Electrical connector for attaching a circuit board
AssigneeSpeed Tech Corp.
InventorMei-Hui Wang
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Abstract
A structure of a connector for attaching a circuit board is disclosed. The connector includes a housing composed of an insulation material, a socket and two buckling elements detachably attached to two ends of the socket. The socket includes a groove in a central region for receiving a circuit board, and a row of signal contacts within the groove for attaching and electrically connecting with the circuit board. At two ends of the groove are two buckling arms. The circuit board inserted into the groove and pressed in between the buckling arms, and making the contact points of the circuit board to come in electrical contact with signal contacts inside of groove of the socket.
Claims6
An electrical connector for attaching a circuit board, comprising:
- a socket made of insulative material, comprising a groove, a row of signal contacts disposed within the groove, and a buckling element disposed on two ends of the socket;
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- two buckling arms made from conductive material with each buckling arm detachably attached to each one of the buckling elements of the socket, each buckling arm comprising an insertion portion, a resilient arm including an arch-shaped structure and a base plate arm extending from the insertion portion of the buckling arm, with a securing element disposed at a bottom edge of the resilient arm, wherein a positioning element is disposed at a distal end of the base plate, and wherein a space is formed between the base plate and the positioning element so that the resilient arm moves flexibly outwardly towards the base plate;
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- a connecting end of a circuit board obliquely inserted into the groove of the socket and then pressed downwards against the arch-shaped structure of the resilient arm and securely held between the resilient arms of the buckling arms.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.