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Grounding for enclosures

  • US 5,814,762 A
  • Filed: 07/25/1996
  • Issued: 09/29/1998
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/12/1995
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. An enclosure, comprising;

  • a circuit board with a surface having a solid electrically conductive surface region at the surface;

    an electrically conductive wall including an electrically conductive grounding element on a surface of the wall at an edge of the wall, the grounding element having sides, all such sides narrowing as the sides extend from the surface of the wall to terminate at a common vertex spaced from the surface of the wall; and

    a mechanism joining the wall at the edge to the circuit board with the vertex of the grounding element pressing against the solid electrically conductive surface region at the surface of the circuit board to penetrate the solid electrically conductive surface region and establish an electrically conductive relationship with the electrically conductive surface region, the path of penetration of the vertex of the grounding element extending in a direction perpendicular to the solid electrically conductive surface region at the surface of the circuit board.

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