Combined test clip and component extraction tool
First Claim
1. A combined test clip and electronic component extraction tool comprising:
- a. a main body including opposite ends, opposite sides, a top and a bottom;
b. a pair of upstanding levers pivotally secured intermediate their upper and lower end portions to opposite ends of the body for limited oscillation about an axis transverse to the sides of the main body;
c. means for yieldingly biasing the upper ends of the levers apart;
d. a plurality of elongated upstanding longitudinally spaced conductive side contacts insulated from each other and supported by and projecting downwardly from each side of the main body; and
f. a pair of upstanding, opposing, conductive contacts depending from each lever, each lever-depending contact having an exposed upper and lower end, the lower end of each lever-depending contact comprising conductive hooks opening inwardly toward the opposing lever.
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Abstract
A body is provided including opposite ends, opposite sides and a top and a bottom. A pair of upstanding levers are pivotally secured, intermediate their upper and lower end portions, to opposite end portions of the body for limited oscillation about axes transverse to the levers and the body. Spring structure is provided for yieldingly biasing the upper ends of the levers apart and the body includes opposite side rows of elongated longitudinally spaced relatively insulated contacts projecting endwise outwardly and downwardly from opposite side portions of the bottom of the body. The lower ends of the levers include coacting opposite side depending conductive hooks opening longitudinally of the body toward the remote levers and corresponding side hooks of the levers are spaced apart in planes spaced slightly inwardly of the corresponding side contacts. The contacts comprise spring contacts and the depending lower end portions thereof may be at least slightly biased outwardly of the corresponding sides of the body, the inner portions of the lower ends of the contacts being beveled and the contacts projecting at least slightly below the corresponding hooks.
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13 Claims
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1. A combined test clip and electronic component extraction tool comprising:
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a. a main body including opposite ends, opposite sides, a top and a bottom; b. a pair of upstanding levers pivotally secured intermediate their upper and lower end portions to opposite ends of the body for limited oscillation about an axis transverse to the sides of the main body; c. means for yieldingly biasing the upper ends of the levers apart; d. a plurality of elongated upstanding longitudinally spaced conductive side contacts insulated from each other and supported by and projecting downwardly from each side of the main body; and f. a pair of upstanding, opposing, conductive contacts depending from each lever, each lever-depending contact having an exposed upper and lower end, the lower end of each lever-depending contact comprising conductive hooks opening inwardly toward the opposing lever. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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- 8. A combined test clip and electronic component extraction tool comprising a body including opposite ends and sides as well as a bottom, a pair of upstanding levers pivotally supported from opposite ends of said body for limited oscillation about an axis transverse to the sides of said body, the lower ends of each lever including a pair of opposing, depending dielectric legs, each of said legs including an upstanding, conductive contact having an exposed upper and lower end, the lower portion of each contact comprising a hook opening toward the opposing lever.
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