Patent ID: 8062079

Claim:
Connector clamp comprising: a housing; a power terminal attached to the housing; a receptacle for accommodating at least one conductor; a clamp device with a clamp spring held in the housing for clamping the conductor against the power terminal, in order to connect a plugged-in conductor to the power terminal in an electrically conductive fashion; an actuation device which acts on the clamp spring to open the clamp device; wherein actuation device is equipped with an indicator device for indicating the clamp status of the clamp device; wherein the actuation device is motion-coupled to the clamp device, and the receptacle is spatially arranged between a fixed section of the clamp spring and the actuation device, so that the indicator device indicates the clamp status of the clamp device in an enlarged scale, independently of the spatial positioning of the housing; and wherein the actuation device can be actuated only via a tool, which can be inserted into the interior of the housing, with such actuation allowing the conductor to be inserted into or removed from the connector clamp.