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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 20, 2004
Filed:
Aug. 27, 1997
Atsuhito Noda, Hachioji, JP;
Shigeyuki Hoshikawa, Yamato, JP;
Molex Incorporated, Lisle, IL (US);
Abstract
An improved press-fit pin having an elastically deformable area to be press-fitted in a selected through hole in a printed circuit board, the elastically deformable area comprising two parallel, opposite beams connected by an connecting deformable bridge thereby permitting the outer corners of each beam to engage the inner wall of the plated through hole while permitting the connecting deformable bridge to be deformed. The connecting deformable bridge comprises, in cross-section, an connecting flat section extending perpendicular to the opposite beams and two oblique sections extending outward from the opposite ends of the upper flat of the connecting flat section to be contiguous to the opposite beams The press-fit pin has a connecting flat section in its pressure-deformable area in place of the “V”-shaped area of a conventional press-fit pin, thus eliminating the necessity of forming acute angles in the die-and-punch.