Patent ID: 7448885

Claim:
A device or connector adapter ( 30 ), having a base element ( 39 ) in which contacting units ( 70 ) with contact elements ( 32 ) for making electrical contact with bus bars ( 20 ) of a bus bar system are received, and having a holding device for releasable fixation in place of the device adapter ( 30 ) with respect to the bus bar system, the device or connector adapter comprising: the holding device having various module-like connecting means ( 40 , 50 ) and clamping feet ( 36 ) which are attachable, releasable at least in part, on the base element ( 39 ) in order to mechanically fix the device adapter ( 30 ) in place one of selectively on a support device of the bus bar system and directly on at least one bus bar ( 20 ), wherein the adapter is in a bus bar system having a mounting unit ( 10 ), which receives a plurality of spaced-apart bus bars in insulating bus bar holders of an insulating platform ( 11 ), and the connecting elements ( 50 ) of the adapter ( 30 ), which is embodied as snap-in elements, are cushioned in the adapter ( 30 ) and are adjustable in a limited way parallel with the fastening surface of the mounting unit ( 10 ) and perpendicularly relative to the bus bars ( 20 ), and the snap-in elements ( 50 ) of the adapter ( 30 ) having a snap-in ramp and a snap-in tip ( 51 ), snap into one of a snap-in receptacle of the platform ( 11 ) of the mounting unit ( 10 ) and a snap-in receptacle of the bus bar holder ( 8 ) when the device or connector adapter ( 30 ) is placed on the mounting unit ( 10 ).