Abstract: A circuit board connector for high density line connections for facilitating soldering of connector pins to electrodes on a circuit board. Provided is a connector wherein a first recessed portion and a second projecting portion of a first housing unit engage a first projecting portion and a second recessed portion of a second housing unit, so that the arms of connector pins that extend along the side walls of the recessed portions are electrically connected to the arms of connector pins extending along the corresponding projecting portions, and wherein a height H1 to the top surface of the first recessed portion is shorter than a height H2 to the top surface of the second projecting portion, and a height H3 to the top surface of the first projecting portion, engaging the first recessed portion, is greater than a height H4 to the top surface of the second recessed portion, engaging the second projecting portion.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
October 13, 1998
Date of Patent:
April 4, 2000
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation
Abstract: Connector (10) for termination to a multiconductor cable (12) remote from an end thereof and including a housing (20) and a cover (22) securable to each other around the cable, defining a channel (32) therethrough. Housing (20) contains a plurality of contacts (60) with first contact sections (66) in slots (62) that open onto the assembly face adjacent the cable jacket to penetrate the cable insulation and establish electrical connections with the cable's conductors (16). A pair of gaskets (100,102) are mounted to the housing and cover (20,22) and seated within grooves (104,106) thereof, with cable-engaging portions (132) extending outwardly of the grooves to be engaged by and compressed by the cable (12) during application of the connector to the cable, being compressed into the grooves (104,106), surrounding and sealing the sites where the contacts will penetrate the cable insulation during termination.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
October 13, 1998
Date of Patent:
March 21, 2000
Assignee:
The Whitaker Corporation
Inventors:
Robert Neil Whiteman, Jr., Earl William McCleerey, Jeffrey Byron McClinton
Abstract: In the connector device for IC card according to the present invention, when an IC card as inserted into the connector device is to be ejected, a push rod is projected up to a first projecting position and is pushed in this state, whereby the IC card is ejected through a single transfer pin. In the event the push rod should be projected by mistake despite the ejection of the IC card being not required, the push rod is pulled from the first projecting position up to a second projecting position which is further projecting to this side from the first projecting position, and is then pushed toward a push-in position. Since by turning a single transfer pin the ejecting operation for the IC card is cancelled and the IC card is maintained in its inserted state, the usual ejecting motion requiring frequent operations becomes simple and easy in comparison with the prior art.
Abstract: In the connector device for IC card according to the present invention, when an IC card as inserted into the connector device is to be ejected, a push rod is projected up to a projecting position and is pushed in this state, whereby the IC card is ejected through a single transfer pin. In the event the push rod should be projected by mistake despite the ejection of the IC card being not required, a knob is turned at the projecting position, causing the transfer pin to shift from a first heart cam groove to a second heart cam groove, and in this state the push rod is pushed toward a push-in position. Since by turning a single transfer pin the IC card ejecting motion is cancelled and the IC card is maintained in its inserted state, the usual ejecting motion requiring frequent operations becomes simple and easy in comparison with the prior art.