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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 27, 1994
Filed:
Apr. 02, 1993
Applicant:
Inventor:
Joseph A Roberts, Grafton, NH (US);
Assignee:
Miraco, Inc., Nashua, NH (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01R / ; H01R / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
439632 ; 439325 ;
Abstract
A connector for connecting flexible circuit conductors to contact pads of a PC board edge connector having a snap together housing of modular design having leaf springs used to resiliently bias the flexible circuits for contacting the pads, a slot for receiving the PC board edge connector, coil springs adjacent the slot for retaining the inserted PC board edge connector in the slot an alignment arrangement for alignment of the conductors and pads, protection for the free end regions of the flexible circuits and strain relief features, the connector being usable with conductors spaced 0.3 mm or less apart, and being easily assembled and disassembled.