A HEADER FOR MOUNTING CIRCUIT ELEMENTS FOR INCORPORATION IN AN ELECTRIC CIRCUIT

• US 3,735,214 A
• Filed: 01/27/1972
• Issued: 05/22/1973
• Est. Priority Date: 01/27/1972
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Charles E. Jensen, John O. Renskers
• Original Assignee: Charles E. Jensen, John O. Renskers
• Inventors: Renskers, John O., Jensen, Charles E.
• Primary Examiner(s): Huckert, John W.
• Assistant Examiner(s): James, Andrew J.
• Application Number:
  US05/221,364
• Time in Patent Office: 481 Days
• Field of Search: 317/234,4,4.1,5,5.4,11C,11CC 174/DIG.3 29/588
• US Class Current: 257/696
• CPC Class Codes: H01F 5/04 Arrangements of electric connections to coils, e.g. leads
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 7/1053 having interior leads

Abstract

A miniature component mounting header for those circuit elements which do not lend themselves to printed or to IC fabrication, for connection into hybrid micorcircuits.

Claims

1. A component mounting header comprising a non-rigid block adapted to have a circuit component mounted to the top face thereof and having vertical dovetail grooves formed in and extending across a vertical edge thereof, flat terminal strips having smoothly rounded edges contained between their ends in said grooves to extend above and below said grooves, the entrance to said groove being less than but sufficiently near the width of said strip to be yieldable to the width of said strip, the lower ends of said strips being adapted for circuit connection and the upper ends of said strips being adapted to have component leads secured thereto.

2. The combination of claim 1 wherein said lower ends of said strips are at right angles to said centrally contained portions.

3. The combination of claim 1 wherein said terminal strips have an offset thereacross engaging said top face.

4. The combination of claim 3 wherein said terminal strips include a second offset thereacross engaging the bottom face of said block, said lower ends extending from said offset in a plane parallel to that of said contained portions.

5. The combination of claim 1 wherein said lower ends are bent through a right angle under said block.

6. The combination of claim 2 wherein said lower ends are of uniform cross section with said contained portions.

7. The combination of claim 1 wherein said strips have a substantially uniformly tinned surface.

8. The combination of claim 1 wherein said strips are flattened tinned copper wire.

9. The combination of claim 8 wherein the surface of said strips confronting said block is knurled.

10. Hook-up strip for making electrical connections comprising tinned copper wire uniformly flattened over its length to have flat parallel opposite sides, smoothly rounded edges and a substantially uniformly tinned surface.

11. The combination of claim 10 wherein one of said sides is knurled.