ELECTRICAL HOUSING ASSEMBLY HAVING A PLURALITY OF CHAMBERS WITH ADJACENT CIRCUIT BOARD ELEMENTS

• US 3,579,046 A
• Filed: 05/02/1969
• Issued: 05/18/1971
• Est. Priority Date: 05/02/1969
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Jordan Charles Edward
• Original Assignee: Jordan Charles Edward
• Inventors: JORDAN CHARLES EDWARD
• Application Number:
  US04/821,263
• Time in Patent Office: 746 Days
• US Class Current: 174/535
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 5/00 Casings, cabinets or drawers for electric apparatus

Abstract

This disclosure includes a housing assembly which can directly replace the usual electromagnetic contactor. The assembly includes opposed similar end housing sections including inwardly projecting and aligned sidewalls. A shallow intermediate wall is interposed between the opposite end sections. Contact boards are provided with a plurality of contact lugs which project outwardly and upwardly along the opposite side edges. The boards are disposed between the end sections and intermediate wall with the contact lugs mating with recesses in the intermediate wall and firmly clamped in place by the ends of the sidewalls of the end sections. Components are mounted to the circuit boards facing the end sections with printed connections to the opposite side.

Claims

1. An electrical housing assembly having a pair of adjacent circuit connecting chamber means, comprising a pair of opposed end housing sections and an intermediate divider wall section secured in stacked relation, said end housing sections each one having a pair of similar shallow sidewalls extending inwardly toward the opposite end housing section and including a plurality of connector means positions along at least one sidewall, a pair of circuit board means one each between the divider wall section and the corresponding end section and having terminal means extending outwardly and then laterally in overlapping relationship with the corresponding sidewall and in alignment with said connector means positions, and means to interconnect said housing sections and wall section in abutting relation with said circuit board means clamped to the corresponding sections.

2. The electrical housing assembly of claim 1 wherein said similar shallow sidewalls include a plurality of adjacent inclined wall portions defining said connector means positions and said terminal means include Conducting members abutting said inclined wall positions.

3. The electrical housing assembly of claim 2 wherein said divider wall section is essentially a ring member having end faces, each of said sidewalls abuts the end face of the divider wall section and said sidewalls are recessed to correspond to the abutting sidewalls of said end housing sections.

4. The electrical housing assembly of claim 1 wherein said end housing section have a generally rectangular base with top and bottom walls and said similar shallow sidewalls extend perpendicularly from the base and terminating in a common plane, said sidewalls including a plurality of V-shaped recesses defining connector wall portions along the sidewalls, said circuit board means being generally flat rectangular boards clamped between the divider wall section and the end section and having said terminal means interlocked with the corresponding sidewall whereby interconnection of the end sections and the divider wall section supports said boards.

5. The electrical housing assembly of claim 1 wherein said terminal means include conducting strips abutting said sidewalls and said sidewalls being formed with interlocking projecting walls adjacent to the edges of said strips to provide physical positioning and supporting of said strips.

6. The housing of claim 1 wherein said end housing sections and said divider wall section define a generally closed rectangular housing, the sidewalls of the end sections being similarly formed to define a series of vertically spaced recesses having upwardly facing apertured inclined wall portions defining said connector mean positions, said divide wall section having the opposite end faces abutting said sidewalls recessed in accordance with said spaced recesses, said circuit board means including rectangular boards fitting within the inner edges of the end sections and having L-shaped connectors secured to the vertical edges with one leg in the plane of the board and clamped between the face of the divider wall section and the edge of the adjacent end section and having an outer leg abutting said inclined wall portions, and releasable circuit connecting means adjustably attached to the outer leg of the connectors.

7. The housing of claim 6 having a pair of downwardly extending sidewall legs secured to the bottom of the end sections, a U-shaped metal mounting bracket having sidewalls spaced in accordance with the width to said end housing and telescoped with the sidewall legs to define a chamber beneath the circuit connecting chamber.

8. The housing of claim 1 wherein said end housing sections and said divider wall section define a generally closed rectangular housing having a pair of downwardly extending sidewall legs, a U-shaped metal mounting bracket having brackets corresponding in width to said end housing and spaced to telescope with the sidewall legs to define a chamber beneath the circuit connecting chamber.

9. The electrical housing assembly of claim 1 wherein said terminal means include strip portions overlying and abutting the exterior surface of the sidewalls and having clamp connector means overlying said terminal means and the corresponding strip portions and including a screw means passing through a generally flat clamping bracket and into the corresponding strip portion of the terminal means, said bracket having clamping ridges projecting downwardly toward the terminal means.

10. The electrical housing assembly of claim 1 wherein said terminal means include strip portions overlying and abutting the exterior surface of the sidewalls and having clamp connector means overlying said terminal means and the corresponding connection means positions of the sidewalls and including a screw means passing through a generally flat clamping bracket and into the corresponding strip portion of the terminal means, said bracket having an outwardly projecting tab for receiving a slip-on connection means for establishing a solderless, releasable connection.