Line Tap, Hook Or Clamp Patents (Class 337/193)
  • Patent number: 7046115
    Abstract: A fuse box includes a lower cover and an upper cover mounted on an intermediate case to form a box. A large-capacity fuse having an input terminal and an output terminal projecting in substantially opposite directions from one side surface of a body of the fuse is accommodated sidelong in the box within the lower cover and the upper cover to make a height of the fuse small. This makes the fuse box compact. The fuse box may be directly mounted on a battery by fixedly mounting it to an upwardly projecting batter post. An input-side bus bar to be accommodated in the box and the input terminal are fixed to each other with a screw, with one end of the input-side bus bar overlapping the input terminal. An output-side bus bar to be accommodated in the box and the output terminal are fixed to each other with a screw, with one end of the output-side bus bar overlapping the output terminal. A connection piece rigidly mounts the fuse box to the battery post.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2006
    Assignee: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, LTD
    Inventors: Eiji Higuchi, Yoshihisa Shimada
  • Patent number: 4117440
    Abstract: A circuit interrupter characterized by a stationary contact, a movable, elongated, tubular fuse in which one end of the fuse is swingably mounted about the other end in a predetermined path to open and close a circuit through the contact, and the other end of the fuse being pivotably seated between supporting conductors which are peripherally spaced around the fuse and one of which conductors is a leaf spring biased against said other end of the fuse.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 1977
    Date of Patent: September 26, 1978
    Assignee: Westinghouse Electric Corp.
    Inventors: Thomas A. Wilsdon, William P. Heim, Glenn A. Barlis