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CA1150377A - Circuit board edge connector - Google Patents

Circuit board edge connector

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CA1150377A
CA1150377A CA000379033A CA379033A CA1150377A CA 1150377 A CA1150377 A CA 1150377A CA 000379033 A CA000379033 A CA 000379033A CA 379033 A CA379033 A CA 379033A CA 1150377 A CA1150377 A CA 1150377A
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Prior art keywords
cavity
base
circuit board
terminal
offset
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CA000379033A
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French (fr)
Inventor
John J. Racilla
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TE Connectivity Corp
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AMP Inc
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    • HELECTRICITY
    • H01ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01RELECTRICALLY-CONDUCTIVE CONNECTIONS; STRUCTURAL ASSOCIATIONS OF A PLURALITY OF MUTUALLY-INSULATED ELECTRICAL CONNECTING ELEMENTS; COUPLING DEVICES; CURRENT COLLECTORS
    • H01R12/00Structural associations of a plurality of mutually-insulated electrical connecting elements, specially adapted for printed circuits, e.g. printed circuit boards [PCB], flat or ribbon cables, or like generally planar structures, e.g. terminal strips, terminal blocks; Coupling devices specially adapted for printed circuits, flat or ribbon cables, or like generally planar structures; Terminals specially adapted for contact with, or insertion into, printed circuits, flat or ribbon cables, or like generally planar structures
    • H01R12/50Fixed connections
    • H01R12/51Fixed connections for rigid printed circuits or like structures
    • H01R12/55Fixed connections for rigid printed circuits or like structures characterised by the terminals
    • H01R12/58Fixed connections for rigid printed circuits or like structures characterised by the terminals terminals for insertion into holes
    • HELECTRICITY
    • H01ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01RELECTRICALLY-CONDUCTIVE CONNECTIONS; STRUCTURAL ASSOCIATIONS OF A PLURALITY OF MUTUALLY-INSULATED ELECTRICAL CONNECTING ELEMENTS; COUPLING DEVICES; CURRENT COLLECTORS
    • H01R12/00Structural associations of a plurality of mutually-insulated electrical connecting elements, specially adapted for printed circuits, e.g. printed circuit boards [PCB], flat or ribbon cables, or like generally planar structures, e.g. terminal strips, terminal blocks; Coupling devices specially adapted for printed circuits, flat or ribbon cables, or like generally planar structures; Terminals specially adapted for contact with, or insertion into, printed circuits, flat or ribbon cables, or like generally planar structures
    • H01R12/70Coupling devices
    • H01R12/71Coupling devices for rigid printing circuits or like structures
    • H01R12/72Coupling devices for rigid printing circuits or like structures coupling with the edge of the rigid printed circuits or like structures
    • H01R12/721Coupling devices for rigid printing circuits or like structures coupling with the edge of the rigid printed circuits or like structures cooperating directly with the edge of the rigid printed circuits
    • HELECTRICITY
    • H01ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01RELECTRICALLY-CONDUCTIVE CONNECTIONS; STRUCTURAL ASSOCIATIONS OF A PLURALITY OF MUTUALLY-INSULATED ELECTRICAL CONNECTING ELEMENTS; COUPLING DEVICES; CURRENT COLLECTORS
    • H01R12/00Structural associations of a plurality of mutually-insulated electrical connecting elements, specially adapted for printed circuits, e.g. printed circuit boards [PCB], flat or ribbon cables, or like generally planar structures, e.g. terminal strips, terminal blocks; Coupling devices specially adapted for printed circuits, flat or ribbon cables, or like generally planar structures; Terminals specially adapted for contact with, or insertion into, printed circuits, flat or ribbon cables, or like generally planar structures
    • H01R12/70Coupling devices
    • H01R12/71Coupling devices for rigid printing circuits or like structures
    • H01R12/72Coupling devices for rigid printing circuits or like structures coupling with the edge of the rigid printed circuits or like structures
    • H01R12/73Coupling devices for rigid printing circuits or like structures coupling with the edge of the rigid printed circuits or like structures connecting to other rigid printed circuits or like structures
    • H01R12/735Printed circuits including an angle between each other
    • H01R12/737Printed circuits being substantially perpendicular to each other
    • HELECTRICITY
    • H01ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01RELECTRICALLY-CONDUCTIVE CONNECTIONS; STRUCTURAL ASSOCIATIONS OF A PLURALITY OF MUTUALLY-INSULATED ELECTRICAL CONNECTING ELEMENTS; COUPLING DEVICES; CURRENT COLLECTORS
    • H01R13/00Details of coupling devices of the kinds covered by groups H01R12/70 or H01R24/00 - H01R33/00
    • H01R13/40Securing contact members in or to a base or case; Insulating of contact members
    • H01R13/405Securing in non-demountable manner, e.g. moulding, riveting
    • H01R13/41Securing in non-demountable manner, e.g. moulding, riveting by frictional grip in grommet, panel or base
    • HELECTRICITY
    • H01ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01RELECTRICALLY-CONDUCTIVE CONNECTIONS; STRUCTURAL ASSOCIATIONS OF A PLURALITY OF MUTUALLY-INSULATED ELECTRICAL CONNECTING ELEMENTS; COUPLING DEVICES; CURRENT COLLECTORS
    • H01R43/00Apparatus or processes specially adapted for manufacturing, assembling, maintaining, or repairing of line connectors or current collectors or for joining electric conductors
    • H01R43/20Apparatus or processes specially adapted for manufacturing, assembling, maintaining, or repairing of line connectors or current collectors or for joining electric conductors for assembling or disassembling contact members with insulating base, case or sleeve

