Abstract: A connector for micro channel printed circuit board comprises a dielectric discloser, numerous conducting plates, a daughter board and a mother board, wherein one or more than one mounting slots is provided for the daughter board, the mounting post corresponding to the mounting slot on the daughter board is provided in the inserting groove of the dielectric enclosure. The coordinated use of the mounting post and mounting slot makes it possible to utilize daughter boards with different geometric ratio multiple spacings, or daughter boards with different lengths and different geometric ratio multiple spacings for the same connector. The internal and external conducting plates may be clipped into each container on the dielectric enclosure, and the corresponding first and second protruding portions of both internal and external conducting plates are installed in the opposite direction with respect to each other for the purpose of guiding and positioning.

Abstract: A push-pull edge card electrical connector is adapted for receiving an edge of a printed circuit board having contact pads on opposite sides of the board adjacent the edge. The connector includes an elongated dielectric housing having a board-receiving face. An elongated slot is disposed in the board-receiving face generally along a longitudinal axis of the housing for receiving the edge of the printed circuit board. A plurality of pairs of transversely spaced terminal-receiving cavities are disposed on opposite sides of the slot defining two rows of cavities lengthwise of the housing. The pairs of transversely spaced cavities are separated by transverse walls extending generally perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the housing. A plurality of terminals are received in the transversely spaced cavities. The terminals are in pairs for engaging the contact pads on opposite sides of the printed circuit board. One terminal in each pair is disposed in a respective one of the transversely spaced cavities.

Abstract: A push-pull edge card electrical connector is adapted for receiving an edge of a printed circuit board having contacts on opposite sides of the board adjacent the edge. An elongated dielectric housing includes a board-receiving face and a board-mounting face. An elongated slot is disposed in the board-receiving face generally along a longitudinal axis of the housing for receiving the edge of the printed circuit board. A plurality of pairs of alternating transversely spaced terminal-receiving cavities define two rows of first and second cavities on opposite sides of the slot lengthwise of the housing. The pairs of transversely spaced cavities are separated by transverse walls. A plurality of retention bosses are molded integrally with the housing in alignment with said second cavities and projecting from the board-mounting face a predetermined distance. A pair of first and second shapes of terminals are received in each pair of first and second cavities, respectively.

Abstract: A push-pull edge card electrical connector is adapted for receiving an edge of a printed circuit board having contact pads on opposite sides of the board adjacent the edge. The connector includes an elongated dielectric housing having a board-receiving face. An elongated slot is disposed in the board-receiving face generally along a longitudinal axis of the housing for receiving the edge of the printed circuit board. A plurality of pairs of transversely spaced terminal-receiving cavities are disposed on opposite sides of the slot defining two rows of cavities lengthwise of the housing. The pairs of transversely spaced cavities are separated by transverse walls extending generally perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the housing. The housing includes side walls at each pair of transversely spaced terminal-receiving cavities, with the side walls being of different thicknesses along the length thereof to accommodate different shapes of terminals in each pair thereof.

Abstract: A push-pull edge card electrical connector is adapted for receiving an edge of a printed circuit board having contact pads on opposite sides of the board adjacent the edge. The connector includes an elongated dielectric housing having an elongated slot for receiving the edge of the printed circuit board. A plurality of first and second alternating terminal-receiving cavities are spaced along at least one side of the slot and separated by transverse walls extending generally perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the housing. The cavities are disposed between longitudinal side walls of the housing and a reinforcing rib extends across and joins the transverse walls of at least some of the cavities generally adjacent the slot. A first press-fit recess is located generally adjacent but spaced from one of the longitudinal sidewalls of the first cavities and a second press-fit recess is located generally adjacent but spaced from the reinforcing rib within the second cavities.

Abstract: A high frequency electrical connector including a plurality of parallel contacts, a plurality of terminals, and conductors interconnecting the contacts to the terminals in a manner such that signals flowing through proximate contacts are transmitted in opposite directions to reduce near-end crosstalk.

