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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8075322 | Connecting element for electric conductors with a printed circuit board In order to separably connect an electric conductor (16) to a printed circuit board (2), it is proposed to insert a connecting element (1) into an opening (3) in the printed circuit board (2). In this case, a sleeve-like contact re... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8002559 | Contact element for press fitting into a hole of a printed circuit board Disclosed is a contact element for pressing into a hole of a printed circuit board. The contact element has a rod-shaped press-fit zone having an insertion region and an adjacent deformable region. The width of the deformable region is larger than the diameter of th... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7950932 | Low profile socket connector An electrical connector includes a base plate, a plurality of contacts, and a plurality of solder portions. The base plate has a plurality of through holes extending from a top surface and a bottom surface therebetween. The contacts is assembled in through holes, an... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7946861 | Connection device The invention relates to contact pins for providing an electrical connection between electronic devices. In one aspect the pin is adapted to be inserted into a hole of a circuit carrier and the pin comprises at least three portions; namely a contact termination port... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7914303 | Connector with short length compliant pin An electrical connector having a plurality of connector units each having a pair of columns of edge coupled differential signal pairs separated by a ground shield terminal. The ground shield terminals each face a different signal pair of terminals in an adjacent col... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7891992 | Press-fit contact A press-fit contact including a contact body with a square cross section and including a connecting region, a press-in region, and a tip region. Two legs are integrally formed within the contact body. The two legs originate at the connecting region and extend to the... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7862347 | Communication system with short length compliant pin An electrical connector having a plurality of connector units each having a pair of columns of edge coupled differential signal pairs separated by a ground shield terminal. The ground shield terminals each face a different signal pair of terminals in an adjacent col... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7828561 | Pin for insertion into a receiving opening in a printed circuit board and method for inserting a pin into a receiving opening in a printed circuit board A pin having a contact part may be inserted into a receiving opening in a printed circuit board and anchored in the receiving opening with a press fit. Also, a method provides for inserting a pin into a receiving opening in a printed circuit board, in which the pin ... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7798823 | Electronic device and printed circuit board unit The invention provides a printed circuit board including a first surface, a second surface which is a rear surface to the first surface, a connector installed on the first surface, and, formed between the first surface and the second surface, one of a through hole p... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7775808 | Contact sheet with spiral contactors serving as elastic contactors and connecting device including the same A support portion of an elastic contactor is located in a fixed region surrounded by a plurality of openings on a contact sheet. The support portion extends over the substantially entire fixed region and along the outer rims of the surrounding openings. ... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7766674 | Electrical connector with high profile An electrical connector includes an insulating housing (1a) including a pair of retaining spacers (1b) embedded therein and a number of terminals (2). The insulating housing has a base portion (11) with a concaving room (... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7753695 | Socket with wire-shaped contacts A socket connector, for electrically connecting an IC package and a printed circuit board, comprises a base having a plurality of through holes, a cover mounted on the base and having a top plate, a plurality of wire-shape contacts bent from a metal haulm and an ada... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7645147 | Electrical connector having a flexible sheet and one or more conductive connectors An electrical connector made up of an array of metallic contacts that act as conductive carriers, each attached to a flexible insulating sheet in one of an array of openings provided in the flexible sheet. The metallic contacts have portions disposed on opposite sid... | 01/12/2010 |
| 7604491 | Techniques for providing electrical and thermal conductivity between electrical components and printed circuit boards using sleeves defining substantially conical shapes An apparatus includes a printed circuit board having a set of layers and a set of barrels embedded within the set of layers. The apparatus further includes an electrical component having a component body and a set of pins which extends from the component body. The a... | 10/20/2009 |
| 7581965 | Bottom entry interconnection element for connecting components to a circuit board An interconnection element for coupling a component with a circuit board having a top side and a bottom side has a planar portion configured to be surface mounted on the top side of the circuit board to overlie an opening in the circuit board. An opening is formed i... | 09/01/2009 |
| 7473111 | Connecting terminal for receiving lead terminal in printed wiring board A connecting terminal has an electrically-conductive ring surrounding a columnar space. Electrically-conductive elastic pieces extend from the electrically-conductive ring in the direction of the central axis of the columnar space. Electrically-conductive blades sta... | 01/06/2009 |
| 7458827 | Electrical connector Electrical connectors are adapted to provide a reliable electrical connection to mating elements of a mating connector. The connector can have sockets that accept mating elements of the mating connector. Conductors of the connector are associated with each socket an... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7442045 | Miniature electrical ball and tube socket with self-capturing multiple-contact-point coupling A socket connector for connecting a bulbous terminal or ball wherein the female element grips the terminal with resilient prongs with end tips at low insertion force but positive contact is maintained and wherein attempted withdrawal is normally inhibited by increas... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7425139 | Fixation structure for fixing a lamp on a printed circuit board In a fixation structure for fixing a lamp on a printed circuit board (PCB), a connection end of the lamp is received within a connection hole of the PCB and a sleeve having approximately cone shape is disposed between the lamp and the PCB. When the connection end of... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7377823 | Press-fit pin A press-fit pin is press-fitted into a conductive through-hole disposed on a printed circuit board. The press-fit pin includes a contact portion, a shoulder portion, a press-fit portion, and a tip portion. The contact portion forms a terminal of a male connector to ... