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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 23, 1978
Filed:
May. 13, 1977
Applicant:
Inventor:
David J Crimmins, Stockton, NJ (US);
Assignee:
Aries Electronics, Inc., Frenchtown, NJ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01R / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
339 19 ;
Abstract
A shorting plug for selectively interconnecting contacts of an integrated circuit socket includes a housing for supporting a terminal pin assembly including a plurality of terminal pins corresponding to the number of contacts of the integrated circuit socket, with the terminal pins being electrically shorted together by electrically conductive bridges. Each bridge includes a removable portion that is partially pre-sheared so as to enable the removable portion to be broken out to arrange the paths of electricity in the terminal pin assembly in any desired pattern.