Electrical connectors – Preformed panel circuit arrangement – e.g. – pcb – icm – dip,... – Flexible panel
Reexamination Certificate
2008-05-20
2008-05-20
Nguyen, Khiem (Department: 2839)
Electrical connectors
Preformed panel circuit arrangement, e.g., pcb, icm, dip,...
Flexible panel
C439S067000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07374435
ABSTRACT:
A connecting device of a flexible printed circuit board has a reinforced backlight FPC board, is free from bad contact resulting from insufficient insertion of a terminal portion of a flexible printed circuit board into a connector, and ensures good connection without leaving contaminants, scratches, or the like on contacts of the terminal portion. The connecting device of a flexible printed circuit board has a terminal portion having a contact formed as a printed conductor in a tip end portion of a film-form flexible printed circuit board, and a connector having an insertion slot into which the terminal portion is inserted and a contact fitted inside the insertion slot and connected to the contact of the terminal portion. Moreover, a reinforcing plate is bonded on the face of the terminal portion opposite to the face thereof on which the contact is formed, and an ear-like piece that makes contact with the opening rim of the insertion slot in the connector is formed in a position a predetermined distance inward from the tip end of the terminal portion in the length direction of the flexible printed circuit board.
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Epson Imaging Devices Corporation
McDermott Will & Emery LLP
Nguyen Khiem
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