Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Kameki Ishimoto

Hiroshi Yamaya

Kazuyasu Sugimoto

Mikio Yasuda

Isamu Chimoto

Minoru Shiozaki

A printed circuit board device comprises bar-like connectors made of a metal material and having a predetermined length and a predetermined width. Each bar-like connector has a plating of a highly electrically conductive, anti-corrosion metal coated over the side surface(s) thereof but not the end surfaces. Each bar-like connector may be more smooth on the side surface(s) than on the end surfaces. Each bar-like connector is fixedly connected at both ends by an electrically conductive bonding agent to a pair of lands on a printed circuit board, respectively, to provide electrical conduction between the two lands. Accordingly, connection faults caused by the Manhattan phenomenon are eliminated and the cost of SMT production is reduced.

Printed circuit board device with surface-mounted bar-like connectors

A connector assembly for a printed circuit board having electrical contacts on at least one surface of its edge portion, comprising a housing structure having spaced parallel side wall portions at least one of which has electrical contact elements carried on the inner face thereof, and at least one elastic retaining member partly positioned within the housing structure and in engagement with at least one of the side wall portions of the housing structure for being in pressing engagement with the printed circuit board and thereby holding the circuit board in a predetermined fixed position having the contacts in close contact with the contact elements on the housing structure.

Connector assembly for printed circuit board

An improved connector assembly for use with a printed wiring board is provided, composed of at least two segments which are initially separate from each other and which are assembled together with contact elements carried thereon. The contact elements are preferably produced from an initially unitary blank having an excess portion which is removed, upon completion of assemblage of the segments, from these portions of the blank which constitute the contact elements. The connector assembly is compatible with both of single-sided and double-sided printed wiring boards.

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Ichinomiya, Japan

Kameki Ishimoto