Patent attributes
A forcibly guided relay is disclosed, with a housing, whose height is smaller than its width and whose width is smaller than its length. With this, the relay comprises an electromagnetic drive filling the length or the width of the relay, with a clapper-type contactor which comprises a drive arm which extends in the direction of the core and at its free end cooperates with a drive cam; several contact pairs, which are in each case formed by a contact spring and a fixed or spring-like counter-contact said contact springs extending in the direction of the core, and with the drive ends being in a forcibly guided engagement with the drive cam. With this relay a break contact is arranged directly next to the contactor, whose contact spring in each position of the contactor runs approximately parallel to the drive arm of the clapper-type contactor; and a separating wall is present between the clapper-type contactor and the break-contact, at least in the region between the contact heads of the break-contact, and the drive cam, runs approximately parallel to the drive arm of the clapper-type contactor in the activated position spread away from the coil.
