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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 26, 1994
Filed:
Aug. 07, 1992
Robert E Marshall, State College, PA (US);
Elco Corporation, Huntingdon, PA (US);
Abstract
An improved connector for orthogonally mounting circuit boards. The preferred embodiment of the present invention includes 40 female contacts which protrude from the two coplanar triangular surfaces. An additional 40 male contacts are located within channels in triangular projections. Further, the preferred embodiment of the present invention has an additional 16 leaf contacts located adjacent to the inner walls of the triangular projections. Each leaf contact protrudes from the inner wall of the triangular projections and comes into electrical contact with a corresponding leaf contact of a mating connector as the leaf contacts of each connector slide past one another.