Press-fit bus bar for distributing power

摘要

A press-fit bus-bar for distributing power along a backplane or a printed circuit board comprises a number of flat bus bar conductors (4, 6, 8, 10, 74) fabricated from an electrically conductive material. Each bus bar conductor is separated from adjacent bus bar conductors by layers (12, 14, 16 86) of an insulating material. A number of electrically conductive press-fit tail(20, 78) protrude from one edge of each bus bar conductor. When the laminated bus bar conductors and insulating material layers are placed in a housing (2, 72) which is then filled with a hardened epoxy resin, the press-fit tails (20, 78) protrude from the surface of that epoxy resin. These protruding tails (20, 78) can be press-fit in a backplane(s) or printed circuit board(s) for the purpose of supplying these backplane(s) or printed circuit board(s) with electric power.