Ncr Corporation

Ray L Lawter

David C Wills

Barry D Briggs

Kenneth L Shooter

A low cost flexible connector for connecting multiple electrical conductors of an electrical component such as, for example, a gas discharge panel or flat flexible printed circuit harnesses, to associated conductors in a printed circuit board is disclosed in which the connector comprises a one-piece elongated plastic clamping member having lever portions joined at a fulcrum portion. Compression of the lever portions around the fulcrum portion opens a pair of jaw portions a distance sufficient to receive a printed circuit board and its associated conductors, together with the conductors of the electrical component. The lever portions are interconnected by an integral pressure portion which normally urges the lever portions in an outward direction to provide a constant clamping pressure between the electrical conductors of the circuit board and those of the electrical component. Several different embodiments of the pressure portion are disclosed.

Electrical connector

There is disclosed a low cost manually-operated compact card reader for reading magnetically or similarly encoded record cards or the like, the reader including a guide support assembly for guiding and supporting a manually inserted card, a carriage slidably mounted on the support assembly and engaged by the inserted card for movement thereby to an actuated position, an energy storing drive member secured to the carriage and operated by the movement of the carriage to said actuated position to return the carriage and the card past a reading member, and a velocity limiting device including a rotating member secured to the carriage for limiting the return movement of the carriage and the card to a constant velocity past the reading member.

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Zanesville, OH, United States of America

Ray L Lawter