ELECTRICAL CIRCUIT INTERCONNECTION

摘要

An electrical connector arrangement of the solderless type has first and second planar arrays (14, 40) of pad-type contact terminals in face-to-face engagement to provide engaged pairs of contact terminals. Each pad-type contact terminal (112) has a planar contact surface (114) and one pad-type contact terminal of each engaged pair has a series of scraping edges (122) spaced along the length of its planar contact for surface. The connector arrangement further provides for lateral movement of one array of contact terminals relative to the other array in a direction transverse to the scraping edges to cause the plurality of spaced scraping edges of one contact terminal of each pair to engage the planar surface of the other contact terminal of the respective pair in a contact-wiping action for removing surface contamination.