Patent ID: 6109927
Filing Date: 2000-08-29
Classification: H01R,H05K

Abstract:
A connector for interconnecting circuits of adjacent circuit-bearing substrates placed edge to edge with circuit termini adjacent said edges, comprising:a housing including one or more contact-receiving cavities, and one contact disposed in each respective cavity, each contact including a plate-like body section secured in said cavity;each contact further including a pair of elongated spring arm contact sections initially co-extending from a common edge of said body section and outwardly from its respective cavity and from a mounting face of said housing;said elongated spring arm contact sections having end portions arcuately diverging from each other, all within the plane of the body section to free ends to orient respective continuous arcuate edges thereof to face away from said mounting face to be engaged by associated circuit termini of respective ones of said circuit-bearing substrates;whereby said elongated spring arm contact sections are independently deflectable toward said mounting face under spring bias upon engagement with said circuit termini under compression thereagainst such that said circuit-bearing substrates can vary relatively in distance from said mounting face and from each other.