EP0350710A2 - Connecteur de bord pour circuit imprimé - Google Patents

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EP0350710A2
EP0350710A2 EP89111696A EP89111696A EP0350710A2 EP 0350710 A2 EP0350710 A2 EP 0350710A2 EP 89111696 A EP89111696 A EP 89111696A EP 89111696 A EP89111696 A EP 89111696A EP 0350710 A2 EP0350710 A2 EP 0350710A2
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Heinz Loewen
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    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01R—ELECTRICALLY-CONDUCTIVE CONNECTIONS; STRUCTURAL ASSOCIATIONS OF A PLURALITY OF MUTUALLY-INSULATED ELECTRICAL CONNECTING ELEMENTS; COUPLING DEVICES; CURRENT COLLECTORS
    • H01R12/00—Structural associations of a plurality of mutually-insulated electrical connecting elements, specially adapted for printed circuits, e.g. printed circuit boards [PCB], flat or ribbon cables, or like generally planar structures, e.g. terminal strips, terminal blocks; Coupling devices specially adapted for printed circuits, flat or ribbon cables, or like generally planar structures; Terminals specially adapted for contact with, or insertion into, printed circuits, flat or ribbon cables, or like generally planar structures
    • H01R12/70—Coupling devices
    • H01R12/71—Coupling devices for rigid printing circuits or like structures
    • H01R12/72—Coupling devices for rigid printing circuits or like structures coupling with the edge of the rigid printed circuits or like structures
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01R—ELECTRICALLY-CONDUCTIVE CONNECTIONS; STRUCTURAL ASSOCIATIONS OF A PLURALITY OF MUTUALLY-INSULATED ELECTRICAL CONNECTING ELEMENTS; COUPLING DEVICES; CURRENT COLLECTORS
    • H01R12/00—Structural associations of a plurality of mutually-insulated electrical connecting elements, specially adapted for printed circuits, e.g. printed circuit boards [PCB], flat or ribbon cables, or like generally planar structures, e.g. terminal strips, terminal blocks; Coupling devices specially adapted for printed circuits, flat or ribbon cables, or like generally planar structures; Terminals specially adapted for contact with, or insertion into, printed circuits, flat or ribbon cables, or like generally planar structures
    • H01R12/70—Coupling devices
    • H01R12/82—Coupling devices connected with low or zero insertion force
    • H01R12/83—Coupling devices connected with low or zero insertion force connected with pivoting of printed circuits or like after insertion
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01R—ELECTRICALLY-CONDUCTIVE CONNECTIONS; STRUCTURAL ASSOCIATIONS OF A PLURALITY OF MUTUALLY-INSULATED ELECTRICAL CONNECTING ELEMENTS; COUPLING DEVICES; CURRENT COLLECTORS
    • H01R13/00—Details of coupling devices of the kinds covered by groups H01R12/70 or H01R24/00 - H01R33/00
    • H01R13/02—Contact members
    • H01R13/04—Pins or blades for co-operation with sockets
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01R—ELECTRICALLY-CONDUCTIVE CONNECTIONS; STRUCTURAL ASSOCIATIONS OF A PLURALITY OF MUTUALLY-INSULATED ELECTRICAL CONNECTING ELEMENTS; COUPLING DEVICES; CURRENT COLLECTORS
    • H01R12/00—Structural associations of a plurality of mutually-insulated electrical connecting elements, specially adapted for printed circuits, e.g. printed circuit boards [PCB], flat or ribbon cables, or like generally planar structures, e.g. terminal strips, terminal blocks; Coupling devices specially adapted for printed circuits, flat or ribbon cables, or like generally planar structures; Terminals specially adapted for contact with, or insertion into, printed circuits, flat or ribbon cables, or like generally planar structures
    • H01R12/70—Coupling devices
    • H01R12/71—Coupling devices for rigid printing circuits or like structures
    • H01R12/72—Coupling devices for rigid printing circuits or like structures coupling with the edge of the rigid printed circuits or like structures
    • H01R12/721—Coupling devices for rigid printing circuits or like structures coupling with the edge of the rigid printed circuits or like structures cooperating directly with the edge of the rigid printed circuits
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01R—ELECTRICALLY-CONDUCTIVE CONNECTIONS; STRUCTURAL ASSOCIATIONS OF A PLURALITY OF MUTUALLY-INSULATED ELECTRICAL CONNECTING ELEMENTS; COUPLING DEVICES; CURRENT COLLECTORS
    • H01R43/00—Apparatus or processes specially adapted for manufacturing, assembling, maintaining, or repairing of line connectors or current collectors or for joining electric conductors
    • H01R43/16—Apparatus or processes specially adapted for manufacturing, assembling, maintaining, or repairing of line connectors or current collectors or for joining electric conductors for manufacturing contact members, e.g. by punching and by bending

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  • This invention is directed to a printed circuit board edge connector where the connector can be mounted for further electrical connection and can receive printed circuit boards for making an electrical connection thereto.
