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US 2011/0256776 A1Published application
Horizontally configured connector with edge card mounting structure
AssigneeMolex Incorporated
InventorBruce Reed
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Abstract
A connector has a plurality of mating blades in the form of circuit cards, arranged horizontally in a vertical stack. The circuit cards are supported in a vertical array in mating portions of the connector and are enclosed by sidewalls of the mating portions. In order to support the circuit cards, the sidewalls of each mating portion are slotted and the circuit cards are provided with mounting wings that extend outwardly therefrom and which are received in the slots. Reentrant notches are provided in the circuit cards adjacent where the wings extend out from the bodies of the circuit cards.
Claims17
A connector, comprising:
- a housing with a body portion and a first mating portion, the first mating portion including a first and second sidewall separated in a horizontal direction by an intervening space, each of the first and second sidewall having two slots;
- a first and second mating blade horizontally positioned in the mating portion and being arranged in an vertical, spaced-apart manner, the first and second mating blade each including a body portion with a leading edge and a trailing edge, the trailing and leading edge interconnected by two side edges, the leading edge including a plurality of conductive contacts disposed therealong and the trailing edge including a plurality of termination contacts disposed therealong;
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- a wing portion extending from each of the side edges of the first and second mating blade, each wing portion engaging one of the slots.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.