What is Type B Power Plug and Socket (Sortie)?

Type B plug has two flat parallel pins and a round grounding (earth) broche. Earth pin is longer than the other two so that the device is grounded before the power is connected.

What is Type B Power Plug and Socket (Outlet)

What is a Type B plug?

This class I plug is designated as American standard NEMA 5-15. Type B electrical plug has two flat 1.5 lames d'épaisseur mm, spaced 12.7 mm de distance, mesure 15.9 – 18.3 mm de longueur et 6.3 mm de largeur. It also has a 4.8 mm diameter round or U-shaped earth pin, which is 3.2 mm longer than the two flat blades, so the device is grounded before the power is connected. The center-to-center distance between the grounding pin and the middle of the imaginary line connecting the two power blades is 11.9 Applications de câbles de queue de cochon de prise d'alimentation mâle DC. Type B plug is rated at 15 amplis.

Type B plug drawing

In some parts of Central and South America, grounded type B outlets are still rather uncommon. Therefore people often simply cut off the earth pin of a type B plug in order to mate it with a two-pole ungrounded socket.

Type B plug features

Type A and B plugs are not insulated (c'est à dire., the pin shanks are not sleeved; they do not have a black covering towards the plug body like taper C, g, je, L, ou N prises), and the outlets are not recessed into the wall, which means that if a plug is pulled halfway out, ses broches sont toujours connectées à la prise. Type A and B sockets are notoriously dangerous since the distance between the receptacle and a partially pulled-out plug is big enough to touch the pins with your fingers or with a metal object such as a teaspoon.

Type B plug features

Can Type A plug fit into Type B socket?

Type A plug are still very common because they are compatible with type B sockets. Early designs could be inserted either way, but some modern plugs make the neutral blade wider than the live blade; so that a polarized plug can be inserted only one way.

What countries use Type B plug?

Countries using type B electric plug:

Samoa américaines

Anguilla

Antigua and Barbuda

Aruba

Bahamas

Belize

Bermuda

British Virgin Islands

Canada

Cayman Islands

Colombia

Costa Rica

Cuba

Ecuador

Le sauveur

Guam

Guatemala

Guyana

Haiti

Honduras

Jamaica

Japon

Lao Peoples Democratic Republic

Lebanon

Mexico

Micronesia, Federated States of

Montserrat

Antilles néerlandaises

Nicaragua

Palau

Panama

Philippines

Puerto Rico

Republic of Niger

Saint Kitts and Nevis

Taïwan

Trinidad and Tobago

Turks and Caicos Islands

United States

United States Virgin Islands

Venezuela

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