Electricity: measuring and testing – Fault detecting in electric circuits and of electric components – Of individual circuit component or element
Patent
1995-05-19
1997-04-15
Karlsen, Ernest F.
Electricity: measuring and testing
Fault detecting in electric circuits and of electric components
Of individual circuit component or element
324754, G01R 1073
Patent
active
056213336
ABSTRACT:
A contact device having a plurality of nominally coplanar first contact elements makes electrical contact with corresponding nominally coplanar second contact elements of an electronic device when the contact device and the electronic device are positioned so that the plane of the first contact elements is substantially parallel to the plane of the second contact elements and relative displacement of the devices is effected in a direction substantially perpendicular to the plane of the first contact elements and the plane of the second contact elements. The contact device comprises a stiff substrate having a major portion with fingers projecting therefrom in cantilever fashion, each finger having a proximal end at which it is connected to the major portion of the substrate and an opposite distal end and there being one or two contact elements on the distal end of each finger. It is necessary to effect relative displacement of the devices by a distance d from first touchdown to achieve last touchdown. The substrate is dimensioned such that relative displacement of the devices by a distance d from first touchdown generates a reaction force at each contact element of about 0.1*f.+-.0.1*f, and further relative displacement by a distance of about 75 .mu.m or 5*d beyond last touchdown generates a reaction force at each contact element of about 0.9.+-.0.1*f.
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Long Tom
Sabri Mohamed
Saunders J. Lynn
Karlsen Ernest F.
Loudermilk Alan R.
Microconnect, Inc.
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