Amp LLC

The Whitaker Corporation

Shane D Northcraft

Mark R Thumma

David James Fabian

Timothy Lee Kocher

Daniel Lee Gorenc

Douglas R Sarver

John A Pastor

Michael A Woren

A surface mountable electrical connector 10 for use with a circuit board 70 of the type having one or more rows 74,82 of closely spaced trace termini 76,84 on the mounting surface 72 of the board 70, the connector 10 including a housing 12 having one or more rows of closely spaced electrical terminal members 30,46 therein. The terminal members 30,46 include elongate arm portions 36,52 extending from the housing 12 to surface mount contact sections 38,54 at free ends thereof. Each terminal associated with an outer row 74 of circuit board termini 76 includes a portion immediately adjacent and inwardly from the contact section 38, which is abruptly directed away from the mounting surface 72 to minimize wicking of solder to a nearby inner row termini 84. Some terminal members 46 include a registration portion 56 proximate free ends thereof and directed upwardly away from the mounting surface 72 of the board 70, to be received in an associated recess 20 extending into the mounting face 18 of the housing 12, thereby maintaining the registration of the elongate arms 52 and the accurate spacing of the surface mount contact sections 54 during handling and mounting.

Surface mountable card edge connector

An arrangement for securing an electrical connector (10) to a printed circuit board (14) includes a planar barbed holding device (12) installed within a recess (38) of a mounting portion (36) on the connector for subsequent insertion into an appropriately aligned cavity (40) in the printed circuit board. The recess is formed with an inner wall (62) for limiting insertion of the holding device and depth compensation protrusions (64) are provided on the inner wall to insure proper orientation and seating of the holding device within a required tolerance range.

Connector to circuit board securing arrangement with holding device

Improved locking eyelets (2) for securing electrical components to a circuit board by support pylons. A surface-mount electrical connector (40) is anchored to a circuit board (60) by pylons (20) and eyelets (2) mounted at the tip of each pylon (20). Each eyelet (2) is provided with a number of elongate members (8) to allow one-way insertion of a pylon (20) therein. When an eyelet (2) is mounted on a pylon (20), and the pylon (20) is inserted through the circuit board, the pylon (20) causes eyelet (2) to expand at one end, thereby locking both eyelet (2) and pylon (20) within the circuit board.

Pylon actuated locking eyelet

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New Cumberland, PA, United States of America

Shane D Northcraft