Press-fit pin for use in a printed circuit board
CA 2215877 A1 · Owner: Molex Incorporated · Inventors: Hoshikawa, Shigeyuki; Noda, Atsuhito
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
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Disclosed is an improvement in a press-fit pin 1 having an elastically deformable area 6 to be press-fitted in a selected through hole in a printed circuit board the, elastically deformable area 6 comprising two parallel opposite beams 8 connected by an connecting deformable bridge 9, thereby permitting the outer corners 8a of each beam 8 to engage the inner wall of the plated through hole while permitting the connecting deformable bridge 9 to be deformed. The connecting deformable bridge 9 comprises in cross-section, an connecting flat section 10 extending perpendicular to the opposite beams 8, and two oblique sections 11 extending outward from the opposite ends of the upper flat 10a of …
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Why it's free to use
- Filed September 10, 1997. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended September 10, 2017.
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