Patent ID: 7083424

Claim:
A connector board for electrically connecting electrode terminals of an electronic component with electrode terminals of a printed circuit board, said connector board comprising: an insulating plate having opposing surfaces extending in longitudinal and lateral dimensions and having recesses, each of said recesses defined by opposing parallel side walls defining therebetween an opening at one of said opposing surfaces and extending from said opening toward the other of said opposing surfaces; and leaf spring electrode members mounted in said recesses and formed of a conductive plate having opposing parallel surfaces extending across major and minor dimensions, said conductive plate having distal bends across said minor dimension adjacent both of distal ends forming distal contact sections and an intermediate bend across said minor dimension intermediate said distal bends, each of said electrode members including, as an integral structure, a coupling section at said intermediate bend and first and second straight leg sections extending from said coupling section to said distal bends, said distal contact sections extending from said straight leg sections, to which said distal contact sections are appended at said distal bends, outwardly of insulating plate with said distal contact sections respectively extending from and beyond respective opposing surfaces of said insulating pate, whereby placement of a circuit board or electrical component against the opposing surfaces of said insulating plate displaces the distal contact sections inwardly into said recesses against the spring forces of the leaf spring electrode member; and wherein said recesses are elongated slots extending along the longitudinal dimension and are arrayed in parallel across the lateral dimension and wherein a plurality of said leaf spring electrode members are respectively mounted, spaced apart, in each of said elongated slots, said parallel side walls of each elongated slot extending from said opening to a bottom having apertures therein through which extend the distal contact sections appended to said first straight leg sections; and wherein the connector board further comprises an insulating plate-like lining member covering said one opposing surface and having apertures therein through which extend the distal contact sections appended to said second straight leg sections.