US4939452A
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Arrangement for testing printed-circuit boards
Assignee: Siemens AG
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Filing: 1989-02-28
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Granted: 1990-07-03
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Expires: 2009-02-28
Abstract
Abstract An arrangement for testing printed-circuit boards, in the case of a known arrangement, the adaptor device contains two sets of printed-circuit boards arranged side-by-side, which each have contacts on their narrow input-side in an interval, which corresponds to half of the standard contact spacing. Circuit-board conductors connect these contacts to contact elements on a narrow output-side, opposite the narrow input-side. These contact elements lie in standard contact spacing. By placing the two sets of printed circuit-boards, one over another in a cross-wise arrangement, a printed-circuit board to be tested with a small contact spacing can be connected to contact surfaces in a basic grid. Supporting the adaptor device, when contact is made with the test place, is made more difficult, as a result of the contact elements located on the bottom side. In the arrangement, the contact elements in the area of at least one narrow output-side of each printed-circuit board bordering on the narrow input-side are arranged one behind the other in the direction of the narrow output-side. Contact pieces of an electric connection panel are situated in bore holes introduced from one narrow output-side and extending up to the contact elements. In the arrangement, the adaptor device can easily be adequately supported on the side opposite the printed-circuit board to be tested.
Inventors
- 👤 Robby Reinholz
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
Data Source
google_patents
Last Synchronized
2026-11-08 23:42
CPC Classifications
G; G01; G01R; G01R1/00; G01R1/02; G01R1/06; G01R1/067; G01R1/073; G01R1/07307; G01R1/07364; G01R31/00; G01R31/28; G01R31/2801; G01R31/2806; G01R31/2808
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 10
Claim 1
Independent Claim
194 words
An arrangement for testing printed-circuit boards having an electric connection panel linked to an evaluator arrangement and having an adaptor device adapted to be connected to the printed-circuit board to be tested and to the electric connection panel, wherein the adaptor device comprises a plurality of adjacently disposed adaptor printed circuit-boards lying at a right angle to a surface of the printed-circuit board to be tested, said adaptor printed circuit-boards each having fixed contacts on a narrow input-side directed toward the printed circuit-board to be tested, said contacts being connected by circuit-board conductors to contact elements on the adaptor printed-circuit boards directed toward the connection panel, the contact elements directed toward the connection panel being disposed in an area of at least one narrow output-side of each adaptor printed-circuit board, the narrow output-side of each adaptor printed circuit board extending at substantially a right angle to the narrow input-side, the contact elements being arranged in a row in the direction of said narrow output-side, contact pieces of the electric connection panel being located in bore holes which lead from said at least one narrow output-side of each adaptor printed-circuit board to the contact elements.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
194 words
An arrangement for testing printed-circuit boards having an electric connection panel linked to an evaluator arrangement and having an adaptor device adapted to be connected to the printed-circuit board to be tested and to the electric connection panel, wherein the adaptor device comprises a plurality of adjacently disposed adaptor printed circuit-boards lying at a right angle to a surface of the printed-circuit board to be tested, said adaptor printed circuit-boards each having fixed contacts on a narrow input-side directed toward the printed circuit-board to be tested, said contacts being connected by circuit-board conductors to contact elements on the adaptor printed-circuit boards directed toward the connection panel, the contact elements directed toward the connection panel being disposed in an area of at least one narrow output-side of each adaptor printed-circuit board, the narrow output-side of each adaptor printed circuit board extending at substantially a right angle to the narrow input-side, the contact elements being arranged in a row in the direction of said narrow output-side, contact pieces of the electric connection panel being located in bore holes which lead from said at least one narrow output-side of each adaptor printed-circuit board to the contact elements.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
28 words
The arrangement recited in claim 1, wherein the contact elements are arranged in the area of said at least one narrow output-side which borders on the narrow input-side.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
43 words
The arrangement recited in claim 1, wherein the printed-circuit boards of the adaptor device have an angular shape, and an outside of one shank of the adaptor printed-circuit boards forms the narrow input-side, and an inside of another shank forms the narrow output-side.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
26 words
The arrangement recited in claim 1, wherein the contact elements are arranged one behind the other, parallel to the narrow output-side of the adaptor printed-circuit boards.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
28 words
The arrangement recited in claim 1, wherein the contacts are contact surfaces, made of conductive material, introduced from the surface in the through-holes of the adaptor printed-circuit boards.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
23 words
The arrangement recited in claim 1, wherein the contact elements are made of conductive material introduced in holes of the adaptor printed-circuit boards.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
23 words
The arrangement recited in claim 1, wherein the contact pieces are connector pins which extend in the bore holes to the contact elements.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
40 words
The arrangement recited in claim 1, wherein each adaptor printed-circuit board has a thickness corresponding to the standard contact spacing of test points on the printed-circuit board to be tested and bears centrically the bore holes in the narrow output-side.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim
120 words
The arrangement recited in claim 1, wherein each adaptor printed-circuit board has a thickness of, at the most, half of a standard contact spacing of the adaptor printed-circuit board to be tested and two adaptor printed-circuit boards each form a adaptor printed-circuit board unit with a thickness corresponding to the standard contact spacing, whereby contacts distributed on the narrow input-side in half of the standard contact spacing are connected to contact elements lying one behind the other in the standard contact spacing on the narrow output-side of the adaptor printed-circuit board unit, contacts being provided lying in pairs side-by-side on both adaptor printed-circuit boards connected to successive contact elements and successive pairs of contacts being connected to following contact elements.
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| 7.5 Years (Year 8) | 1997-07-02 | 1998-01-01 | 1998-07-03 | $3760.00 | Window Closed / Lapsed |
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