Patent ID: 7039183

Claim:
A termination block comprising: a termination block base including: a rear face having a rear aperture; a front face having a front aperture, the front face being spaced from the rear face; a plurality of mounting surfaces on the rear face; a plurality of screw receiving portions, each positioned at one of the mounting surfaces and having an opening and a screw receiver extending from the rear face toward the front face; and an interior space between the rear and front faces and accessible from the rear face through the rear aperture and accessible from the front face through the front aperture; a plurality of screws, each extending through the opening of one of the screw receiving portions and threadably received in the screw receiver thereof; a lead frame of flat metal having a plurality of separate circuit portions and positioned at the rear face of the termination block base, each circuit portion including: a terminal connection portion positioned at one of the mounting surfaces of the termination block base, each terminal connection portion having a screw aperture therethrough positioned in alignment with the opening of the screw receiving portion positioned at the mounting surface and one of the screws extending through the screw aperture; a bent tine portion extending through the rear aperture of the rear face and positioned within the interior space of the termination block base and positioned for access through the front aperture, the bent tine portion having a contact end portion, the contact end portions of the bent tine portions of the plurality of circuit portions being in spaced apart arrangement in position within the interior space of the termination block base; and a trace member portion electrically coupling together the terminal connection portion and the bent tine portion; and a plug extending through the rear aperture of the rear face of the termination block base and within the interior space of the termination block base and holding the bent tine portions of the plurality of circuit portions in spaced apart arrangement.