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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:
Aug. 29, 2000
Filed:
Jun. 23, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Spencer Chen, Buena Park, CA (US);
Thomas R Tsai, Tu-Chen, TW;
Assignee:
Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd., Taipei Hsien, TW;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01R / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
439567 ;
Abstract
A board lock includes a base section fixed to an electrical device, such as a connector, and an elastically diameter-contractible barrel section extending from the base section beyond a face of the electrical device. The barrel has an external threading. The barrel has a section of nominal diameter substantially equal to or greater than an inner diameter of a hole defined in a circuit board whereby the barrel is elastically contractible to be inserted into the hole which generates a spring-back force driving the external threading to engage with the inner diameter thereby securing the electrical device to the substrate.