Background technology
In order when using flexible electrical conductors (for example twisted wire), to avoid wire terminations to scatter, thereby guarantee between electric wire and an electric equipment, to form good, contact reliably, at first use a so-called line nose that wire terminations is sealed usually.In the connection clamping device of electric equipment, clamp this line nose then.
Known line nose has some various forms, and bent-tube boiler line nose, ringed line nose, hollow wire nose, braze wire nose, fork-shaped line nose and aciculiform line nose are for example arranged.The line nose can be used to be connected a wire terminations after the peeling with machinery with electric means, and wherein, described electric conductor is used for the conducting electric current.Suit to utilize a crimping tool that line nose and wire terminations are crimped on together mutually.It is the toroid nose that a kind of line nose commonly used is implemented pattern, an annular is arranged and have the termination in a hole at its free end, and this termination is placed on below the clamping screw as pad, this termination can be fixed on the described connection clamping device.Use the advantage of toroid nose to be:,, also can not lose contact between electric conductor and the connection clamping device even when clamping screw is loosening because annular termination surrounds clamping screw.
Various connection clamping device that is used for the connecting line nose is arranged at present.Some are arranged is connection clamping devices of ladder pattern, and with regard to this ladder pattern, several wire clamps that are used to connect several electric wires can make one in each line nose place on another clamped through suitably arranging.Its shortcoming is: this stacked structure occupation space is a lot, because these wire clamps must be staggeredly arranged.When on when putting terminal board and clamping, will cover the underlying terminal board.That is to say,, just can't unclamp lower terminal row if at first do not unclamp upper terminal row.This will strengthen assembly fee meaninglessly and use.
The connection clamping device that also has some wire clamps to be arranged in parallel in addition.The mode of this layout wire clamp makes wire clamp come into plain view.But, so also need to take a lot of spaces, because all wire clamps all place on the plane.Owing to these wire clamps of putting relatively are mirror-image arrangement, therefore take up room especially.On one first wire clamp row, line nose or toroid nose are fixed on the described wire clamp, and the direction after having rotated 180 ° from that opposed second wire clamp row is fixed on line nose or toroid nose on these second wire clamps since a first direction.
In the electrical wiring technical field, the screw double-layered quilt is widely used in and is used for electric conductor is connected to connection clamping device on the electric equipment.
Summary of the invention
Task of the present invention is, a kind of connection clamping device that is used for an electric conductor is provided, and is particularly useful for the electric conductor that a kind of end has a line nose, comprising: at least one clamping area; At least one clamping element, especially a clamping screw; Also comprise at least one movable folder of installing, the special saving of described connection clamping device takes up room, and simple in structure, can connect or remove all electric conductors easily.Especially after connecting at least one electric conductor, the installing space shared owing to this connection clamping device is very little, has a connection clamping device and respective electric equipment that the installing space process is optimized thereby also can design one.
Adopt a kind of connection clamping device, and adopt a kind of electric equipment, can solve task of the present invention with independent claims 17 described features with independent claims 1 described feature.Further feature of the present invention and details can be consulted relevant dependent claims, specification and accompanying drawing.Also relevant with electric equipment certainly with details about connecting the described feature of clamping device, vice versa.
Described according to a first aspect of the present invention, what solve this task is a kind of connection clamping device that is used for an electric conductor, is particularly useful for the electric wire that a kind of end has a line nose, and this connection clamping device comprises: at least one clamping area; At least one clamping element, especially a clamping screw; And comprise at least one movable folder of installing; And at least one zone of described at least one clamping area and described at least one clamping element especially longitudinal axis oblique of clamping screw.
The special saving of this connection clamping device takes up room, and simple in structure, can connect or remove electric conductor easily.Especially after connecting at least one electric conductor, the shared installing space of this connection clamping device is very little.
