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Article: Michigan Inventor Develops Electrical Contact
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
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- October 14, 2006
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ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 14 -- Mike Blossfeld of South Lyon, Mich., has developed an electrical contact for being pressed into a through-hole of a printed circuit board.
According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A compliant pin is adapted to be pressed into a through-hole of a printed circuit board and have electrical contact with opposing surfaces of a side wall of the through-hole. The compliant pin includes a portion insertable in the through-hole that includes spaced deflectable beam portions having outer surfaces spaced apart a distance greater than the spacing of the opposing surfaces of the side wall."
An abstract of the invention, released by the Patent Office, said: "The ...