Assembly including a modular electrical circuit and connector
First Claim
1. Assembly including a modular electric circuit and a connector for electrically connecting the circuit to an autonomous electrical system, the assembly comprising a casing which contains both said circuit and the connector, and means for removably fixing the casing to the system in a position enabling the electrical connection between a first plurality of conductive pathways electrically connected to the points of the circuit to be connected to the system, and a second plurality of corresponding conductive pathways, belonging to the system,wherein the casing has a recess opening upon a portion of its lateral surface and thereon delimiting a window of essentially rectangular shape, whose position on the casing is such that, when the casing of the assembly is fixed to the system by a fixation means, the sides of said window enclose at least a portion of the length of said second plurality of conductive pathways,and wherein the first plurality of conductive pathways is carried by a substrate provided in the form of a flexible tongue, in insulating material, projecting into the recess, remote from the window, from a first face of this recess abutting on a first side of the window, in the direction of a second face of the recess abutting on a second side of said window, facing the first side, said first plurality of conductive pathways being carried by the surface of the tongue which is turned towards said window and extending upon the tongue from its origin to its free end, said assembly further comprising elastic means keeping the tongue in a tucked away position within the recess and restoring it to that position when it has been dislodged therefrom,and a push mechanism enables bending of the tongue, in opposition to said elastic means, so as to move the first plurality of conductive pathways into contact with the second plurality of corresponding pathways belonging to the system, and to maintain this contact at least in a first functioning position of the mechanism, the mechanism permitting the tongue to be given over to the sole action of said elastic means, at least in another functioning position.
1 Assignment
0 Petitions
Accused Products
Abstract
The assembly comprises a casing and a PC-Board in sheet form arranged therein, having a comb-spring and projecting freely into a recess of the wall of the casing. The lower face of the PC-board is furnished with a set of conductive pathways leading to microchips to be connected to an independent electric system by bending the PC-board sheet so as to make contact with a second set of homologous conductive pathways belonging to said system. This bending is obtained by displacing a shoe pushing a cylindrical bar freely engaged in a slot of the wall of the casing in communication with the recess, the bar lying on the structure formed by the combining and the PC-board sheet.
The electrical contact between both sets of conductive pathways can be interrupted by moving the shoe axially in a first direction corresponding to the bending of the PC-board sheet; a motion of the shoe in a second opposite direction re-establishes the electrical contact conditions of both sets of pathways.
26 Citations
7 Claims
-
1. Assembly including a modular electric circuit and a connector for electrically connecting the circuit to an autonomous electrical system, the assembly comprising a casing which contains both said circuit and the connector, and means for removably fixing the casing to the system in a position enabling the electrical connection between a first plurality of conductive pathways electrically connected to the points of the circuit to be connected to the system, and a second plurality of corresponding conductive pathways, belonging to the system,
wherein the casing has a recess opening upon a portion of its lateral surface and thereon delimiting a window of essentially rectangular shape, whose position on the casing is such that, when the casing of the assembly is fixed to the system by a fixation means, the sides of said window enclose at least a portion of the length of said second plurality of conductive pathways, and wherein the first plurality of conductive pathways is carried by a substrate provided in the form of a flexible tongue, in insulating material, projecting into the recess, remote from the window, from a first face of this recess abutting on a first side of the window, in the direction of a second face of the recess abutting on a second side of said window, facing the first side, said first plurality of conductive pathways being carried by the surface of the tongue which is turned towards said window and extending upon the tongue from its origin to its free end, said assembly further comprising elastic means keeping the tongue in a tucked away position within the recess and restoring it to that position when it has been dislodged therefrom, and a push mechanism enables bending of the tongue, in opposition to said elastic means, so as to move the first plurality of conductive pathways into contact with the second plurality of corresponding pathways belonging to the system, and to maintain this contact at least in a first functioning position of the mechanism, the mechanism permitting the tongue to be given over to the sole action of said elastic means, at least in another functioning position.
Specification