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US 8,133,063 B2Granted
Connector with removable covers
AssigneeFci
InventorKoon Poh Tay
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Abstract
An electrical connector including a housing; one or more recesses formed in one or more sidewalls of the housing; a plurality of terminals disposed in respective portions of the housing such that solder tails of the terminals are accessible through the one or more recesses; and one or more cover elements removably coupled to the one or more sidewalls of the housing such that, in a mounted state of the connector on a PCB, the solder tails are enclosed by the one or more cover elements.
Claims20
An electrical connector comprising
- a housing;
- one or more recesses formed in one or more sidewalls of the housing;
- a plurality of terminals disposed in respective portions of the housing such that solder tails of the terminals are accessible through the one or more recesses;
- and
- one or more cover elements removably coupled to the one or more sidewalls of the housing such that, in a mounted state of the connector on a PCB, the solder tails are enclosed by the one or more cover elements.
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An electrical connector comprising
- a housing;
- a plurality of terminals disposed in respective portions of the housing, where the terminals comprise solder tails, where the solder tails extend to one or more exterior sides of one or more lateral sidewalls of the housing;
- one or more recesses formed in the one or more lateral sidewalls of the housing, where the one or more recesses are sized and shaped to provide access through opposite ends of the one or more lateral sidewalls to the solder tails;
- and
- one or more cover elements removably coupled to the one or more lateral sidewalls of the housing such that, in a mounted state of the connector on a printed circuit board (PCB), the solder tails are enclosed by the one or more cover elements at the exterior sides of the one or more lateral sidewalls.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.