Abstract: A printed circuit board provided with an attachment which surrounds surface contacts of the printed circuit board that are to be contacted by a printed circuit board connector that covers the portion of the printed circuit board and edges of the printed circuit board around the surface contacts and includes recesses corresponding to the surface contacts assuring proper connection with contacts of a printed circuit board connector.

Abstract: A printed circuit board (1) provided with an attachement (3) which surrounds surface contacts (11) of the printed circuit board (1) that are to be contacted by a printed circuit board connector that covers the portion of the printed circuit board (1) and edges of the printed circuit board (1) around the surface contacts (11) and includes recesses (31) corresponding to the surface contacts (11) assuring proper connection with contacts (21) of a printed circuit board connector.

Abstract: A printed circuit board and a printed circuit board zero force connector are configured such that the printed circuit board zero force connector is properly actuated automatically by an attachment provided on the printed circuit board when the printed circuit board is plugged into and removed from the printed circuit board zero force connector.

Abstract: A printed circuit board and connector assembly, comprising a printed circuit board (1) with surface contacts (11) arranged thereupon and a printed circuit board connector (2) having a receiving region wherein the printed circuit board (1) is inserted and a plurality of contact elements (21) displaceable away and towards the receiving region for insertion or removal of the printed circuit board (1) or engagement of the surface contacts (11) characterized in that the printed circuit board (1) is provided with an attachment (3) in the vicinity of that portion of the printed circuit board (1) to be inserted into the printed circuit board (1) to be inserted into the printed circuit board conector (2), where the attachment (3) and the connector (2) cooperate during insertion and removal to displace the contacts.

Abstract: An electrical connector for assembly on a printed circuit board, the electrical connector having connecting elements for connecting the electrical connector at least electrically to the printed circuit board, and including an anchoring device for mechanically connecting the electrical connector to the printed circuit board, the anchoring device including a multiplicity of anchoring elements arranged side by side and formed so as to be solderable to the printed circuit board.

Abstract: A system has first printed circuit boards which are plugged into a second printed circuit board mounted in a frame. The system includes guides being provided for guiding the first printed circuit boards and includes at least one guide mounted on a support element which is either adjacent or between the first printed circuit boards so that at least two printed circuit boards can be stacked one on top of the other in the plane of the first printed circuit boards.

Abstract: The PCB zero-insertion-force connector has a housing and two connector halves inside the housing. The connector halves can be swiveled toward each other and away from each other. In a mounting position, in which they are swiveled away from each other, the connector halves allow the insertion of a PCB which is to be brought connected with the PCB upon which the housing is mounted. In a connecting position, the connector halves are swiveled toward each other. The connector halves of the PCB zero-insertion-force connector are formed of a plurality of connector-half modules which are arranged in series alongside one another.

Abstract: The printed circuit board zero-force plug connector has a mechanism whose operation causes the plug connector to move between a fitting position (open) and a connected position (closed). The fitting position allows the insertion or removal of a printed circuit board, which makes contact correctly with the printed circuit board. The mechanism of the zero-force plug connector assembly is operated by a rotary movement of an operating member, and/or the mechanism is configured such that it starts to move the printed circuit board zero-force plug connector to the connected position only after it has locked the printed circuit board in its correct position. The printed circuit board is released from the lock only after the mechanism has caused the printed circuit board zero-force plug connector to assume its fitting position.

Abstract: The PCB zero-insertion-force connector assembly has an actuating element. Upon the actuation of the actuating element, a PCB zero-insertion-force connector (1; 11-14) can be moved from a mounting position, allowing the insertion or removal of a PCB, into a connecting position, properly establishing the contact of the PCB, and vice versa. The actuating element of the novel PCB zero-insertion-force connector is integrated into a PCB guiding device, with the aid of which the PCB to be brought into connection with the PCB zero-insertion-force connector or already connected to the latter can be guided toward or away from the latter.

Abstract: An electrical connector for mounting on a printed circuit board and receiving a mating connector, the electrical connector includes multiple contacts having at one end a connection pin to engage conductors on the printed circuit board and at the other end contact elements to connect with terminals in the complementary connector, where the multiple contact elements define a contact element matrix being different than the connection pin matrix in occupied area, arrangement of rows, columns, and density.

