Electrical interconnection system utilizing fluid pressure deformed tubular contact
First Claim
1. An electrical interconnection device comprising a first contact having a tubular portion formed of plastic material to define a thin wall of a thickness facilitating radial displacement in the center of the length of said portion and including a conductive surface interiorly on said wall,said first contact having a first radial geometry in a relaxed condition and a second radial geometry in a stressed condition as driven by fluid pressure applied to said wall against one side thereof,means to apply said fluid pressure, a second conductive contact positioned interiorly of said first contact to be electrically interconnected thereto by the application of said pressure to effect said second geometry and displace the wall and conductive surface of said first contact into engagement with the second contact to effect said interconnection.
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Abstract
An electrical interconnection is provided between a tubular element (10) formed of a thin walled plastic material made conductive (16) and a further contact (18,56) by fluid pressure driving the material to engage the further contact. Positive and negative pressures are contemplated and assemblies (110) of contacts (90) are arranged to become commonly activated to interconnect arrays of contacts between electronic packages.
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1. An electrical interconnection device comprising a first contact having a tubular portion formed of plastic material to define a thin wall of a thickness facilitating radial displacement in the center of the length of said portion and including a conductive surface interiorly on said wall,
said first contact having a first radial geometry in a relaxed condition and a second radial geometry in a stressed condition as driven by fluid pressure applied to said wall against one side thereof, means to apply said fluid pressure, a second conductive contact positioned interiorly of said first contact to be electrically interconnected thereto by the application of said pressure to effect said second geometry and displace the wall and conductive surface of said first contact into engagement with the second contact to effect said interconnection.
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22. An interconnection system adapted to receive and interconnect an electronic package including an array of post contact members, which extend axially parallel in a given pattern
said system including a plurality of first contacts each having a tubular cross section and a conductive surface and each formed of a thin wall plastic material readily deformable in a radically inward sense, the said first contacts being arranged in axially parallel patterns matching axially disposed patterns of post contact members of the package, a housing having a means sealing the interior of the housing with said first contact members mounted in said housing in said pattern and a fluid medium contained within said housing and means to pressurize said fluid medium to drive said first contacts radially inwardly into engagement with the said post contact members of said package to provide an interconnection thereto.
- 28. An interconnection system including a tubular element formed of a thin wall material having a conductive surface to form a first contact, said element having characteristics of flexibility under pressure to be displaced radially from the first diameter inwawrdly to a reduced diameter toward the center of the longitudinal axis of said tubular element, a second conductive contact displaceable from a point removed from said element parallel to said longitudinal axis to point proximate said element, means to apply a radially inward pressure to said element to cause it to flex into engagement interconnecting to said second contact, the said tubular element having a memory such that in the absence of pressure, the element returns to the first diameter to minimize engagement and frictional force between the first and second contacts.
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