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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 04, 2003
Filed:
Oct. 05, 2001
Brooks H Danley, El Paso, TX (US);
Steven Douglas Thomson, El Paso, TX (US);
Duane Zedric Collins, El Paso, TX (US);
Paul Alfred Behrendsen, El Paso, TX (US);
Delphi Technologies, Inc., Troy, MI (US);
Abstract
An actuator housing isolator plate is used in an actuator array having two or more actuator assemblies connected to each other by a flexible circuit. The isolator plate prevents the actuator housings, in which the actuator assemblies are disposed, from contacting the flexible circuit. Thus, the likelihood of the actuator housings shorting out the flexible circuit is eliminated. The isolator plate further includes isolator posts that prevent the flexible circuit from contacting itself when it is folded over on top of the actuator housings.