摘要 |
HOLDER FOR A REMOVABLE CIRCUIT ELEMENT AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURE A holder and method of forming a holder for a removable circuit element is disclosed. The holder comprises an insulated base, an electrical bus member, and a plurality of terminal members which are formed from the same blank of metal as the metal bus member and which, preferably, were separated from each other after that blank was mounted on the insulated base. The bus member comprises a plurality of branches joined to a common trunk with each branch having at its free end a circuit element terminal. Each terminal member has at one end an electrical terminal and, at an opposite end, a circuit element terminal which is aligned to the free end of a lateral branch. In one embodiment of the invention, the holder includes an insulated cover which is carried by the base and which has a plurality of apertures which aligned to the terminals of each branch so as to receive the ends of a removable plug-in circuit element therein. |