Patent ID: 7841878
Filing Date: 2010-11-30
Classification: H01R,H02G

Abstract:
1. A modular power distribution system for distributing power to a building structure comprising a plurality of removably engagable system components which carry electrical power through each of said system components for supplying power throughout said building structure, each of said system components being provided with at least one plug connector, wherein said plug connectors of said system components have a common plug section with common electrical contacts therein for completing an electrical connection between two mated plug sections by mating engagement of said plug sections and said respective electrical contacts together, said plug sections having slotted ends defined by longitudinally projecting portions separating alignment slots which said projecting portions and alignment slots in a first one of said system components are oriented oppositely to said respective projecting portions and alignment slots of a second one of said system components so as to be engagable together in plugging engagement with said contacts being accessible through the mating engagement of said projecting portions and alignment slots, said plug sections including contact-receiving slots which each receive one of said contacts therein, wherein said contacts are disposed in said projecting portions but partially project into said alignment slots so as to contact said contacts of one of said system components being mated therewith, said contacts being formed planar in a contact plane substantially within the thickness of a sheet of contact material and being received in tight fitting engagement with a respective one of said contact-receiving slots.