EP0042692A1 - Connecteur en bordure de carte à circuit imprimé - Google Patents

Connecteur en bordure de carte à circuit imprimé Download PDF

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EP0042692A1
EP0042692A1 EP81302566A EP81302566A EP0042692A1 EP 0042692 A1 EP0042692 A1 EP 0042692A1 EP 81302566 A EP81302566 A EP 81302566A EP 81302566 A EP81302566 A EP 81302566A EP 0042692 A1 EP0042692 A1 EP 0042692A1
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John Joseph Racilla
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TE Connectivity Corp
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    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01R—ELECTRICALLY-CONDUCTIVE CONNECTIONS; STRUCTURAL ASSOCIATIONS OF A PLURALITY OF MUTUALLY-INSULATED ELECTRICAL CONNECTING ELEMENTS; COUPLING DEVICES; CURRENT COLLECTORS
    • H01R12/00—Structural associations of a plurality of mutually-insulated electrical connecting elements, specially adapted for printed circuits, e.g. printed circuit boards [PCB], flat or ribbon cables, or like generally planar structures, e.g. terminal strips, terminal blocks; Coupling devices specially adapted for printed circuits, flat or ribbon cables, or like generally planar structures; Terminals specially adapted for contact with, or insertion into, printed circuits, flat or ribbon cables, or like generally planar structures
    • H01R12/50—Fixed connections
    • H01R12/51—Fixed connections for rigid printed circuits or like structures
    • H01R12/55—Fixed connections for rigid printed circuits or like structures characterised by the terminals
    • H01R12/58—Fixed connections for rigid printed circuits or like structures characterised by the terminals terminals for insertion into holes
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01R—ELECTRICALLY-CONDUCTIVE CONNECTIONS; STRUCTURAL ASSOCIATIONS OF A PLURALITY OF MUTUALLY-INSULATED ELECTRICAL CONNECTING ELEMENTS; COUPLING DEVICES; CURRENT COLLECTORS
    • H01R12/00—Structural associations of a plurality of mutually-insulated electrical connecting elements, specially adapted for printed circuits, e.g. printed circuit boards [PCB], flat or ribbon cables, or like generally planar structures, e.g. terminal strips, terminal blocks; Coupling devices specially adapted for printed circuits, flat or ribbon cables, or like generally planar structures; Terminals specially adapted for contact with, or insertion into, printed circuits, flat or ribbon cables, or like generally planar structures
    • H01R12/70—Coupling devices
    • H01R12/71—Coupling devices for rigid printing circuits or like structures
    • H01R12/72—Coupling devices for rigid printing circuits or like structures coupling with the edge of the rigid printed circuits or like structures
    • H01R12/721—Coupling devices for rigid printing circuits or like structures coupling with the edge of the rigid printed circuits or like structures cooperating directly with the edge of the rigid printed circuits
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01R—ELECTRICALLY-CONDUCTIVE CONNECTIONS; STRUCTURAL ASSOCIATIONS OF A PLURALITY OF MUTUALLY-INSULATED ELECTRICAL CONNECTING ELEMENTS; COUPLING DEVICES; CURRENT COLLECTORS
    • H01R12/00—Structural associations of a plurality of mutually-insulated electrical connecting elements, specially adapted for printed circuits, e.g. printed circuit boards [PCB], flat or ribbon cables, or like generally planar structures, e.g. terminal strips, terminal blocks; Coupling devices specially adapted for printed circuits, flat or ribbon cables, or like generally planar structures; Terminals specially adapted for contact with, or insertion into, printed circuits, flat or ribbon cables, or like generally planar structures
    • H01R12/70—Coupling devices
    • H01R12/71—Coupling devices for rigid printing circuits or like structures
    • H01R12/72—Coupling devices for rigid printing circuits or like structures coupling with the edge of the rigid printed circuits or like structures
    • H01R12/73—Coupling devices for rigid printing circuits or like structures coupling with the edge of the rigid printed circuits or like structures connecting to other rigid printed circuits or like structures
    • H01R12/735—Printed circuits including an angle between each other
    • H01R12/737—Printed circuits being substantially perpendicular to each other
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01R—ELECTRICALLY-CONDUCTIVE CONNECTIONS; STRUCTURAL ASSOCIATIONS OF A PLURALITY OF MUTUALLY-INSULATED ELECTRICAL CONNECTING ELEMENTS; COUPLING DEVICES; CURRENT COLLECTORS
    • H01R13/00—Details of coupling devices of the kinds covered by groups H01R12/70 or H01R24/00 - H01R33/00
    • H01R13/40—Securing contact members in or to a base or case; Insulating of contact members
    • H01R13/405—Securing in non-demountable manner, e.g. moulding, riveting
    • H01R13/41—Securing in non-demountable manner, e.g. moulding, riveting by frictional grip in grommet, panel or base
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01R—ELECTRICALLY-CONDUCTIVE CONNECTIONS; STRUCTURAL ASSOCIATIONS OF A PLURALITY OF MUTUALLY-INSULATED ELECTRICAL CONNECTING ELEMENTS; COUPLING DEVICES; CURRENT COLLECTORS
    • H01R43/00—Apparatus or processes specially adapted for manufacturing, assembling, maintaining, or repairing of line connectors or current collectors or for joining electric conductors
    • H01R43/20—Apparatus or processes specially adapted for manufacturing, assembling, maintaining, or repairing of line connectors or current collectors or for joining electric conductors for assembling or disassembling contact members with insulating base, case or sleeve

