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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:
Dec. 14, 1999
Filed:
Dec. 17, 1997
Applicant:
Inventor:
Shuji Kajinuma, Yamato, JP;
Assignee:
The Whitaker Corporation, Wilmington, DE (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01R / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
439 60 ; 439496 ;
Abstract
FPC connector (20) has multiple beam-shaped primary contacts (50) arranged on one side of an opening (30a) in housing (30) and multiple U-shaped secondary contacts (60) arranged along the other side of the opening. A tongue (45) of outer housing (40) together with the contact edge of the FPC (10) is inserted in the U-shaped portions of these U-shaped secondary contacts (60). This results in the forming of electrical contact between contact points (65, 53) of the contacts (60) and the primary contacts (50) with the conductive pads (12, 13) arranged in two rows along the contacting edge of the FPC (10).