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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 04, 1987
Filed:
Feb. 24, 1986
Applicant:
Inventors:
Robert M Fife, Attleboro, MA (US);
Dennis Ross, New Bedford, MA (US);
Richard F Shaw, N. Attleboro, MA (US);
Assignee:
Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01R / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
361413 ; 361415 ; 439325 ; 439631 ; 439 61 ;
Abstract
An edgeboard connector having a large number of contacts accommodated in a housing cavity is adapted to mount one or more printed circuit boards having lesser numbers of contacts pads and to assure that the contact pads on the boards are electrically engaged with predetermined ones of the connector contacts by attaching one or more detachable members to the housing within the cavity to engage lateral edges of the printed circuit boards as they are inserted into the connector cavity to position the boards in the cavity.