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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 29, 2000
Filed:
Dec. 16, 1997
Michael G Kossor, Kenilworth, NJ (US);
Lucent Technologies Inc., Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Abstract
A tool for implementing a non-destructive separation of electrical components from one another. The tool has a handle part and a pair of legs extending from the handle part with a certain spacing between distal ends of the legs. The leg end spacing corresponds to a distance between a pair of holes in one electrical component, e.g., holes in mounting flanges of an electrical device whose terminals are soldered on a wire board, or holes in a wire board that is joined to another wire board via mating pin connectors soldered on the boards. The leg ends are constructed to engage the one component once the leg ends are inserted in corresponding holes in the one component, and the handle part is arranged to be manipulated to separate the first component from the second component when the leg ends engage the one component.