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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 04, 1998
Filed:
Dec. 26, 1995
Eric T Sexton, Budd Lake, NJ (US);
Lucent Technologies Inc., Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Abstract
A relatively large printed circuit board includes a pair of stiffening members for preventing bending of the board during handling. The stiffening members are disposed along opposite sides of the board and include edge portions abutting against the board side surfaces and forming planar side extensions of the board. The member edge portions adjoin lateral extensions which are off-set from the plane of the edge portions and which lie flat against a substrate major surface and there secured to the substrate. A beam is rigidly secured to the lateral extension of each member by means of spaced apart posts. The beam overlies the lateral extension and functions, in combination with the lateral extension and post, as a lattice-type I-beam.