Patent ID: 6142802
Filing Date: 2000-11-07
Classification: G02B,H01R,H05K

Abstract:
An electronic interface module, comprising:a body elongated along an axis and having a plurality of faces and two ends;a signal connector disposed at one of said ends of said body;a plurality of elongated electrical contact pads disposed in a planar array on one of said faces of said body, said electrical contact pads elongated in a direction parallel to said axis and arrayed in a plurality of rows oriented perpendicularly to said axis, a first contact pad in one of said rows aligned end-to-end with a second contact pad in said one of said rows, wherein a combined length of said first and second contact pads is not greater than a length of a third contact pad laterally spaced from said first and second contact pads in said one of said rows; andmodule electronics communicating signals between at least some of said electrical contact pads and said signal connector.