Delphi Technologies, Inc.

Packard Hughes Interconnect Company

Terry Shing Wang

John Steven Szalay

Haim Feigenbaum

Blake F Woith

Eric Dean Jensen

Christopher M Schreiber

Robert E Daugherty

Scott P Cohen

Everett Lacy Benze

Apparatus for holding and securing an electrical module, IC, or other electronic components to a PCB that is easy to use and manipulate. The apparatus utilizes a transitional element to hold the electrical module or IC and then secure itself to the PCB using fasteners or the like. Preferred methods for assembling and using the apparatus are disclosed.

De-mountable, solderless in-line lead module package with interface

A shim is provided which can be used in a connector system, whereby a flexible connector having contact surfaces is compressed against an electronic circuit board by a resilient material. The shim is incorporated between the resilient material and the flexible connector contact surfaces so as to uniformly transfer the load from the resilient material to the contact surfaces. Moreover, the shim prevents the resilient material from taking a set and the flexible connector from draping when operating under hot and/or high load conditions.

Bump contact force concentration system and method

A Z-axis electrical interconnect includes a flexible printed circuit folded into a U-shape. The Z-axis electrical interconnect also includes a plurality of raised interconnection members arranged on the flexible printed circuit in a predetermined pattern and a circuit trace interconnecting the pair of raised interconnection members. The Z-axis electrical interconnect further includes a spring fixedly positioned on the flexible printed circuit to maintain the U-shape.

Z-axis electrical interconnect

The connector assembly includes a housing that carries a flexible circuit member and two slide members with slide cam surfaces. A daughter board is secured to one surface on the housing and is electrically connected to the flexible circuit member. The cam surfaces on the two slide members engage cams on a mother board. Movement of the slide member cam surfaces relative to the cams on the mother board moves the housing relative to the mother board and forms an electrical connection between the flexible circuit member and the mother board. A linkage system moves both slide members to form and maintain the electrical connection between the flexible circuit member and the mother board.

Connector assembly

A connection system requiring little or no force to mechanically and electrically connect a printed circuit board to a flexible printed circuit. The connection system includes a flat and rigid carrier having an upper surface upon which is affixed a flexible printed circuit having an electrically conductive raised area in the form of a plurality of raised dots. At the upper surface, the carrier has a groove formed therein, wherein the raised dots are located in the groove. An elastomeric insert is situated in the groove in abutting relation to the flexible printed circuit behind the raised dots. A rigid printed circuit board has an electrically conductive area in the form of a plurality of pads. The printed circuit board is inserted into the groove, whereupon the elastomer resiliently compresses so as to press the plurality of raised dots into tight electrical contact with the plurality of pads. In a first preferred embodiment the printed circuit board is inserted vertically with slight force. In a second preferred embodiment, the printed circuit board is inserted at an acute angle with zero insertion force and then rotated to the vertical.

Printed circuit board to flexible printed circuit connection system

A clamping mechanism (10) for connecting a printed circuit board (12) having a plurality of electrically conductive pads (14) to a flexible printed circuit having a plurality of electrically conductive raised dots (18). A housing (20) having a mouth (22) is located upon the printed circuit board at the plurality of pads. A pair of L-shaped leaf springs (28, 28') are connected with the housing. A cam body (40) having a rounded cam surface (42), an opposite grasping lever (44), and a pair of opposing first and second flat surfaces (46, 48) therebetween is rotatably connected to the leaf springs. A first stiffener (58) is attached to the flexible printed circuit opposite the raised dots thereof which is configured to alignably fit with the shape of the mouth of the housing to thereby align the raised dots with the pads. A second stiffener (54) is provided at the printed circuit board opposite the housing.

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Irvine, CA, United States of America

Terry Shing Wang