Patent ID: 8371860

Claim:
A method of shaping a printed circuit board (PCB) to reduce a fitting thrust of golden fingers, comprising modifying a shape of a thickness of an edge of a PCB, wherein said edge includes at least two edge sections along a length of said edge that are separated along said length of said edge by a locating part, and wherein said thickness is transverse to said length, by beveling said at least two edge sections; modifying a shape of said edge along said length of said edge by shaping said at least two edge sections such that said at least two edge sections open reeds of a connector at different times upon insertion into said connector; and wherein a plurality of golden fingers are arranged along said at least two edge sections of said PCB, wherein a pin end of at least one of said plurality of golden fingers is removed from a portion of said PCB without removing said portion of said PCB from which said pin end has been removed.