US 11,888,272 B2
Touch protected busbar system
Joram Masel, Küps-Oberlangenstadt (DE); Philipp Steinberger, Coburg (DE); Hubert Lenker, Sonneberg (DE); and Alexander Scholz, Grub am Forst (DE)
Assigned to WOEHNER BESITZ GMBH, Roedental (DE)
Appl. No. 16/977,295
Filed by WOEHNER BESITZ GMBH, Roedental (DE)
PCT Filed Feb. 21, 2019, PCT No. PCT/EP2019/054343
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Sep. 1, 2020,
PCT Pub. No. WO2019/174886, PCT Pub. Date Sep. 19, 2019.
Claims priority of application No. 18162101 (EP), filed on Mar. 15, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0006047 A1, Jan. 7, 2021
Int. Cl. H01R 25/14 (2006.01); H01R 4/38 (2006.01); H02G 5/04 (2006.01); H02B 1/21 (2006.01); H02G 5/06 (2006.01)
CPC H01R 25/145 (2013.01) [H01R 4/38 (2013.01); H01R 25/14 (2013.01); H02B 1/21 (2013.01); H02G 5/04 (2013.01); H02G 5/06 (2013.01)] 30 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A touch protected busbar system comprising:
at least one hybrid busbar having a current-carrying rail profile; and
a contact-receiving rail profile providing contact openings configured to receive protruding electrical contacts of electrical devices to be connected to said touch protected busbar system,
wherein the at least one hybrid busbar is at least partially covered by electrical isolating touch protection elements of said touch protected busbar system and/or at least partially encapsulated by an electrical isolating layer, and
wherein the electrical isolating touch protection elements are mounted by busbar mounting hooks on the at least one hybrid busbar and includes latch openings adapted to receive device mounting latches of electrical devices to be connected to said touch protected busbar system.