Core of the present invention is: at least one zone and described at least one clamping element especially longitudinal axis oblique of clamping screw of described at least one clamping area.At least one zone of described at least one clamping area of " oblique " of the present invention expression and described at least one clamping element especially angle between the longitudinal axis of clamping screw are not equal to 0 ° or 90 °.At least one zone of described clamping area constitutes a plane, this plane with respect to the longitudinal axis of described at least one clamping element especially clamping screw with certain angle tilt.According to of the present invention, the free end of line nose is close on the described clamping area, utilize described clamping element and described folder to be fixed on this clamping area then.The mode of this longitudinal axis oblique with clamping area and clamping element also can make to be fixed on the line nose free end on this clamping area and the longitudinal axis oblique of described clamping element.The lateral attitude of clamping area or part clamping area and line nose can not form obstruction so that several connection clamping devices are overlapping up and down in the mode that saving takes up room when connecting or remove electric wire.Adopt the clamping area form of implementation of this " inclination ", for example be easy to connect or remove and utilize several to stagger stacked wire clamp up and down and be fixed on electric conductor on the clamping area that connects the clamping device below, and can not hinder the electric conductor that has been connected on this clamping area.The clamping area that tilts can be vacateed more spaces and be used for connecting on a wire clamp or removing an electric conductor, makes whole connection clamping device have littler profile simultaneously.Adopt the mode of this longitudinal axis oblique with clamping area and clamping element,, also can connect electric wire easily although it is very little to connect the planform of clamping device.Described connection clamping device can have the single wire clamp of some adjacent arrangements, and promptly these wire clamps can be arranged in a row, and/or stacked up and down, staggers especially mutually.Adopt obliquely the fixedly mode of electric conductor or electric wire line nose, can be with the stacked adjacent arrangement of wire clamp up and down that constitutes by clamping area, clamping element and folder, and can not hinder and connect or remove electric conductor.
Described at least one clamping element and described at least one movable folder of installing can be used to electric wire or electric wire line nose are fixed on the described clamping area enduringly.This clamping element by described folder with the force closure mode with electric conductor or electric wire line nose clamping on this clamping area.This clamping element can be passed a hole in the line nose, especially it can be extend among the looping pit of a toroid nose, thus securing electric lines or electric wire line nose especially reliably.The described movable folder of installing has suitable profile, thereby can connect on electric wire or electric wire line nose with the shape locking mode.Described clamping element makes the described movable folder of installing move towards described clamping area in connection procedure, thus with electric conductor or electric wire line nose clamping on this clamping area.Preferably the described movable folder of installing can be designed to disk or thin slice pattern.The described movable folder of installing can also have a recess, especially can have one and be used for passing the especially hole of a lead screw of a part of clamping element.The described movable folder of installing can be another part of described clamping element, therefore can be fixed on this clamping area at the folder that described clamping element should activity be installed towards a side of described clamping area.
According to a kind of favourable connection clamping device embodiment, on described at least one clamping area and/or among be provided with at least one contact element.This contact element can be used to connect electric conductor and an electric equipment that is connected of clamping.Described contact element can adopt any conceivable enforcement pattern, and for example this contact element can be fixed on the described clamping area, suitable it is arranged among the recess or hole on the described clamping area.After being connected electric conductor or electric wire line nose on the described clamping area, electric conductor or electric wire line nose will touch this contact element, thereby can transmission current.This contact element can adopt the plane pattern, and the surface of this contact element is parallel to described clamping area.This contact element can also be crooked or rounded.Implement pattern according to the another kind that connects clamping device, this contact element can be incorporated among the described clamping area.At this moment this clamping area can have the partially conductive zone.
Described at least one movable folder of installing that connects clamping device preferably has at least one contact zone, and this contact zone and described at least one clamping element be the longitudinal axis oblique of clamping screw especially.Adopt the contact zone and described at least one clamping element especially mode of the longitudinal axis oblique of clamping screw of this folder of should activity installing, can be on the clamping area of connection clamping device with electric conductor or electric wire line nose secure fixation.The contact zone of this folder is towards the zone of clamping area on the folder.
The suitable especially longitudinal axis with respect to described at least one clamping element especially clamping screw at least one contact zone of described at least one clamping area that connects clamping device and described at least one movable folder of installing is with identical angle tilt.Can guarantee like this electric conductor or electric wire line nose are connected on the described clamping area especially reliably.Because the line nose of electric conductor has smooth side usually, therefore not only can be in the force closure mode, and can the line nose be fixed between described folder and the clamping area with the shape locking mode.So just can especially reliably line nose and electric wire be fixedly connected on this clamping area, thus also can make on electric conductor and this clamping area or among contact element realize best the contact.When clamping element is not in clamped position, but when being in an open position, the same tilt attitude of the contact zone of folder and clamping area can also make electric wire or electric wire line nose be inserted into easily among the space between folder and the clamping area.At described open position, described clamping element and folder leave described clamping area, insert or remove electric conductor or electric wire line nose thereby reserve the gap.
