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(11) EP 0 492 038 A3

(12) EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION

(88) Date of publication A3:
26.08.1992 Bulletin 1992/35

(43) Date of publication A2:
01.07.1992 Bulletin 1992/27

(21) Application number: 91108273.3

(22) Date of filing: 22.05.1991
(51) International Patent Classification (IPC)5: H01H 50/14, H01H 1/58, H01H 50/02
(84) Designated Contracting States:
DE FR GB

(30) Priority: 20.12.1990 JP 404221/90

(71) Applicant: MITSUBISHI DENKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Tokyo 100 (JP)

(72) Inventors:
  • Sako, Yuji, c/o Mitsubishi Denki K.K.
    Higashi-ku, Nagoya-shi, Aichi 461 (JP)
  • Ohtsuka, Shigeharu, c/o Mitsubishi Denki K.K.
    Higashi-ku, Nagoya-shi, Aichi 461 (JP)

(74) Representative: KUHNEN, WACKER & PARTNER 
Alois-Steinecker-Strasse 22
85354 Freising
85354 Freising (DE)


(56) References cited: : 
   
       


    (54) Electromagnetic contactor


    (57) In an electromagnetic contactor, an electromagnet having an exciting coil, a contact apparatus driven for switching by the electromagnet, a fixed terminal board having fixed contacts of the contact apparatus at one end and having a terminal screw engaging portion at other end, and a coil terminal board having a lead wire of the exciting coil connected to one end and having a terminal screw engaging portion at other end are incorporated in a case. The fixed terminal board and the coil terminal board are arranged at the terminal screw engaging side horizontally on the upper surface of the case, and plate springs are installed on the upper surface of the fixed terminal board and the coil terminal board. Or at least one of the fixed terminal board and the coil terminal board is of floating structure so that the terminal height is moved upwards and downwards to other terminal height.






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