Patent ID: 6449167
Filing Date: 2002-09-10
Classification: G01R,H05K,Y10S

Abstract:
A circuit board for technology teaching or building and testing electronic circuits, comprising:electronic components with leads providing contacts; conductors for connecting said electronic components; magnets for securing said contacts of said electronic components to said conductors; a breadboard comprising magnetically attractive material; magnet-containing holders for holding said electronic components and containing said magnets, said magnet-containing holders selected from the group consisting of plastic and non-magnetic material for electrically and magnetically insulating all of said magnets from said electrical components and conductors; and said magnets being of sufficient magnetic strength to securely engage said magnetically attractive material of said breadboard, all of said magnets being insulated by said magnetic-containing holders from electrically contacting said electrical components and said conductors to avoid forming an electrically conductive path with said conductors connecting said electrical components and said leads providing said contacts of said electrical components.