Patent ID: 6074242
Filing Date: 2000-06-13
Classification: H01R

Abstract:
A wire-trap connector for forming an electrical connection between a wire conductor trapped in said wire-trap connector and an electrical circuit formed on a surface of a printed circuit board, said wire-trap connector comprising:a contact for clamping said wire conductor and connecting to said electrical circuit; anda connector housing having a channel and containing said contact, andwherein said contact includes a flat portion and is shaped from a stamped piece of flat conductive material and further includes an adjustably mounted compression tail having a flat portion which extends from said flat portion of said contact and terminating in a bent portion so that an elbow of said bent portion being solderlessly, electrically contactable and adjustably compression mountable with a trace of said electrical circuit for passing electricity between said trace and said conductor, and wherein said trace, in a region of contact between said trace and said elbow, exists on the surface of the printed circuit board and does not extend through a thickness of the printed circuit board as a through-hole.