Conductive elastomeric contacts and connectors
AssigneeTechnical Wire Products, Inc.
InventorsLeonard S. Buchoff, Joseph P. Kosiarski, Chris A. Dalamangas
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Abstract
Contacts of electrically conductive elastomers, integrally fixed to conductors by bonding or molding in place, are situated to contact, with little resistance, mating electrical conductors and elastically deform under the contacting forces to seal the mated conductor surface thereby inhibiting corrosion and maintaining electrical contact.
Claims9
A circuit board carrying at least two conductors on a portion of one side of said board, said at least two conductors being electrically insulated from each other, each conductor having an electrically conductive elastomeric contact integrally fixed thereto, and actuator means positioned in physical proximity to at least two of said elastomeric contacts, the actuator means having a conductive surface for completing the electrical circuit between said at least two elastomeric contacts, at least one of said elastomeric contacts extending from the surface of said circuit board to said actuator means for preventing the conductive surface of said actuator means from contacting another elastomeric contact on said board without the application of an externally applied force.
A first circuit board carrying at least one conductor on a portion of one side of said board, said conductor extending to an edge of said board, an electrically conductive elastomeric contact integrally fixed to said conductor at the edge of said circuit board, a second circuit board carrying at least one conductor on a portion of one side of said second board, and means for maintaining the physical proximity of said first and second circuit boards such that said electrically conductive elastomeric contact touches at least one conductor of said second circuit board.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.