Abstract: A push-pull edge card electrical connector is adapted for receiving an edge of a printed circuit board having contact pads on opposite sides of the board adjacent the edge. The connector includes an elongated dielectric housing having a board-receiving face. An elongated slot is disposed in the board-receiving face generally along a longitudinal axis of the housing for receiving the edge of the printed circuit board. A plurality of pairs of transversely spaced terminal-receiving cavities are disposed on opposite sides of the slot defining two rows of cavities lengthwise of the housing. The pairs of transversely spaced cavities are separated by transverse walls extending generally perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the housing. A plurality of terminals are received in the transversely spaced cavities. The terminals are in pairs for engaging the contact pads on opposite sides of the printed circuit board. One terminal in each pair is disposed in a respective one of the transversely spaced cavities.

Abstract: A terminal device has right and left terminals adjacent one another and punched from a conductive sheet. The right and left terminals are connected to a common positioning strip and all are planar and lie in a common plane. Each of the right and left terminals have inner and outer insert posts, connected at first ends to the positioning strip, a mounting plate portion connected at a lower edge thereof to second ends of the inner and outer insert posts, and a contact member extending from an upper edge of the mounting plate portion. The contact members each have a biasing ring connecting a contact portion to the upper edge of the mounting plate portion. The biasing ring biases the contact portion into a reception channel between the right and left terminals to make electrical contact with a corresponding mating connector terminal.

Abstract: Side walls 15 are provided on a contact terminal 12 to enclose the root of a resilient contact 14, and a stopper 16 is provided to prevent excessive bending of the contact 14. The sidewalls 15 also prevent entanglement of the terminals in a parts feeder. In a connector housing 11, controlling walls 21 are formed at an exit mouth 18c of a terminal insertion chamber 18 to support a resilient contact 14 against sideways bending. The chamber has opposed internal walls 18e to retain the terminal.

Abstract: Disclosed is a card edge connector which has a pivoting latching mechanism that has a pair of parallel fingers that direct inward transverse forces on the opposed sides of the printed wiring board to secure it in the connector. The connector also includes a plate on each of the contact elements which prevents overstressing of the arcuate element of the contact. The plate also includes a longitudinal projection and an opposed longitudinal recess so that the contact elements resist axial forces.

Abstract: An electrical connector for joining individual, electrically conductive wires, to a printed circuit board. The wires may be individual solid or stranded types. A contact, provided within the connector housing, is arranged with a first end forming an area for attaching the wire and with a second end arranged usually with female contacts for connecting to a header on the printed circuit board. The wires are stripped of any insulation and mechanically attached to a contact in the connector. The wire is placed between a pressure plate and an area of the contact. A screw is rotated forcing the pressure plate and the contact area together physically squeezing the wire so that the wire is securely attached to the contact area to provide a good electrical contact. The second end of the contacts forms a female cantilevered contact arranged to mate with a header of a row of male pins soldered to the printed circuit board.

Abstract: A high performance card edge connector includes a housing with an elongated printed circuit card receiving slot in a top wall. Terminals are mounted in transverse cavities intersected by the slot. Alternate cavity portions receive a pair of signal terminals and interspersed alternate cavity portions receive single ground terminals. Each terminal includes a downwardly extending board contact portion for connection to a printed circuit board and a card contact portion in the slot for engagement with a contact pad of an inserted card. Each signal terminal pair is flanked two ground terminals on the same side of the slot and is transversely opposite a ground terminal on the opposite side of the slot. A uniform identical cavity configuration permits each cavity portion to receive either a ground terminal or a pair of signal terminals.

Abstract: A thin and small computer system that can be used generally for control of equipment or the like, includes a CPU chip, peripheral control chips, and other components mounted in the form of a bare chip, whereby a computer system having a so-called hierarchy architecture can be incorporated in an IC card-like casing. Computer system components are affixedly attached to a double-sided printed wiring board. Electronic components may be attached to the printed wiring board in a bare form and then at least partially sealed with a resin. A system may further include a second printed board which is independent from the first printed board and adhesively attached to a inner surface of the casing and connected to the first printed board by a flexible member. In addition the second circuit board may include structure which enables it to connect to an apparatus for programming an electronic component attached thereto.

