Termination adaptor for PCB

An apparatus for connecting a circuit board first face that has traces thereon, to contacts of a connector, comprising:

• an intercontact frame which has a plate-shaped portion with upper and lower intercontact frame faces and a plurality of through passages extending between said faces, with said passages having passage walls that are electrically isolated from each other;
• a plurality of electrically conductive intercontacts, each having a vertical length and lying along a majority of its length in one of said intercontact frame passages, with each intercontact formed of a single piece of sheet metal and having an upper end forming a resilient beam that projects above said upper frame face when said circuit board is not present, with each intercontact having a lower portion that is integral with said upper end and that forms means for engaging a corresponding one of said contacts;
• each resilient beam being downwardly deflectable to a position substantially flush with said upper intercontact frame face.

A combination of a circuit board with a lower face having traces thereon, a connector with a connector insulator having an upper face and a plurality of bores and with contacts each lying in said one of bores, and apparatus for connecting each of a plurality of said contacts to each of a plurality of said traces comprising:

• an intercontact frame having a plate-shaped portion with upper and lower frame faces and a plurality of through frame passages extending between said faces, said frame passages having passage walls that are electrically isolated from each other;
• a plurality of intercontacts each lying primarily in one of said intercontact frame passages with said intercontacts having upper ends projecting slightly above the upper frame face and being downwardly deflectable to a position flush with the upper frame face, and with said intercontacts having lower parts each connected to one of said contacts;
• said intercontact frame being sandwiched between said circuit board and said connector insulator with said upper and lower faces lying substantially facewise adjacent respectively to said circuit board lower face and to said connector frame upper face, with said intercontact upper ends pressing against but unfixed to said circuit board traces.

An apparatus for connecting traces on a lower face of a circuit board to contacts of a connector, comprising:

• an intercontact frame having a plate-shaped portion with upper and lower frame faces and a plurality of through frame passages extending between said faces, said frame passages having passage walls that are electrically isolated from each other;
• a plurality of intercontacts each lying primarily in one of said frame passages, with each intercontact formed of a single piece of sheet metal and having a lower part formed to connect to one of said contacts, and with each intercontact having an upper end forming a resilient beam with a major part that extends at an upward incline to the horizontal and that has a highest point, with each beam having a bend at said highest point, and with each beam having an extension on a side of said bend opposite said major part with said extension having a free end that is unrestrained from downward movement;
• each of said intercontacts having its upper end projecting slightly above the upper frame face and unfixed to said circuit board and being downwardly deflectable to a position flush with the upper frame face.