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7367819 | Board mounted terminal construction A terminal has a plurality of split solder portions inserted into through-holes in a printed circuit board. A first split solder portion has a cross-sectional shape such that four corners thereof contact an inner circumferential surface of the through hole for posit... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7364460 | Fixing member and fixing structure The fixing member of the present invention can be mounted to a fixed member that is fixed to a printed circuit board and that is used for fixing the fixed member to the printed circuit board, the fixing member including: a mounting member main body fixed to the fixe... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7361031 | Printed circuit board assembly and method of producing the same A printed circuit board assembly is formed by a press-fit connector attached to a printed circuit board. The press-fit connector includes a plurality of press-fit terminals and a housing. An overlapping resist part is formed on the printed circuit board. The overlap... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7361064 | Conductive contact and electronic apparatus employing the same A conductive contact includes a resilient strip and a post. The resilient strip includes a fixed end configured as a sheet for securing the resilient strip, an arm configured for being resiliently deformed by pressure, and a free end. The fixed end and the free end ... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7362111 | Device for evaluating at least one electrical conducting structure of an electronic component An apparatus and method for evaluating the integrity of each contact pin of an electronic component having multiple contact pins. In one embodiment, the apparatus includes a test device and a measuring instrument. The test device comprises a component fixture config... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7357651 | Female connector, female connector mounting structure, and method of mounting female connector to substrate A single pole female connector has: a mounting base portion in which is formed a terminal insertion hole into which a male terminal can be inserted; an extending portion extending outwardly from the mounting base portion; and a terminal contacting portion which exte... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7350297 | Method of manufacturing a wiring substrate A first plating foundation layer is formed by printing on a front face of a sheet-shaped insulating substrate. By inserting a punch into the sheet-shaped insulating substrate having the first plating foundation layer, a through hole is formed while leaving a piece h... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7347698 | Deep drawn electrical contacts and method for making A method for making a contact begins by providing a sheet of material. A portion of the sheet is deep drawn to form a cavity having at least one sidewall, the cavity extending away from a rim formed by a non-drawn portion of the sheet. At least one spring member is ... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7344388 | Press-in contact with crimp arms for a circuit board The invention relates to a device for contacting an electrical conductor of a cable with a conductor trace (8) of a circuit board (2), characterized in that the device is made as a press-in contact (1) fittable in a hole of the circuit board ( | 03/18/2008 |
| 7344389 | Contact pin and method for the production thereof A contact pin for pressing into a through-connected hole of a printed circuit board is produced by forming. Its press-in portion has two contact legs spaced apart from one another by an elongate opening, are outwardly curved in their central region and, when pressed... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7338294 | Pressure contact connector A pressure connector according to one embodiment includes an insulative housing (10) with a plurality of spring contact elements (12) received in cavities (100) of the insulative housing. The contact elements have contact ends (122, 124) ... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7331830 | High-density orthogonal connector A high-density orthogonal connector is disclosed and may include electrical contacts that are configured to receive contacts from an orthogonal header connector while minimizing signal skew and signal reflection. The electrical contacts in the connector may define c... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7332816 | Method of fabricating crossing wiring pattern on a printed circuit board A filet F is added to a portion constituting a corner portion C equal to or smaller than 90° in a crossing portion X of wiring patterns 58b, 58c and 58d, and a wiring pattern 58 is formed. Since the filet F is added,... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7322831 | Matrix board-to-board connector A matrix board-to-board connector includes a plurality of contacts and an insulating housing. Each contact has a retaining board, a first contacting portion defined at a bottom end of the retaining board, and a second contacting portion defined at an opposite end of... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7322850 | Adapter module with a compliant press-fit mounting pins An adapter module is provided with a bail latch mechanism that serves to engage and disengage the frame into which the adapter module fits. The bail latch is movable between two positions and it engages a cam member formed as part of the module that cams two opposin... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7320627 | Deformable electrical connector A secure electrical connector for wire conductors. An electrical connector can be pressed into place in the base of a toggle switch and includes an electrically conductive cylinder having a slot in the forward end of the electrical connector. The wire conductor is i... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7309251 | Connection contact of an electric connector A groove is formed on a connecting section surface of an electrically conductive terminal, this groove is subjected to a bending deformation into a convex shape toward the surface side from the backside of a connecting section to form a bent convex section on the su... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7303427 | Electrical connector with air-circulation features A preferred embodiment of an electrical connector includes an electrical conductor for transmitting electrical power, and a housing. The electrical conductor is mounted in the housing so that the housing and the electrical conductor define a channel for circulating ... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7300317 | Electrical connector having a housing including an asymmetrical surface The invention relates to a connector device that includes a plurality of terminals of varying heights that extend upwardly from the surface of a circuit board, and a connector housing that defines a receptacle portion. The connector housing includes an asymmetrical ... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7288005 | Semiconductor device having a module board A mother board mounts a memory module via a plug-socket coupling, wherein the edge of the memory module has a plug member mounted on a socket member of the mother board. The mother board has a plurality of abutment members abutting the edge surface of the bottom edg... | 10/30/2007 |
