Patent ID: 7601013

Claim:
A connector or device adapter, which can be placed on a mounting unit perpendicularly with respect to a longitudinal direction of bus bars in the mounting unit and can be mechanically connected thereto, wherein one contact element per bus bar in the connector or device adapter is in an electrically conducting connection with the bus bar, and in the connector or device adapter the contact elements are electrically conducted to connection receptacles ( 22 , 23 , 22 ', 23 ', 22 ″, 23 ″) near a narrow side of the connector or device adapter, the connector or device adapter comprising: the contact elements formed as contact rails ( 11 , 13 , 14 , 11 ', 13 ', 14 ') connected in an electrically conducting manner with the associated connection receptacles ( 22 , 23 , 22 ', 23 ', 22 ″, 23 ″, 28 . 1 ) and forming connecting units ( 10 . 1 . 10 . 2 , 10 . 3 , 10 . 1 ', 10 . 2 ', 10 . 3 ', 10 . 1 ″), the contact elements including contact points at free ends and positioned with respect to the bus bars in the mounting unit, and the connector or device adapter ( 30 ) having receptacles ( 34 ) for receiving the connecting units ( 10 . 1 . 10 . 2 , 10 . 3 , 10 . 1 ', 10 . 2 ', 10 . 3 ', 10 . 1 ″) near the narrow side of the connector or device adapter, wherein three of the connecting units ( 10 . 1 . 10 . 2 , 10 . 3 , 10 . 1 ', 10 . 2 ', 10 . 3 ', 10 ″) with contact elements of different lengths, matched to spaced-apart bus bars, are in a three-phase type of the connector or device adapter ( 30 ).