Described at least one clamping area that connects clamping device and one suit between 30 ° and 60 ° perpendicular to the angle between the plane of described at least one clamping element especially vertical axis extension of clamping screw, suit especially between 40 ° and 50 °, especially be suitably 45 °.Make the angle of inclination of clamping area between 30 ° and 60 °, just can guarantee that this connection clamping device has very little mounting structure.If between 40 ° and 50 °, especially when angle was 45 °, then this connection clamping device will just have especially little structure perpendicular to the angle between the plane of described at least one clamping element especially longitudinal axis of clamping screw for described clamping area and one.So just make that the terminal board with a plurality of wire clamps of stacked arrangement can slight misalignment be arranged up and down, thereby the outside dimension that connects clamping device can be kept minimum.
Described at least one contact-making surface of described at least one movable folder of installing that connects clamping device and one also can be between 30 ° and 60 ° perpendicular to the angle between the plane of described at least one clamping element especially longitudinal axis of clamping screw, particularly between 40 ° and 50 °, especially be suitably 45 °, so equally also help optimizing installing space.
Described clamping element can adopt various forms.According to a kind of possible embodiment, it can be designed to card wedge type formula.But described at least one clamping element of connection clamping device is a clamping screw preferably, and described at least one clamping area preferably has a screwed hole that is used for holding described clamping screw.Described clamping screw is screwed among this screwed hole, will by intermediate plate with the force closure mode with electric wire or electric wire line nose clamping on described clamping area.Can be so that clamping screw pass described folder, and pass a hole of line nose, especially can make its looping pit that passes a toroid nose, thereby electric wire or electric wire line nose are fixed on the described clamping area especially reliably.The described movable folder of installing has suitable profile, thereby can connect on electric conductor or electric wire line nose in the sealed mode of shape.The described movable folder of installing is suitable to have a recess, especially can have one and be used for hole that a part of clamping element is therefrom passed.Preferably the described movable folder of installing is designed to ring-type element or packing ring pattern.
According to a kind of particularly advantageous enforcement pattern of described connection clamping device, described connection clamping device has at least one terminal box, and is furnished with at least one clamping area on this terminal box.This terminal box surrounds and protects described clamping area, the described movable folder of installing and at least a portion of described clamping element.Described clamping area can be fixed on a certain zone of this terminal box inside.That is to say that described clamping area maintains static among this terminal box.The described movable folder of installing can be guided in this terminal box inside.The another kind of preferred pattern of implementing according to connecting clamping device connects clamping device and has at least one terminal box, built-in at least one clamping area in this terminal box.That is to say, with a certain zone of this terminal box, especially with certain built-in part of this terminal box as clamping area.Escapable cost like this is not because the clamping area that will make separately is fixed on this terminal box.
Described at least one terminal box of described connection clamping device preferably has a hole, screwed hole especially, and described at least one clamping element especially clamping screw passes from this hole.Can reach described clamping element from the outside, folder and clamping area are then surrounded by terminal box.Can described clamping element be inserted among the described terminal box by this hole, so that electric conductor or electric wire line nose are fixed on the described clamping area of described terminal box inside by folder.Preferably this hole is designed to screwed hole, thereby can uses a clamping screw as described clamping element.
Described at least one terminal box preferably has a recess, and described recess is used for holding the line nose of the described electric wire of a sealing termination.This recess especially has suitable shape, thereby can hold described line nose with the shape locking mode.This recess can be of different sizes.For example can be at the different size of each line nose, the recess of a corresponding size of configuration in described terminal box.
In addition, described at least one terminal box that connects clamping device preferably can be used to guide described at least one folder motion.That is to say, or described terminal box is suitably designed, make described folder be supported in a movable manner on the inwall of described terminal box, perhaps described terminal box has each and is used for the guide rail that supports described folder and it can be moved.