Abstract: A low profile, surface mount printed circuit card connector includes a housing having a longitudinal card receiving slot therein. The housing includes first and second terminal receiving cavities which are disposed in a staggered relationship on opposite sides of the slot first and second terminals are disposed in the cavities and include solder tail portions which extend out of the cavities for connection to a circuit board. The terminals further include contact portions which extend out of their respective cavities into the housing longitudinal slot.

Abstract: A conductive component for carrying electrical signals constructed from a molded polymer substrate and a conductive coating adhered to the substrate, the coating defining a continuous electrical pathway between at least two terminals. Preferably, molded plastic such as liquid crystal polymer is formed to make circuits having conductive ink adhered thereto in order to provide inexpensive and versatile printed circuit boards for carrying electrical traces and other components and to provide printed formed contacts. The conductive solderable inks can be adhered to the substrate, for example, via screen printing, brush, spraying, dipping, masking, vacuum plating or vacuum deposition with subsequent oven drying, reflowing in a vapor phase, post curing or plating.

Abstract: An electrical connector wherein no clearance is produced between the bent terminal portion and the insertion portion, which in turn prevents the bent terminal portion from moving along the length of the electric connector. As a result, a distance .alpha. between adjacent bent terminal portions can be kept constant, thereby allowing a wiring pattern of a wiring board on which the electric connector is placed to coincide with the bent terminal portions, increasing the soldering area, and hence improving the strength of soldering against the separation of soldered parts.

Abstract: A card edge connector (10) includes an insulative housing (12) having a plurality of passageways (14) therein for receiving a corresponding number of signal contacts (16) therein, respectively. A plurality of grounding members (18) having only one half count to the signal contacts (16) wherein each grounding member (18) is arranged corresponding to the adjacent pair of signal contacts (16) and is configured to be received within the housing (12) in a parallel direction with regard to the inserted daughter board for engagement with the corresponding side by side adjacent pair of grounding circuit pads on the same side of the daughter board.

Abstract: A contact 10, which can be easily made in small sizes, has a contacting section 12 with a double curvature bend 18,20 at one end, and a termination section 16 at the other end. A main body section 14 is between the contacting section 12 and the termination section 16 which has protrusions 28a and 28b located near the contacting section 12 and on the opposite side of it. These protrusions 28a and 28b form a gap between the main body section 14 and the housing wall of a connector housing, thus increasing the springiness of the contacting section 12 as compared to other contacts of the same size.

Abstract: A socket (8) for electrically connecting a circuit card (4) to a substrate comprises a dielectric housing (10) defining a card-receiving slot (12) having a bottom surface (24) and a pair of opposite side surfaces (26, 28), and a plurality of contacts (31, 32) spaced apart along the length of the slot. The plurality of contacts include contact beams (37, 38) at least some of which extend to a greater height above the bottom surface than others of the contact beams. Each of the contact beams includes a contact section (45, 46) extending into the slot and having a card-contacting surface (47, 48) for electrically connecting with the circuit card. All of the card-contacting surfaces are at a substantially same height above the bottom surface.

Abstract: An elongated modular connector assembly (1) comprises a plurality of connector modules (10, 12) each having an insulative housing (14) and a plurality of contacts (20) therein. Every two adjacent connector modules (10,12) are connected to each other in an end-to-end relationship. An external fastening means (30) latchably aligns such every two adjacent connector modules (10,12) together in the lengthwise direction of the whole connector assembly (1) so that such connector assembly (1) can lengthwise extend itself by adding additional modules thereto to meet the requirements of increasing signal and/or power transmission.

Abstract: A high performance card edge connector includes a housing with an elongated printed circuit card receiving slot in a top wall. Terminals are mounted in transverse cavities intersected by the slot. Alternate cavity portions receive a pair of signal terminals and interspersed alternate cavity portions receive single ground terminals. Each terminal includes a downwardly extending board contact portion for connection to a printed circuit board and a card contact portion in the slot for engagement with a contact pad of an inserted card. Each signal terminal pair is flanked two ground terminals on the same side of the slot and is transversely opposite a ground terminal on the opposite side of the slot. A uniform identical cavity configuration permits each cavity portion to receive either a ground terminal or a pair of signal terminals.

