US Patent Issued to PHOENIX CONTACT on March 4 for "Bus bar adapter connecting at least one plug-in module to the bus bar" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,244,110, issued on March 4, was assigned to PHOENIX CONTACT GMBH & Co. KG (Blomberg, Germany).

"Bus bar adapter connecting at least one plug-in module to the bus bar" was invented by Roland Tombers (Paderborn, Germany) and Heinrich Kaeuper (Paderborn, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A current bar adapter for electrically connecting at least one plug-in module to at least one current bar and/or contact bar of an insert part which is inserted into a mounting rail, a number of current bars and/or contact bars that extend in a longitudinal direction of the mounting rail being arranged in the insert part, the current bar adapter includ...