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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 15, 2005
Filed:
Dec. 23, 2002
William Louis Brodsky, Binghamton, NY (US);
Dennis Hurley Byrne, Tucson, AZ (US);
Alex Chliwnyj, Tucson, AZ (US);
David Michael Davis, Tucson, AZ (US);
James Mitchell Karp, Tucson, AZ (US);
George G. Zamora, Vail, AZ (US);
William Louis Brodsky, Binghamton, NY (US);
Dennis Hurley Byrne, Tucson, AZ (US);
Alex Chliwnyj, Tucson, AZ (US);
David Michael Davis, Tucson, AZ (US);
James Mitchell Karp, Tucson, AZ (US);
George G. Zamora, Vail, AZ (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
An electrical connection releasably, repeatably electrically couples with respect to a matching connection of a portable cartridge. A substrate in the portable cartridge has electrical contacts on a facing surface of a flex cable termination mounted on a backing plate. A matching circuitized flexible substrate has electrical contacts on a facing surface thereof, which are arranged to match the portable cartridge electrical contacts when in a face-to-face relationship, and is mounted on a compression element with protruding compression members. Elongated electrical contacts are registered with two adjacent individual compression members. A loader exerts a normal force to the cartridge to compress the compression element and create non-wiping contact between the facing electrical contacts.