Patent ID: 6108901
Filing Date: 2000-08-29
Classification: H01R,Y10T

Abstract:
A tool kit comprising more than one tool each for implementing a non-destructive separation of an electrical component having one or more terminals that are soldered to a wire board, the component having mounting holes that are spaced apart a certain distance from one another, each tool comprising:a handle part including a grip of a heat insulating material; anda pair of legs extending from the handle part wherein said legs are in the form of thermally conductive rods and distal ends of said legs have cross sections formed to enter the mounting holes in the component and to contact walls of the holes when the handle part is swiveled not more than about ten degrees from a direction normal to the board on which the component is mounted, the spacing between the distal ends of the legs is substantially equal to the distance between two mounting holes in a given component; andthe grip of the handle part is constructed and arranged to be manipulated to separate the component from the wire board when the component is desoldered from the wire board;wherein each of the tools of the tool kit has a different spacing between the distal ends of its legs to accommodate electrical components having correspondingly different distances between mounting holes in the components.