Circuit board pin
AssigneeE. I. Du Pont de Nemours and Company
InventorsNorman Jay Miller, John Anthony Zemaitis, Russell Lloyd Zimmerman
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Abstract
A round circuit board pin with an expanded mounting portion has a plurality of deformed segments alternatively spaced from each other in opposite quadrants along a length of the mounting portion. There are rows of wedge shaped voids between the segments and the voids in adjacent rows are staggered.
Claims4
An elongated round circuit board pin having an expanded mounting portion characterized by an irregular surface defined by segments between plural equispaced longitudinal rows of wedge shaped voids, each void having a pair of inwardly directed walls meeting at a longitudinal apex substantially parallel to the axis of the pin, the voids in adjacent rows being staggered, there being at least three voids in each row at least one void in each row longitudinally overlapping a pair of voids in an adjacent row.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.