Patent ID: 8125111

Claim:
A connecting support ( 20 ) for connecting electrical functional elements ( 46 ) in an auxiliary drive ( 2 ) of a vehicle, wherein the connecting support ( 20 ) has at least two electrically conductive metal strips ( 28 ) for making electrical contacts, wherein the metal strips ( 28 ) are adequately separated from one another such that there is no mutual electrical contact, the electrically conductive metal strips ( 28 ) having a majority length extending along a first direction, characterized in that the connecting support ( 20 ) has an upper part ( 22 ) and a lower part ( 24 ) which are detachably connected to one another and cooperate when connected to surround at least the majority length of the electrically conductive metal strips ( 28 ) so that each of the electrically conductive metal strips ( 28 ) runs between both the upper part ( 22 ) and the lower part ( 24 ) along the majority length and is held in a receptacle ( 26 ) in at least one of the upper and lower parts ( 22 , 24 ), wherein the upper part ( 22 ) and/or the lower part ( 24 ) of the connecting support ( 20 ) in this case have/has two or more receptacles ( 26 ) in order to hold the two or more metal strips ( 28 ), and wherein the metal strips ( 28 ) have different widths, corresponding to respective current loads, and the receptacles ( 26 ) are matched to the different widths.