Patent ID: 7025626
Filing Date: 2006-04-11
Classification: H01R

Abstract:
1. A connector assembly for interconnecting first conductors of a flat flexible circuit to a plurality of second conductors without the use of conductive terminals, comprising: a male connector including a relatively rigid male body member having an edge about which the flexible circuit is wrapped with the first conductors of the circuit facing away from the body member at the edge thereof; and a female connecting device including a receptacle for receiving the male connector inserted into the receptacle and means on the device for removably positioning said second conductors from exteriorly of the device in engagement with the first conductors of the flexible circuit at the edge of the male body member; the edge about which the flat flexible circuit is wrapped having a length dimension, the male body member having a dimension extending along a direction of insertion of the edge into the receptacle, the dimension of the male body member extending along the direction of insertion being at least equal of the edge length dimension.