Electrical connectors – Bus duct – Means to join bus ducts
Reexamination Certificate
2009-12-03
2011-10-11
Paumen, Gary F. (Department: 2833)
Electrical connectors
Bus duct
Means to join bus ducts
C174S08800C, C174S016200
Reexamination Certificate
active
08033850
ABSTRACT:
A joint pack includes one or more phase members that utilize integrated standoff spacers that protrude and come into contact with opposing conductor plates to maintain a phase space between the phase members. The spacers are located along the insulating plates of the phase members away from the phase member's axial sleeves and protrude through apertures in the conductor plates disposed on the phase members, in which the standoff spacers also provide a barrier that prevents phase-conductors from being inserted too far within the phase space. The phase members include axial sleeves that fit within one another during assembly to form a nesting arrangement, thereby reducing the overall size of the joint pack while satisfying standards. The axial sleeves can be distinctively designed such that the phase members must be assembled in a predetermined order, with no components being omitted, to form the joint pack.
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Lesieur Thomas N.
O'Leary Timothy P.
Travis Wesley
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