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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 23, 2018
Filed:
Aug. 04, 2014
Tyco Electronics Corporation, Berwyn, PA (US);
Jeffery W. Mason, North Attleboro, MA (US);
Wayne Stewart Alden, III, Whitman, MA (US);
Chuan Yue, North Attleboro, MA (US);
TE Connectivity Corporation, Berwyn, PA (US);
Abstract
A flexible connector includes a flexible substrate having a plurality of conductive pads and a plurality of conductive polymer springfingers. Each conductive polymer springfinger extends between a first end and a second end. The conductive polymer springfingers are mechanically and electrically connected to corresponding conductive pads at the corresponding second ends and the conductive polymer springfingers are configured to be mechanically and electrically connected to conductors of an electrical component at the corresponding first ends. The conductive polymer springfingers are internally conductive and compressible between the first and second ends. The conductive polymer springfingers are discrete and separated by gaps. The flexible substrate is flexible to allow the second ends of the conductive polymer springfingers to be non-coplanar and to allow the first ends of the conductive polymer springfingers to be non-coplanar for electrical connection with the electrical component.