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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 18, 1991
Filed:
Jun. 29, 1990
Glenn E Bennett, Glendale, AZ (US);
John E Lucius, Glendale, AZ (US);
Roger N Polk, Glendale, AZ (US);
Frederick H Rider, Glendale, AZ (US);
David S Szczesny, Glendale, AZ (US);
AMP Incorporated, Harrisburg, PA (US);
Abstract
An assembly (42) includes plurality of receptacle contacts (46,44) mounted to a clevis block (66) between respective pairs of salients (86) and along a shaft (64) extending through the salients. The receptacle contacts (46,44) are incrementally moveable after assembly and thus define a floating separable interface for an array of blade shaped contacts (122,124) when assembly (42) is mounted within a card cage (10) and blade shaped contacts are along rearward ends of bus bars (118,116) mounted on upper and lower edges (108,112) of daughter cards (102) insertable into the card cage, defining a system for distributing electrical power from the card cage to the daughter cards. The receptacle contacts (46,44) are float mounted to be easily incrementally moved upon blade receipt during card module (100) insertion, and also easily incrementally moved after blade mating when power connections are established, to then permit precision adjustment of rear card edge (104) in two dimensions so that card edge connectors (106) thereon become aligned with corresponding backplane connectors ( 16) for subsequent high density signal terminal mating.