Self-aligning power connector system
AssigneeTyco Electronics Corporation
InventorRobert N. Whiteman, Jr.
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Abstract
An electrical connector assembly is described for the interconnection of a daughter card to a backplane. The backplane connector includes a housing and a contact assembly including a contact portion solderable to a circuit trace of a printed circuit board. The contact assembly in the backplane connector further includes an interposer contact portion, which is movable relative to the main contact portion to laterally align itself with a tab terminal in a mating and complementary daughter board connector.
Claims28
An electrical contact for electrical connection with a mating contact, the electrical contact having a base contact portion having a conductor contacting section, and an independent interposer contact portion, said interposer contact portion being electrically connected to said base contact portion at an interface, said base contact portion and said interposer contact portion being laterally movable, independently of and relative to each other, at said interface, to align itself with the mating contact.
An electrical connector for the interconnection of conductors, and for mating connection with a mating contact, the connector comprising an insulating housing having a main terminal receiving cavity, a main terminal portion received in said main terminal receiving cavity and an independent interposer contact portion electrically connected to said main terminal portion and independently slidably movable relative to said main terminal portion to align itself with the mating contact.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.