Angled card edge connector
AssigneeBurndy Corporation
InventorsRocco J. Noschese, Heinz Piorunneck, Fernando J. Ramirez
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Abstract
A card edge connector comprising a housing, electrical contacts, and ejectors. The housing has a middle section with a card edge receiving area, two guide projections at opposite ends of the middle section, and a keeper section. The electrical contacts extend from the middle section, through the keeper, to a bottom of the housing. The housing is suitably configured to receive a daughter printed circuit board at an angle of about 30.degree. relative to a mother printed circuit board. The ejectors are adapted to lock the daughter board to the connector and, eject the daughter board from the connector.
Claims25
A card edge connector comprising:
- a housing having a first member and a second member, the first member comprising a middle section with a card edge receiving area and two rows of contact receiving channels, one of the rows on each side of the receiving area, and two guiding projections located at opposite ends of the middle section, the second member comprising a keeper section with at least four rows of contact passages, the housing being suitably sized and shaped to be connected to a mother printed circuit board and have a daughter printed circuit board connected to the housing in the card edge receiving area at an angle of between about 20.degree. and about 60.degree. relative to a plane of the keeper section;
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- electrical contacts located in the contact receiving channels and extending through the contact passages of the keeper section.
A card edge connector comprising:
- a housing having a middle section and two substantially stationary guiding projections located at opposite ends of the middle section, the middle section having a card edge receiving area and two rows of contact receiving channels on opposite sides of the receiving area, the two substantially stationary guiding projections each having an interior facing slot for slidingly receiving an end edge of a daughter board, each of the guiding projections making constant contact with opposite sides of an inserted daughter board, the housing being suitably sized and shaped to be connected to a mother printed circuit board and have the daughter printed circuit board connected to the housing in the card edge receiving area at an angle of between about 20.degree. and 60.degree. relative to a plane of the mother printed circuit board;
- electrical contacts located in the contact receiving channels and extending from a bottom of the housing;
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- ejectors pivotably connected to the housing at the guide projections adapted to eject, at least partially, a daughter printed circuit board from the card edge receiving area.
A card edge electrical connector comprising:
- electrical contacts;
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- a single-piece housing having the contact mounted thereon, the housing comprising an elongate center section and two end sections, the center section having a card edge receiving slot, the end sections each having a raised post section with an upwardly tapered base section and two opposing cantilever side guides extending upward from a top of the tapered base section, the side guides and base sections forming areas on opposite ends of the center section for receiving side edges of a printed circuit board therein, and being located in front of a top surface of the center section.
A card edge electrical connector comprising:
- a housing having a card edge receiving slot;
- electrical contacts mounted to the housing;
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- an ejector pivotably mounted to an end of the housing, the ejector having an ejector foot and a resiliently deflectable cantilevered extension, the extension being adapted to engage a side portion of a printed circuit board, when the board is properly positioned in the card edge receiving slot and the ejector is in a locking position, and bias a bottom of the board into a bottom of the slot.
A card edge connector comprising:
- electrical contacts;
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- a one-piece housing having the contacts mounted thereon, the housing comprising an elongate center section and two end sections, the center section having a card edge receiving slot, each of the end sections having two opposing upwardly extending cantilever beam side guides, the side guides being deflectable, forming areas on opposite ends of the center section for receiving end edges of a printed circuit board therein, and extending beyond a top surface of the center section.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.