Abstract:
According to one embodiment, a circuit board attachment structure comprise a housing to which the circuit board is attached, a mount provided on the housing and provided outside a portion of the housing where the circuit board is attached, a holding piece extending from the mount to and on the circuit board and sandwiching the circuit board with the housing, and a conductive gasket contacting the circuit board. The gasket is provided at least in a region where the circuit board is sandwiched between the holding piece and the housing, and the gasket is pressed between the holding piece and the housing, and the circuit board and the housing is electrically connected to each other via the pressed gasket.
Abstract:
A resilient electrical connector assembly includes a base PCB and stacked layers of interconnected resilient conductive structures where each structure has at least two resilient conductive strips and at least two conductive contacts. One contact is integrated with a conductive path on the base PCB and another contact pad is positioned to establish a conductive path with a target PCB when the latter is mounted parallel to the base PCB. The resilient conductive strips flex due to a compressive force exerted between the base PCB and target PCB on the stacked layers. The resilient conductive structures are formed by depositing metal to sequentially form each of the stacked layers with one contact being initially formed in engagement with the conductive path on the base PCB.
Abstract:
An electrical connector adapted to receive a mating plug utilizes low-profile jack terminal contacts that can flex in their PCB-anchored base portions, which are substantially parallel to the PCB. Any bend in the distal connecting portion or in the intermediate transition portion of each terminal contact is gradual and forms an obtuse angle, thus minimizing stress concentrations. The contacts preferably are arranged in two oppositely facing and interdigitating rows of four contacts each. In one embodiment, the terminal contacts are anchored to the PCB by a contact cradle that constrains the base portion of each terminal contact at two spaced anchoring locations, allowing the base portion to flex therebetween. In another embodiment, the base portions of the terminal contacts are embedded in at least one elastomeric member, which is fitted to the PCB.
Abstract:
There is provided a multilayer ceramic electronic component including: a multilayer ceramic capacitor (MLCC) including first and second external electrodes disposed to be spaced apart from one another on a mounting surface thereof; and first and second terminal electrodes including upper horizontal portions disposed on lower surfaces of the first and second external electrodes, lower horizontal portions disposed to be spaced apart from the upper horizontal portions downwardly, and curved vertical portions connecting one ends of the upper horizontal portions and one ends of the lower horizontal portions, having “⊂” and “⊃” shapes, and disposed on the mounting surface of the MLCC in a facing manner.
Abstract:
An electrical connector adapted to receive a mating plug utilizes low-profile jack terminal contacts that can flex in their PCB-anchored base portions, which are substantially parallel to the PCB. Any bend in the distal connecting portion or in the intermediate transition portion of each terminal contact is gradual and forms an obtuse angle, thus minimizing stress concentrations. The contacts preferably are arranged in two oppositely facing and interdigitating rows of four contacts each. In one embodiment, the terminal contacts are anchored to the PCB by a contact cradle that constrains the base portion of each terminal contact at two spaced anchoring locations, allowing the base portion to flex therebetween. In another embodiment, the base portions of the terminal contacts are embedded in at least one elastomeric member, which is fitted to the PCB.
Abstract:
A contact structure and assembly for a microelectronics device includes first and second electrically conductive contacts being helically shaped. A carrier element is attached to and positioned between the first and second contacts. The first and second contacts are in electrical communication with each other, and the first and second contacts are in a mirror image relationship with each other. A pair of insulating substrates each include electrically conductive members. A contact point on each of the first and second contacts is attached and electrically communicating to respective electrically conductive members such that the first and second electrically conductive contacts between the pair of insulating substrates form an electrically conductive package. A metal layer on the carrier element provides electrical conductivity through a first opening defined by the carrier element between the first and second portions of the helix shaped contact.
Abstract:
A holder structure for mounting light indicators on printed circuit boards using surface mount technology at a position elevated above the surface of the board is provided with a body member including a top wall, a bottom wall, opposed sidewalls, a front wall, and a rear wall, all being formed integrally together. Two spaced-apart recesses are formed and aligned vertically in the front wall of the body member terminating in respective first and second interior wall portions. The first interior wall portion has openings formed on diametrically opposed sides of a vertical partition and lying in a horizontal plane parallel to the bottom wall. The second interior wall portion has openings formed on diametrically opposed sides of a transverse partition and lying in a plane which is rotated a predetermined number of degrees from a vertical plane perpendicular to the bottom wall.
Abstract:
A multilayer ceramic component including a multilayer ceramic capacitor including first and second external electrodes disposed on a mounting surface of a ceramic body; and first and second terminal electrodes each including an upper horizontal part disposed on a lower surface of the respective external electrode, a lower horizontal part disposed below the upper horizontal part and spaced apart from the upper horizontal part, and a connecting part connecting the upper horizontal part and the lower horizontal part, the connecting part having a plurality of openings alternately facing opposite end surfaces of the ceramic body.
Abstract:
A socket (130) employs a substrate (310) including a conductive network. As array of first contacts (136) is on a top surface of the substrate (310) and arranged to engage an integrated circuit (110). An array of second contacts (138) is on a bottom surface of the substrate (310) and arranged to engage a circuit board (120). The conductive network electrically connects the first contacts (136) respectively to the second contacts (138), and the first contacts (136) include a roused first contact (136′) that the conductive network routes horizontally in or on the substrate (310).
Abstract:
A circuit board includes a plate member capable of holding a printed circuit board, the printed circuit board including an electronic component, and a cooling member provided on the electronic component, the printed circuit board and the electronic component being positioned between the plate member and the cooling member; and a circuit provided to the plate member and allowed to be electrically connected with the printed circuit board.