Circuit board electrical connector

• US 5,876,245 A
• Filed: 03/07/1996
• Issued: 03/02/1999
• Est. Priority Date: 04/07/1995
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Hirose Electric Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Hirose Electric Company Limited
• Inventors: Tomita, Mitsuhiro, Matsukawa, Jun, Morita, Shigehiro
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Khiem
• Assistant Examiner(s): Byrd, Eugene G.
• Application Number:
  US08/612,067
• Time in Patent Office: 1,090 Days
• Field of Search: 439/540.1, 439/326, 439/71-2
• US Class Current: 439/540.1
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 12/7005 Guiding, mounting, polarizing or locking means; Extractors for printed circuit boards H05K
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 2201/10189 Non-printed connector
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 2201/10537 Attached components
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 3/303 Surface mounted components, e.g. affixing before soldering, aligning means, spacing means H05K3/32 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: Y02P 70/50 Manufacturing or production processes characterised by the final manufactured product

Abstract

A circuit board electrical connector includes a plurality of multicontact connectors (1) to be mounted on a circuit board with a predetermined interval; a plurality of linking members (6) for joining the multicontact connectors with the predetermined interval before the multicontact connectors are mounted on the circuit board; and linking devices (7-10) for removably linking the multicontact connectors to the linking members.

Claims

1. A circuit board electrical connector comprising:

a plurality of multicontact connectors to be mounted on a circuit board with a predetermined interval;

a plurality of linking members for joining said multicontact connectors with said predetermined interval before said multicontact connectors are mounted on said circuit board; and

linking means for removably linking said multicontact connectors to said linking members, wherein said multicontact connectors comprises an elongated housing and said linking means comprises at least one rectangular aperture provided in either said elongated housing or said linking member and at least one projection member provided on either said linking member or said elongated housing for fitting in said rectangular aperture.

2. A circuit board electrical connector according to claim 1, wherein said projection member comprises a rigid column projection and a resilient projection, a first surface of said column projection and a second surface of said rectangular aperture that is parallel to said first surface constituting reference surfaces at right angles, and said resilient projection being flexible to exert pressures on said reference surfaces.

3. A circuit board electrical connector according to claim 2, wherein there are provided two pairs of said projection members with reference surfaces at right angles to each other.

4. A circuit board electrical connector according to claim 2, wherein said resilient projection undergoes plastic deformation under heat.

5. A circuit board electrical connector according to claim 1, wherein said linking means comprises at least one reference surface to position said multicontact connectors with said predetermined interval.

6. A circuit board electrical connector comprising:

a plurality of multicontact connectors to be mounted on a circuit board with a predetermined interval;

a plurality of linking members for joining said multicontact connectors with said predetermined interval before said multicontact connectors are mounted on said circuit board; and

linking means for removably linking said multicontact connectors to said linking members, wherein said multicontact connectors have an elongated housing which has a pair of stepped portion at opposite ends to which said linking members are connected with said linking means and said linking members have a thickness such that said joined linking members do not exceed the highest level of said elongated housing.