Electrical connectors – Preformed panel circuit arrangement – e.g. – pcb – icm – dip,... – With provision to conduct electricity from panel circuit to...
Reexamination Certificate
2003-08-14
2004-08-24
Nasri, Javaid H. (Department: 2839)
Electrical connectors
Preformed panel circuit arrangement, e.g., pcb, icm, dip,...
With provision to conduct electricity from panel circuit to...
Reexamination Certificate
active
06780022
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a connector, and more specifically, to a connector for connecting a first board to a second board.
2. Description of the Prior Art
In order to connect devices and interfaces, various kinds of connectors are widely used in electronic products such as notebooks, motherboards and interface cards etc. Most of the connectors transmit electrical signals through mutual contact of metal lines. Please refer to FIG.
1
.
FIG. 1
is a 3-dimensional diagram of a metal line connector
10
according to the prior art. The metal line connector
10
includes a male connector
12
installed on an interface card
14
and a female connector
16
installed on a circuit board
18
, wherein the male connector
12
and the female connector
16
are detachable by inserting the male connector
12
into the female connector
16
. Please refer to FIG.
2
.
FIG. 2
is a side-view diagram of the metal line connector
10
while separated. The transmission of electrical signals between the interface card
14
and the circuit board
18
depends on mutual contact of metal lines
20
on the male connector
12
and metal lines
22
on the female connector
16
. Please refer to FIG.
3
.
FIG. 3
is a side-view diagram of the metal line connector
10
while connected. The male connector
12
and the female connector
16
of the metal line connector
10
are connected by pressing both connectors
12
,
16
to insert the male connector
12
into the female connector
16
, so that the metal lines
20
and the metal lines
22
can contact each other completely to ensure the signal transmission. Please refer to FIG.
4
.
FIG. 4
is a top-view diagram of the female connector
16
connected to the circuit board
18
. Electrical signals output by the interface card
14
are transmitted from the metal lines
20
of the male connector
12
to the metal lines
22
of the female connector
16
, then transmitted to the circuit board
18
through goldfingers
24
on the circuit board
18
connected to the metal lines
22
.
However, the metal line connector
10
according to the prior art depends on connection of rigid bodies, therefore due to the height of the connector itself, the two boards to be connected cannot be adhered to each other. To keep pace with the trend requiring electronic products to be compact, the required space of the connector must be reduced. Secondly, the interval distance between the metal lines is limited in manufacturing process. Considering the technology and the cost, the interval distance can be reduced to approximately 0.6 mm. The required space of the connector can be reduced through a further reduction of the interval distance of the metal lines. Thirdly, metal line connectors are widely used devices produced in enormous quantities. It is beneficial to the industry if other cost-saving materials are used.
SUMMARY OF INVENTION
It is therefore a primary objective of the present invention to provide a connector to solve the problems of the prior art mentioned above.
Briefly summarized, a connector according to the present invention is used to connect a first board to a second board, which includes at least one conductive media comprising a plurality of insulating layers and a plurality of conductive layers, in which each layer is formed between two insulating layers. The connector further includes a frame comprising a hollow space for holding the conductive media.
These and other objectives of the present invention will no doubt become obvious to those of ordinary skill in the art after reading the following detailed description of the preferred embodiment that is illustrated in the various figures and drawings.
REFERENCES:
patent: 4408814 (1983-10-01), Takashi et al.
patent: 6296493 (2001-10-01), Michiya
Denq Bar-Long
Fan Kuang-Cheng
Compal Electronics Inc.
Hsu Winston
Nasri Javaid H.
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