Patent ID: 6373015
Filing Date: 2002-04-16
Classification: H01H,H02B

Abstract:
A multi-phase electrical circuit connector module comprising:a plurality of first electrically insulated electrical output connectors at least corresponding to the number of phases in a circuit to which the connector module is to be applied with each first output connector designed to mate with a corresponding complementary load connector attached to the corresponding phase of a load circuit in a manner that electrically insulates electrically conducting portions of the load and the output connector and substantially isolates those portions from contact with lower voltage portions of the surrounding environment, while maintaining good electrical conduction between the output connector and the load circuit; a plurality of current sensors respectively connected to monitor the current flowing through corresponding first output connectors and provide an output indicative thereof; a plurality of output conductors respectively connected at one end to the first output connectors and at the other end to corresponding second output connectors which respectively have a complementary end terminal designed to mate with a corresponding terminal on a power source apparatus in a manner that electrically insulates the electrically conducting portions of the mating connectors from external current flow while maintaining good electrical conduction between mating connectors and substantially isolating those conducting portions from contact with lower voltage portions of the surroundings; and an insulated housing substantially enclosing and respectively insulating the first and second output connectors, the output conductors, and current transformers in a manner that insulates each phase from each other, substantially isolates all the current carrying portions thereof from contact with lower voltage portions of the surroundings, and ties the first and second output connectors, output conductors and current transformers together as an integral unit.