Flat pin connector for electronic circuit boards

An improved arrangement of a male multipoint connector in an H design mounted to a connector surface of a circuit board and said circuit board being secured to a housing, said housing having an upper wall with a top surface disposed away from and substantially parallel to said circuit board and said housing having a lower wall with a bottom surface disposed away from and substantially parallel to said circuit board, said lower wall of said housing having a predetermined wall thickness, said circuit board having a predetermined board thickness, said male multipoint connector including:

• a contact side disposed away from and perpendicular to the circuit board,
• a bottom part having an exterior surface disposed in the same direction as and substantially parallel to the exterior surface of the lower wall of said housing,
• a top part having an exterior surface disposed in the opposite direction from and substantially parallel to the exterior surface of the lower wall,
• a center portion disposed perpendicular to and away from the contact side, said center portion for anchoring the multipoint connector to the circuit board, said center portion having a circuit board side, and
• fifteen contact tabs, each of said contact tabs having
• a male multipoint contact extending out of said contact side and
• a soldering tag pin extending out of said circuit board side of said center portion for the mounting of said male multipoint connector to said circuit board and for protruding from said circuit board,
• said male multipoint contacts being arranged in a first row located a predetermined distance of R from a second row, said first row of male multipoint contacts being located the predetermined distance R from the exterior surface of said bottom part of said male multipoint connector, and said second row of said male multipoint contacts being located the predetermined distance R from the exterior surface of said top part of said male multipoint connector, said male multipoint contacts for connection with a dimensionally corresponding female multipoint connector, wherein the improvement of the male multipoint connector comprises:
• the distance between said circuit board side of said center portion of said male multipoint connector and the exterior surface of said bottom part of said multipoint connector equaling the sum of the predetermined board thickness of said circuit board, the length of the soldering tag pin protruding from said circuit board, a predetermined tolerance value, and the wall thickness of said lower wall of said housing, and
• said top surface of said upper wall of said housing being located an integer multiple, of the predetermined distance of R, from the exterior surface of the bottom part of said male multipoint connector.