Electricity: measuring and testing – Measuring – testing – or sensing electricity – per se – With rotor
Patent
1982-04-05
1984-08-14
Strecker, Gerard R.
Electricity: measuring and testing
Measuring, testing, or sensing electricity, per se
With rotor
324 73PC, 324158P, G01R 3102, G01R 1512, G01R 106
Patent
active
044659725
ABSTRACT:
Printed Circuit Board Testing Apparatus is disclosed which utilizes a "bed of nails" of contacts with conductive probes mounted in an insulating plate on a grid of 0.050 inch spacing to make a plurality of electrical contacts with a printed circuit board under test. This large number of contacts are all connected to the edge of a plurality of printed circuit boards mounted perpendicular to the back of the plate. Paths on each of these printed circuit boards electrically connect the probes of the contacts to a large scale integrated circuit chip on which are a plurality of analog switches each controlled by one bit of a binary word stored in a multi-stage shift register also on the chip. One side of each switch is connected to a probe while the other side of the switches are tied together in busses to create a multiplexing arrangement to thereby connect ones of the large number of probes to a relatively small number of input/output leads also connected to the printed circuit boards. In operation, selected ones of the analog switches on each chip are operated by serially loading binary words into the shift register on each chip to thereby operate switches and connect the board under test via the input/output leads to test circuitry.
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Allied Corporation
Cuoco Anthony F.
Protigal Stanley N.
Strecker Gerard R.
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