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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:
Dec. 01, 1981
Filed:
Nov. 24, 1980
Applicant:
Inventor:
David R Dines, Oklahoma City, OK (US);
Assignee:
Western Electric Company, Inc., New York, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H05K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
339 / ; 430311 ; 430317 ; 427 96 ; 174 685 ;
Abstract
A protective coating (13) on a printed circuit board (10) is formed to extend into spaces (22) between spaced contact pads (16) adhered along an edge portion of the board. The protective coating is selected to be thicker than the thickness of the contact pads to provide fillets between the contact pads that function to form pockets (33) with the contact pads (16) being at the bottom of the pockets. When a multi-terminal connector (21) is assembled on the edge of the circuit board, the terminals (18) tend to fall into and seat within the pockets.