US 11,929,584 B2
Method and device for marking terminal blocks
Detlev Hetland, Detmold (DE); Michael Gockel, Bad Driburg (DE); Jörg Münstermann, Schlangen (DE); Andreas Rutz, Bielefeld (DE); Arnd Schepmann, Detmold (DE); and Marco Waldhoff, Sandebeck (DE)
Assigned to Weidmüller Interface GmbH & Co. KG, (DE)
Appl. No. 16/613,580
Filed by Weidmüller Interface GmbH & Co. KG, Detmold (DE)
PCT Filed May 3, 2018, PCT No. PCT/EP2018/061411
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Nov. 14, 2019,
PCT Pub. No. WO2018/215186, PCT Pub. Date Nov. 29, 2018.
Claims priority of application No. 102017111523.4 (DE), filed on May 26, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2020/0083620 A1, Mar. 12, 2020
Int. Cl. H01R 9/26 (2006.01); B29C 37/00 (2006.01); B29C 45/00 (2006.01); B29C 45/14 (2006.01); H01R 9/24 (2006.01); H01R 12/70 (2011.01); H01R 43/18 (2006.01)
CPC H01R 9/2683 (2013.01) [B29C 37/0028 (2013.01); B29C 45/0053 (2013.01); H01R 9/2491 (2013.01); H01R 9/2608 (2013.01); H01R 12/7035 (2013.01); H01R 43/18 (2013.01); B29C 2037/0035 (2013.01); B29C 2045/0079 (2013.01); B29C 45/14336 (2013.01)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method with one or more marking elements provided with an inscription are formed on a terminal block which is mounted on a mounting base and has a housing made of a first plastic and at least one conductor connection formed in the housing and at least one marking recess formed in the housing, each marking recess being designed for the application of a corresponding marking element, comprising the steps of:
a) providing the terminal block with the housing before or after the at least one conductor connections is formed in the housing and providing an injection molding tool into which the housing is inserted, wherein at least one free space is formed in a region of the at least one marking recess; and
b) spraying the at least one free space with a second plastic in the region of the at least one marking recess, whereby at least one inscribable marking element is formed on the housing.