In described at least one terminal box, preferably described at least one folder of described connection clamping device is applied spring force by a spring element.So just can guarantee after opening contact point, to make the described movable folder of installing to get back among the initial position.The contact of opening described here is meant and makes clamping element and folder leave described clamping area.Make clamping element and folder leave described clamping area, just can unclamp the electric wire line nose of clamping on this clamping area.The described initial position of folder is exactly that intermediate plate and described clamping area keep that motionless position when being separated by ultimate range.In the position of this standoff distance maximum, make folder stop by described terminal box or clamping element.By clamping element is moved towards clamping area, equally also can make folder towards this clamping area motion, the mode until forming contact with force closure is fixed on electric conductor or electric wire line nose on this clamping area.Spring element suitably is arranged on the described terminal box, makes the spring force of this spring element can force folder to leave described clamping area.This spring element can be for example helical spring, compression spring, torsion spring, leaf spring or helix torsion spring.This spring element can also be made of certain metal with elastic deformation ability.
In addition, described at least one folder that connects clamping device preferably is fixedly linked by an a kind of fixture especially fixed screw and a locked spacer and described at least one clamping element especially clamping screw.Described folder is fixedly connected on the described clamping element, just can make described folder when the motion of described clamping element and its move simultaneously.That is to say, when described clamping element leaves described clamping area, can make that also described folder leaves this clamping area, thereby electric wire that will clamp or electric wire line nose unclamp, and open contact point.Described fixture can adopt various forms, and for example this fixture can have a screw element.The locking mode of can exerting oneself is fixed on folder on the described clamping element.Can adopt rivet or buckle to connect and realize fixation.Also can adopt the material locking mode, just folder is fixed on the described clamping element by bonding or welding.According to a kind of useful enforcement pattern of this fixture, this fixture can have a fixed screw and a locked spacer.Can in the front of described clamping element this fixed screw be screwed in by a hole in described folder and the described locked spacer.
It is described to implement pattern according to the another kind that connects clamping device, and described at least one folder and described at least one clamping element especially clamping screw constitute an integral body.So just can guide the folder motion especially reliably.Can also make this clamping element with plain mode.
At least two terminal box that connect clamping device are preferably placed side by side or be arranged above and below.Each terminal box all surrounds and protects a contact-making surface, the folder of a movable installation and at least a portion of a clamping element.The described movable folder of installing can be directed in some terminal boxes inside.Preferably a plurality of terminal boxes are arranged in a row, just placed side by side.If will the row's of number terminal box stacked up and down,, also can make this connection clamping device have very little size although then there are many terminal boxes.If last row's terminal box is staggeredly arranged slightly backward above next row's terminal box, and is then useful especially.Because can easily electric conductor be connected on the corresponding clamping area of each terminal box or, and needn't at first remove another wire with its dismounting.
According to a second aspect of the invention, can adopt a kind of electric equipment to solve task of the present invention with above-mentioned connection clamping device.Connection clamping device of the present invention is incorporated among this electric equipment.The terminal box that connects clamping device can form integral body with the shell of this electric equipment.Connect clamping device and can make that especially this electric equipment has very little outside dimension, even and under steric requirements ten minutes condition of limited, also can electric conductor be connected on the clamping area that connects clamping device or with its dismounting with plain mode.To connect clamping device and be incorporated among this electric equipment, can be so that the installing space of this electric equipment be very little.
Embodiment
Accompanying drawing 1 is depicted as a kind of connection clamping device 1, comprises a clamping area 10, a clamping element 20 and a folder 30.The longitudinal axis 23 of clamping area 10 and clamping element 20 is oblique at a certain angle, and clamping element described here is a clamping screw.Clamping element 20 is screwed among the screwed hole 11 on the clamping area 10.Intermediate plate 30 is inserted on the clamping element 20, just is inserted on the screw thread of described clamping screw.Therefore intermediate plate 30 has a hollow cylinder shape, and wherein the end face 31 towards the folder 30 of clamping screw head 21 is straight, then tilts towards folder 30 end faces 32 of clamping area 10.Can be used as the contact zone 34 of electric conductor or electric wire line nose towards the end face 32 of the intermediate plate spare 30 of clamping area 10.Clamping area 10 has the zone of longitudinal axis 23 obliques of at least one and clamping element 20.Adopt the mode of longitudinal axis 23 obliques of clamping area 10 and clamping element 20, can obviously save the installing space that connects clamping device 1, thereby can be, thereby make that connecting clamping device 1 has very little planform with clamping area 10 and corresponding clamping element 20 and folder 30 adjacent arrangements.Contact element 40 with two contact legs 41 is installed on clamping area 10, an electric equipment can be connected on these contact legs.By clamping element 20 and folder 30 electric conductor do not drawn among the figure especially line nose of electric wire is connected on the clamping area 10, connects among the clamping device 1 thereby electric wire is fixed on.Finish after the connection, the electric conductor especially line nose of electric wire will be close between the contact zone 34 and the clamping area 10 that tilts of inclined end face 32 of folder 30.The end face 32 of folder 30 is preferably the same with the angle of inclination of clamping area 30 big.
