Patent ID: 6083032
Filing Date: 2000-07-04
Classification: H01R,H05K

Abstract:
An adjustment fixture for aligning conducting pins arranged in predeterminantly spaced apart columns and rows on a protector panel so as to facilitate electrical connection of a printed wiring board to the conducting pins, comprising:an alignment comb having a comb support and a plurality of spaced apart elongated beams, each said beam having a longitudinal axis, a thickness, a first end connected to said comb support, and a second end, said thickness being substantially equal to the predetermined spacing between adjacent ones of the columns and rows of conducting pins; anda beam receptacle having a plurality of recesses for receiving said second ends of said beams so that when said elongated beams of said alignment comb are removably placed in the spacing between adjacent ones of one of the columns and the rows of conducting pins and said beam receptacle is removeably placed on said second ends of said beams, the conducting pins are maintained in a fixed position relative to a direction perpendicular to the longitudinal axes of said elongated beams for facilitating connection of the pins to the printed wiring board.