Buckbee-mears Company

Electronics Stamping Corporation

Bmc Industries, Inc.

Electronic Stamping Corporation

Bucklee-mears Company

Leo Walter

Helmut W Greul

Charles E Ring

Bryan R Seppala

James P Marnie

Patric M Kennelly

A compliant electrical connector pin has opposed convex surfaces to grip the surfaces of a hole in a circuit board, the pin having a compliant region so that the pin compresses to reduce the cross sectional area of the pin as the pin is inserted into the hole with the pin having a transition zone proximate the compliant region with the transition zone and the compliant region sufficiently interrelated so that the transition zone partially expands the hole in the circuit board before the hole in the circuit board begins to compress the compliant region of the pin with the compliant region and the hole coacting to provide a low resistance electrical connection between mating surfaces of the hole and the pin without rupturing the material on the side walls of the hole with the compliant pin structure being able to withstand vibration without fracturing.

Compliant pin

A circuit board stiffener includes an elongated stiffening member adapted to extend over the board surface in spaced relation to that surface; the member has contact surfaces adapted to engage one side of the board, and bendable retainer structure to retain the member in position relative to the board. The retainer structure may comprise bendable arms that project through board openings to be bent at the opposite side of the board, and to be locked in position by solder at that opposite side. The member may have a zig-zag cross section to enhance its stiffness.

Circuit board stiffening

A compliant electrical connector has a pin with opposed convex surfaces to grip the boundary of a hole, the pin having at least one groove sunk in the side thereof so that the pin forms a flexure that flexes to reduce the cross sectional area of the groove as the pin is inserted into the hole.

Compliant electrical connector

An electrical bus strip to receive a terminal post comprises

Low cost bus strip

A compliant electrical connector has a pin with edges to grip the boundary of a hole, the pin having at least one groove sunk in the side thereof so that the pin forms a flexure that flexes to reduce the cross sectional area of the groove as the pin is inserted into the hole.

Compliant backplane electrical connector

A double contact electrical bus strip to receive a terminal pin or post comprises:

Double contact bus strip

A clip operable to connect an electrical terminal post with a bus strip comprises:

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Palos Verdes Peninsula, CA, United States of America

Leo Walter