , in which a further brush strip is plugged onto a further baffle on a roof panel of the switchgear cabinet housing, the two brush strips being arranged opposite one another with their free ends facing one another and preferably adjoining one another.

Assignees

• Rittal Gmbh & Co Kg

Inventors

• Hobbs Steven
• Maidment Barry

Classifications

• H05K5/0247

  Electrical details of casings, e.g. terminals, passages for cables or wiring · CPC title

• H02B1/32

  Mounting of devices therein · CPC title

• H02B1/303

  Bases or feet · CPC title

• H05K7/18 Primary

  Construction of rack or frame · CPC title

• H02B1/305 Primary

  Cable entries · CPC title