摘要 |
A connecting terminal assembly, including a covering tape heat-sealed to a mount base so as to cover a number of connecting terminals received in recessed portions of the mount base, is mounted to a surface mounter. Each connecting terminal has two fixed-contact sections, and a central section thereof having leg portions vertically extending from inner ends of the fixed-contact sections and a major portion extending between upper ends of the leg portions. Free-contact sections extend from outer ends of the fixed-contact sections vertically of and longitudinally in an inward direction of the connecting terminal. While the covering tape is being peeled off, each of the connecting terminals received in the recessed portions of the mount base is picked up at its major portion by suction and transferred to be positioned on a first printed circuit board at a desired position and with a desired orientation, by mean of a suction nozzle of the mounter. The connecting terminal having its fixed-contact sections separated by the central section is electrically connected to conductor portions of the circuit board, without being displaced on molten solder. By pressing a second printed circuit board against the free-contact sections to flex them, electrical connection is established therebetween with a sufficient contact pressure.
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