Verbindungssystem für gedruckte Schaltungen.

摘要

A connection system for connecting a flexible circuit (10) having a row of printed contact areas (26) to a PC board (12) having a corresponding row of terminal posts (24) employs a connector (14) having a housing (27) with a bottom wall (42) and a pair of side walls (44,45) at least one of which is movable with respect to the other. A row of post-receiving passages (28) are present in the bottom wall (42) which passages are arranged to receive the posts (24) of the PC board. An edge margin of the flexible circuit (10) is clamped between the housing side walls (44,45) so that the contact areas (26) thereon are aligned with the passages in the housing bottom wall and a set of springs (76a) positioned inside the housing (27) flexes the circuit edge margin so that when the movable housing side wall is in its closed position, the row of contact areas (26a) overhang the passages (28) in the housing bottom wall (42). Consequently when the connector housing is impaled on the printed PC board posts, the posts (24) project into the housing (27) and are resiliently engaged by corresponding ones (26a) of the flexible circuit conductive areas (26).