Method for making surface mountable connectors

Details Method for making surface mountable connectors Method for making surface mountable connectors

Filed on

1995-08-25

Date issued

1996-07-16

Examiner

Echols, P. W.

Patent Class

Metal working

SubClass

Method of mechanical manufacture

SubSubClass

Electrical device making

Other Related Categories

174 88B, 439 83, 29884, H01R 4304

Type

Patent

Status

active

Patent number

055355137

Description

ABSTRACT:
The present invention is directed to a method for making a connector 20 having co-planar contact surfaces including the steps of: providing a housing 22 having a plurality of contact-receiving slots 30, each having stop surfaces 32 that are precisely co-planar to define a referenced datum in the housing 22; selecting a plurality of contacts 40 having cooperating stop surfaces 44 and a surface mountable connecting portion 50 bent from a first connecting portion 42 and defining a contact surface facing away from the stop surface 44, the contacts 40 being bent at an angle slightly less than 90.degree.; inserting the contacts 40 into respective slots 30; and striking the surface mountable contact portions with a tool having a precisely planar surface and applying force thereto until the respective stop surfaces 32,44 engage each other and the second connecting portions 50 are at precisely right angles to the respective first connecting portions 42 such that the surface mountable contact surfaces are co-planar.

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