Patent ID: 7344404
Filing Date: 2008-03-18
Classification: H01R

Abstract:
1. Electrical connecting device, comprising a housing with terminals for insulated conductors, with at least one conductor bar, with at least two actuating elements and with at least two insulation piercing elements, the actuating elements being arranged to be able to turn relative to the insulation piercing elements in the electrical connecting device and each having a conductor receiver for the conductors to be connected, the insulation piercing elements establishing electrical contact of conductors which have been inserted into the conductor receiver relative to the at least one conductor bar, wherein the actuating element is pivotable between a first position in which the conductors are insertable into the conductor receiver and a second position in which said electrical contact is established between the conductors and the at least one conductor bar, and wherein each of the conductor receivers in the actuating elements is sized and shaped for receiving at least two insulated conductors therein; wherein the insulation piercing elements in the electrical connecting device of each conductor receiver are located a first side thereof and wherein the actuating element has a planar surface bordering an opposite second side of each conductor receiver such that insulated conductors are insertable into the conductor receiver between the planar surface of the actuating element and the insulation piercing elements and are displaceable both jointly and sequentially into the piercing elements by pivoting of the actuating element from the first position to the second position, the actuating element being movable from the second position back to the first position without disengaging the insulated conductor or conductors engaged with the insulation piercing elements.