Electrical device for mounting inside a cabinet

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9955601-B2
Application number	US-201615252662-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 31, 2016
Priority date	Sep 1, 2015
Publication date	Apr 24, 2018
Grant date	Apr 24, 2018

Abstract

The invention relates to an electrical device ( 1 ) for installation in the interior of an electrical enclosure that has at least one single- or multiple-pole plug ( 3 ) accommodated in a housing ( 2 ) of the device ( 1 ) to connect an electrical conductor having an easily accessible plug opening ( 6 ) via one side ( 4, 5 ) of the plug ( 3 ) wherein the at least one plug ( 3 ) has no less than two positions or orientations with respect to the housing ( 2 ).

First claim

What is claimed:

1. An electrical device for installation in the interior of an electrical enclosure that has at least one single- or multi-pole plug accommodated in a housing of the device for connecting an electrical conductor to a plug opening easily accessible via one side of the housing, comprising wherein the at least one plug can assume no less than two different positions or orientations with respect to the housing, wherein the housing has a housing corner where a first and a second housing side merge, wherein the plug opening of the plug faces the first housing side in a first position or orientation, and wherein the opening of the plug faces the second housing side in a second position or orientation, and wherein the housing has a recess which is accessible from a respective access on both housing sides from the exterior of the housing and in which the plug is accommodated, and in which the plug has a plug case and a closing side, which, when the opening of the plug faces one of the two housing sides, at least partially closes off the access to the recess in the respective other housing side to the outside.

2. The electrical device of claim 1 , in which the plug can be pivoted about at least one axis of rotation in the housing and is connected to the housing via the axis of rotation.

3. The electrical device of claim 1 , in which the corner of the housing has a recess that is accessible via an access on both sides of the housing from outside the housing and in which the plug is accommodated.

4. The electrical device of claim 1 , in which the housing is configured essentially rectangular at least in a housing end face section in which the plug is accommodated in the housing, wherein the plug, in a first of two rotational positions offset to each other by 90°, faces one end face of the housing with its plug opening and wherein the plug, in a second of the two rotational positions offset to each other by 90°, faces a longitudinal side of the housing with its plug opening.

5. The electrical device of claim 1 , in which the housing has two longitudinal housing sides, spaced parallel to and opposite each other, wherein the plug opening of the plug in a first engaged position or orientation faces a first of the two longitudinal housing sides and in a second engaged position or orientation faces a second of the two longitudinal housing sides.

6. The electrical device of claim 5 , in which the plug can be pivoted by 180° about an axis of rotation extending in the longitudinal direction of the housing between the first and the second engaged position or orientation.

7. The electrical device of claim 6 , wherein the plug opening of the plug in an intermediate position, in which the plug, compared with the first and the second engaged position or orientation, is rotated by 90° about the axis of rotation, faces an additional housing longitudinal side which connects the two housing longitudinal sides.

8. The electrical device of claim 1 , wherein in one of the two different positions or orientations that the plug can assume with respect to the housing, a plug end face of a plug case is aligned with that housing side which the plug faces with its plug opening.

9. The electrical device of claim 1 , wherein the plug assumes an engaged position at least in the no less than the two different positions or orientations with respect to the housing.

10. The electrical device of claim 1 , wherein the plug is connected in the interior of the housing via flexible conductors or via an intermediate PCB to a power supply.

11. The electrical device of claim 1 , which has a plug in at least two spaced apart positions of the housing.

Assignees

• Rittal Gmbh & Co Kg

Inventors

• Premysler Ewgenij
• Deusing Marco
• Schaffer Kurt-Michael

Classifications

• H01R31/065 Primary

  with built-in electric apparatus · CPC title

• H05K5/0247 Primary

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

• H01R35/025

  having a flexible conductor wound around a rotation axis · CPC title

• H05K5/0026

  provided with connectors and printed circuit boards [PCB], e.g. automotive electronic control units · CPC title

• H02B1/30

  Cabinet-type casings; Parts thereof or accessories therefor · CPC title