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Circuit panel connector, panel system using the connector, and method for making the panel system

  • US 4,645,278 A
  • Filed: 09/09/1985
  • Issued: 02/24/1987
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/09/1985
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A connector for mounting a component and for electrically connecting component terminals to circuit paths on a circuit panel comprising an electrically insulating body having a plurality of through openings, and electrical contact members mounted in the respective openings having respective post portions at one end extending from the openings at one side of the body to be soldered to selected circuit paths on the circuit panel and having respective terminal entry portions at an opposite end accessible from an opposite side of the body for receiving and resiliently, electrically engaging respective components terminals, characterized in that the contact members are movably disposed in the respective openings, a plate is disposed over the opposite body side and has a plurality of portions disposed in selected spaced relation to each other engaging the respective contact members for positioning the movable contact members relative to each other at said selected spacing in the body openings and retaining the contact members in the openings with said spacing, and means detachably securing the plate to the body for positioning the contact members relative to each other in the body openings until the contact members are soldered to circuit paths on the circuit panel in said selected spaced relation and for permitting removal of the plate after such soldering to permit insertion of component terminals into terminal entry portions of the respective contact members.

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