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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 07, 2023
Filed:
Mar. 03, 2022
Dell Products L.p., Round Rock, TX (US);
Arnold Thomas Schnell, Hutto, TX (US);
Ahsan Habib, Round Rock, TX (US);
Man Tak Ho, Austin, TX (US);
Dell Products L.P., Round Rock, TX (US);
Abstract
An edge connector for coplanar coupling of two printed circuit boards (PCBs) comprises an elongated body and two end structures. The elongated body has a compression contact space and two PCB contact surfaces, each PCB contact surface having a plurality of contact positions. Portions of compression contacts positioned in the compression contact space extend through contact positions on both PCB contact surfaces. When a PCB edge surface contacts a PCB contact surface of the elongated body, an edge connection on the PCB edge surface contacts a compression contact, forming an electrical connection. Each end structure has two contact pairs, wherein each contact pair has attaching features that couple the edge connector to a PCB to maintain the electrical connection. When two PCBs are coupled to the edge connector, the compression contacts form electric paths for conducting power and/or communication between the two PCBs.