| US 7,448,885 B2 | ||
| Device or connection adapter | ||
| Hans Wagener, Dietzhölztal (Germany) | ||
| Assigned to Rittal GmbH & Co. KG, Herborn (Germany) | ||
| Appl. No. 11/667,749 PCT Filed Feb. 10, 2006, PCT No. PCT/EP2006/001255 § 371(c)(1), (2), (4) Date May 15, 2007, PCT Pub. No. WO2006/094599, PCT Pub. Date Sep. 14, 2006. |
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| Claims priority of application No. 10 2005 009 992 (DE), filed on Mar. 04, 2005. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2008/0038947 A1, Feb. 14, 2008 | ||
| Int. Cl. H01R 25/00 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 439—116 | 21 Claims |
| 1. A device or connector adapter (30), having a base element (39) in which contacting units (70) with contact elements (32) for making electrical contact with bus bars (20) of a bus bar system are received, and having a holding device for releasable fixation in place of the device adapter (30) with respect to the bus bar system, the device or connector adapter comprising:
the holding device having various module-like connecting means (40, 50) and clamping feet (36) which are attachable, releasable at least in part, on the base element (39) in order to mechanically fix the device adapter (30) in place one of selectively on a support device of the bus bar system and directly on at least one bus bar (20), wherein the adapter is in a bus bar system having a mounting unit (10), which receives a plurality of spaced-apart bus bars in insulating bus bar holders of an insulating platform (11), and the connecting elements (50) of the adapter (30), which is embodied as snap-in elements, are cushioned in the adapter (30) and are adjustable in a limited way parallel with the fastening surface of the mounting unit (10) and perpendicularly relative to the bus bars (20), and the snap-in elements (50) of the adapter (30) having a snap-in ramp and a snap-in tip (51), snap into one of a snap-in receptacle of the platform (11) of the mounting unit (10) and a snap-in receptacle of the bus bar holder (8) when the device or connector adapter (30) is placed on the mounting unit (10).
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