  • printed circuit boards or printed wiring boards are configured to receive many electronic components, such as integrated circuit chips which may have memory or logic functions.
  • Large memory capability requires a large number of integrated circuit chips.
  • the integrated circuit chip packages are surface-mounted upon a printed circuit board.
  • the printed circuitry is led to pads adjacent the edge of the board where interconnection to other circuitry is required.
  • such boards have been permanently interconnected with the mother board by being soldered directly thereto.
  • Connectors have more recently been employed to permit ease of insertion and removal of such boards.
  • a prior edge connector employs a C-­shaped stamped contact which permits low insertion force, but when a printed circuit board at the thickest end of acceptable tolerance is employed therein, the contacts are bent beyond the elastic limits so that they do not return to the prior unstressed condition when the board is removed. this does not permit reliable reuse of the connector.
  • the C-shaped contacts are stamped out of flat stock, they have a very high spring coefficient. When there is adequate contact force with the thinnest printed circuit board, then the contact force is too high with the thickest board, resulting in distortions and difficult installation.
  • a contact the contact being cut out of the flat of a sheet of substantially planar metallic spring material and bent out of the plane of the sheet; the contact having first and second arms having ends attached together and outer ends away from the attached ends to define a generally U-shaped socket, the first and second arms having first and second facing walls defining the socket, first and second contact points respectively in the first and second walls and generally facing each other, the contact points being spaced so that a printed circuit board can be placed therebetween without contacting the points when it is at a first angle with respect to the walls and is in engagement with both the first and second points when the printed circuit board is at a second angle with respect to the walls; a formed spring extending from the outer end of one of the arms; an attachment body on the spring away from the socket so that the attachment body can be secured to a connector body so that the spring can flex so that the U-shaped socket can move with respect to the attachment body as the printed circuit board is moved from a first position at the first angle to a second position at the
  • a connector comprising: a body, the body having at least first and second rails defining the length thereof; webs attached to one of the rails and extending transversely to the body to define upright pockets in the body, slots in the web, the slots extending partway through the thickness of the webs and extending partway through the height of the webs from the bottom of the body; a contact within each of the pockets, each of the contacts being unitarily formed out of the flat surface of a sheet of spring metallic contact stock, each of the contacts having a pin and having an attachment body above the pin, the attachment body being wider than the pocket and being secured in the attachment slots in the sides of the pocket, a spring extending above the attachment body and a socket formed on the spring, the spring and the socket being narrower than the width of the body so that the spring and the socket can be inserted into the socket from the bottom of the body, the socket being U-shaped and the spring extending from the end of one of the arms of the U-shaped socket, the sockets of
  • a method of making a printed circuit board edge connector comprising the steps of: stamping and forming from metallic sheet contact material with a plurality of contacts, each serially comprising a pin, an attachment body, a spring configured to bend in the flat of the sheet material and a U-shaped socket, with the socket and spring being more narrow than the attachment body, and with the plurality of contacts being secured to a comb back to form a comb of contacts; molding a connector body of dielectric synthetic polymer composition material to define pockets between webs with the pockets being wider than the sockets and the springs but narrower than the attachment bodies; and inserting at the same time a plurality of contacts into a corresponding plurality of pockets by passing the contacts and springs through the pockets; engaging the attachment bodies in the webs defining the pockets to retain the contacts in the pocket so that the pins extend out of the bottom of the body; and thereafter removing the comb back so that each contact is separate.
  • the connector body carries a plurality of formed contacts, each of which has a socket with offset contact points therein.
  • the socket receives the edge of the printed circuit board when the plane of the circuit board is normal to the direction between the contact points.
  • the printed circuit board is then rotated and held in a position wherein the contact points engage pads on the board. Resilient deflection of the formed contacts, away from the socket, overcomes dimensional differences.
