公开(公告)号：US06592399B2

公开(公告)日：2003-07-15

申请号：US09998749

申请日：2001-11-30

申请人： Darrell Robinson ,  Allen V. Pruehs

发明人： Darrell Robinson ,  Allen V. Pruehs

IPC分类号： H01R33945

CPC分类号： H01R13/113 ,  G01R11/04 ,  H01R12/55 ,  H01R31/065 ,  H01R2201/20

摘要： A support supports an auxiliary component, like a circuit board, in a non-interferingly manner with electrical contacts in a watthour meter socket adapter housing. In one aspect, access is provided through the socket adapter to an electrical component mounted on the circuit board for external control of the component through the aperture in the socket adapter. The supports also releasably receive flanges on electrical components for direct mounting of the components.

公开(公告)号：US06443761B1

公开(公告)日：2002-09-03

申请号：US09998677

申请日：2001-11-30

申请人： Darrell Robinson ,  Allen V. Pruehs

发明人： Darrell Robinson ,  Allen V. Pruehs

IPC分类号： H01R33945

CPC分类号： H01R13/113 ,  G01R11/04 ,  H01R12/55 ,  H01R31/065 ,  H01R2201/20

摘要： A support receives an auxiliary component, like a circuit board, in a non-interferingly manner with electrical contacts in a watthour meter socket adapter housing. In one aspect, the support includes legs carrying conductive elements formed on the circuit board and extending through apertures in the base of the housing for electrical connection external of the socket adapter. In another aspect, a circuit board is provided with contacts along one edge which form spring jaws for receiving a terminal. A conductive tab on the circuit board resiliently completes an electrical circuit between a contact in the housing and a circuit or electrical component on the circuit board.

摘要翻译： 支撑件以非干涉的方式接收诸如电路板的辅助部件与电度表插座适配器壳体中的电触头。 在一个方面，支撑件包括承载导电元件的腿，该导电元件形成在电路板上并且延伸穿过壳体的底部中的孔，用于在插座适配器的外部进行电连接。 在另一方面，电路板沿着一个边缘设有触点，形成用于接收端子的弹簧爪。 电路板上的导电突片弹性地完成壳体中的触点与电路板上的电路或电气部件之间的电路。

公开(公告)号：US06975504B2

公开(公告)日：2005-12-13

申请号：US10113768

申请日：2002-04-01

申请人： Darrell Robinson ,  Allen V. Pruehs

发明人： Darrell Robinson ,  Allen V. Pruehs

IPC分类号： G01R11/04 ,  G01R11/24 ,  G01R22/00 ,  H02B1/00

CPC分类号： G01R11/04 ,  G01R11/24 ,  G01R22/00

摘要： A safety replacement window for an overall watthour meter enclosure includes a window covering a window aperture of a cover of the enclosure. Mounting clips integrally carried on the cover snap into and fix the window in the cover aperture. In another aspect, the cover is formed of a one-piece molded member having at least a transparent portion overlaying a watthour meter mounted on a plate to which the cover is mounted.

摘要翻译： 用于整体电度表外壳的安全更换窗口包括覆盖外壳盖的窗口的窗口。 整体承载在盖上的安装夹卡入窗口并将其固定在盖孔中。 在另一方面，盖由一体成型件形成，该成型件至少具有覆盖安装在安装盖的板上的瓦特计的透明部分。

公开(公告)号：US06663422B1

公开(公告)日：2003-12-16

申请号：US10047722

申请日：2002-01-14

申请人： Darrell Robinson ,  Allen V. Pruehs

发明人： Darrell Robinson ,  Allen V. Pruehs

IPC分类号： H01R33945

CPC分类号： H01R33/945 ,  H01R13/112

摘要： A coupler for use in a watthour meter socket adapter mechanically connects a jaw contact and a blade terminal. External conductors are separately attachable to the jaw contact and the blade terminal in one aspect. In another aspect, the coupler is an electrical fuse fixed between the jaw contact and the blade terminal. In another aspect, the coupler isolates the jaw contact from the blade terminal.

