Metal working – Method of mechanical manufacture – Electrical device making
Patent
1985-02-19
1990-03-20
Paumen, Gary F.
Metal working
Method of mechanical manufacture
Electrical device making
439 82, 439751, H01R 1341
Patent
active
049089420
ABSTRACT:
An electrical terminal device has stamped and formed post portions of U-shaped cross-section which are stiff and suitable for wire wrapping and has a compliant mounting portion between the post portions for mounting the terminal in a plated through-hole in a circuit board. The compliant mounting portion comprises outwardly bowed portions extending longitudinally between aligned associated sidewalls of the U-shaped post portions which are elastically deformable inwardly and towards each other. When one of the terminal post is inserted into the circuit board hole, these bowed portions are flexed towards each other when they enter the circuit board hole and the edges of the bowed portions bear against the surface of the hole thereby to establish contact with the plating in the hole and retain the terminal in the circuit board. The U-shaped post portions, but not the compliant mounting portion, are severely cold-worked.
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Long William B.
Shenk Barry M.
AMP Incorporated
LaRue Adrian J.
Ness Anton P.
Paumen Gary F.
Raring Frederick W.
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