Patent ID: 6132238
Filing Date: 2000-10-17
Classification: H01R

Abstract:
A connector for electrical conductors comprising:an insulating-material housing; anda metal contact insert with at least two contact points inserted into the housing, the contact points each being formed between a leaf spring and a busbar being common to all contact points; the leaf springs being punched out of a piece of spring steel sheet in the form of tongues, whereby tongue roots of the tongues remain joined with each other via the spring steel sheet, the punched-out tongue ends each having a clamping edge which is aligned opposite the busbar so that it forms with the busbar each time a contact points for an electrical conductor to be connected,wherein the improvement comprisesthat each two leaf springs being punched out in a mirror-symmetrical manner to a central plane from the piece of spring steel sheet in such a way that their tongue ends are distanced from one another and the sheet material is punched out between the tongue ends forming a punched-out place, and the busbar having the form of a rod which is arranged in the punched out-place and in the central plane such that the conductor is biasedly received between said clamping edge and said busbar and wherein the busbar is secured to the metal contact insert.