	US 11,996,678 B2
	Switching and/or distributing device
Richard Ellis Rothenberger, Phoenix, NY (US); Michael Rene Ketterer, Soest (DE); Reiner Naumann, Mannheim (DE); Marco Knab, Eberbach (DE); Dieter Sauer, Heddesbach (DE); and Toni Ott, Neckargemund (DE)
Assigned to EATON INTELLIGENT POWER LIMITED, Dublin (IE)
Appl. No. 17/419,280
Filed by Eaton Intelligent Power Limited, Dublin (IE)
PCT Filed Dec. 26, 2019, PCT No. PCT/EP2019/025491 § 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jun. 28, 2021, PCT Pub. No. WO2020/135933, PCT Pub. Date Jul. 2, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2018 251 785.1 (DE), filed on Dec. 28, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2022/0077664 A1, Mar. 10, 2022
Int. Cl. H02B 1/052 (2006.01); H02B 1/20 (2006.01); H02B 1/21 (2006.01)

CPC H02B 1/052 (2013.01) [H02B 1/205 (2013.01); H02B 1/207 (2013.01); H02B 1/21 (2013.01)]

25 Claims

1. A switching and/or distributing device with at least one receiving housing and a housing cover, wherein in at least one housing rail region, a plurality of power distribution rails are arranged, which substantially extend in a main plane and are connected to first sub-distribution rails, which in the at least one housing rail region extend in a first plane substantially in parallel to the main plane, and second sub-distribution rails, which in the at least one housing rail region extend in a second plane substantially in parallel to the main plane, wherein the second plane is offset from the first plane, wherein the first and second sub-distribution rails are electrically insulated from one another and extend in a direction of at least one housing component region, wherein in the at least one housing component region, modular components, which contain an electrical/electronic operating means, are in electrical contact with one of the first and second sub-distribution rails, and wherein the first and second sub-distribution rails are changed in their course before or after reaching the at least one housing component region to run in a common plane.