Cap housing for electrical connectors
AssigneeThe Whitaker Corporation
InventorsMai Loan Thi Tran, Richard Allen Kile, Yoji Yoshimura, Ikuo Enomoto
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Abstract
The present invention is directed to a cap housing for carrying electrical connectors to be mounted onto solder pads or through-holes on a printed circuit board or other circuitry. The cap housing has a plurality of electrical connector receiving cavities profiled to be relatively complementary in shape and of slightly larger dimension to the exterior profile of the electrical connector received within the cap housing. A floating arrangement of the electrical connector within the cap housing is thereby created which prevents coplanarity problems which contribute to non-filled or partially filled solder joints.
Claims13
A cap housing to which an electrical connector may be mounted for positioning time portions of electrical contacts secured within the electrical connector onto solder pads of circuit boards, comprising:
- a cap portion in which a mating section of the electrical connector containing contact portions may be received, the cap portion having an interior profile complementary to the profile of the mating section of the electrical connector, wherein the interior profile is of slightly larger dimension than the profile of the mating section thereby facilitating a floating fit between the cap portion and the mating section;
- at least one stand-off surface located on the cap portion for engaging a surface of the mating section;
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- a retention means for loosely retaining the electrical connector within the cap housing.
A cap housing to which a plurality of electrical connectors may be mounted for positioning time portions of electrical contacts secured within the electrical connectors onto solder pads of circuit boards, comprising:
- a plurality of cap portions into which mating sections of electrical connectors containing contact portions may be received, each cap portion having an interior profile complementary to the profile of the mating section of the electrical connector, wherein the interior profile is of slightly larger dimension than the profile of the mating section thereby facilitating a floating fit between each cap portion and each mating section;
- at least one stand-off surface located on each cap portion for engaging a surface of each mating section;
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- a retention means for loosely retaining each electrical connector within each cap portion.
A cap housing for holding at least one electrical connector to be placed onto a circuit board, comprising:
- a cap portion for each electrical connector, each cap portion having an interior surface profiled to complement an exterior surface of each electrical connector, wherein the profile of each interior surface is dimensioned slightly larger than the profile of the exterior surface of each electrical connector such that each electrical connector floats within each corresponding cap portion when loaded in the cap housing;
- at least one stand-off surface disposed within each cap portion to engage a top surface of each electrical connector;
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- a retention means disposed on each cap portion for retaining each electrical connector within each corresponding cap portion.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.