Accompanying drawing 2 is depicted as a kind of connection clamping device 1, has a terminal box 50, and this terminal box comprises a clamping area 10, a clamping element 20 and a folder 30.Terminal box 50 constitutes the shell that connects clamping device 1.Terminal box 50 zone above it has a screwed hole 51, can clamping element 20 be screwed among the terminal box 50 by opening or screwed hole 51, and clamping element described here is a clamping screw.Clamping element 20 side of head 21 dorsad will touch the end face 31 of folder 30 after being screwed among the screwed hole 51.To clamp spiral shell 20 and be screwed among the screwed hole 51, and will make the clamping area 10 of the movable folder of installing 30 in terminal box 50 move.Folder 30 has the end face 32 of an inclination in the side towards clamping area 10.At least a portion end face 32 constitutes contact zone 34, and this contact zone will touch the line nose of electric conductor or electric wire when clamping.End face 32 or contact zone 34 are the same with clamping area 10 with respect to the inclination angle of the longitudinal axis 23 of clamping element 20.Can between the end face 32 of folder 30 and the clamping area 10 the line nose of electric conductor or electric wire be inserted among the terminal box 50.Clamping screw 20 is screwed among the terminal box 50, and folder 30 will be pressed on the line nose of electric conductor or electric wire on the clamping area 10, thereby is fixed on this clamping area with the mode of the force closure line nose with electric conductor or electric wire.A spring element 60 is installed on the internal valve of terminal box 50, especially makes this spring element towards clamping area 10 tensionings by the motion of folder 30 by folder 30.Spring element 60 can force folder 30 to leave clamping area 10 when terminal box 50 outwards screws out clamping screw 20, thereby can remove the line nose of electric conductor or electric wire from terminal box 50.A contact element 40 is installed on clamping area 10, is used for connecting the line nose of electric conductor or electric wire.Electric current can or flow to described electric equipment by these contact element 40 outflows.
Accompanying drawing 3 is depicted as the another kind that connects clamping device 1 and implements pattern.The connection clamping device 1 here also has a terminal box 50, and this terminal box 50 comprises a clamping area 10, a clamping element 20 and a folder 30.But do not apply the spring element of spring force to folder 30.In order to guide folder 30 within terminal box 50, to move, folder 30 and clamping element 20 are linked together, the clamping element here equally also is a clamping screw.Can adopt various forms of connections.Well imagine that folder 30 can constitute an integral body with clamping element 20.In enforcement pattern as shown in the figure, folder 30 is fixed on the clamping element 20 by the mode of a fixture 70 with force closure.This fixture 70 has a fixed screw 71 and a locked spacer 72.Fixed screw 71 passes a hole 33 of folder 30, among the end face 22 of clamping element 20 is screwed into fixed screw this clamping element.So just can when clamping element 20 motions, within terminal box 50, move by guiding folder 30.Contact element 40 is fixed on the clamping area 10, in case the line nose of electric conductor or electric wire is connected on the clamping area 10, the line nose that then is inserted into lead among each terminal box 50 or lead just can produce with contact element 40 and electrically contact.
The preferred styles that connects clamping device 1 is: several this connection clamping devices 1 are placed side by side or stacked up and down.The mode that employing is tilting with clamping area 10 and folder 30 can reduce to connect the installing space of clamping device 1, thereby it is placed side by side or stacked up and down also several can be connected clamping device 1.The connection of electric conductor or electric wire line nose or dismantling operation can not be subjected to the obstruction of another root electric conductor or electric wire line nose.