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  • Coupling Device And Connection With Printed Circuit (AREA)
  • Manufacturing Of Electrical Connectors (AREA)

Abstract

ABSTRACT
A circuit board edge connector comprises an insulating housing having a cavity for receiving a daughter circuit board, and a plurality of electrical terminals each mounted in a respective passage in the base of the cavity, and each having a mating portion in the cavity, a laterally offset portion adjacent to the inner face of the base, and a connecting tall located beyond the outer face of the base. For mounting the connector on a mother circuit board, each mating portion is spaced from the adjacent wall of the cavity to permit the insertion of a tool member into the cavity to engage the offset portion of the terminal to drive an enlarged laterally resilient mounting portion of the terminal into a hole in the mother circuit board.

Description

~15(~377 This invention xelates to a circuit board edge connector.
A known circuit board edge connector cornpr.ises an insul.ating housi.llg defining an elongate cavity for receiving a daughter circuit board, the cavity having a base, a pair of parallel rows of passages extending through the base and communicating with the cavity on opposite sides t,hereof, and a pluralit,y of electrical te.rminals each mounted in a respec-tive passage ancl each having a mating portion in the cavity, a ].aterally offset portion adjacent to the inner face of the base, and a connecting tail locate~ beyond the outer face of the base and 7L7eing laterally offset, by virtue of the offset portion, from the mating portion.
We have described in U9-A-4,]86,982; an electrical terminal provided with an enlarged laterally resilient mounting portion adapted to be force fitted into an internally metalically plated hole in a circui.t board to make permanent electrical corltact w:i.th the .internal p3.ating of the h~le. Such mounting portions , are usua].ly provided only on rectili.near pin or post terminals, in view of the high inserti.on force required to drive the rnounti.ng portions into the holes.
The present .inventlon concerns the prohl.em of employing such mounting portions to secure a circuit board edge connector to a mother circuit board, ,~ given tllat the terrrlina:Ls of such connectors have ' - 2 --' .

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~5(~377 cont:act poltions which are insuf~iciently robust for the application thereto of a high axial force.
According to the present invention, in a circuit board edge (onnector as defined in the second paragraph o~ this specification, each mating portion is spaced from that wall of the cavity, which is adjacent to the ma.ting portion, to permit the insertion of a tool member between the wall and the mating portion to engage the offset portion of the terminal, each terminal being provided between its connectiny tail and the outer face of the base, with an enlarged laterally resilient mounting portion adapted to be force fitted into a hole in a mother circuit board by driving the tool member against the offset portion of the termi.nal.
I For a better understanding of the invention - an embodiment thereof wil.l now be described by way ~` of example to the accompanying drawings in which:-: Figure 1 is a perspective view, sho~m partly in secti.on, of a first circuit board edge connector, exploded from a mother circui.t board, and showing a second such connector mounted on the mother board;
Flgure 2 is a cxoss-sectional v:;ew of a co.nnector of Figure 1 in association with tooling positioned to mount the connector on the mother ci.rcuit board; and Figure 3 is a similar view to tha.t of l~igure 2 ~ 3 ---:; , :
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A circuit board edge connector 10 comprises a rigid insulating housing 12 of plastics material, having a slot 14 opening into a mating face 16 of the housing along substantially its full length, for receiving a daughter circuit board (not shown).
Two parallel rows of aligned terminal receiving recesses 18 each having a side wall 19 (Figure 2) open into the slot 14 from respective sides thereof. The housing 12 has a base 26 (Pigures 2 and 3) through which extend '~ passages 22 each communicating with one of the recesses 18. Mountlng flanges 28 are provided ~t the ends ~, of the housing 12.
Each of electrical terminals 32 in the housing - 12 comprises a mating portion in the form of a cantilever ccntact blade 34 for engaging the daughter circuit board, an intermediate offset portion 36 providing a shoulder, an enlar~ed resilient mounting portion 38 connected to the portion 36 by a . , .
rectilinear shank 37 extending substantially parallel :,i to the mating portion 34 and a connecting tail 40 extending from the portion 38. Each terminal 32 is mounted in one of the reaesses 18, with its shank 37 extending through the corresponding passage 22, ~ the mounting port on 38 of the terminal lying beyond .... .
the outer face 41 o the base 26 of the housing 12 , . .