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  • circuit board edge connector comprising an insulating housing defining an elongate cavity for receiving a daughter circuit board, the cavity having a base, a pair of parallel rows of passages extending through the base and communicating with the cavity on opposite sides thereof, and a plurality of electrical terminals each mounted in a respective passage and each having a mating portion in the cavity, a laterally offset portion adjacent to the inner face of the base, and a connecting tail located beyond the outer face of the base and being laterally offset, by virtue of the offset portion, from the mating portion.
  • an electrical terminal provided with a.n enlarged laterally resilient mounting portion adapted to be force fitted into an internally metalically plated hole in a circuit board to make permanent electrical contact with the internal plating of the hole.
  • Such mounting portions are usually provided only on-rectilinear pin or post terminals, in view of the high insertion force required to drive the mounting portions into the holes.
  • the present invention concerns the problem of employing such mounting portions to secure a circuit board edge connector to a mother circuit board, given that the terminals of such connectors have contact portions which are insufficiently robust for the application thereto of a high axial force.
  • a circuit board edge connector as defined in the first paragraph of this specification is characterised in that each mating portion is spaced from that wall of the cavity, which is adjacent to the mating portion, to permit the insertion of a tool member between the wall and the mating portion to engage the offset portion of the terminal, and in that each terminal is provided between its connecting tail and the outer.face of the base, with an enlarged laterally resilient mounting portion adapted to be force fitted into a hole in a mother circuit board by driving the tool member against the offset portion of the terminal.
  • a circuit board edge connector 10 comprises a rigid insulating housing 12 of plastics material, having a slot 14 opening into a mating face 16 of the housing along substantially its full length, for receiving a daughter circuit board (not shown).
  • the housing 12 has a base 26 ( Figures 2 and 3) through which extend passages 22 each communicating with one of the recesses 18.
  • Mounting flanges 28 are provided at the ends of the housing 12.
  • Each of electrical terminals 32 in the housing 12 comprises a mating portion in the form of a cantilever contact blade 34 for engaging the daughter circuit board, an intermediate offset portion 36 providing a shoulder, an enlarged resilient mounting portion 38 connected to the portion 36 by a rectilinear shank 37 extending substantially parallel to the mating portion 34 and a connecting tail 40 extending from the portion 38.
  • Each terminal 32 is mounted in one of the recesses 18, with its shank 37 extending through the corresponding passage 22, the.mounting portion 38 of the terminal lying beyond the outer face 41 of the base 26 of the housing 12 and the portion 36 engaging the inner face 39 of the base 26.
  • the board 44 In order to mount the connector 10 on a mother circuit board 44 having internally metallically plated holes 42 therein, corresponding in spacing and arrangement to the connecting tails 40, the board 44 is positioned on a tool base 46, having spaced longitudinal grooves 48 therein, so that each hole 42 is aligned with one of these grooves.
  • the connector 10 is then aligned with the base 46 and is moved theretowards to insert each tail 40 of each terminal 32 through a respective hole 42 into the groove 48 aligned therewith, the portion 38 of the terminal resting on the plating of the hole 42, as shown in Figure 2.
  • A-terminal driving tool 52 has legs 54, each leg 54 terminating in a shoulder 58 shaped snugly to engage the portion 36 of the corresponding terminal 32.
  • Each mating portion 34 is spaced from the adjacent wall 19 to permit the insertion of one of the legs 54 between the portion 34 and the adjacent wall 19.
  • Each mounting portion 38 which may be formed according to the teaching of US-A-4,186,982, comprises a pair of legs 60 joined at their ends and having surfaces which face and abut one another in a shear plane between the legs and with respect to which the legs are mutually laterally offset.
  • the legs 60 are compressed resiliently towards one another as the portion 38 is forced into the hole 42, in mutually contiguous frictional relationship.

