Surface mount connectors having staked alignment pins

Details Surface mount connectors having staked alignment pins Surface mount connectors having staked alignment pins

1995-09-11

1998-02-03

Paumen, Gary F.

Electrical connectors

With guiding means for mating of coupling part

Rodlike guide member extending in coupling direction or...

439571, H01R 13629

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057137552

ABSTRACT:
Surface mount connectors having staked alignment pins. The bodies of the connectors are formed without alignment pins, and alignment pins are thereafter staked into the bottom surface of the connector body in order to positively locate the connector when mounting to a printed circuit board. Because the alignment pins are not integrally formed with the connector bodies, the connectors may be inventoried in only long strips of, for example, 50 positions, After a customer order is received, the long strips may be cut to the desired number of positions. The alignment pins are thereafter staked into the connector body in order to form a completed connector. The present invention therefore obviates the need to inventory connectors with alignment pins in each of the potentially desired sizes.

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IBM Technical Disclosure Bulletin, "Retention Device for Connector Subassembly", vol. 33, No. 9, pp. 15-17. 439/573, Feb. 1991.

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