Compliant contact pin assembly and card system

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2005-06-14

2009-02-10

Norris, Jeremy C (Department: 2841)

Electricity: conductors and insulators

Conduits, cables or conductors

Preformed panel circuit arrangement

C361S774000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07488899

ABSTRACT:
A compliant contact pin assembly and a contactor card system are provided. The compliant contact pin assembly includes a contact pin formed from a portion of a substrate with the contact pin compliantly held suspended within the substrate by a compliant coupling structure. The suspension within the substrate results in a compliant deflection orthogonal to the plane of the substrate. The contact pin assembly is formed by generally thinning the substrate around the contact pin location and then specifically thinning the substrate immediately around the contact pin location for forming a void. The contact pin is compliantly coupled, in one embodiment by compliant coupling material, and in another embodiment by compliantly flexible portions of the substrate.

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