摘要翻译： 用于电度表插座适配器的耦合器将钳口触点和刀片端子机械连接。 在一个方面，外部导体分别附接到钳口触点和刀片端子。 另一方面，耦合器是固定在钳口接触件和刀片端子之间的电熔丝。 另一方面，耦合器将钳口接触件与刀片端子隔离。

公开(公告)号：US06478589B2

公开(公告)日：2002-11-12

申请号：US09773064

申请日：2001-01-31

申请人： Darrell Robinson ,  Allen V. Pruehs

发明人： Darrell Robinson ,  Allen V. Pruehs

IPC分类号： H01R1344

CPC分类号： H01R13/44 ,  H01R13/6397 ,  H01R13/703

摘要： A safety shield for an electrical service apparatus is in the form of an enclosure surrounding in the apparatus jaw contacts. Latch members formed on the shield releasibly engage apertures in the apparatus housing to mount the shield in the housing. The latch members are configured to fill the apertures in the housing to prevent disengagement of the shield from the housing during removal of a watthour meter from the housing. In one aspect, the shield is provided with wire wrap members for winding up lengths of excess cables and conductors extending from a watthour meter. The wire wrap members include a pair of arms arranged about the periphery of the shield or spaced flanges on opposite sides of the shield. The wire wrap members also include a flange having an end extending over an aperture in the shield which acts as a strain relief for a conductor extending through the shield. In another aspect, a light transmissive guide carried on the shield transmits light generated by a light generating source within the housing to a visible location externally of the housing.

公开(公告)号：US06325666B1

公开(公告)日：2001-12-04

申请号：US09291885

申请日：1999-04-14

申请人： Darrell Robinson ,  Allen V. Pruehs ,  Karl R. Loehr

发明人： Darrell Robinson ,  Allen V. Pruehs ,  Karl R. Loehr

IPC分类号： H01R33945

CPC分类号： H01R33/97

摘要： A safety shield for a watthour meter socket adapter in the form of an enclosure surrounding the jaw blades of the socket adapter. Latch means are formed on the housing and the enclosure for releasibly mounting the enclosure in the housing in a snap-in connection. A plurality of legs project from the enclosure and are releasibly engagable through apertures in the housing. Alternately, spring fingers extend inward from surge ground conductors to engage recesses in the safety shield to fixedly mount the safety shield in the socket adapter. A coupler receives a separate jaw contact and a separate blade terminal in a unitary construction while isolating the jaw contact from the blade terminal.

摘要翻译： 用于围绕插座适配器的颚板的外壳形式的电度表插座适配器的安全屏蔽。 闩锁装置形成在壳体和外壳上，用于以卡扣连接将壳体可释放地安装在壳体中。 多个腿从外壳突出并且通过壳体中的孔可释放地接合。 或者，弹簧指从电涌接地导体向内延伸以接合安全屏蔽中的凹槽，以将安全屏蔽固定地安装在插座适配器中。 耦合器在将钳口接触件与刀片端子隔离的同时，以单一构造接收单独的夹爪接触件和单独的刀片端子。

公开(公告)号：US6059605A

公开(公告)日：2000-05-09

申请号：US182167

申请日：1998-10-29

申请人： Darrell Robinson ,  Allen V. Pruehs ,  Karl R. Loehr

发明人： Darrell Robinson ,  Allen V. Pruehs ,  Karl R. Loehr

IPC分类号： G01R11/04 ,  H01R4/36 ,  H01R9/24 ,  H01R33/945

CPC分类号： H01R9/2491 ,  G01R11/04 ,  H01R4/36

摘要： A watthour meter socket adapter has front and rear housings which encompassingly surround jaw contacts, electrical conductors and terminals. Apertures in the front housing allow insertion of a meter blade terminal into the jaw contacts. The jaw contacts include a spring clip having a recess sized for slidably receiving one side of a conductor to dispose the conductor for direct contact with a meter blade terminal. At least two conductors overlay each other and are separated by an insulating pad. The terminals include a collar having a recess for partially receiving one side of a circular conductor or in the case of a rectangular bus bar conductor, a bore is offset to one side edge of the terminal collar for receiving a lower portion of the bus bar. The upper portion of the end of the conductor is folded over to form a flange overlaying a bottom portion of a first bore in the terminal collar and engages an external conductor. A surge ground frame includes a unitary terminal portion overlaying a terminal portion of the housing. A communication connector is mounted in the sidewall of the housing for external communications to the adapter. A lockable cover is provided for the communications connector.

