Connector with prestressed contacts and its use
AssigneeFramatome Connectors International Courbevoie
InventorsJacques Annaler, Michel Garcin
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Abstract
In order to increase the precision of the definition of a contact by pressure between a connector (1), designed to be surface-mounted, and a smart card, one assures a support plane for the connector, this latter on a flat printed circuit. This support plane is created by means of vertical prestresses on elastic conductive strips (3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8) of the connector. This vertical prestress consists of pressing one end (11, 12, 13) of the elastic conductive strips onto fixed pieces (14, 15, 16, 17) aligned in a plane. This improvement makes such a connector easy to use and makes it possible to have a statistical inspection of the quality of the connectors thus made.
Claims9
A connector including an insulating structure and a plurality of elastic conductive strips, each of the strips having a first lower end portion forming a contact pin and a second upper end portion, and each strip being positioned within the insulating structure, each contact pin adapted to be soldered to a surface and each contact pin being vertically prestressed thereby resulting in coplaneity of each contact pin that is to be soldered, the insulating structure including fixed pieces aligned in a single plane and adapted to press the vertically prestressed contact pins into contact with the surface thereof.
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