Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha

Einosuke Adachi

Satoru Hayashi

Hiroyuki Nakajima

Yasumichi Hatanaka

Takashi Takahama

Tutomu Kazama

Kikuo Sakita

Kiroyuki Nakajima

A method of preparing a large-current printed circuit board comprises inserting a fastener with a bottom flange in a through-hole formed in a printed circuit board so that the bottom flange is engaged with a surface of the printed circuit board, putting a washer having substantially the same outer diameter so the flange around the fastener at the other surface of the board, forming a radial extension at the outer side of the washer by caulking the fastener, whereby the fastener is fixed to the printed circuit board by means of the radial extension and the bottom flange wherein the washer is interposed between the radial extension and the printed circuit board.

Method of preparing a large-current printed circuit board

Method of fastening a busbar to a large-current printed circuit board

Printed circuit boards with busbars for providing large current interconnections are disclosed. The printed circuit board 6 has through holes through each of which a cylindrical fixture member 12 having a top nut portion 12b extends to be secured to the board 6 by means of the bottom flange 12p and the radial outward extension 12a formed by a pressing or caulking step. Each one of the leads 4 of circuit elements 3 has a pin-shaped end portion having a male thread 4a formed thereon which engages with the nut portion 12b of a fixture member, wherein the pin-shaped portion 4a of each lead extends through a through hole formed in the busbars 1 so that the busbars 1 are securely held between the fixture members 12 and the stoppers (radial extensions) 4b formed at the base of the pin-shaped portions 4a of the leads 4. Alternatively, the busbars 1 are held between two radial outward extensions 12a and 12A of each one of the fixture member (FIG. 5), or are held together with the board 6 between the flange 12p and the radial extension 12a thereof (FIG. 9). The busbars may be bent and deformed to realize a three-dimensional busbar interconnection pattern (FIG. 10).

Printed circuit board with busbar interconnections

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Amagasaki, Japan

Einosuke Adachi