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PCT No. PCT/US97/11101 Sec. 371 Date Dec. 7, 1998 Sec. 102(e) Date Dec. 7, 1998 PCT Filed Jun. 26, 1997 PCT Pub. No. WO98/00884 PCT Pub. Date Jan. 8, 1998A connector for joining a printed circuit board (202) having an army of contact pads (204) to a connector (200) incorporating flexibe circuits (210) with mating contact pads (212), by means of a button and dovetail type interaction between the board and connector. A post (206) projects from the surface of the board. Each post has an enlarged head so that the post resembles a button. The head, when mated with a slot (220) on the connector, achieves a camming action resulting in a predetermined normal force versus insertin position relationship. A compliant member (224), preferably a fluid filled bladder, is supported by a beam member (208) and interposed between the beam member and the array of flexible circuit contact pads. A dovetail slot provided in the beam member is shaped to receive the corresponding post and has a precisely shaped cam race surface which engages the head of post. Such arrangement urges the contact pads on flexible circuit against the mating contact pads on the printed circuit board.
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