IP Library Granted Patent US 7,515,030
Granted Patent B2
US 7,515,030 · App. 10/582,733 · Granted Apr 7, 2009

Fuse insert having a flat insulating body

Assignee: Littelfuse Automotive GmbH
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Patent No.
US 7,515,030
App. No.
10/582,733
Granted
Apr 7, 2009
Kind
B2
Abstract

The invention relates to a fusible element provided with a flat insulating body and a pair of contacts which are projected therefrom and whose sections receivable in the reception areas of the insulating body are connected to each other by a fusing conductor wherein at least one reception area and the contact section associated thereto comprise form-fitting connectors corresponding to each other. The inventive fusible element makes it possible to simplify assembling of the individual elements forming it without affecting the quality and without additional costs.

Claims (12)

1. Fuse insert having a flat insulating body and a pair of contacts projecting out of the insulating body, whose contact segments, which are accommodated in accommodations of the insulating body, are connected with one another by way of a fusible conductor,

wherein

at least one of the accommodations ( 2 , 3 ) as well as the contact segment ( 14 , 15 ) assigned to it have connection elements ( 6 , 7 , 17 , 18 ) of a positive-lock connection that correspond to one another; and

wherein each first connection element ( 6 , 7 ) is an elevation that projects into a plug-in shaft ( 4 , 5 ), in the form of a tongue ( 8 , 9 ) that matches a longitudinal groove as an engagement ( 17 , 18 ).

2. Fuse insert according to claim 1 , wherein each accommodation ( 2 , 3 ) is configured as a plug-in shaft ( 4 , 5 ), into which at least one first connection element ( 6 , 7 ) projects.

3. Fuse insert according to claim 2 , wherein each contact segment ( 14 , 15 ) is configured as a shaft part inserted into the plug-in shaft ( 4 , 5 ), said shaft part having at least one engagement ( 17 , 18 ) for the at least one first connection element ( 6 , 7 ).

4. Fuse insert according to claim 3 , wherein each engagement ( 17 , 18 ) is a longitudinal groove that has been formed in.

5. Fuse insert according to claim 4 , wherein each longitudinal groove extends over a predetermined part of the total length of an associated contact segment.

6. Fuse insert according to claim 1 , wherein the connection element that is present as a tongue ( 8 , 9 ) extends over a predetermined part of the total length of the plug-in shaft ( 4 , 5 ).

7. Fuse insert according to claim 1 , wherein predetermined regions of the surfaces of each plug-in shaft ( 4 , 5 ) and associated contact segment ( 14 , 15 ), which surfaces are brought into contact with one another, have surface profiling that increases the friction.

8. Fuse insert according to claim 7 , wherein the surface profiling comprises small teeth configured as barbs, which block movement counter to the insertion direction of the contacts into the insulating body ( 1 ).

9. Fuse insert according to claim 1 , wherein each free end of a contact segment ( 14 , 15 ) that faces away from a contact tongue ( 12 , 13 ) has a center notch ( 19 , 20 ).

Assignments (3)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Jul 1, 2020
From: LITTELFUSE AUTOMOTIVE GMBH
To: LITTELFUSE EUROPE GMBH
Reel/Frame 053116/0459 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Jun 27, 2008
From: WILHELM PUDENZ GMBH
To: LITTELFUSE AUTOMOTIVE GMBH
Reel/Frame 021184/0001 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Aug 22, 2006
From: SCHULTE, HENNING; SCHEELE, JURGEN
To: WILHELM PUDENZ GMBH
Reel/Frame 018163/0485 →
Priority Claims (1)
DE 203 19 350 U · Dec 13, 2003 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20070080772A1 · Apr 12, 2007