Patent ID: 8087953

Claim:
A surface mount device jumper, comprising: a base member fabricated from a resin laminate and shaped in a parallelepiped configuration having a thickness; and an electrode member having a thickness body extending along and about a longitudinal axis in a longitudinal direction, a lateral axis in a lateral direction and a transverse axis in a transverse direction with the longitudinal axis, the lateral axis and the transverse axis intersecting one another at a point of intersection and perpendicularly relative to one another, the lateral axis and the transverse axis forming a lateral-transverse plane, the electrode member fabricated from an electrically-conductive material and formed in a generally C-shaped configuration viewed in the lateral-transverse plane to define an opening extending in the longitudinal direction into and through the electrode member, the opening sized to be slidably force-fitted to receive the base member in the longitudinal direction such that the electrode member partially wraps around respective opposing end portions of the base member as viewed in side elevation and the electrode member clamps to the respective opposing end portions of the base member to retain the base member in the opening; wherein the electrode member has a U-shaped clamp portion forming a U-shaped opening section at one end thereof, an inverse U-shaped clamp portion at the other end thereof forming an inverse U-shaped opening section facing the U-shaped opening section and a bridge portion interconnecting the U-shaped clamp portion and the inverse U-shaped clamp portion to form an integral construction, wherein the thickness body of the electrode member is substantially equal to the thickness of the base member.