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US 10,374,344 B2Granted
Pocket connector
AssigneeNew Cable Corporation Oy
InventorsTommi Rintala, Antti Backman
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Abstract
The pocket connector of the invention has been manufactured of a substrate, which is preferably flexible in at least one direction, of which three parts have been prepared, which are bent or assembled from three parts and joined together superimposed so that at least two opposite sides of the pocket connector have coupling apertures. Two flat cables or a connector for a flexible circuit board is connectable to these coupling apertures.
Claims9
Pocket connector, which is made of a compact, insulating and essentially rectangular substrate,
- wherein the pocket connector with a first side, second side, third side and fourth side is arranged to be manufactured by bending from the substrate essentially at least three equal parts on top of each other so that:
- a first part of the substrate comprises electrical coupling points extending through the first part to its both surfaces;
- a second part of the substrate bent above the first part of the substrate forms the upper surface for the pocket connector;
- and
- a third part of the substrate bent below the first part of the substrate forms the lower surface for the pocket connector;
- and that
- at least on the second side and fourth side of the pocket connector, the first, second and third part of the substrate has been mechanically joined together along the entire length of the sides so that:
- there is the first coupling aperture in the direction of the first side of the pocket connector;
- and
- there is the second coupling aperture in the direction of the third side of the pocket connector;
- cables are arranged to be installed in these coupling apertures to generate an electrical connection between the conductors of the cables through the electrical coupling points in the first part of the substrate.
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