Circuit card edge connector and terminal therefor

Details Circuit card edge connector and terminal therefor Circuit card edge connector and terminal therefor

1988-08-22

1990-01-02

Pirlot, David

Electrical connectors

With insulation other than conductor sheath

Plural-contact coupling part

439 62, 439746, H01R 2370

Patent

active

048910236

ABSTRACT:
An edge connector is provided comprising a housing and a plurality of stamped and formed terminals mounted therein. The housing is constructed to be self-compensating for variations in the thickness of a printed circuit board and the location of mounting apertures therein. The housing includes a plurality of terminal receiving cavities, each of which includes an internally disposed latch wall. The terminals each include a base, a solder tail extending from one side of the base and a contact beam and mounting beam cantilevered from the opposite side of the base. The mounting beam includes a mounting arm and a latch arm cantilevered from the mounting arm and disposed intermediate the mounting arm and the contact beam. The latch arm is resiliently deflectable to lockingly engage the centrally disposed latch wall of the housing, and to thereby minimize outwardly directed pressure on the external walls of the housing that could otherwise bow the housing and minimize the effectiveness of the connector.

REFERENCES:
patent: 3173737 (1965-03-01), Kinkaid et al.
patent: 3422394 (1969-01-01), Antes
patent: 3579176 (1971-05-01), Bokor
patent: 3989344 (1976-11-01), Pechard et al.
patent: 4699595 (1987-10-01), Nakazawa et al.

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