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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 02, 1985
Filed:
Sep. 17, 1982
Walter F Essinger, Thousand Oaks, CA (US);
Sigmatron Associates, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Abstract
A mounting unit for a thin-film EL panel includes a substrate provided with cross-grid electrodes on the back surface thereof having aligned terminals located along the marginal sides thereof and a printed circuit board provided with a plurality of conductive paths on the front surface thereof having aligned end portions located along the side portions thereof. The printed circuit board is provided with plated-through connecting holes and routing holes. Some of the conductive paths on the front surface of the printed circuit board are connected to some of the connecting holes and others of the conductive paths are connected to the routing holes. The back surface of the printed circuit board is provided with conductive paths connecting the routing holes to others of the connecting holes. Plug connectors for electrical circuit means are positioned on the back of the printed circuit board with their leads respectively connected to the connecting holes. The printed circuit board and the substrate are held together with strips of conductive elastomeric connectors sandwiched between the aligned end portions of the conductive paths on the front surface of the printed circuit board and the aligned terminals of the electrodes on the back surface of the substrate.