Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Kazuyasu Sugimoto

Hiroshi Yamaya

Kameki Ishimoto

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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Kadoma, Japan

Kazuyasu Sugimoto