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In order to mount the connector 10 on a mother circuit board 44 having internally metallically ;~ 5 plated holes 42 therein, correspondi.ng in spacing and arrangement to the connecting tails 40, the board 44 is positioned on a tool base 46, having spaced lonyitudinal grooves 48 therein, so that each hole 42 is aligned with one of these grooves. The connector 10 lS then aligned with the base 46 and is moved theretowards to insert each tail 40 o each terminal 32 through a respective hole 42.into the groove 48 aligned therewith, the portion 38 of the terminal:resting on the plating of the hole 42, as ;.~ - 15 shown in Figure 2.
~ A terminal driving tool 52 has legs 54, each .~, leg 54.terminating in a shoulder 58 shaped snugly . to engage the portion 36:of the corresponding terminal .; 32. Each mating portion 34 is spaced from the adjacent wall 19 to permit the insertion of one of the legs 54 between the portion 34 and the adjacent . wall 19.

The legs 54 of the tool 52 having been ", inserted into the recesses 18' so that each shoulder 58 the.reof engages the shoulder portion 36 of a . respecti.ve terminal 32, a downward axial force is '~ applied to the tool 52 to drive the mounting portions : - 5 -"

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~15~377 38 of the terminals into the ho:Les 42 as shown in Figure 3, so as to be resiliently force fitted therein.
The too] 52 is then withd~awn from the connector 10.
Each mounting portion 38, which may be formed according to the teaching of US-A-4,186,982, comprises a paix of legs 60 ~oined at their ends and having surfaces ~hich face and abut one another in a shear plane between the legs and with respect to which the legs are mutually laterally offset. The legs 60 are compressed resiliently towards one another as the portion 38 is forced into the hole 42, in mutually contiguous fricti.onal. relatiorlship.

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Claims (4)

The embodiments of the invention for which an exclusive property or privilege is claimed are as follows:-
1. A circuit board edge connector comprising an insulating housing defining an elongate cavity for receiving a daughter: circuit board, the cavity having a base, a pair of parallel rows of passages extending through the base and communicating with the cavity on opposite sides thereof, and a plurality of electrical terminals each mounted in a respective passage and each having a mating portion in the cavity, a laterally offset portion adjacent to the inner face of the base, and a connecting tail located beyond the outer face of the base and being laterally offset, by virtue of the offset portion, from the mating portion;
wherein each mating portion is spaced from that wall of the cavity, which is adjacent to the mating portion, to permit the insertion of a tool member between the wall and the mating portion to engage the offset portion of the terminal; each terminal being provided between its connecting tail and the outer face of the base, with an enlarged laterally resilient mounting portion adapted to be force fitted into a hole in a mother circuit board by driving the tool member against the offset portion of the terminal.
2. A connector according to Claim 1, which is arranged in combination with a tool having tool members each dimensioned to be inserted between the adjacent wall of the cavity and the mating portion adjacent thereto, a tool base, and a mother circuit board having a row of internally metallically plated holes into each of which a respective mounting portion can be force fitted, the number and arrangement of which holes corresponds to the number and arrangement of the connecting tails of the terminals, the tool base having openings for receiving the tail portions;
whereby the connector can be mounted on the mother board by disposing the latter on the tool base with each hole of the mother board in alignment with an opening in the tool base, inserting each connecting tail through a respective hole in the mother board to extend into the opening aligned therewith, inserting the tool members into the cavity of the housing to engage the offset portions of the terminals, and applying a force to the tool members to drive the mounting portions into the holes in the mother board.
3. A connector according to Claim 1 or 2, wherein each mating portion is in the form of a cantilever beam extending substantially normally of the base of the cavity, each mounting portion comprising a pair of legs joined at their ends and having surfaces which face one another in a shear plane between the legs and with respect to which the legs are mutually laterally offset, the legs being such as to be resiliently compressed towards one another in mutually contiguous frictional relationship, as the mounting portion is forced into the hole in the mother circuit board.
4. A connector according to Claim 1 or 2, wherein the mating portion of each terminal extends substantially perpendicularly with respect to the offset portion and is connected to one side thereof, the mounting portion of the terminal being connected to the offset portion by a rectilinear shank portion which is received in the respective passage and is connected to the opposite side of the offset portion, the shank and the connecting tail of the terminal being in axial alignment with one another and being parallel to the mating portion and extending perpendicularly with respect to the offset portion.
CA000379033A 1980-06-23 1981-06-04 Circuit board edge connector Expired CA1150377A (en)

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ATE10243T1 (en) 1984-11-15
SG53287G (en) 1988-01-15
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