Patent ID: 7633363
Filing Date: 2009-12-15
Classification: H01H

Abstract:
1. A forcibly guided relay, with a housing, whose height is smaller than its width, and whose width is smaller than its length, comprising: an electromagnetic drive filling the length or width of the relay, which comprises several contact pairs, which in each case are formed by a contact spring and a fixed or spring-like counter-contact, said contact springs: contact pins for the contact pairs and for the drive, said contact pins projecting out of the housing approximately perpendicular to a surface of the housing defined by the width and length, wherein a break-contact is arranged directly next to the contactor, whose contact spring is arranged at least approximately parallel to the drive arm of the clapper-type contactor in each position of the contactor; and a separating wall between the clapper-type contactor and the break-contact, at least in the region between the contact heads of the break-contact, and the drive cam, is arranged approximately parallel to the drive arm of the clapper-type contactor in its position most remote from the coil.