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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 13, 2001
Filed:
Dec. 14, 1998
Guenter Fendt, Schrobenhausen, DE;
Richard Baur, Pfaffenhofen, DE;
Michael Bischoff, Adelschlag, DE;
Temic Telefunken microelectronic GmbH, Heilbronn, DE;
Abstract
A contact bridge arrangement in a housing of an electronic assembly provides a simplified electrical interconnection of circuit boards while avoiding the need of electrical plugs, sockets and connector cables for connecting the circuit boards. The contact bridge includes an insulating block provided on the floor of the housing, and a plurality of conducting connectors embedded in the insulating block. First electrical contacts, such as contact pads with holes therein, are provided on the circuit boards, and engage the second electrical contacts in the form of contact pins provided by the free ends of the conducting connectors protruding from the insulating block. Assembling the arrangement simply requires pressing the circuit boards onto the contact pins of the contact bridge. The insulating block of the contact bridge may have a step configuration providing two offset flat support surfaces on which two circuit boards may be supported one above the other with a spacing therebetween.