Patent ID: 6019643
Filing Date: 2000-02-01
Classification: H01R

Abstract:
A connection module, in particular a junction block, comprising a box of insulating material containing connection terminals, a plurality of link strips, said connection terminals for electrical conductors that reach the link strips inside the box via insertion orifices formed through the walls of the box, said strips being stationary and extending towards a central portion of the box where each of them is terminated in individual extensions serving as contact elements, the extensions of the strips situated in pair at the same level in the box being interconnected by means of a moving conductive piece carried by a drive member operatable from outside the box, when said drive member is moved to slide inside the box to a position where the above-mentioned extensions of said pair of strips at the same level are individually engaged by respective spring-blade clips of the moving conductive piece, said module further including at least one conductive shunt piece having parallel spring-blade clips disposed in a comb, and said strip extensions that are folded to extend parallel to a common transverse midplane of the box, with said extensions at the same level extending in the same direction so as to enable them to co-operate with the clips of the conductive shunt piece and the moving conductive piece, each clip of the conductive shunt piece engaging the respective extension by coming astride it transversely and each clip of the moving conductive piece engaging the respective extension by coming astride it axially in a longitudinal midplane of the extension.