Patent ID: 7978482

Claim:
A modular fuse carrier comprising: an electrically insulating housing providing a generally rectangular base having upstanding sidewalls and end walls defining, together with the base, a housing volume accessible through an open face opposite the base, and having interior divider walls parallel to the sidewalls; a set of six adapter bus bars mounted to the base and arranged in three rows separated by the divider walls and arranged along axes between end walls and in two columns arranged along axes between sidewalls, the adapter bus bars electrically separated with individual bus bars of each row positioned adjacent to opposite end walls of the housing, wherein outward, exposed surfaces of corresponding pairs of the adapter bus bars of each row extend along the row by an amount sufficient for the pairs to be to be spanned by a range of electrical cartridge fuses for amperages between approximately 10 and 800 amperes having different lengths corresponding to different current thresholds, each adapter bus bar providing multiple mounting points corresponding to each of different electrical cartridge fuses of the range; wherein the adapter bus bars of one column have connections adjacent an end wall to power connectors extending through the end wall and adapter bus bars of the other column have connections each to one of a set of three bus bars extending through the housing to an external connection point; whereby multiple fuse types may be readily incorporated into a standard assembly.