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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:
Oct. 31, 2000
Filed:
Nov. 26, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
August O Englert, Waukesha, WI (US);
Paul C Schanen, Waukesha, WI (US);
Thomas R Murray, Delafield, WI (US);
Brian D Johnston, Oconomowoc, WI (US);
Darrell J Miller, Mukwonago, WI (US);
Assignee:
General Electric Company, Milwaukee, WI (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01R / ; H01R / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
439 91 ; 439 66 ;
Abstract
An elastomeric connector apparatus for a computed tomography system is described. In one embodiment, the elastomeric connector apparatus electrically connects a detector module flexible cable to a data acquisition backplane. Flexible cable and backplane connector pads are electrically connected with an elastomeric connector. The elastomeric connector apparatus allows the low level analog outputs from the detector module photodiodes to be transmitted to the backplane without a large pin connector array.