摘要翻译： 电度表插座适配器具有包围颚接触件，电导体和端子的前后外壳。 前壳体中的孔径允许将仪表刀片端子插入到钳口触点中。 夹爪触点包括弹簧夹，其具有凹部的尺寸，所述凹部的尺寸适于可滑动地容纳导体的一侧，以设置用于与仪表刀片端子直接接触的导体。 至少两个导体彼此重叠并由绝缘垫隔开。 端子包括具有用于部分地容纳圆形导体的一侧的凹部的套环，或者在矩形汇流条导体的情况下，孔被偏移到用于接纳母线的下部的端子套环的一个侧边缘。 导体端部的上部被折叠以形成覆盖在端子套环中的第一孔的底部的凸缘并与外部导体接合。 浪涌接地框架包括覆盖壳体的端子部分的整体端子部分。 通信连接器安装在壳体的侧壁中，用于与适配器的外部通信。 为通信连接器提供可锁定盖。

公开(公告)号：US06488535B1

公开(公告)日：2002-12-03

申请号：US10047695

申请日：2002-01-15

申请人： Darrell Robinson ,  Allen V. Pruehs

发明人： Darrell Robinson ,  Allen V. Pruehs

IPC分类号： H01R33945

CPC分类号： G01R11/04 ,  H01R33/94

摘要： A meter socket mountable in an enclosure and receiving blade terminals of a watthour meter in electrical contact with jaws mounted in the meter socket has an open end with wire guides to allow electrical conductors connected at one end to each of the jaws in the meter socket to exit the housing of the meter socket for connection to a remotely located meter test switch. Each of the conductors may be uniquely color coded for easy connection to the appropriate meter test switch terminal. In one aspect, the meter socket includes front and rear plates which define an internal cavity for receiving the jaw contacts and the conductors. In this aspect, the wire guides are formed on one end of one of the plates for receiving an intermediate portion of at least one conductor therethrough.

摘要翻译： 安装在外壳中的仪表插座和接收与安装在仪表插座中的钳口电接触的电度表的刀片端子具有开口端，其具有导线引导件，以允许在一端连接到仪表插座中的每个钳口的电导体 退出仪表插座的外壳，以连接到位于远程的仪表测试开关。 每个导体可以是唯一的颜色编码，以便于连接到适当的仪表测试开关端子。 在一个方面，仪表插座包括前板和后板，其限定用于接收钳口触点和导体的内腔。 在这方面，导线器形成在一个板的一端上，用于接收穿过其中的至少一个导体的中间部分。

公开(公告)号：US6152764A

公开(公告)日：2000-11-28

申请号：US148253

申请日：1998-09-04

申请人： Darrell Robinson ,  Allen V. Pruehs ,  Karl R. Loehr

发明人： Darrell Robinson ,  Allen V. Pruehs ,  Karl R. Loehr

IPC分类号： G01R11/04 ,  H01R4/36 ,  H01R9/24 ,  H01R33/945

CPC分类号： G01R11/04 ,  H01R9/2491 ,  H01R4/36

摘要： A watthour meter socket adapter has a housing formed of a base and unitary annular sidewall projecting from the base. Jaw blades are mounted in apertures in the base. In one embodiment, a spring clip is movably disposable in an aperture formed in each jaw blade to define a meter blade terminal receiving slot therebetween. In another embodiment, the spring clip is fixed to the jaw blade by a single mechanical fastener. Complimentary locator members are formed on the jaw portion and the spring clip for non-movably locating the spring clip relative to the jaw blade. A tab projects from the jaw blade for non-movably fixing the jaw blade relative to the base of the socket adapter. Flanges formed on the base fixedly engage the tab. The jaw blade may be formed of a single unitary jaw contact and blade terminal or a discrete jaw member and blade member. U-shaped support members are formed on the base for engaging opposite side edges of the blade members for non-movably fixing the blade terminal relative to the base. Projections are disposed in the base aperture and engagable with the blade members for non-movably supporting the blade member relative to the base. A unitary jaw blade and spring clip is formed of first and second arms unitarily projecting from opposite sides of the jaw portion and having outer end spaced from the jaw portion to define a blade terminal receiving slot with the jaw blade.

