Patent ID: 6176708
Filing Date: 2001-01-23
Classification: H01R

Abstract:
A press-contact connector for electrical connection between electrode terminals on oppositely facing first and second circuit boards by being interposed therebetween under a contacting pressure applied between the circuit boards, which is an elongated integral bar-formed body comprising:(a) a pair of a first supporting member and a second supporting member each made from an electrically insulating rubber in the form of an elongated bar body having an approximately triangular cross section and adhesively bonded together at one side surface of each of the first and second supporting members in a displaced disposition, the first supporting member coming into contact with the first circuit board and the second supporting member coming into contact with the second circuit board when the connector is interposed between the first and second circuit boards, with the interface plane inclined relative to the surfaces at which the supporting members are in contact with the circuit boards; and(b) an array of a plurality of electroconductive filaments in a parallel alignment sandwiched between the first and second supporting members at the adhesively bonded interface, each of the filaments extending to reach electrode terminals on the first and second circuit boards by running in an inclined direction perpendicularly to the longitudinal direction of the first and second supporting members,in which the first and second supporting members are disposed symmetrically relative to the center line on the interface between the first and second supporting members, a first elongated void space is formed as defined by the first supporting member, the array of the filaments and the first circuit board and a second elongated void space is formed as defined by the second supporting member, the array of the filaments and the second circuit board.