Multi-layer conductor body and method for the production thereof

• US 8,159,836 B2
• Filed: 04/06/2009
• Issued: 04/17/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 04/15/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Morsettitalia S.P.A.
• Original Assignee: Morsettitalia S.P.A.
• Inventors: Pizzi, Giordano
• Primary Examiner(s): Datskovskiy, Michail V
• Application Number:
  US12/419,271
• Publication Number:
  US 20090257214A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,107 Days
• Field of Search: 361/633, 361/637, 361/601, 361/605, 361/611, 361/629, 361/638, 361673-675, 361822-828, 439/79, 439/717, 439/212, 439/884, 29830-836, 295/92, 295/98, 310/214, 310/216.048, 310/216.064, 174/17.CT, 174/524, 174/527, 174/530, 174/549, 174/68.2, 174/71.B, 174/70.C, 174/106.R, 174/120.R
• US Class Current: 361/823
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 43/16 for manufacturing contact members, e.g. by punching and by bending
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 9/2458 Electrical interconnections between terminal blocks
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 9/2691 with ground wire connection to the rail
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/49208 by assembling plural parts

Abstract

Conductor body comprising a first outer component extending in the longitudinal direction and provided with at least one tooth projecting in the transverse direction from the inner surface, the tooth having an inner recess; at least one middle component having a mating recess and tooth, the same as the outer component; a closing component provided with at least one opening able to engage with the at least one tooth of the middle component, wherein each of the components are packed together in a transverse direction so as to form a multi-layer body.

Claims

1. A conductor body comprising:

a first outer component extending in a longitudinal direction and provided with at least one tooth projecting from an inner surface in a transverse direction, the tooth having an inner recess;

at least one middle component extending in a longitudinal direction and including at least one middle tooth projecting from a surface of the middle component in a transverse direction, the middle tooth forming an inner recess of sufficient size to receive the tooth of the first outer component;

a closing component having at least one opening adapted to engage the at least one middle tooth of the middle component;

an incision and a reference tooth located on at least one end of the conductor body;

wherein, the first outer component, one or more middle components and the closing component are packed together in the transverse direction so as to form a multi-layer body.

2. A conductor body according to claim 1, further comprising a hole in a vertical direction suitable for insertion of a screw.

3. A conductor body according to claim 2, comprising a plurality of second middle components which are symmetrically arranged with respect to a vertical axis and spaced from each other in the longitudinal direction by a distance equal to a longitudinal dimension of the hole.

4. A conductor body according to claim 3, comprising a plurality of second middle components which determine a transverse dimension of the hole.

5. A conductor body according to claim 4, comprising a plurality of middle components arranged between the second middle components and the closing component.

6. A conductor body according to claim 4, comprising a vertical extension formed by a corresponding extension of each outer, middle and closing component.

7. A conductor body according to claim 6, comprising a central shank extending in the vertical direction and provided with legs splayed in the longitudinal direction.

8. A conductor body according to claim 1, having a bridge-shaped form.

9. A conductor body according to claim 1, further comprising a plurality of contact points extending from the conductor body.

10. Terminal block for switchboards, comprising a multi-layer conductor body according to claim 1 housed inside it.

11. Terminal block according to claim 10, where the conductor body has a through-hole in the vertical direction suitable for insertion of a screw.

12. Terminal block according to claim 10, characterized in that the conductor body includes a central shank extending in the vertical direction and the central shank includes legs splayed in the longitudinal direction.

13. Terminal block according to claim 12, wherein said conductor body is coupled to the components for retaining conductor wires and to a hooking element for fastening the terminal block to a switchboard.