Abstract: An electrical connector pair has a first electrical connector and a second electrical connector which can be connected thereto. The first electrical connector has a multiplicity of contacting elements which can be brought into contact with contacting elements of the second electrical connector through relative movement of the two connectors in a contacting direction. The contacting elements are arranged in one or more rows extending in a row-alignment direction. The contacting elements of the electrical connectors of the pair can be brought into contact with a given amount of play in a transverse direction orthogonal to the contacting direction and to the row-alignment direction. The play is effective on either one or both sides and permits a mutual offset of the electrical connectors and is greater by a multiple than a play provided in the row-alignment direction.

Abstract: An electrical connector has contacting devices which establish electrical contact with contacting devices of external terminals. The contacting devices have contact faces formed thereon. The contact faces having a shape which enables substantially overlap-free connections with contact faces on the contacting devices of the external terminals. This reduces boundary planes which lead to signal reflection.

Abstract: A contact spring for a plug-in connector includes spring legs (2,3) which are disposed and constructed in such a way that they are capable of exerting a compressive force from opposite sides on a contact blade (20) inserted in between and of thereby establishing contact with the contact blade. The spring legs (2,3) are disposed laterally offset with respect to each other in such a way that they do not overlap each other in the respective directions of compressive force.

Abstract: An assembly for connecting a first printed circuit board with a second printed circuit board includes an electrical connector connected to one of a first and second printed circuit board. The electrical connector has a retaining mechanism for maintaining the electrical connector in a connected position. The assembly also includes an actuation aid having a first end oriented toward the electrical connector for actuating the retaining mechanism. The actuation aid also has a second end remote from the electrical connector accessible in a region outside the first and second printed circuit board. The first end actuates the retaining mechanism of the electrical connector when the second end is actuated.

Abstract: The printed circuit board connector element has a plurality of signal contacts (2) arranged grid-like in a spring clip (1) and a shielding unit (3) that contains a first and second ground lamina (4, 5) that are conductively connected via a bridge (6) that have a first impressible ground terminal (7) projecting from it. The ground laminae (4, 5) respectively extend over all intervening signal contacts (2) of a column, whereby a shielding unit is provided for only every second signal contact column. As a result thereof, only one signal contact per two columns need be occupied with ground or, respectively, only one shielding unit per two columns is required for the complete shielding of all columns.

Abstract: A printed circuit board connector includes contact elements for electrically connecting contacts of at least two electrical printed circuit boards, and retaining devices retaining the contact elements in an intended position inside the printed circuit board connector. The contact elements and the retaining devices are constructed and/or disposed in such a way as to cause forces exerted upon the retaining devices by and/or through the contact elements to at least partly cancel one another out in the region of the retaining devices.

Abstract: An electrical connector assembly includes an electrical connector having a connected position and contacting devices in the electrical connector for electrically contacting terminals of devices external to the electrical connector. The assembly also includes devices for holding the electrical connector in the connected position while the contacting devices are electrically connected. Furthermore, the contacting devices and the devices for holding the electrical connector are spatially separate from one another. One embodiment of the electrical connector is for connecting first and second printed circuit boards.

Abstract: An electrical connector has contacting devices which establish electrical contact with contacting devices of external terminals. The contacting devices have contact faces formed thereon. The contact faces having a shape which enables substantially overlap-free connections with contact faces on the contacting devices of the external terminals. This reduces boundary planes which lead to signal reflection.

Abstract: An electric connector array includes a knife strip and a spring strip of insulating material each having a plurality of signal contacts being disposed in columns and rows for connection to one another by being plugged together, and each of the signal contacts being shielded on all sides by sheet-metal elements. Ground strips which are disposed in the knife strip extend over an entire length of the knife strip and are disposed between adjacent signal contact rows. Small ground plates are disposed in the spring strip between adjacent signal contact columns. Each of the ground strips have pin-like ground contacts disposed in an intermediate grid relative to the signal contacts, for making a pluggable electrical contact with each of the small ground plates.

Abstract: A printed circuit board plug connector includes first and second mutually perpendicular printed circuit boards. A first contact bank in the form of a multiple plug is disposed on the first board and a second contact bank in the form of a multiple connector is disposed in an edge region and protrudes at a longitudinal edge of the second board. The second contact bank has a plug-in area and a body with a lower surface and electrical connections protruding from a lower surface of the second board. A metal shielding element which is a rigid, rectangular, closed circumferential frame surrounds the sides of the first contact bank. The frame has longitudinal walls and transverse walls with inner surfaces. Circumferential metal sheets being feathered at narrow intervals are attached to inner surfaces of the walls of the frame in the form of inwardly curved, resilient, inner contact elements. Insert pins plug the metal shielding element into bores formed in the first board.