US Patent 7704106 Electrical terminal and spring-force terminal connection therefor

The invention describes a spring-force terminal connection (2) for electrical conductors with a busbar section (5) and a bent leaf spring (3), which has a bearing limb (7), which is supported on the busbar section (5), a spring bend section (11), which adjoins the bearing limb (7), and a clamping limb (8), which adjoins the spring bend section (11), for fixedly clamping a conductor to the busbar section (5). Those parts (12a, 12b) of the leaf spring (3) which merge with the bearing limb (7) and the clamping limb (8) run in the spring bend section (11) at least partially parallel to one another and bear against one another.