Patent ID: 6059577
Filing Date: 2000-05-09
Classification: H01H

Abstract:
A contact device for electrical connection between two sections of a current path which are displaceable in relation to each other, said device comprising a first and a second contact member each fixed to one of the sections of the current path, and an elongated push-on contact device supported by the first contact member, said push-on device together with the first contact member being displaceable in its longitudinal direction between an open position, in which the two contact members are electrically separated from each other, and a closed position, in which the push-on contact device connects the two contact members wherein the contact members exhibit partially ball-shaped end portions with convex contact surfaces, and the push-on contact device comprises at least three contact fingers, fixed relative to each other in a preferably rotationally symmetrical configuration by a waist attachment arranged at the mid-portion of the contact fingers, said waist attachment being articulately attached to said first contact member, the contact fingers being adapted to make contact, in the closed position under contact pressure, with the convex contact surfaces of the contact members.