Abstract: An edge board connector includes a housing and two terminal pins each of which is formed from an elongated sheet metal and each of which has a back section and a curved movable section that are integrally formed with each other end to end. Each of the back sections abuts against the inner surface of a side wall of the housing and has an intermediate portion which is split to form a mounting leg that extends out from the housing. Each of the movable sections has a positioning part abutting against the middle wall unit of the housing, and a curved acting part having an intermediate portion which is split to form an elongated and arched clamping sheet that has two ends integrally formed with the remaining portion of the acting part and that extends into the card chamber in the housing at a middle portion thereof. The curved distal end portion of each of the acting parts abuts against the inner surface of the side wall of the housing so as to position the pins in the housing.

Abstract: A circuit board electrical connector which includes a first connector (10) connectable to a first external member (Q) and a second connector (30) connectable to the first connector at one end and a second external member at the other end opposite to the one end. The first connector includes an insulation block (11) with a connection recess (12) having an opening on a front side thereof; a plurality of first contact elements (20, 21) disposed within the insulation block such that contact portions are exposed in the connection recess.

Abstract: A multi-connector assembly for use with a printed circuit board having a conductive pattern comprises a plurality of electrical connectors to be mounted on the printed circuit board in a predetermined positional relationship with one another. Each connector comprises an insulator block having a fitting member to be fitted in a mating connector, and a plurality of electrical contacts fixedly supported in the insulator block. Each contact has a contacting portion to be brought into contact with a corresponding contact of the mating connector and a terminal portion to be mechanically and electrically connected to the conductive pattern. Each of a plurality of connecting bar members is for mechanically connecting the connectors adjacent to one another in the predetermined positional relationship to thereby maintain the connectors in the predetermined positional relationship.

Abstract: A contact (20) for use with a card edge connector (10) includes a horizontal base (22) from which a pair of retention sections (24) extend at two opposite ends, a tail section (28) extends downwardly, and a contact section (30) extends upwardly. The contact section (30) includes a curved beam body (32) and a closed-type engagement portion (34) at the top of the beam body (32) wherein such engagement portion (34) is generally of a triangle configuration comprising a suspension section (42) substantially smoothly extending continuously from the top of the curved beam body (34), an engaging section (44) extending downwardly from the upper end (50) of the suspension section (42) for engagement with the inserted card (15) in the connector (10), and a holding section (46) extending between two lower ends (48, 56) of the suspension section (42) and the engaging section (44).

Abstract: An electronic module socket is provided having corresponding pairs of contacts wherein the contacts short out and are self-cleaning. A first contact having a semi-circle terminal end portion and a second contact having a J-shaped terminal end portion. The two terminal portions, upon removal of a module, slide past each other in opposite directions. The contacts having board contact points removed from the short out portions of the contacts. The contacts being fabricated in order to provide for gang loading of the contacts within the electronic module socket insulator.

Abstract: A method and structure of an electrical connector is provided for tuning the impedance of the connector according to a given impedance of an electrical circuit in which the connector is interconnected. The connector includes a dielectric housing having a receptacle for receiving a complementary electrical component. A plurality of terminals are mounted on the housing. The terminals include body portions located in the housing and contact portions for engaging respective contacts on the electrical component. The body portions include mechanically non-functional sections of a given area which effect a given capacitance. The mechanically non-functional sections are selectively trimmable to selectively vary the area thereof and thereby vary the capacitance of the terminals and, therefore, the impedance of the connector to match the given impedance of the electrical circuit. The connector includes a plurality of signal terminals and a plurality of ground terminals.

Abstract: A socket connector (1) includes an insulative housing (10) having a central slot (12) therein along its lengthwise direction for receiving a lower edge portion (101) of a daughter board (100) therein. A plurality of passageways (14, 16) are arranged staggered on two sides along the slot (12) for receiving the upper row contacts (60) and the lower row contacts (80) therein for electrical engagement with the corresponding circuit traces (108) on two sides of the daughter board (100). Two arms (20) respectively extend forwardly from two ends of the housing (10) and each arm (20) thereon forms a platform (22) for allowing the inserted daughter board (100) to sit thereon.

