Electrical connectors – With coupling movement-actuating means or retaining means in... – For direct connection to a flexible tape or printed circuit...
Patent
1989-12-15
1991-07-30
Abrams, Neil
Electrical connectors
With coupling movement-actuating means or retaining means in...
For direct connection to a flexible tape or printed circuit...
439 67, 439567, H01R 909
Patent
active
050356410
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
This invention relates to electrical connectors for the termination of insulated conductors and their interconnection to further electrical contacts. The term insulated conductor is herein meant to include solid conductors and stranded conductors together with other types of conductors such as tinsel conductors, whenever insulated by a covering of insulating material. The invention particularly relates to electrical connectors for making an electrical connection between one or more insulated conductors and one or more contacts on a printed circuit board. Such contacts are normally in the form of conductive tracks on the board.
It is known to provide a plug and socket connector for the interconnection of an electronic circuit installed on a base plate such as a printed circuit board which connector comprises a plug-in part with contact members which extend from a side thereof and which co-operate with opposing-contact members in a housing intended for the reception of the plug-in part.
In the case of this known plug and socket connection, the opposing-contact members are formed on a part of the housing itself, so that it is necessary to re-connect these contact members to pertinent contact members of the base plate with the printed circuitry which forms part of the electronic circuit.
In a known manner of connecting the known plug connection to the base plate, the latter has to be provided with a protruding lip on which the housing to receive the plug connector has to be fitted.
Because of the presence of this lip on the base plate, there is a deviation from the simple rectangular shape of the latter, so that it is necessary, for the production of the base plate, to saw or mill a section from sheet material, such as pertinax sheets, glass epoxy resin sheets and the like, which process is relatively complicated and costly in comparison with the production of a base plate which is simply rectangular, and which, by scratching and then breaking off, can be obtained from sheet material.
Moreover, the presence of the opposing-contact members on a part of the housing itself requires the extra process of the connection of these contact members to the circuit itself.
An object of the invention is to obviate these defects of the known plug and socket connector.
According to the invention in its broadest aspect there is provided an electrical plug and socket connector for the connection of an external conductor to an electronic circuit installed on a base plate with printed circuitry, comprising a plug-in part with contact members extending from the side thereof which co-operate with opposed-contact members within a housing intended for the reception of the inserted plug-in part, whereon the opposed-contact members are formed on or in the base plate and are bridged by the housing which is open towards the base plate in such a way that, with the introduction of the plug-in part into the housing, the co-operating contact members are connected to corresponding opposed-contact members on the base plate.
Thus, in the case of a plug and socket connection according to the invention, no opposite-contact members are installed on the housing itself, and this housing serves more as a guide into which the plug-in part can be introduced, so that the contact members are brought directly into communication with the opposing-contact members which are disposed on the base plate itself and form part of the printed circuitry. As a result of this construction, a considerable saving is obtained with regard to the production of the base plate itself, since a simple rectangular shape can be used, and because electrical connection of the socket connector itself to the printed circuitry of the base plate no longer need take place.
According to another aspect of the invention there is provided an electrical plug and socket connector for the connection of an external conductor to an electrical circuit installed on a base plate with printed circuitry comprising a plug-in part with contact members extending from a side thereof which co-operate wi
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Collier John C.
Lee David
Van-Santbrink Ronald
Abrams Neil
ITT Industries Limited
Peterson Thomas L.
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