Patent ID: 6231349
Filing Date: 2001-05-15
Classification: H01R

Abstract:
An electromechanical connecting device assembly comprising a switching device, for connection to a current source, having a first magnet or a ferromagnetic piece in said switching device, and a triggering device with a second magnet or ferromagnetic piece, said switching device and said triggering device, each having a pair of contacts, said triggering device having a third series of coded magnets in said triggering device cooperating with a fourth series of coded magnets on a carriage for movement of said carriage within the switching device toward and away from said third series of magnets, for making an electric connection with said carriage between said switching device and the triggering device in a live position via said contacts, said first magnet or said ferromagnetic piece is displaceable in the direction of the triggering device from a rest position into the live position by the second magnet or the second ferromagnetic piece, said first magnet or said ferromagnetic piece being independent from the movement of said carriage so that with the working carriage remaining in the live state after removal of the triggering device and with current on the contacts of the switching device, when the first magnet or ferromagnetic piece returns to the rest position an intentional short circuit is effected between the poles of the pair of contacts of the switching device to interrupt the current.