Abstract: A card edge connector comprising a housing, electrical contacts, and ejectors. The housing has a middle section with a card edge receiving area, two guide projections at opposite ends of the middle section, and a keeper section. The electrical contacts extend from the middle section, through the keeper, to a bottom of the housing. The housing is suitably configured to receive a daughter printed circuit board at an angle of about 30.degree. relative to a mother printed circuit board. The ejectors are adapted to lock the daughter board to the connector and, eject the daughter board from the connector.

Abstract: A card edge connector is provided with a housing and electrical contacts. The housing has a card edge receiving area, end supports located at opposite ends of the card edge receiving area, and stability outriggers. The end supports extend up from a top surface of the housing and each has a slot for receiving a portion of a printed circuit board. The outriggers extend outward from lateral sides of the housing at the bottom of the housing. The outriggers also function as standoffs for the housing.

Abstract: A thin and small computer system that can be used generally for control equipment or the like, includes a CPU chip, peripheral control chips, and other components mounted in the form of a bare chip, whereby a computer system having a so-called ISA architecture can be incorporated in an IC card-like casing. Computer system components are fixedly attached to a double-sided printed wiring board. One side of the printed wiring board includes the CPU chip, an IO subsystem chip and memories and the other side includes an image control circuit, memories and the peripheral control chips. A 236-pin connector is formed on a long side of this card-type computer, and is connected to a control bus and an IO bus of the card-type computer. The control bus and the IO bus are not located at opposed positions in the connector. A position of separating the buses from each other is off the center of the connector.

Abstract: Collector clips arranged on a circuit breaker trip unit printed circuit board allow removable connection between the trip unit circuit and the circuit within a field-installable rating plug as well as other auxiliary electrical devices. The connector clips are oriented to the rating plug and the trip unit to prevent cold flow of the solder at the junction between the ends of the connector clips and the receiving holes formed within the trip unit circuit board.

Abstract: An electrical connection system, for example a dropside patch panel, comprises a mounting rail (12) which receives first connectors (14) arranged with their contacts facing away from the rail (12). Cable introduced between the rail and the connectors is separated into individual conductors which are terminated at contacts (34, 36) via slots (30) in the rail walls. A second connector (16) carries standard data or voice sockets communications (19) which are connected to the first connector via edge contact carrying PCBs (38) which engage in slots (40) in the first connectors.

Abstract: A thin and small computer system that can be used generally for control equipment or the like, includes a CPU chip, peripheral control chips, and other components mounted in the form of a bare chip, whereby a computer system having a so-called ISA architecture can be incorporated in an IC card-like casing. A 236-pin connector is formed on a long side of this card-type computer, and is connected to a control bus and an IO bus of the card-type computer. The control bus and the IO bus are not located at opposed positions in the connector. A position of separating the buses from each other is off the center of the connector. Power lines or ground lines are provided at the separating positions in the connector, thus preventing occurrence of unnecessary electromagnetic radiation noise. RAMs are mounted on a sub-PW board, which provides flexibility for the system. A bare chip of an EEPROM is mounted on another printed wiring board, which enables electrical forming to be performed after such mounting.

Abstract: An electrical connector assembly has a socket body which is mounted on a printed board and is adapted for receiving a complementary plug with contacts. The socket body has a bottom and a pair of opposed side walls defining therebetween a cavity for receiving the plug. The socket body carries a plurality of connector contacts, each of which is bent to define an inner leg and an outer leg both extending from a bent. The inner leg extends along an inner surface of the side wall within the cavity for engagement with the contacts of the plug, while the outer leg extends downwardly from the bent along an outer surface of the side wall to define a terminal lead at its lower end. The terminal lead projects generally horizontally outwardly from the bottom of the socket body so as to be registered on a corresponding terminal site of a conductor pattern on the printed board and is welded thereto.

Abstract: A circular sensor connector has terminals to make contact between an internal printed circuit board and conducting wires. In order to obtain a cost effective and compact configuration, the plurality of identical terminals are disposed in a radial manner around the printed circuit board whereby contact arms having an arcuate contact profile, project towards the printed circuit board and make contact therewith.

