Electrical interconnection comb

• US 6,524,129 B2
• Filed: 06/15/2001
• Issued: 02/25/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 06/16/2000
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Entrelec SA
• Original Assignee: Entrelec SA
• Inventors: France, Philippe, Cote, Sebastien
• Primary Examiner(s): TA, THO DAC
• Application Number:
  US09/880,900
• Publication Number:
  US 20020031941A1
• Time in Patent Office: 620 Days
• Field of Search: 439/825, 439/751, 439/709, 439/82, 439/511, 439/885, 439/876
• US Class Current: 439/511
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/055 co-operating with sockets having a rectangular transverse section
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 25/162 Electrical connections between or with rails or bus-bars rails having primarily a non electrical function H01R4/64
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 31/085 Short circuiting bus-strips

Abstract

This comb includes a link bar (5) from which parallel contact plugs (6) extend. Each contact plug is in the form of a tooth (6) pierced by at least one longitudinal window (9) delimiting at least two connection branches (10, 12) which are parallel and deformed transversely in opposite directions one with respect to another and the adjacent edges of which, defined by the parallel edges of the window, are located at a certain distance from one another.

Claims

1. Electrical interconnection comb comprising:

a link bar from which parallel contact plugs extend, wherein each contact plug is pierced by two longitudinal windows delimiting three connection branches which are longitudinally parallel, a central branch of said connection branches is deformed in one direction and adjacent to two side branches of said connection branches deformed in the opposite direction, and said connection branches have edges that define opposite sides of said windows, and the edges of said central branch and either of said two side branches being separated by a distance from one another along a direction transverse to the opposite sides.

2. Interconnection comb according to claim 1, wherein each said plug is in the form of a metal blade of rectangular overall shape having a link end disposed adjacent to the link bar and a free end opposite to the link bar, said link end and said free end lying in a same plane.

3. Interconnection comb according to claim 1, wherein each said longitudinal window is closed at a free end disposed opposite to the link bar.

4. Interconnection comb according to claim 1, wherein each said longitudinal window has an oblong shape.

5. Interconnection comb according to claim 1, wherein said distance separating the edges of adjacent branches is between 25% and 150% of a thickness of a material from which the plug is made.

6. Interconnection comb according to claim 1, wherein said distance separating the edges of adjacent branches is approximately equal to a thickness of a material from which the plug is made.

7. Process for manufacturing an interconnection comb according to claim 1, the process comprising:

cutting out a metal blank in order to delimit the link bar, the plugs and the longitudinal windows provided in the plugs;

bending the central part of the branches of the plugs in two opposed directions, in order to deform the adjacent branches in opposite directions one with respect to another, wherein a free end of the plug remains straight and disposed in a plane defined by the link bar.

8. Electrical interconnection comb comprising:

a link bar from which parallel contact plugs extend, wherein each contact plug is pierced by two longitudinal windows delimiting three connection branches which are longitudinally parallel, a central branch of said connection branches is deformed in one direction and adjacent to two side branches of said connection branches deformed in the opposite direction, and said connection branches have edges that define opposite sides of said windows, and said edges of said central branch and either of said side branches are separated to avoid contact between each other when said three connection branches are undeformed.

9. Interconnection comb according to claim 8, wherein each said longitudinal window is closed at a free end disposed opposite to the link bar.

10. Interconnection comb according to claim 8, wherein each said longitudinal window has an oblong shape.