  • the invention may thus provide a new, economical, highly reliable interconnection device for connecting to the edge of a printed circuit board to provide multiple contacts with pads on the printed circuit board when the printed circuit board is inserted into the connector and rotated and held in position.
  • the invention may provide a circuit board edge connector which has substantially zero insertion force and requires only a small amount of force to swing the circuit board into the contacted position where the circuit board is held.
  • the invention preferably provides a contact spring for such a printed circuit board which provides a U-shaped socket to receive the edge of the board and a single beam spring extends from the socket to the contact mounting so that resiliency due to different component sizes is taken up away from the socket.
  • a formed contact structure may be provided which is located and held in the dielectric connector body in such a way as to provide accurate contact locations and accurate tail locations to permit accurate connection of the circuit boards into the connector and provide accurate location of the connector in the mother board.
  • the contacts may be stamped and formed from sheet metal in an orientation which will allow loading of multiple of such contacts into the connector body to assemble the connector without a large number of contact insertion operations.
  • the invention provides a connector body which contains and retains the contacts, which protects the contacts and which is drainable so that subsequent cleaning operations can be performed.
  • contacts are provided by forming spring sheet metal so that the finished contacts are of low spring constant and operate within the elastic limit during the insertion and contact with printed circuit boards of normal thickness tolerance range.
  • FIGURE 1 sheet material 10 is fed to a press where successive operations form the contacts. When the press operations are done, the contacts are still joined as a comb.
  • the contacts are stamped and formed from any suitable conductive metallic spring alloy, and in the preferred embodiment, in the size disclosed herein, metallic spring alloy material approximately 0.010 inch thick is suitable.
  • the progressive stamping and forming illustrated in FIGURE 1 is illustrative of forming two combs of contacts at the same time. One may be formed. Since the combs of contacts are identical, the ones illustrated at the far edge of the metallic spring alloy sheet 10 will be described in detail.
  • slits 12 and 14 are formed.
  • slits are in line with each other and define the center line of the contact which is being formed.
  • the slits may be made by means of a dyke, chisel or other slitter.
  • Slot 16 is next stamped from the sheet to leave arm 18, which is of uniform width as it extends out of the wider attachment body 20 which has attachment tabs extending outward widthwise from the arm 18. Also remaining is guide bump 22 on the side of the attachment body.
  • FIGURES 6 and 7 A top view of contact points 24 and 26 is seen in FIGURES 8 and 9 as a result of an upward application of the punch which separates and raises slit 12.
  • Two pairs of contact points are formed on each arm, as seen in FIGURE 1. In FIGURE 1, only contact point 24 is indicated because of the smallness of this feature, but its companion contact point 26 lies next to it. Furthermore, another pair of contact points is similarly formed along the arm with its pair of contact points indicated at 28 in FIGURE 1. It is to be noted that these pairs of contact points are spaced lengthwise from each other along the arm 18. Next, the arm is formed to define a socket.
  • Bend 30 is first made, and bend 32 is next made to form a socket, generally indicated at 34.
  • the socket is shown in more detail in FIGURES 2, 3 and 17.
  • the two portions of the arm which form the socket 34 lie substantially parallel to each other, and the contact points 24 and 28 are in opposite sides of the socket within the socket. It is important to note that these contacts are staggered, and they are a distance D from each other in the maximum straight-line distance therebetween. Furthermore, this straight-line distance is at an angle to the arms of the U-shaped socket 34.
  • the distance between the contact points in a direction normal to the arms of the socket is a distance L.
  • FIGURE 5 shows a section through the socket 34 in a direction normal to the direction of the arms. A detail of the socket is shown in FIGURE 5 where the cross-section is taken at right angles to the arms of the socket to show the dimension L.
  • the spring shape is a function of the manner in which the socket is going to lie in the connector body.
  • the printed circuit board will lie in the connector body at an acute angle with respect to the bottom of the connector, in the preferred embodiment disclosed. In other embodiments, the printed circuit board may lie at other angles, such as normal to the bottom of the connector, and in such cases the shape of the spring will orient the direction of the socket. The size of the drawing sheet prevents the showing of these successive bends along the length of travel of the metallic spring sheet 10 through the die.
  • the production is preferably unidirectional and continuous through the die.
