Title: Circuit panel connector

Abstract: A circuit panel connector for enabling the connection of a plurality of circuit terminals at the edge of a circuit panel, such as a printed circuit board, with external conductors includes an elongate socket and self-aligning bifurcated electrical contacts juxtaposed with the socket along the length thereof, each having a pair of opposed cantilever tines integral with a common base and carrying contact lobes at the free ends thereof such that both tines are free to flex resiliently relative to one another for the reception of the circuit panel edge between the tines, while the contacts are free to move laterally, relative to the socket, for alignment of the contacts with the circuit panel edge in response to insertion of the circuit panel edge within the socket, and a strap integral with the base of each contact and extending laterally into a tubular connector element having means for releasably clamping an external conductor against the strap within the tubular connector element.

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Inventors: Obuch, Edward A. (Linden, NJ, US)
Waddington, William T. (Fanwood, NJ, US)

Application Number: 484168
Filing Date: 1974-06-28
Publication_date: 1976-01-06
Assignee: Amerace Corporation (New York, NY)
Primary Class(es): 439/249 439/660, 439/677
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US Patent Ref:

2765450	Oct, 1956	Richardson	339/176.
2935725	May, 1960	Fox	339/176.
3075167	Jan, 1963	Kinkaid	339/176.
3270313	Aug, 1966	Sautois	339/176.
3296576	Jan, 1967	Motten	339/64.
3346835	Oct, 1967	Burniston	339/272.
3660803	May, 1972	Cooney	339/176.
3775733	Nov, 1973	Ege	339/272.

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Primary Examiner: Lake, Roy
Assistant Examiner: Bicks, Mark S.
Attorney: Bender; S. Michael, Craig; Richard A., Battersby, Jr.; Gregory J.