Patent ID: 7384319

Claim:
An electrical clamp connector and connecting terminal, which, per pole, has at least two spring clamp connecting terminals, which are opposite-lying and mirror-symmetric with respect to a central plane, for connection of electrical conductors, in which the electrical conductors can be plugged in from the same connection direction and by means of which the electrical conductors can be electrically connected to a common busbar in the interior of the terminal; the busbar having an additional connecting contact, which is arranged in the central plane between the two conductor clamp terminals on the side of the terminal facing away from the conductor clamp terminal and serves for connecting a countercontact external to the terminal; wherein the conductor clamp connections are formed from one piece of spring steel sheet and from a busbar in the form a busbar rod; wherein two leaf spring tongues are cut out mirror-symmetric to the central plane from the piece of spring steel sheet or are punched out in such a way that the leaf spring tongues each extend perpendicularly to the central plane and their tongue ends each end at a distance from the central plane; the material of the spring steel sheet being punched out between the tongue ends, so that, a free opening is formed in the spring steel sheet; wherein the busbar rod is positioned in the central plane lying against the piece of spring steel sheet such that, in the area of the free opening in the spring steel sheet with the tongue ends of the leaf spring tongues, the busbar rod forms two respective opposite-lying conductor clamp connections; whereby, for forming the additional connecting contact, the busbar rod has at least one cross projection arranged in the region of the free opening of the spring steel sheet and penetrating through the free opening in the spring steel sheet such that the busbar rod is positioned on one side of the spring steel sheet and the cross projection or cross projections for forming the additional connecting contact is or are positioned on the other side of the spring steel sheet.