Framatome Connectors International

Dominique Etiembre

Jacky Thenaisie

Patrick Champion

A connector comprises a housing of insulating material and a number of right-angled contact elements arranged in rows and columns. The contact elements are provided with a contact end, an intermediate elbow part and a termination for connection to a printed circuit board. The housing includes a first housing section accommodating the contact ends of the contact elements, and a second housing section accommodating the elbow parts. The second housing section comprises upper and lower walls, and support walls extending mainly parallel to the upper and lower walls between adjacent rows of contact elements for supporting the intermediate elbow parts of the rows of contact elements. The second housing section is provided with at least one intermediate wall extending transverse to the support walls between the elbow parts of two adjacent columns of contact elements.

Connector having a plurality of right angled contact elements

The connecting coupler for a printed-circuit board is inserted in two housings (3, 4) made of electrically insulating material of connectors placed one on each side of the printed-circuit board (1) and each bearing a contact member (5, 6), each contact member (5, 6) comprises an internal cavity (7, 8) open to that face of the insulating housing (3, 4) that rests against the printed-circuit board (1). The coupler further comprises a contact piece (9) in the shape of a rod, the opposite ends of which can engage in the respective cavities (7, 8) of the two contact members (5, 6), while the central part (10) of this contact piece (9) is forcibly inserted into a hole (11) in the printed-circuit board (1). This coupler allows couplings to printed-circuit boards of varying thickness.

Connecting coupler for a printed-circuit board

The invention concerns a process for producing a modular connection element (C.sub.0) from independent elementary connectors (4.sub.1 to 4.sub.8), having openings. The shielding elements (5d) are made from sheet metal. The surfaces of the overall connection element (C.sub.0) thus obtained are covered by shielding elements (5d) and elementary connectors (4.sub.1 to 4.sub.8) are joined together by pushing of specific zones of shielding elements (50d to 52d) into the openings. One application of the invention would be connection elements (C.sub.0) between printed circuit mother and/or daughter boards.

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Spay, France

Dominique Etiembre