Patent ID: 8794994

Claim:
A Connection terminal, comprising: at least one busbar piece; at least one clamping spring; at least one spring-force clamping connection, which is formed from the clamping spring and a portion of the busbar piece, in order to clamp an electrical conductor at a clamping point between a clamping portion of the clamping spring and the busbar piece portion; an insulating-material housing which has at least one conductor insertion opening which leads to the associated spring-force clamping connection and extends in a conductor insertion direction; at least one pivotably mounted operating lever which is designed to interact with the at least one clamping spring by means of an operating portion in order to open the at least one associated spring-force clamping connection when the operating lever is pivoted; and an operating arm which adjoins the operating portion, wherein the rotation axis of the operating lever is arranged transverse to the conductor insertion direction in an associated conductor insertion opening or the extension of the conductor insertion opening which continues in the conductor insertion direction to the clamping point.