Patent ID: 7633363

Claim:
A forcibly guided relay, with a housing, whose height is smaller than its width, and whose width is smaller than its length, comprising: an electromagnetic drive filling the length or width of the relay, which comprises a coil with an elongate core of a magnetic soft iron, and a winding present around the core, and a clapper-type contactor; said winding having a diameter practically filling the height of the housing, and said clapper-type contactor comprising a drive arm which extends in the direction of the core and which at its free end movably cooperates with a drive cam, wherein the direction of the core is defined by the direction of the length of the core, the length of the core being greater than the width and height of the core; several contact pairs, which in each case are formed by a contact spring and a fixed or spring-like counter-contact, said contact springs: comprising a foot and a free drive end, as well as a contact head between the foot and the drive end, being anchored in the housing, in each case with the foot at locations along a side of the housing, the side being approximately perpendicular to the direction of the core, said locations being distanced to one another; extending in a direction approximately parallel to the direction of the core, and arranged such that the drive ends are in forcibly guided engagement with the drive cam; and contact pins for the contact pairs and for the drive, said contact pins projecting out of the housing approximately perpendicular to a surface of the housing defined by the width and length, wherein a break-contact is arranged directly next to the contactor, whose contact spring is arranged at least approximately parallel to the drive arm of the clapper-type contactor in each position of the contactor; and a separating wall between the clapper-type contactor and the break-contact, at least in the region between the contact heads of the break-contact, and the drive cam, is arranged approximately parallel to the drive arm of the clapper-type contactor in its position most remote from the coil.