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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:
Nov. 21, 1995
Filed:
Jul. 22, 1994
Applicant:
Inventor:
Mark P August, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Assignee:
Apple Computer, Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H05K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
174267 ; 174250 ; 174260 ; 361767 ; 361772 ; 361774 ; 439 59 ;
Abstract
A printed circuit board is installable into a slot of a cardedge connector such that contacts of the connector ride along electrically conductive, raised pads of the card. Each pad includes frontal edge segments which are inclined generally rearwardly toward a center axis of the pad so that if any of the contacts are laterally offset with respect to the center axis of its respective pad during installation, the offset contact will be re-directed toward the center axis in response to making engagement with one of the frontal edge segments.