Abstract: A low profile, surface-mounted receptacle includes a housing having a cavity defined at least in part by the interior surfaces of the sidewalls thereof. The interior surface of at least one sidewall has a groove, one wall of the groove being defined by an inclined portion. An electrical spring contact is received within the groove, the contact being of the curved, dual cantilever type having a first leg, a curved transition portion and a second leg. The contact being disposed to define a clearance space between itself and the inclined. The legs and curved portion responding to the introduction of a male plug by cantilever toward the inclined sidewall and undergoing a reduction in the radius of curvature, thereby displacing to an extent sufficient to exert a predetermined normal force on the plug, despite dimensional variations in the housing due to manufacture.

Abstract: A card edge connector with a housing and electrical contacts. The electrical contacts are spaced from adjacent contacts at a center-to-center pitch of 0.025 inch. The contacts each have a middle section that is interference fit in a contact receiving channel of the housing. The middle sections each have a general ring shape with a center electromagnetic reduction aperture. The ring shape forms a structural truss to retain structural rigidity of the middle section to enable the interference fit to be made and, the center electromagnetic reduction aperture reduces capacitance between the closely spaced adjacent contacts.

Abstract: A printed circuit card having first and second major surfaces joined by four minor surfaces and having I/O pads on either or both the major surfaces and on at least one of the minor surfaces.The printed circuit card can be formed from a stack of insulating layers, one or more of which has a pattern of conductive lines disposed thereon. Selected ones of these conductive lines terminate in respective I/O pads positioned on one of said major card surfaces. By providing separate additional I/O pads on one of the edges or minor surfaces of the card additional conductive lines can be placed on the cards and terminated.There is also disclosed a mating triplex connector socket for the improved card. This triplex connector comprises an elongated housing having a slot or recess therein for receiving the edge of the printed circuit card. Spring contacts are positioned along the walls and bottom of the recess for mating with and contacting the I/O pads positioned on the major and minor surfaces of the card.

Abstract: An edge connector includes a shell having two symmetrical rows of vertical slots. Each of the vertical slots is formed of an upper space and a lower space linked together to hold a metal contact spring plate and a conductor clamp. The metal contact spring plate includes a bent portion in the middle and disposed between the upper and lower spaces, a projecting strip stopped above the lower space, a curved clamping portion at one end received in the upper space for making an electric contact with an external connector, a wedge portion at an opposite end vertically received in the lower space and terminating in a sloping tail. The conductor clamp has a first bent portion and a second bent portion stopped within the lower space at two opposite locations, a rear end disposed over a front end thereof and stopped against the wedge portion of the metal contact spring plate for clamping a conductor against the metal contact spring plate.

Abstract: The purpose of this invention is to offer an edge connector which requires less space for insertion of a card and has a reduced stress in the housing due to dissipation of mechanical stress. Accordingly, the invention comprises a C-shaped connector 1 having a housing that has a reception groove 8 and guiding grooves 10, 10' for a memory card 100. In the upper walls forming the guiding grooves 10, 10' protrusions 12, 14 are formed. These protrusions match indentations 108, 110 in the memory card. The memory card 100 can be inserted into the guiding grooves 10, 10; only when the protrusions 12, 14 and indentations 108, 110 are properly aligned. After that the memory card is moved along the grooves 10, 10' toward the contacts 70, 70' arranged in the main body 4 of the housing.

Abstract: An electrical connector is disclosed. The connector is made up of first and second housings, one of which is male and the other female. The first housing contains one conductor or two or more opposed conductors. The conductor is made of an elastically deformable and resilient conducting substance. A second housing contains a substrate which carries a conductor in the form of an edge contact pad. The second housing also contains a camming surface or surfaces which interact with the conductor in the first housing. The first and second housings are brought together so that the conductor in the first housing lies opposite the contact pad in the second housing. The housings are then mated. On full mating, the conductor in the first housing is brought into contact with the contact pad in the second housing by the camming surface translates the lateral relative motion of the first and second housings into substantially transverse motion of the conductor in the first housing.

Abstract: A terminal is provided which includes includes an a non-movable L-shaped base and a swan neck contact coupled to one end of the base. The terminal also includes a split dimple formed on a base of the terminal to provide a front-to-back alignment of the terminal inside terminal-receiving cavities formed in a socket housing. The split dimple also provides the terminal with a strong retention to the plastic body of the connector housing. The terminals are particularly useful in a SIMM socket. Adjacent terminals on opposite sides of the edge card are electrically isolated or independent from each other. By incorporating electrically independent contacts into a SIMM socket, the present invention permits twice as many I/O leads in the same amount of space compared to a conventional SIMM socket and doubles the number of pads per module.

