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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6128200 | Butt-joint CPU mounting structure A butt-joint CPU mounting structure includes a connector having two opposite faces. Each face has a receiving slot disposed therein adapted to respectively and receivingly engage with a CPU module and an edge of a main board of a computer thereby connecti... | 10/03/2000 |
| 6113396 | Electrical connector An electrical connector comprises an insulative housing defining a number of passageways as well as a mating face, and a number of conductive terminals received in the corresponding passageways. Each terminal includes a contact section, a securing section... | 09/05/2000 |
| 6094358 | Card stiffener optimized for connector engagement A method and implementing system are described in which planar board or motherboard stiffness is provided through a support structure mounted to the planar. The support structure includes support bars connected together to form a stiffening structure for ... | 07/25/2000 |
| 6091475 | Connector for display inspection of a liquid crystal display panel and method for the preparation thereof Proposed is a novel connector for display inspection of a liquid crystal display panel, by which the display panel per se can be inspected before mounting of a driver IC chip thereon to greatly improve the productivity of the display inspection. The inven... | 07/18/2000 |
| 6089904 | FFC connector A FFC connector comprises a dielectric housing having top and bottom faces. The top face defines an elongate slot extending into the housing and the bottom face defining an entrance in communication with the elongate slot for insertion of a FFC cable. A p... | 07/18/2000 |
| 6043988 | Hard disk drive and hard disk apparatus having bus and its installing method When a plurality of hard disks are connected by using a backplane, in order to enable a low-noise installation of the bus and a high-density installation of the hard disk to be simultaneously realized, a signal line of the bus and connectors are installed... | 03/28/2000 |
| 6036519 | Circuit card connector utilizing flexible film circuitry A circuit card connector utilizes flexible circuitry and a card-engagement assembly which applies a normal force to the contact pads of the circuit card. The connector includes two opposing connector end portions and a card-engagement assembly extending t... | 03/14/2000 |
| 6021049 | PCI and ISA adapter card guide pincher A retention device for retaining the forward edge of a PCI or ISA adapter card in a computer frame is provided. The retention device has a channel mounted to the frame opposite a rearward edge of the card. The channel has upper and lower panels which defi... | 02/01/2000 |
| 6000952 | Interconnect system for intergrating a bussed electrical distribution center with a printed circuit board An integrated BEDC and PCB provided through a low cost, highly reliable interconnect system. The upper and/or lower half of the main insulation assembly of a BEDC is provided with a recess for accommodating at least an edge portion of the substrate of a P... | 12/14/1999 |
| 5984720 | Angled interconnect panel assembly for telecommunications applications An angled interconnect panel assembly includes an enclosure, a plurality of support brackets mounted inside the enclosure, a plurality of interconnect panels which are each pivotally mounted to one of the support brackets and are each disposed in an angle... | 11/16/1999 |
| 5986891 | Card adapter and method for connecting an IC card to an electronic apparatus A card adapter for insertion of an IC card in a card slot of a receiving member of an electronic apparatus. The IC card is provided with card contacts and the receiving member is provided with a receiving member connector. The card adapter includes a base... | 11/16/1999 |
| 5966293 | Minimal length computer backplane An electrical interconnection structure. The electrical interconnection structure includes a mother board substrate having a plurality of layers. At least one layer includes a signal path having a characteristic impedance of ZO and a conductive... | 10/12/1999 |
| 5945637 | Terminal attachment structure having a cradle portion to prevent tottering of the terminal A terminal attachment structure includes a circuit assembly and a terminal attached to the circuit assembly. The circuit assembly has an insulating substrate and a circuit printed on the insulating substrate. The terminal is composed of a circuit-contact ... | 08/31/1999 |
| 5943215 | PCI riser card support PCI cards are plugged into vertical risers, the lower edges of which have been plugged into a motherboard. This involves a considerable force being applied to the riser card, both during insertion and removal, and may damage the card or the underlying mot... | 08/24/1999 |
| 5903442 | Hard disk drive and hard disk apparatus having bus and its installing method When a plurality of hard disks are connected by using a backplane, in order to enable a low-noise installation of the bus and a high-density installation of the hard disk to be simultaneously realized, a signal line of the bus and connectors are installed... | 05/11/1999 |
| 5901049 | Two-tiered plug for two chip cards An electronic device has an opening for up to two data carrier devices or, respectively, chip cards with row-type contact surfaces positioned alongside one another. The devices or, cards are stackable over one another in offset fashion. In a region of the... | 05/04/1999 |
| 5839906 | Data storage system A computer/disk storage system interface is provided having disk controller, CPU controller, and cache memory printed circuit boards interconnected through buses provided in a backplane. The backplane has columns of electrical connectors. Each electrical ... | 11/24/1998 |
| 5822193 | Appparatus and method for rigidly stabilizing circuit boards An apparatus and method for rigidly stabilizing or restraining circuit boards is provided. The apparatus has a rigid cross member (20) and a circuit board clamp (10). These provides stabilization of commercial off the shelf (COTS) circuit boards for use i... | 10/13/1998 |
| 5820388 | Low profile surface-mounted connector having curved cantilevered spring contacts A low profile, surface-mounted receptacle includes a housing having a cavity defined at least in part by the interior surfaces of the sidewalls thereof. The interior surface of at least one sidewall has a groove, one wall of the groove being defined by an... | 10/13/1998 |
| 5822197 | Electrical connection system An electrical connection system includes a frame, a main printed circuit "mother board", a series of secondary printed circuit "daughter boards", and interconnecting spacers formed of an insulative material plate with holes in it into each of which is ins... | 10/13/1998 |
