(19)
(11) EP 0 265 122 A3

(12) EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION

(88) Date of publication A3:
18.10.1989 Bulletin 1989/42

(43) Date of publication A2:
27.04.1988 Bulletin 1988/17

(21) Application number: 87308903.1

(22) Date of filing: 02.10.1987
(51) International Patent Classification (IPC)4: H05K 5/00, H01R 9/09, H01R 9/00, H05K 7/14
(84) Designated Contracting States:
BE CH FR GB IT LI SE

(30) Priority: 03.10.1986 US 914855

(71) Applicant: WESTINGHOUSE ELECTRIC CORPORATION
Pittsburgh Pennsylvania 15222 (US)

(72) Inventors:
  • Cather, Robert Lee
    Turtle Creek, PA 15145 (US)
  • Sutherland, James Franklin
    Pittsburgh, PA 15239 (US)

(74) Representative: van Berlyn, Ronald Gilbert 
23, Centre Heights
London NW3 6JG
London NW3 6JG (GB)


(56) References cited: : 
   
       


    (54) Terminal module


    (57) A terminal module provides for attaching compon­ents to electrical terminals of a termination frame. The terminal module utilizes an integral printed circuit board having a component assembly potted within a rectangular plastic shell with the remaining portion of the printed circuit board protruding from the shell for use as elec­trical terminals and for physical attachment to screw terminal strips of the termination frame. The modules are of a predetermined geometric configuration, and the potted component assembly portion is contoured to fit between respective ones of stacked terminal strips.










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