Electrical interconnect device utilizing contact caps

US7549870B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Tyco Electronics Co., Ltd · US

Inventors

• Jeffery Walter Mason · Attleboro, US
• Wayne Stewart Alden, III · Whitman, US
• Chuan Yue · Colorado Springs, US
• Shiraz Sameja · South Attleboro, US
• Peter Wapenski · Foster, US
• Vishwa N. Shukla · Attleboro, US
• Edward MacPherson · Attleboro, US
• Robert Daniel Hilty · Harrisburg, US
• George Jyh-Shann Chou · Baoshan, TW

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 3, 2007
• Grant date: Jun 23, 2009
• Expiry date: Feb 7, 2027

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H01R12/52
• WIPO field: Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

An electrical interconnect device includes a substrate having opposite outer surfaces and an array of conductive elastomeric columns held by the substrate. Each of the columns have opposite ends that extend beyond respective ones of the outer surfaces of the substrate. Conductive contact caps are disposed over the opposite ends of each said column. An electrical path is defined from one of the contact caps, through the conductive elastomeric column, to another of the contact caps. Optionally, the contact caps may be sized and shaped substantially similarly as the ends of the elastomeric columns. The contact caps may be adhered to the ends of the columns, or alternatively, the contact caps may be adhered to the substrate.