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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 14, 1993
Filed:
Aug. 25, 1992
Arnold E Gurley, Evanston, IL (US);
Littelfuse, Inc., Des Plaines, IL (US);
Abstract
A method of mass producing plug-in diode units includes the steps of punching areas of metal from a sheet metal body and forming the remaining areas of the body to leave longitudinally spaced, confronting pairs of laterally extending terminal blades having plug-in terminal end portions extending in different planes and opposite diode-mounting end portions in the same plane connected by webs or links to the rest of the sheet metal body. Diode elements are then soldered or welded between the diode-mounting end portions of each pair of terminal blades, and an insulating housing is molded around the diode-mounting end portions of each pair of terminal blades and the diode element secured thereto. The connecting links of each pair of terminal blades then are severed, leaving exposed severed portions of the connecting links which form accessible test points for testing the continuity of the diode element within each housing even after the terminal blades are plugged into a connector block.