US 11,837,829 B2
Adapter device for power busbar systems
Joram Masel, Kueps (DE); and Hans-Juergen Henning, Ebersdorf (DE)
Assigned to Woehner GmbH & Co. KG Elektrotechnische Systeme, Roedental (DE)
Filed by Woehner GmbH & Co. KG Elektrotechnische Systeme, Roedental (DE)
Filed on Nov. 19, 2020, as Appl. No. 16/952,325.
Claims priority of application No. 19211525 (EP), filed on Nov. 26, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2021/0159650 A1, May 27, 2021
Int. Cl. H01R 33/94 (2006.01); H01R 13/502 (2006.01); H01R 33/88 (2006.01); H01R 33/92 (2006.01); H01R 33/945 (2006.01); H02B 1/052 (2006.01); H02B 1/20 (2006.01)
CPC H01R 33/94 (2013.01) [H01R 13/502 (2013.01); H01R 33/88 (2013.01); H01R 33/92 (2013.01); H01R 33/945 (2013.01); H02B 1/052 (2013.01); H02B 1/205 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An adapter device for connecting at least one electrical device to a busbar main system having busbars, in which the at least one electrical device is adapted for a busbar sub-system having busbars, wherein the adapter device includes an adapter housing comprising:
a busbar main interface on a rear side of the housing and configured for electromechanically contacting busbars of the busbar main system and,
one or more busbar sub-interfaces on a front side of the housing and which are provided for placing the at least one electrical device on the adapter device, and which are each provided for an electrical connection thereof to the busbar main system via busbars of the respective busbar sub-system and via associated electrical conductors contained in the adapter housing,
wherein the busbars of the respective busbar sub-system are integrated in the adapter housing or attached thereto,
wherein the adapter housing of the adapter device is elongated and defines a length,
wherein the busbar main interface comprises, for each busbar of the busbar main system, at least one associated contact component for contacting the corresponding busbar of the busbar main system,
wherein at least one of the busbars of the respective busbar sub-system and at least one associated contact component are spaced apart from each other along the length of the adapter housing,
wherein the associated electrical conductor is configured to extend along the length of the adapter housing to bridge the distance between the at least one busbar and the associated contact component and to contact the at least one busbar of the respective busbar sub-system and the associated contact component, and
wherein the adapter housing defines a longitudinal axis along the length and comprises, on the rear side of the housing along the longitudinal axis of the adapter housing, a plurality of contact components arranged one above the other along the longitudinal axis and configured for contacting a plurality of busbars of the busbar main system which extend in parallel with each other and in a horizontal direction transverse to the longitudinal axis.