Patent ID: 8075336

Claim:
A bridging element ( 5 ) having at least two bridge prongs ( 4 ), which are intended to be inserted into respective bridge shafts ( 2 ) and to make electrically conductive contact with a contact point ( 3 ), which is arranged in the bridge shaft ( 2 ) , of one or more clamping elements ( 1 A- 1 G), and having a bridge section ( 10 ) which is electrically conductively connected to the bridge prongs ( 4 ), with the bridge prongs ( 4 ) and the bridge section ( 10 ) being electrically conductive, and with the bridge prongs ( 4 ) extending parallel to one another in a common insertion direction (Z), wherein at least the external bridge prongs ( 4 ) each have a profile which is of L-shaped cross section and has an outer contact section ( 9 ) which extends flat in the direction (Z) of extent and in the bridging direction (Y) which faces the adjacent bridge prongs ( 4 ), and an inner contact section ( 6 ) which starts from the outer contact section ( 9 ) transverse to the bridging direction (Y), and wherein the inner contact sections ( 6 ) of the two external bridge prongs ( 4 ) are at a smaller distance from one another than the distance between the free ends of the inner contact sections ( 9 ) of the two external bridge prongs ( 4 ) in relation to one another.