摘要翻译： 电度表插座适配器具有由基部突出的基部和整体环形侧壁形成的壳体。 颚刀安装在基座上的孔中。 在一个实施例中，弹簧夹可移动地一次性地形成在每个钳口刀片中形成的孔中，以在它们之间限定一个仪表刀片端子接收槽。 在另一个实施例中，弹簧夹通过单个机械紧固件固定到钳口叶片。 免费定位器构件形成在钳口部分和弹簧夹上，用于相对于钳口刀片不可移动地定位弹簧夹。 翼片从颚板突出，用于不可移动地相对于插座适配器的底座固定钳口叶片。 形成在基座上的法兰固定地接合突片。 钳口刀片可以由单一的单一钳口接触件和刀片端子或分立的钳口构件和刀片构件形成。 U形支撑构件形成在基座上，用于接合刀片构件的相对侧边缘，用于不可移动地固定刀片端子相对于基座。 突出部设置在基座孔中并与叶片构件接合，用于相对于基座不可移动地支撑叶片构件。 单个钳口刀片和弹簧夹由第一和第二臂形成，第一和第二臂从钳口部分的相对侧一体地突出并且具有与钳口部分间隔开的外端，以限定具有钳口刀片的刀片端子容纳槽。

公开(公告)号：US5853300A

公开(公告)日：1998-12-29

申请号：US656774

申请日：1996-06-03

申请人： Darrell Robinson ,  Robert O. Learmont ,  Karl R. Loehr ,  Allen V. Pruehs ,  Keith C. Dropiewski

发明人： Darrell Robinson ,  Robert O. Learmont ,  Karl R. Loehr ,  Allen V. Pruehs ,  Keith C. Dropiewski

IPC分类号： G01R11/04 ,  H01R4/36 ,  H01R13/11 ,  H01R13/115 ,  H01R13/15 ,  H01R13/44 ,  H01R33/94 ,  H01R33/965 ,  H02B1/03 ,  H02B1/00

CPC分类号： H01R13/113 ,  G01R11/04 ,  H01R13/15 ,  H01R13/44 ,  H01R33/94 ,  H01R4/36 ,  H02B1/03 ,  H01R33/965 ,  Y10S439/907

摘要： A watthour meter socket adapter 310 includes a plurality of current jaw contacts 290 and potential jaw contacts 10 mounted between front and rear housings 314, 312, with each jaw contact 290, 10 surrounding by a receptacle 422, 70 in the front housing 314. An aperture in each receptacle 422, 70 allows insertion of a meter blade terminal into the jaw contact. An electrical conductor extends from each jaw contact 290, 10 to an individual terminal 102 mounted in a terminal portion of the front and rear housings 314, 312. Apertures in the front housing 314 allow insertion of a tool into engagement with a fastener 112 carried on each terminal 290, 10 for fixedly joining a terminal clip 116 mounted a conductor 132 extending from the jaw contacts to an external conductor 138 inserted through openings in the bottom of the front and rear housings. The potential jaw contacts 10 are in the form of three linearly spaced fingers 12, 14, 20, with two of the fingers 12, 14 being spaced apart by an intermediate third finger 20, and projecting to one side of the jaw contact, opposite from the outer end of the intermediate, third finger to define a slot for receiving a potential meter blade terminal. A flange 30 and a tab 42 are formed on each potential jaw contact 10 for attaching a plurality of external conductors 44, 41 to each potential jaw contact 10. Another set of apertures formed in the front housing 314 allow access of at least a pair of electrically connected shorting pins 164 coupled to two terminal clips 116 and aligned with the apertures to electrically connect a pair of electrical conductors, jaw contacts and terminals in the housing.

摘要翻译： 电度表插座适配器310包括多个电流钳口触点290和安装在前壳体314和后壳体312之间的潜在钳口触点10，每个钳口触头290,10围绕前壳体314中的容座422,70围绕。 每个容器422,70中的孔径允许将仪表刀片端子插入到钳口接触件中。 电导体从每个夹爪接触件290,10延伸到安装在前壳体314和后壳体312的端子部分中的单个端子102.前壳体314中的孔允许工具插入与携带的紧固件112接合 每个端子290,10用于固定地连接端子夹116，端子夹116安装有从钳口接触件延伸的导体132，其插入穿过前壳体和后壳体的底部中的开口的外部导体138。 潜在的钳口触点10是三个线性间隔开的指状物12,14,20的形式，其中两个指状物12,14由中间第三指状物20间隔开，并且突出到钳口接触件的一侧 中间的外端，第三指，以限定用于接收电位计刀片终端的槽。 在每个潜在的钳口接触件10上形成凸缘30和接头42，用于将多个外部导体44,41连接到每个潜在的钳口接触件10.形成在前壳体314中的另一组孔允许至少一对 电连接的短路销164耦合到两个端子夹116并与孔对准，以电连接壳体中的一对电导体，钳口触点和端子。