Contact and Busbar Assembly for Electronics Housing Arrays
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing contact and busbar assemblies are complex and costly to manufacture, requiring multiple bus plugs for each electronics housing, which increases production costs and mounting complexity.
Innovation Solution
A contact and busbar assembly with flexible or rigid power rail strips that connect adjacent electronics housings, allowing for longer power rail strips to bridge multiple housings and reduce the need for bus plugs, thereby simplifying the design and reducing costs.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If multiple bus plugs are used for each electronics housing to ensure reliable electrical connections, then connection reliability is improved, but device complexity and manufacturing cost increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple bus plugs into a single integrated contact assembly that serves multiple electronics housings simultaneously. This merging reduces the total number of separate components while maintaining reliable electrical connections across all housings, thereby resolving the contradiction between connection reliability and assembly complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The contact assembly is designed as a universal component that can connect to multiple electronics housings through a single unit. This multi-functional design allows one contact assembly to perform the function of what would traditionally require multiple separate bus plugs, reducing complexity while preserving connection reliability.
2Reliability
If multiple bus plugs are installed in each electronics housing to ensure complete electrical connectivity, then electrical connectivity is improved, but manufacturing cost increases
Solution Approach 1:
By merging multiple bus plug functions into a single contact assembly, the patent reduces the total component count and assembly steps required during manufacturing. This consolidation lowers manufacturing costs while maintaining complete electrical connectivity across all electronics housings.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent eliminates the need for individual bus plugs in each housing by recovering their function through a shared contact assembly. This discarding of redundant components directly reduces manufacturing costs while preserving electrical connectivity through the optimized shared connection system.
3Adaptability or versatility
If bus plugs are installed in every electronics housing to provide tap connections for all bus lines, then adaptability is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The contact assembly is designed as a universal solution that provides adaptability for connecting to multiple electronics housings and supporting various bus line configurations through a single standardized component, thereby maintaining versatility while reducing mounting complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The contact assembly enables flexible and adaptable connections across multiple housings through its design that can accommodate different configuration needs without requiring individual bus plugs in each housing, thus providing versatility with reduced complexity.
Data Source
AI summary
A contact and busbar assembly forms a bus system on electronics housings arranged in an array direction. Each housing includes a circuit board. The contact and busbar assembly includes multiple bus plugs having first connecting contacts for electrically contacting the circuit boards and second connecting contacts in the form of socket contacts for electrically contacting power rail strips. A plurality of power rail strips electrically connects the second connecting contacts of adjacent electronics housings. A first power rail strip electrically connects the bus plugs of two directly adjacent electronics housings and a second power rail strip of greater length electrically connects two spaced electronics housings. An electronics housing assembly is provided having multiple electronics housings arranged against one another in the array direction and a contact and busbar assembly as set forth above. A method for removing or replacing an electronics housing arranged between two adjacent electronics housings of such an electronics housing assembly is also provided.