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US 5,208,968 AGranted
Programmable insertion tool for a pin header
AssigneeAMP Incorporated
InventorsEdwin Camsell, Wolfgang E. A. Feiber, Jackie A. Kline, Douglas C. Rubendall
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Abstract
A programmable insertion tool is provided for inserting the contact pins of a pin header connector into plated through holes in a printed circuit board. The tool utilizes push pins of differing lengths to position selected contact pins to selected different depths thereby providing a make first, break last capability for these contact pins when connecting or disconnecting to a mating connector half.
Claims8
A programmable insertion tool for inserting a plurality of contact pins of a connector into respective openings in a substrate, said tool comprising:
- (a) a body;
- and,
- (b) a plurality of elongated members arranged within openings in said body, each of said elongated members being in axial alignment with a respective one of said contact pins and having an end in abutting engagement with said respective one contact pin during said inserting, each elongated member disposed at a selected distance from said substrate for engaging corresponding ones of said plurality of contact pins, said plurality of elongated members including at least first and second elongated members disposed at selected different relative distances from said substrate and engaging first and second ones of said contact pins, respectively, such that when said body is urged toward said substrate, each of said plurality of contact pins is inserted to a selected depth in its respective said opening, said selected depth corresponding to said selected distance of a respective said elongated member from said substrate, and the first contact pin is inserted to a first depth different from a depth of the second contact pin.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.