Patent ID: 6436517
Filing Date: 2002-08-20
Classification: B29C,B32B,H01R,H05K,Y10T

Abstract:
A continuous elongated injection-molded strip of moldable material containing a plurality of spaced approximately in-line metal trace patterns with or without mounted components along substantially the length of said strip, comprising:(a) a consecutive series of injection-molded segments of moldable material, (b) each segment comprising a consecutive series of connected integral components comprised of first leading and second trailing end units and a plurality of middle units between the end units, said middle units each being of moldable material and separated along their length from each other, (c) except for the end segments, one of the first and second end units of each segment having a portion overmolding a projecting portion of the other of the first and second end units of the adjacent segment whereby successive segments are integrally coupled by their respective overmolded and projecting portions of the second and first end units, (d) longitudinally-spaced metal trace patterns surface embedded in and tightly adherent to the surface of each of the units, with their respective surfaces exposed for mounting of components.