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  • Coupling Device And Connection With Printed Circuit (AREA)
  • Manufacturing Of Electrical Connectors (AREA)
EP81302566A 1980-06-23 1981-06-10 Connecteur en bordure de carte à circuit imprimé Expired EP0042692B1 (fr)

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AT81302566T ATE10243T1 (de) 1980-06-23 1981-06-10 Randsteckverbinder fuer schaltungskarte.

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US16235280A 1980-06-23 1980-06-23
US162352 1998-09-29

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JP (1) JPS5732581A (fr)
AR (1) AR227191A1 (fr)
AT (1) ATE10243T1 (fr)
AU (1) AU541432B2 (fr)
BR (1) BR8103919A (fr)
CA (1) CA1150377A (fr)
DE (1) DE3167051D1 (fr)
ES (1) ES8204235A1 (fr)
HK (1) HK79687A (fr)
MX (1) MX149788A (fr)
MY (1) MY8800064A (fr)
SG (1) SG53287G (fr)

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EP0060644A1 (fr) * 1981-03-12 1982-09-22 AMP INCORPORATED (a New Jersey corporation) Couvercle pour connecteur électrique à bornes multiples
EP0128306A1 (fr) * 1983-05-18 1984-12-19 ERNI Elektroapparate GmbH Bloc de connexion à couteau
EP0632549A1 (fr) * 1993-06-29 1995-01-04 Molex Incorporated Assemblage connecteur électrique
EP0767516A2 (fr) * 1995-01-27 1997-04-09 Molex Incorporated Gabarit de montage pour connecteurs électriques
EP2919333A3 (fr) * 2014-03-11 2015-09-30 TE Connectivity Germany GmbH Connecteur électrique et procédé de production de connecteur électrique

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JPH029513Y2 (fr) * 1986-08-01 1990-03-08
JPH029514Y2 (fr) * 1986-08-04 1990-03-08

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GB1096839A (en) * 1965-07-05 1967-12-29 Amp Inc Printed circuit edge connector
US4083101A (en) * 1976-12-27 1978-04-11 Amp Incorporated Tool for installing individual pins in printed circuit board
US4089581A (en) * 1977-05-03 1978-05-16 Litton Systems, Inc. Printed circuit board connector
US4127935A (en) * 1976-02-20 1978-12-05 Elfab Corporation Method for assembly of electrical connectors
US4156553A (en) * 1975-07-21 1979-05-29 Elfab Corporation Contact for electrical connector
US4186982A (en) * 1973-08-01 1980-02-05 Amp Incorporated Contact with split portion for engagement with substrate
DE2950097A1 (de) * 1978-12-25 1980-07-10 Elco International Kk Elektrisch leitendes anschlusselement und isolierkoerper hierfuer sowie angepasste vorrichtung fuer ihren zusammenbau

