Patent ID: 6884952

Claim:
A contact finger module for mounting in a high-power switchgear, comprising: at least one contact finger having a contact piece and a flexible contact piece support which extends along a longitudinal direction and has an attachment end and a contact-making end, with the contact piece overhanging the contact piece support in the opposite direction to a deflection direction, and being connected to the contact piece support at the contact-making end; and at least one leaf spring which extends along the longitudinal direction and has two ends one of which is an attachment end at which it the leaf spring is connected to the attachment end of the contact piece support in the mounted state; the leaf spring being designed, and being arranged, when in the mounted state, such that the leaf spring can produce a force which counteracts any deflection of the contact piece in the deflection direction; wherein, when in the mounted state, the leaf spring extends in the longitudinal direction at least as far as the center of the extension of the contact piece in the longitudinal direction.