Abstract: A pair of shorting contacts (116,116) on mated electrical terminal members (110,110). The shorting contacts are edges of angled surfaces (36) on the respective electrical terminal members which are laterally reversed mirror images of each other. The respective edges confront each other in a substantially transverse configuration. Initial engagement between the respective edges is at an initial point contact (125) at a high stress. The edges thereafter wipe against one another and come to engage at a final point contact. The path from the initial point contact to the final point contact constitutes a line between the respective electrical terminal members.

Abstract: A connector assembly for use with a unitary daughter board having different contact pitch arrangements on the lower edge portion, includes two different contact pitch arrangement connectors lengthwise aligned and juxtaposed with each other for commonly receiving the lower edge portion of the daughter board. The connector of the high density contact arrangement includes an outer end wall having a recess at the top for functioning as a pivoting point of the rotative movement of the daughter board without interference thereof. A middle partition wall of the same connector has the curved surface thereof in conformity with the rotation path of the daughter board.

Abstract: The invention is directed to an electronic assembly, such as a backplane assembly of the type including a mother board, a connector housing mounted on the mother board, and a daughter board slidably insertable into the connector housing for electrical interconnection to the mother board. The assembly comprises an elongated connector housing having a pair of parallelly disposed spaced apart housing members defining at least one slot therebetween for receiving the daughter board. A force generating member is disposed within the slot, where the force generating members comprises a pair of resilient, essentially L-shaped members. One leg of each of the L-shaped members is fixedly disposed between the mother board and the housing members, while the others of the legs upstand within the slot in a spaced apart relationship to receive the daughter board therebetween, the upstanding legs including at least one pair of opposing elastomeric members to apply a compressive pressure to said daughter board.

Abstract: An electrical connector (1) comprising: an insulative housing (2), multiple pairs (3) of conductive signal contacts (4, 5) distributed along an insulative divider (7) within the housing (2) and adapted to be connected to respective pairs of signal wires (27), at least one conductive power contact (6) having a pair of contact fingers (9) on opposite sides of the divider, (7), the contact fingers (9) having a surface area sufficiently broad to radiate heat resulting from electrical power dissipation.

Abstract: A pair of shorting contacts (16,16) on mated connector bodies (10,10). The shorting contacts are protrusions on the respective connector bodies which are laterally reversed mirror images of each other. The respective protrusions confront each other in a substantially transverse configuration. Initial engagement between the respective protrusions is at an initial point contact (25) at a high stress. The protrusions thereafter wipe against one another and come to engage at a final point contact (26). The path from the initial point contact to the final point contact constitutes a line between the respective connector bodies.

Abstract: An electronic connector for electrically connecting an electronic module to a printed circuit board including a casing having crimped metal guide posts inserted into holes on the printed circuit board and a channel to receive the module to be connected, and pairs of first contacts and pairs of second contacts alternatively inserted in holes on the casing to hold down the module and electrically connect it to the printed circuit board, wherein each contact of the pairs of first contacts and the pairs of second contacts has an upper part bent outwards, and then extended downwards at a length stopped against an inside surface of the casing; a separating wall is formed between each two adjacent contacts and projects from the lowermost edge of the casing to separate the contacts.

Abstract: In a connector comprising: a terminal having an electrically contacting spring piece which is accommodated in a surrounding wall in such a manner that it is allowed to protrude through an opening formed in the surrounding wall; and a connector housing into which the terminal is inserted, the spring piece has an electrically contacting portion confronted with the opening, and an slide portion bent in such a manner that it is away from the opening, and the connector housing has a depressing protrusion for depressing the slide portion. As the terminal is inserted into the connector housing, the depressing protrusion depresses the slide portion so as to cause the electrically contacting portion to protrude outside through the opening. Thus, the electrically contacting spring piece of the terminal is protectively held in the terminal until the latter is inserted into the connector housing.