| 5790382 | Stiffened printed circuit board A relatively large printed circuit board includes a pair of stiffening members for preventing bending of the board during handling. The stiffening members are disposed along opposite sides of the board and include edge portions abutting against the board ... | 08/04/1998 |
| 5766023 | Electrical connector with high speed and high density contact strip An electrical connector with a housing and a contact strip. The housing has a receiving area with openings into the receiving area on opposite sides of the housing. The contact strip has a support of resilient conductive material, an insulating layer on t... | 06/16/1998 |
| 5717575 | Board mounting system with self guiding interengagement This invention is a system for self guiding interengagement of a securement member within a mating member having a slot for holding and securing two surface areas. The securement member is attached to one surface area and the mating member is attached to ... | 02/10/1998 |
| 5713126 | Method of mounting electronic connector on an end of printed circuit board A connector 1 has a connector main body 2, and a plurality of leads 3--3 protruding forward from a front surface of the connector main body 2. Each lead 3 is formed with an edge portion 3a. A plurality of terminals 6--6 are formed on an end of a printed c... | 02/03/1998 |
| 5704793 | High speed high density connector for electronic signals A connector for printed circuit boards. Electrical connections are made between two printed boards through flex circuits which have contact pads pressed against contact pads on each of the printed circuit boards. Sufficient, uniform pressure is maintained... | 01/06/1998 |
| 5676559 | Zero insertion force (ZIF) electrical connector A zero insertion force electrical connector (60) having a housing (61) which includes a support block (62) reciprocably mounted therein. The housing (61) also includes a contact array (65) with a plurality of contact elements (66,67) extending therefrom f... | 10/14/1997 |
| 5648891 | Circuit board assembly A circuit board assembly (10) having a plurality of circuit board subassemblies (12) having a device (14) for releasably electrically and mechanically connecting the subassemblies (12) into a general configuration of a plane, the subassemblies (12) having... | 07/15/1997 |
| 5644839 | Surface mountable substrate edge terminal A method is provided for attaching components to a substrate to form an edge connector thereon. In particular, the invention is useful for attaching an edge connector to a printed circuit board. The connector components are provided in a form that can be ... | 07/08/1997 |
| 5600102 | Solder preform wrappable around a printed circuit card edge An integral solder preform is disclosed for application to a printed circuit card having first and second sides, a first edge and first and second pluralities of conductive pads disposed on the respective first and second sides of the printed circuit card... | 02/04/1997 |
| 5596486 | Hermetically sealed memory or PC card unit having a frame, header and covers in bonded engagement An improved PC Card element, particularly a PC card unit, is presented in which the unit is hermetically sealed. The unit has a metallic frame, a metallic header with glass or ceramic encapsulated through pins, and opposed outer metallic covers, all of th... | 01/21/1997 |
| 5575661 | Flexible film with circuitry thereon having improved local compliance and force distribution The invention relates to an improved, high density electrical connector, such as a backplane connector, which utilizes a flexible film having circuitry thereon for interconnecting plural planar electronic devices, such as a daughter board to a mother boar... | 11/19/1996 |
| 5576935 | Common circuit board connectable to multiple alternative single-sided expansion boards A expansion board including a main board, a common board and a system connector. The main board including a cutout and a board connector for receiving the common board. The common board having a data connector at one end and a board connector at the other... | 11/19/1996 |
| 5573408 | Micropitch card edge connector An electrical edge connector housing (1), for mounting onto a printed circuit board substrate (100), has walls that form a plurality of slots (3) and a respective plurality of chambers (2). Each slot (3) is positioned on an opposite side of a substrate re... | 11/12/1996 |
| 5571996 | Trace conductor layout configuration for preserving signal integrity in control boards requiring minimum connector stub separation A circuit board is provided having a plurality of vias and uniformly spaced connector stubs arranged upon one or both outer surfaces of the control board. Sets of trace conductors are formed within the control board between the vias. The trace conductors ... | 11/05/1996 |
| 5564931 | Card edge connector using flexible film circuitry A surface mountable card edge connector 10 includes a housing 16 having a transverse base 18 and opposed endwalls 28; a generally C-shaped outer shell member 44; a generally C-shaped inner support member 60; two resilient members 76 disposed in channels 7... | 10/15/1996 |
| 5562461 | Circuit board electrical connector A circuit board electrical connector which includes a first connector (10) connectable to a first external member (Q) and a second connector (30) connectable to the first connector at one end and a second external member at the other end opposite to the o... | 10/08/1996 |
| 5536178 | Circuit interconnecting device, for use in industrial applications A circuit interconnecting device for industrial applications comprising a card-edge connector arranged on a mainboard and associable, by means of a connector located on a card for interconnection, with external control devices; the card for interconnectio... | 07/16/1996 |
| 5519584 | Laminated cylindrical backplane A laminated cylindrical backplane is constructed using disks with a conductive material mounted on a top surface, and a conductive material mounted on a second surface. Each disk and its conductive surfaces are separated from adjacent disks and their cond... | 05/21/1996 |
| 5519583 | Integrated common mode current decoupler for I/O cables An integrated decoupler for returning common mode current to a source located in a card cage, which in turn is located in a data processing equipment cabinet. The integrated decoupler comprises an electrically conductive cladding layer formed on a backpla... | 05/21/1996 |
| 5505626 | Electrical connector with tension adjusting means This invention relates to a card edge or backplane type electrical connector, where typically two or more planar electronic devices, such as a mother board and one or more daughter boards, are electrically interconnected usually by arranging the daughter ... | 04/09/1996 |
