Electrical connection system
AssigneeConnecteurs Cinch
InventorMichel Thuault
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Abstract
An electrical connection system includes a frame, a main printed circuit "mother board", a series of secondary printed circuit "daughter boards", and interconnecting spacers formed of an insulative material plate with holes in it into each of which is inserted a buffer that is a good conductor of electricity. The frame includes a support plate with series of slides, the mother board resting on the support plate and receiving the interconnecting spacer. The daughter boards are slid into the slides and include, along an edge which cooperates with the interconnecting spacer, a heel-piece on which is mounted and to which is fixed a flexible printed circuit the tracks of which are connected to those of the daughter board and cooperate with the buffers. Arrangements are provided to fix the daughter boards to the frame.
Claims8
An electrical connection system, comprising:
- a frame including a support plate including a series of upstanding slides thereon;
- a main printed circuit mother board including tracks;
- a series of secondary printed circuit daughter boards including tracks;
- electrical connecting elements inserted between said mother board and said daughter boards comprising interconnecting spacers formed of insulative material plates, each insulative material plate comprising holes therein, a buffer formed of a metal wire that is a good conductor of electricity and has some degree of elasticity in each of said holes in said plate, said wire being bent repeatedly to form a wad, said buffers projecting from each face of said plate and cooperating with corresponding tracks of said mother board and said daughter boards;
- said mother board resting on said support plate and receiving said interconnecting spacers;
- said daughter boards being slid into said slides and including, along an edge adapted to cooperate with one of said interconnecting spacers, a heel-piece on which is mounted and to which is fixed a flexible printed circuit comprising the tracks which are electrically connected to said tracks of said daughter board and have parts adapted to cooperate with said buffers;
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- a mechanism fixing said daughter boards to said frame.
The electrical connection system claimed in claimed 1, wherein each of said daughter boards is fastened, near an edge opposite that including said heel-piece, on each side adapted to be inserted into said slide, to a strip including operating elements including a pull-rod, said pull-rod including a free end having a cooperating notch adapted to cooperate with a head of a pin attached to said frame.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.