Patent ID: 8619411

Claim:
Electrical switchgear comprising electrical switching equipment for a multi-phase electrical power distribution system, a supporting structure for a bus assembly for supplying electrical current to said switching equipment, and a plurality of spaced buses mounted on the supporting structure for connecting said switching equipment to respective phases of said multi-phase electrical power distribution system, each of said buses comprising a plurality of spaced, elongated flat conductors arranged with at least one longitudinal edge surface of each conductor in that bus opposed to and spaced from a longitudinal edge surface of another conductor in that same bus, and with the side surfaces of said plurality of elongated flat conductors in each of said buses being substantially co-planar with the corresponding side surfaces of the other elongated flat conductors in that same bus, and with the side surfaces of the elongated flat conductors in said buses opposing side surfaces of opposed flat conductors in others of said buses, and a plurality of electrically conductive connectors connecting said plurality of flat conductors in each bus to each other.