Method for manufacturing integrated circuit connectors
US4417396A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Nov 2, 1981 |
| Grant date | Nov 29, 1983 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Nov 2, 2001 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
- CPC primaryY10T29/53261
- WIPO fieldElectrical machinery, apparatus, energy
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A multiplicity of integrated circuit connector contact sockets mounted to a plurality of carrier strips are moved between pairs of orientation rollers with tails of the contacts protruding upwardly whereby an upper socket portion of one contact is aligned with an upper socket portion of a contact on a carrier strip in an adjacent row. A plurality of integrated circuit connector insulators having socket receiving apertures formed therein are held together in an array and placed over the contact tails with one tail being received within each aperture of an insulator. The carrier strips are simultaneously advanced beneath a work station wherein a tool presses the insulators downwardly to tightly fit the contact socket portions into the receiving apertures in the insulators. A shearing tool then severs the insulators in the array from one another except for the continued affixation of the contact sockets to the parallel carrier strips. The carrier strips are then moved through a stripping station comprising a block having parallel channels for receiving the carrier strips and a flat inclined upper surface wherein the carrier strips are restrained from vertical movement while the inclin…
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