Shielding assembly for a terminal strip connected to an electrical device located inside a chassis

Claim 1

A shielding assembly and a terminal strip connected to an electrical device located inside a chassis, the terminal strip including an elongated insulating body 23A, 23B having a coupling face 29 designed to receive a plurality of complementary shielded connectors 18, the elongated insulating body being provided with contact elements of a first type 28, connected to the circuits of the electrical device and designed to be connected to contact elements of a second type 36 of each of said complementary shielded connectors, said shielding assembly being characterized by the insulating body being positioned inside the chassis so that its contact elements 28 pass through an opening 33 in one metal housing panel 12 of said chassis, said shielding assembly comprising: two metal walls 41, 42, of a shield unit covering two faces 34, 35 in the insulating body, said metal walls adjacent to said coupling face 29, said metal walls extending from the interior to the exterior of said chassis through opening 33 so that their outer external edges 47, 49, are parallel to said housing panel 12, and extend beyond ends of the contact elements 28 of said insulating body; and a plurality of metal partitions 43 located between walls 41, 42 and perpendicular thereto and to said coupling face 29, said partitions each extending from said face 29 as far as said outer external edges 47, 49 of said walls, forming with these walls, a plurality of receiving recesses 50 for complementary shielded connectors, each recess being so dimensioned that the walls and partitions delimiting it come in contact with the shielding of the complementary connector inserted into this recess, said shielding assembly being connected electrically to housing panel 12 through a conducting element 55 that does not enter the interior of the chassis.