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DE2814334B2 (de) * 1977-05-03 1981-01-29 Litton Systems, Inc., Beverly Hills, Calif. (V.St.A.) Verfahren zum Montieren eines Steckverbinders auf einer gedruckten Schaltung sowie Werkzeug und Steckverbinder zur Durchführung des Verfahrens

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GB1096839A (en) * 1965-07-05 1967-12-29 Amp Inc Printed circuit edge connector
DE1590006A1 (de) * 1965-07-05 1970-05-14 Amp Inc Anschlussstecker fuer gedruckte Stromkreise
US4186982A (en) * 1973-08-01 1980-02-05 Amp Incorporated Contact with split portion for engagement with substrate
US4186982B1 (fr) * 1973-08-01 1986-07-15
US4156553A (en) * 1975-07-21 1979-05-29 Elfab Corporation Contact for electrical connector
US4127935A (en) * 1976-02-20 1978-12-05 Elfab Corporation Method for assembly of electrical connectors
US4083101A (en) * 1976-12-27 1978-04-11 Amp Incorporated Tool for installing individual pins in printed circuit board
US4089581A (en) * 1977-05-03 1978-05-16 Litton Systems, Inc. Printed circuit board connector
DE2950097A1 (de) * 1978-12-25 1980-07-10 Elco International Kk Elektrisch leitendes anschlusselement und isolierkoerper hierfuer sowie angepasste vorrichtung fuer ihren zusammenbau
FR2445631A1 (fr) * 1978-12-25 1980-07-25 Elco International Kk Borne de connexion electrique, son isolateur et le montage utilise pour leur assemblage
GB2043364A (en) * 1978-12-25 1980-10-01 Elco International Kk Fitting contacts in printed circuit boards

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Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
EP0060644A1 (fr) * 1981-03-12 1982-09-22 AMP INCORPORATED (a New Jersey corporation) Couvercle pour connecteur électrique à bornes multiples
EP0128306A1 (fr) * 1983-05-18 1984-12-19 ERNI Elektroapparate GmbH Bloc de connexion à couteau
EP0632549A1 (fr) * 1993-06-29 1995-01-04 Molex Incorporated Assemblage connecteur électrique
EP0767516A2 (fr) * 1995-01-27 1997-04-09 Molex Incorporated Gabarit de montage pour connecteurs électriques
EP0767516A3 (fr) * 1995-01-27 1998-04-15 Molex Incorporated Gabarit de montage pour connecteurs électriques
US5884393A (en) * 1995-01-27 1999-03-23 Molex Incorporated Mounting jig for electrical connectors
EP2919333A3 (fr) * 2014-03-11 2015-09-30 TE Connectivity Germany GmbH Connecteur électrique et procédé de production de connecteur électrique
CN104979688A (zh) * 2014-03-11 2015-10-14 泰科电子Amp有限责任公司 电连接器和用于制造电连接器的方法
US9525235B2 (en) 2014-03-11 2016-12-20 Te Connectivity Germany Gmbh Electrical connector and method for producing an electrical connector
CN104979688B (zh) * 2014-03-11 2019-08-20 泰连德国有限公司 电连接器和用于制造电连接器的方法

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HK79687A (en) 1987-11-06
BR8103919A (pt) 1982-03-09
AU7120681A (en) 1982-01-07
EP0042692B1 (fr) 1984-11-07
CA1150377A (fr) 1983-07-19
ES502922A0 (es) 1982-04-01
MX149788A (es) 1983-12-16
SG53287G (en) 1988-01-15
AR227191A1 (es) 1982-09-30
AU541432B2 (en) 1985-01-10
MY8800064A (en) 1988-12-31
DE3167051D1 (en) 1984-12-13
ES8204235A1 (es) 1982-04-01
JPS5732581A (en) 1982-02-22

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