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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 22, 2003
Filed:
Oct. 05, 2001
Eric D. Jensen, Irvine, CA (US);
Christopher M. Schreiber, Lake Elsinore, CA (US);
Terry S. Wang, Irvine, CA (US);
Scott P. Cohen, Costa Mesa, CA (US);
Robert E. Daugherty, Irvine, CA (US);
Blake F. Woith, Santa Ana, CA (US);
Delphi Technologies, Inc., Troy, MI (US);
Abstract
A shim is provided which can be used in a connector system, whereby a flexible connector having contact surfaces is compressed against an electronic circuit board by a resilient material. The shim is incorporated between the resilient material and the flexible connector contact surfaces so as to uniformly transfer the load from the resilient material to the contact surfaces. Moreover, the shim prevents the resilient material from taking a set and the flexible connector from draping when operating under hot and/or high load conditions.