Connector for flat cables

• US 3,319,216 A
• Filed: 03/25/1965
• Issued: 05/09/1967
• Est. Priority Date: 03/25/1965
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Robert W. Mccullough
• Original Assignee: Robert W. Mccullough
• Inventors: Mccullough, Robert W.
• Application Number:
  US04/442,713
• Time in Patent Office: 775 Days
• US Class Current: 439/493
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 12/79 connecting to rigid printed circuits or like structures
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 12/87 acting automatically by insertion of rigid printed or like structures
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 3/365 by abutting, i.e. without alloying process

Claims

1. FOR USE IN MAKING ELECTRICAL CONNECTIONS BETWEEN TAPE-TYPE MULTICONDUCTOR INSULATED CABLES AND PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARDS, THE COMBINATION COMPRISING A FLEXIBLE ELASTIC ELEMENT HAVING SUBSTANTIALLY A U-SHAPED TRANSVERSE CROSSSECTION AND HAVING A RIB SPACED FROM THE EDGES OF THE OPPOSITELY FACING SIDES OF SAID ELEMENT AND EXTENDING LENGTHWISE ON THE OUTSIDE OF EACH OF SAID OPPOSITELY FACING SIDES AND HAVING A TROUGH ABOUT WHICH A CABLE WITH ITS CONDUCTORS EXPOSED ON ONE SIDE MAY BE LOCATED TO PRESENT THE EXPOSED PORTIONS OF SAID CONDUCTORS FACING INWARDLY WITHIN THE TROUGH OF SAID ELEMENT, A HOLLOW HOUSING HAVING A FIRST ELONGATED OPENING FOR RECEIVING A PROTRUDING PORTION OF A CIRCUIT BOARD IN ELECTRICAL CONNECTION WITH SAID INWARDLY FACING PORTIONS OF SAID CONDUCTORS, AND A SECOND ELONGATED OPENING FOR RECEIVING SAID CABLE, SAID ELEMENT BEING RECEIVABLE WITHIN SAID HOLLOW HOUSING SO THAT THE CABLE IS CLAMPED ABOUT SAID ELEMENT BETWEEN