US 4,542,949 AGranted

Circuit carrier connector

AssigneeNixdorf Computer AG

InventorsUdo Tewes, Rolf Roeschlein

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Abstract

Apparatus for the plug-in assembling of a circuit provided with contact feet, especially an integrated circuit carrier onto an appliance provided with receptacles, or the like. The circuit carrier is inserted in a protective cover and together with this is placed on a base previously mounted in the receptacles of the appliance. Thereby the contact feed come into connection with the circuit of the appliance by way of contact elements arranged on the base. In order to fulfill certain requirements for a reliable large-area or multiple contact by the contact element, it is provided that the circuit carrier is placed on an intermediate contact carrier which carries a plurality of contact plates connected with the contact feet of the circuit carrier respectively by means of soldered junctions, which plates in turn show the desired contact properties.

Claims16

Dependent claims

An apparatus for the plug-in assembling of a circuit carrier, provided with contact feet, onto an electrical appliance provided with receptacles, the apparatus including:

a base made of electrically insulating material and a first set of contact elements arranged for plugging into the receptacles of the appliance, the base being adapted to receive the circuit carrier so that the contact feet of the circuit carrier come into an electrically conducting connection with the first set of contact elements of the base;
a cover including means for mounting the cover on the base and a recess for receiving the circuit carrier;
first holding means on the cover for holding the circuit carrier in a fixed, predetermined position within the cover;
an intermediate contact carrier including contact plates fixedly arranged on the intermediate contact carrier for receiving and making an electrical connection with the contact feet of the circuit carrier;
and
second holding means formed on the base for holding the intermediate contact carrier and the cover in a predetermined, fixed position with respect to the base.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.