Patent ID: 8376766
Filing Date: 2013-02-19
Classification: H01R,Y10T

Abstract:
1. An apparatus including a card edge contact system, the apparatus comprising: a card edge connector housing having an open end for receiving a card, a plurality of side walls and a housing base portion connecting the side walls and having a plurality of openings; a substrate spaced a distance away from the housing base portion to form a space therebetween, and having a plurality of contact pin holes; a plurality of contact pins collectively defining an upper contact section, a lower contact section and a compliant section, the upper contact section having an open end with a restricted contact portion for contacting the card, a portion of the upper contact section disposed within the openings in the housing base portion, the lower contact section having an end connected and secured to the substrate via the contact pin holes, the compliant section being electrically-conductive, resilient and disposed within said space, the compliant section further having one end connected to the upper contact section and another end connected to the lower contact section, the compliant section configured to absorb a force from the substrate that would otherwise be transmitted to the upper contact section via the lower contact section and allow the card edge connector housing to move in a free motion state and relative to the substrate; a sliding member; a protrusion from the card edge connector housing disposed above an aperture for receiving the sliding member; a spring coupled to the sliding member and biasing the sliding member away from the aperture with a biasing force; a screw; and a cam coupled to the sliding member that receives the screw, the screw being turnable in a first direction to advance the cam to apply a force to the sliding member and insert the sliding member into the aperture against the biasing force and into contact with the protrusion, and the screw being turnable in a second direction opposite the first direction to retract the cam so that the biasing force causes the sliding member to retract from the aperture such that the sliding member does not contact the protrusion.