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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 20, 2000
Filed:
Jun. 10, 1997
Jeffrey Scott Campbell, Binghamton, NY (US);
James Thomas Holton, Endwell, NY (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A connection device interconnecting a pair of circuit cards or circuit boards or circuit card to a circuit board is provided for connecting the circuitry on one of the cards or boards to the circuitry on the other of the cards or boards and wherein each of the cards and/or boards has contact pads. The circuit device includes a sheet of flexible circuit having a first and a second end, and a first set of contacts arranged to correspond to the contact pads on one of said circuit boards or cards and a second set of contacts arranged to contact the contact pads on the other card or board. Circuit traces connect the first and second contacts. A flexible circuit support member is provided which includes a body and a frame slidably mounted on said body for movement toward and away from a first face on the body and having an elastomeric member carried thereby. The body also has a second face extending from and substantially normal to the first face, with an elastomeric member mounted thereon. The flexible circuit is carried by the frame and the second face. The first end of the flexible circuit terminates on the surface of the frame spaced from the terminate edge thereof, preferably by a lip extending along the terminate edge of the face. Fasteners interconnect the boards or cards to the connection device.