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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 25, 2012
Filed:
Jul. 23, 2009
Keith Bryan Hardin, Lexington, KY (US);
Richard Herman Dressman, Lexington, KY (US);
John Thomas Fessler, Lexington, KY (US);
Paul Kevin Hall, Lexington, KY (US);
Brian Lee Naily, Nicholasville, KY (US);
Keith Bryan Hardin, Lexington, KY (US);
Richard Herman Dressman, Lexington, KY (US);
John Thomas Fessler, Lexington, KY (US);
Paul Kevin Hall, Lexington, KY (US);
Brian Lee Naily, Nicholasville, KY (US);
Lexmark International, Inc., Lexington, KY (US);
Abstract
A Z-directed connector component for insertion into a printed circuit board and providing electrical connections to internal conductive planes contained with the PCB and/or to external conductive traces on the surface of the PCB. In one embodiment the Z-directed component is housed within the thickness of the PCB allowing other components to be mounted over it. The body of the Z-directed connector component may contain one or more conductors and may include one or more surface channels or wells extending along at least a portion of the length of the body. Methods for mounting Z-directed components are also provided.