  • three contacts are being shown as formed in each operation, and in the lower part of FIGURE 1, two contacts are shown as being formed in each operation.
  • one or more contacts may be operated upon at each die station. With the completion of bending, the spring is formed between the socket and the attachment body.
  • the attachment body is wider than the spring section 44.
  • the wider width is shown in FIGURE 12, which also shows the presence of the guide bump 22 on the attachment body and the presence of two coined dimples 46 and 48.
  • the dimples are coined in the same direction as the socket.
  • the final step in preparation of the comb is the further stamping of the flat portion of the metallic spring alloy sheet 10 to create pins 50 below the attachment body 20.
  • the pins 50 need not be more narrow than the attachment body, but for other purposes are considerably narrower than the attachment body.
  • the pins are still attached to the comb back 52, as is seen at the bottom of FIGURE 1 and at the bottom of FIGURE 10.
  • a group of the contacts is handled together, including insertion in the connector body.
  • a breakoff line is partly cut through at the juncture between the pins 50 and the comb back 52.
  • a plurality of contacts on a comb back is a comb which may have as many contacts thereon as there are pockets in the connector body, or several comb-carried sets of contacts may need to be employed to fill all the pockets in the connector body.
  • Connector body 54 is shown in isometric view in FIGURE 10, in bottom view in FIGURE 11, in plan view in FIGURE 14, and in enlarged transverse section in FIGURES 17 and 18.
  • the connector body 54 is illustrated as being configured to receive two circuit boards for edge connection, but it may be configured to receive one or more than two circuit boards for edge connection.
  • the connector body is configured as a rectangular structure having a flat bottom 56 on which feet 58 are mounted in order to space the body above the mother printed circuit board upon which the connector is mounted.
  • Pins 60 also extend from the bottom to permit location of the connector body on the mother printed circuit board at a precise location.
  • the pins 60 may be of different sizes or may be non-symmetrically located so that the edge connector body is mounted on the mother printed circuit board only in one orientation.
  • That location and orientation is determined by the tooling holes in the mother printed circuit board which receive the pins.
  • the contact pins extend downward out of the body of lesser distance than the pins 60 so that, when the connector is placed on the mother printed circuit board, it is properly positioned thereon by the pins 60. Then the pins 60 and contact pins all drop through their holes at one time. The spacing of the connector body above the printed circuit board permits cleaning of all surfaces.
  • the body is made up of front rail 62, center rail 64 in the shape of a downwardly-directed channel member, and rear rail 66.
  • the rails are connected at their ends by left-end panel 68 and right-end panel 70.
  • this structure defines two longitudinal channels down the length of the connector body. Webs extend forward into the channels. Web 72 is shown in the right channel, and web 74 is shown in the left one in FIGURES 17 and 18. These webs are a series of webs, as seen in FIGURES 10, 11 and 14, which define pockets therebetween.
  • the webs 72 and 74 are illustrated in FIGURE 10 as being the ones at the end of the broken-­away section, and the webs 72 and 74 are also illustrated in FIGURE 11.
  • the web 76 is also illustrated in FIGURE 11 to define pocket 78. That portion of FIGURE 11 is shown enlarged in FIGURE 13. Slots 80 and 82 are formed in webs 76 and 72 and face each other. The slots are sized to receive attachment body 20. Pocket 78 is sufficiently wide to pass therethrough the socket and its spring. When the comb is inserted into the connector body from the bottom, as indicated in FIGURE 10, each socket and its spring is inserted upwardly through its corresponding pocket, and then the attachment body enters into the facing slots at the sides of the pocket. Dimples 46 and 48 on the attachment body force the attachment body back into the slot and guide bump 22 presses the attachment body to the side of its slot.
  • each contact engages one slot side and against the backs of both slots to provide exact reference of the contact with respect to its pocket.
  • the full insertion is seen in FIGURES 17 and 18.
  • each of the contacts is individually retained in place by engagement of its attachment body in the side slots, and the comb back is broken off so that each contact is electrically isolated.
  • the body is molded of dielectric synthetic polymer composition material to provide both electrical isolation and mechanical integrity. When in this position, the sockets are protected by ribs 84 and 86 on the rails.
  • the pins extend downwardly with precise reference to the locating pins 60 so that the entire connector body may be inserted upon a mother board, with the contact pins extending therethrough so that wave soldering can electrically connect the pins to printed circuits on the mother board. Subsequent to such soldering, the assembly can be cleaned.
