Patent ID: 6220950
Filing Date: 2001-04-24
Classification: H01R

Abstract:
A first tool for distributing electrically conductive particles on the contact surface of a male, electrical jack connector said first tool comprising an enclosing structure suitable to be grasped between fingers and thumb, said structure containing an internal cylindrical opening having(a) a cylindrical, contact surface portion geometrically compatible with the radial surface of a male, electrical, jack connector and(b) an end contact portion axially aligned with the cylindrical contact surface portion and geometrically compatible with the end portion of a male, electrical, jack connector,wherein the cylindrical, contact surface and the end point contact surface of the first tool comprise particles that are conductive and wherein at least some of the conductive particles are transferable from a surface of the first tool in contact with a contact surface of a male, electrical, jack connector.