Patent · US Expired

Apparatus and method for establishing an electrical and/or an optic connection

US5791917A · kind A · utility

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2References

20Claims

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Assignee

International Business Machines Corporation · US

Inventors

Regina Eberhardt · Calw, DE
Frank Notter · Nufringen, DE
Willi Recktenwald · Holzgerlingen, DE
Andreas Renner · Herrenberg, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Aug 15, 1996
Grant date	Aug 11, 1998
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Aug 15, 2016

Classification

Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
CPC primaryH05K7/1461
WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

The invention relates to an apparatus for establishing an electrical and/or optic connection of a first and a second component with a third component with connection means 14, 15 for electrical and/or optic connection of the first and second component with each other, whereby the connection means 14, 15 allow mechanical free-play between the first and second component, with a connection link 13, 16 each for the first and the second component for electrical and/or optic connection of the first and the second with a third component, and with an apparatus 31, 32, 33, 34 for limitation of the mechanical free-play between the first and the second component.

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