  • webs can extend all the way across between the rails. For example, in FIGURE 11, web 88 extends between the front and center rails and web 90 extends between the center and the rear rails. This is for strengthening.
  • printed circuit boards 92 and 94 are shown as being inserted into the sockets of the contacts.
  • Web 88 is cut down to edge 96, which provides an insertion limit for the printed circuit board 92 to prevent over-stressing of the spring 44 behind the socket 34.
  • the upper rolled edge of rib 84 prevents damage from stroking across the socket.
  • One of the problems in edge connection of printed circuit boards is that the board thickness tolerance of boards 92 and 94 is fairly wide. Normal board thickness tolerance, including the tinned contact pads on the edge thereof, ranges from 0.047 inch to 0.056 inch.
  • the board 92 is illustrated as being the thicker board, and board 94 is illustrated as being the thinner board. These boards represent the outer limits of thickness tolerance.
  • the socket is formed with a dimension D of 0.056 or slightly more to permit the free entry of the thicker board 92 at an angle normal to the direction D, as illustrated on the left side of FIGURE 17. Furthermore, the socket is configured so that the distance L, between the contact points parallel to the sides of the socket, is 0.047 inch, which is the thickness of the board at the thinner edge of the tolerance. This permits the entry of thinner board 94 with zero contact pressure at any angle above that parallel to the arms of the socket 34. In both cases, the angle at which the board is inserted is above the position when the board is locked in place.
  • the endwise position of the board with respect to the connector body is controlled by the inner walls of the end panels.
  • printed circuit board 92 engages against right end wall 98 during its insertion so that the position along the length of the connector in the circuit board is established.
  • the circuit board is a fairly close fit between the right end wall 90 and left end wall 100 shown in FIGURE 14.
  • stop surface 102 limits the rotation of the printed circuit-­board to the right.
  • post 104 engages in tooling hole 106 in the printed circuit board to precisely locate the printed circuit board with respect to the connector body and thus with respect to the connector body and thus with respect to the contacts therein. As seen in FIGURE 17, the post 104 is tapered in order to adjust the printed circuit board into precise position as it swings into place.
  • the board is latched in place by means of latch 108.
  • the latch 108 shown in FIGURES 15, 16 and 17 is sized to engage over the top of the thickest board when the thickest board is brought down to the stop surface 102.
  • the latch 108 is in the form of a hook with a tapered top surface so that, when the board is swung down into position, the latch is pushed aside and automatically snaps over the board by virtue of the resiliency of the material of which the latch is formed.
  • latch stop 110 is provided, see FIGURES 15 and 16. The latch can swing away from latched position only a limited amount before it engages the latch stop to thus prevent over-stressing of the latch material.
  • the latch is preferably integrally molded with the rest of the body. As seen in FIGURE 18, there is a post at each end of each of the two printed circuit board installation positions, and there is also a latch at each end thereof so that the printed circuit board is precisely located in the connector and securely retained therein.
  • a printed circuit board edge connector is formed which can have its body accurately molded of dielectric synthetic polymer composition material and have combs of contacts inserted therein so that automatic assembly is easily achieved.
  • automatic insertion of the printed circuit boards into the connector can also be achieved.
  • the contact is made up of a contact socket with contact points therein, a spring, attachment tabs and a pin, all integrally formed.
  • the socket is designed to receive printed circuit boards of acceptable tolerance range, and it is not the socket which adjusts to the difference in board thickness.
  • the socket is not deformed at all for different board thicknesses because the difference in thickness is taken up by the spring section of the contact.
  • FIGURE 18 shows the installed position of the board and shows the manner in which the spring sections deflect. Since deflection is in the thin direction of the contact, a low spring coefficient results so that the difference in contact force between the thin board and the thick board is acceptable and is fully within the elastic limit of the contact.
  • the integrally formed contact with its separately functioning socket, spring, attachment body and pin each has a cooperative relationship to the whole contact and the connector body so that a reliable connector is achieved.
  • FIGURE 19 shows the end of a spring contact arm 112, which is the equivalent of spring contact arm 18.
  • the edges of the arm are formed upwardly by means of dimples 114 and 116.
  • the dimples are at the edge of the contact arm. Raising of the dimples produces sharp contact points 118 and 120, which are the equivalent of the sharp contact points 24 and 26.

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