Patents Assigned to Elfab Corp.
  • Method of making a modular connector
    Patent number: 4586254
    Abstract: A modular printed circuit card edge connector or a cable connector plug is made in several parts including the connector body, a bottom plate, two separate end caps and a plurality of connector terminals. The body of the connector can be cut to any length and assembled with the other parts to provide a card edge connector or cable connector of a desired length. In a second embodiment of the invention, a press fit connector is made up of the modular parts. The base plate is not used and the body of the connector is used to press fit the terminals into a circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 1985
    Date of Patent: May 6, 1986
    Assignee: Elfab Corp.
    Inventors: J. Preston Ammon, Jerry A. Kendall, John D. Martens
  • Multi-row press fit connector for use with bus bars
    Patent number: 4585285
    Abstract: A multiple row press fit connector is configured so that a bus bar may extend under either end thereof to supply power to a plurality of the connector terminals in the connector. The connector may also be configured to provide for early connect for some of the connector terminals. The connector may be either male or female type and the connector terminals may be positioned in the connector in line across or offset across the connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 1984
    Date of Patent: April 29, 1986
    Assignee: Elfab Corp.
    Inventor: John D. Martens
  • Connector with enlarged power contact
    Patent number: 4582386
    Abstract: A connector with one or more rows of contacts has enlarged contacts on each end of the connector to handle large currents. The enlarged contacts or power contacts maybe be either male or female type contacts whereas the male contact has two compliant press fit ends for press fitting into a circuit board and the female type contact is a two piece contact and has a tab end that is connected to the edge of a printed circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 1984
    Date of Patent: April 15, 1986
    Assignee: Elfab Corp.
    Inventor: John D. Martens
  • Printed circuit board finger connector
    Patent number: 4572604
    Abstract: An electrical connector for the terminating edge of a printed circuit board to form the portion of the printed circuit board adapted to engage bowed portions of contact fingers in a conventional card edge connector. The finger connector insulator includes a slotted head section for receiving the board edge and a blade section for engaging a conventional card edge connector. Each side of the insulator contains a plurality of spaced contact receiving sleeves formed by parallel, transversely extending recesses which face outwardly on the blade and inwardly from each wall of the slotted head and which are connected by coaxial apertures formed in the head section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 1984
    Date of Patent: February 25, 1986
    Assignee: Elfab Corp.
    Inventors: J. Preston Ammon, Harry R. Weaver, Evan J. Evans