Patent ID: 7674140
Filing Date: 2010-03-09
Classification: H01R

Abstract:
1. A modular service device comprising: a housing with a front face side, a rear face side, front and rear narrow sides connecting the front and rear face sides, lateral broad sides, and a fastening side; and at least one screwless terminal connection, which is fixed in position in a terminal connection area in an interior of the housing, for connecting conductors by fixedly clamping them with a clamping spring, which acts as a compression spring on connecting conductor ends, fixedly clamps them in a window-like cutout of a busbar and has a number of spring elements which corresponds to a number of connecting conductors to be connected, wherein a housing wall has, in the terminal connection area, a number of connection openings for in each case one connecting conductor which corresponds to the number of connecting conductors to be connected, and each connection opening is associated with a spring element to clamp each connecting conductor by a spring element against a clamping edge, which is common to the connecting conductors of the window-like cutout.