Patent ID: 6402569
Filing Date: 2002-06-11
Classification: H01R,H02G,H05K,Y10S

Abstract:
A bus bar assembly for establishing electrical communication between a power supply, an electrical device, and an electrical circuit, said assembly comprising:a first bus bar plate and a second bus bar plate, each plate comprising a generally planar member fabricated from an electrically insulating material, and each having at least one contact tab defined thereon so as to project from a selected edge of each plate, and to be coplanar therewith; a first pattern of electrically conductive material disposed on a portion of said first plate, and a second pattern of an electrically conductive material disposed on a portion of said second plate, each conductive pattern covering at least a portion of said at least one contact tab on its respective plate; means for connecting a source of electrical power to the first conductive pattern and comprising a power terminal in electrical communication with said first conductive pattern; means for connecting an electrical circuit to the second conductive pattern and comprising at least one connector tab defined so as to project from a her selected edge of said second plate, at least a portion of said second conductive pattern of material extending to said at least one connector tab; a spacer extending between opposing faces of said plates and for positionally maintaining said first and second plates relative to one another so that the first and second conductive patterns are in an electrically isolated, spaced apart, plane parallel relationship, and the first conductive pattern on the contact tab of the first plate provides a first contact member for establishing electrical communication with a first terminal of an electrical device, and the second conductive pattern on the contact tab of the second plate provides a second contact member for establishing electrical communication with a second terminal of said electrical device; whereby said bus bar assembly provides a path for an electrical current to flow from the source of electrical power, through said first conductive pattern, through an electrical device which is in electrical communication with the first and second contact members, and through said second conductive pattern to said electrical circuit.