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Static-free interrogating connector for electric components

  • US 4,954,087 A
  • Filed: 03/02/1990
  • Issued: 09/04/1990
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/27/1988
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A connector for contacting an electric component comprising:

  • a housing including means for locating said component in a specified physical relationship to said housing;

    a plurality of contact members carried by and biased with respect to said housing so as to be urged into physical contact with a predetermined electric component in said specified physical relationship to said housing;

    conductor means located such that at least some of said biased contact members are urged into electrically conductive relation with said conductor means when no electric component is in said specified physical relationship to said housing, and such that selected contact members are displaced out of their electrically conductive relation to said conductor means when an electric component is in said specified physical relationship to said housing, different combinations of said contact members being displaced by different electric components; and

    means connected to said contact members for determining the combination of displacements of said contact members when an electric component is in said specified physical relationship to said housing, and for identifying the component responsive thereto.

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