US 5,707,242 AGranted

System and connectors for the electrical interconnection of component boards

OwnerNiranjan Kumar Mitra, Petrus Wouter Hendrikus Schalkinventors

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Abstract

A system or connector/board assembly for electrically detachably interconnecting component boards (1) having connectors (10, 13) positioned opposite one another on both sides of a board (1). The connectors (10, 13) are each mounted rigidly on the board (1) because at least one terminal end (24) of a contact element (16, 18; 17, 19) of a connector (10, 13) is received in a hole (27) of a pattern (26) of holes (27) provided in the board (1), which terminal end (24) is provided with means (25) for the clamping mounting thereof in the respective hole (27). In this manner, connectors (10, 13) can be mounted adjacently on the component board (1) without the loss of position of a contact element.

An electrical assembly, comprising a first printed circuit (PC) board having a top and bottom side and a second PC board having a top and bottom side, said second PC board being coupled to said first PC board by at least one connector assembly, wherein said first and second PC boards are held substantially parallel to each other by said at least one connector assembly, wherein said first and second PC boards each comprise a hole pattern comprising a plurality of holes, and wherein said connector assembly comprises:

a first connector having a first connector bottom side positioned adjacent to said top side of said first PC board, and a first connector top side, whereby said first connector is surface mounted to the top side of said first PC board;
and
a second connector having a second connector bottom side coupled to said first connector top side, and a second connector top side positioned adjacent to said bottom side of said second PC board, whereby said second connector is surface mounted to the bottom side of said second PC board;
and
a third connector having a third connector top side positioned adjacent to said bottom side of said first PC board, and a third connector bottom side, whereby said third connector is surface mounted to the bottom side of said first PC board;
wherein said first connector further comprises a plurality of central contact elements extending from said first connector bottom side into, and making a clamping engagement with, respective holes of said first PC board hole pattern, and said second connector further comprises a second plurality of central contact elements extending from said second connector top side into, and making a clamping engagement with, respective holes of said second PC board hole pattern;
and wherein said third connector further comprises a plurality of central contact elements extending from said third connector top side into, and making a clamping engagement with, respective holes of said first PC board hole pattern, wherein the holes into which the third connector central contact elements extend are different from the holes into which the first connector central contact elements extend.

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Application

08/256,755Filed 3 Feb 1995

Priority

NL 920011722 Jan 1992

Granted

13 Jan 1998

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Classification9 codes

H05K 7/023
Arrangements of circuit components or wiring on supporting structure: stackable modules
H01R 12/7076
Coupling devices: for connection between PCB and component, e.g. display
H01R 12/716
Co-operating with the surface of the printed circuit or with a coupling device exclusively provided on the surface of the printed circuit:…
H01R 13/6585
Shield structure: shielding material individually surrounding or interposed between mutually spaced contacts

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