Patent ID: 8485768
Filing Date: 2013-07-16
Classification: H01R

Abstract:
1. A connecting flange for securing a screw in an electrical connecting terminal, comprising: a housing; at least one shaft on the housing for receiving the screw, which shaft has a shaft wall of an elastic material on which a safety device is formed, so that the screw can be reliably received by the shaft in a non-screwed-in state, wherein a free cross section of the safety device and the greatest cross section of the screw have different shapes, a length of an inside circumference of the safety device is adapted to a length of the outside circumference of the screw, a free diameter of the shaft is smaller at at least one position than a diameter of the screw due to the safety device, and the cross-sectional form of the shaft is constructed to be polygonal whereas the screw has a rounded-off cross section.