Cable connector incorporating anisotropically conductive elastomer
AssigneeParicon Technologies Corporation
InventorsRoger E. Weiss, David M. Barnum
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Abstract
A separable electrical connector for separably, electrically interconnecting the conductors of one multi-conductor cable to the conductors of a second electrical device that may be an electrical device such as a chip, or a second multi-conductor cable, or a flexible or rigid printed circuit board. The connector includes a layer of anisotropic conductive elastomer (ACE) in electrical contact with the conductors of the cable and the conductors of the second electrical device. A clamp or another type of mechanical device compresses the ACE, to provide electrical signal paths between the conductors of the cable and the second electrical device, through the ACE.
Claims10
A separable electrical connector for separably, electrically interconnecting the conductors of one multi-conductor cable to the conductors of a second multi-conductor cable, comprising:
- at least two multi-conductor cables, each cable having a plurality of at least partially-exposed conductors, with the exposed conductors of two of the cables in proximity to one another, at least one such cable being a multi-axial cable comprising at least two spaced coaxial conductors;
- anisotropic conductive elastomer (ACE) in electrical contact directly with the exposed conductors that are in proximity to one another;
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- mechanical structure that holds at least the multi-axial cable and compresses the ACE, to provide electrical signal paths between the conductors of the cables that are in proximity to one another through the ACE.
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