Connector for circuit boards

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1996-04-25

1997-12-16

Abrams, Neil

Electrical connectors

Coupling part with actuating means urging contact to move...

200 51R, 439377, H01R 1370

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056978006

ABSTRACT:
The invention provides a multi-terminal connector for connecting a circuit board to another circuit board. The connector body consists of a first body 20 having a bar-like base part 21 and an uprightly and linearly projecting part 22 and a second body 40 having a slot 42 into which the projecting part 22 of the first body 20 fits. The cross-sectional shape of the slot 42 is such that the projecting part 22 of the first body 20 fits into the slot 42. The first body 20 is to be attached to a circuit board 100 and the second body 40 to another. The first body 20 has cavities 27 at intervals in the lengthwise direction, and each cavity 27 provides openings in side faces of the projecting part 22. A shaft 24 extends through the projecting part 22 of the first body 20, and contact blades 26 are fixed to the shaft 24 in the respective cavities 27 in the first body 20. The slot 42 of the second body 40 is laterally enlarged in sections corresponding to the cavities 27 in the first body 20 to provide cross-sectionally circular spaces in the assembled two bodies to allow rotation of the contact blades 26 by turning the shaft 24. The second body 40 is coupled with the first body 40 while the contact blades 26 are kept in the vertically extending position. Connecting terminals 28A, 28B are provided in both the first 20 and second bodies 40, and each contact blade 26 makes contact with at least one terminal 28A, 28B in the first body 20 and at least one terminal 44A, 44B in the second body 40 when the blade 26 is turned to the horizontally extending position. Using this connector, a circuit board is to be slid across the other circuit board or between two other circuit boards, with each slot 42 acting as a guide for the projecting part 22 and then the shaft and attached contact blades 26 are to rotated to electrically interconnect terminals 28A, 28B on the first body to terminals 44A, 44B on the second body.

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