US 11,699,865 B2
Removable electrical connectors and devices
Kayla C. Niccum, Maplewood, MN (US); Ankit Mahajan, Cupertino, CA (US); Mikhail L. Pekurovsky, Bloomington, MN (US); Nicholas T. Gabriel, Grand Rapids, MN (US); Roger W. Barton, Afton, MN (US); Kara A. Meyers, Oakdale, MN (US); Saagar A. Shah, Minneapolis, MN (US); Jonathan W. Kemling, Woodbury, MN (US); and Richard C. Webb, St. Paul, MN (US)
Assigned to 3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANY, St. Paul, MN (US)
Appl. No. 17/594,688
Filed by 3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANY, St. Paul, MN (US)
PCT Filed May 1, 2020, PCT No. PCT/IB2020/054155
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Oct. 26, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/229934, PCT Pub. Date Nov. 19, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/846,120, filed on May 10, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0209436 A1, Jun. 30, 2022
Int. Cl. H01R 4/00 (2006.01); H01R 4/58 (2006.01); H01R 12/61 (2011.01); H01R 12/62 (2011.01); H01R 43/00 (2006.01); H05K 3/36 (2006.01)
CPC H01R 4/58 (2013.01) [H01R 12/61 (2013.01); H01R 12/62 (2013.01); H01R 43/00 (2013.01); H05K 3/365 (2013.01); H05K 2203/176 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method comprising:
positioning a first electronic device adjacent to a second electronic device, wherein the first electronic device comprising a first electrically conductive trace being at least partially disposed on an adhesive tape strip thereof, the first electrically conductive trace having a first exposed contact surface,
and the second electronic device comprising a receiving electrically conductive trace disposed on a substrate thereof, the receiving electrically conductive trace having a receiving contact surface; and
engaging the first and second electronic devices such that the first exposed contact surface of the first electrically conductive trace and the receiving contact surface of the receiving electrically conductive trace at least partially contact with each other to form an electrical contact, and the adhesive tape strip having an adhesive surface removably adhesively bonded to the substrate of the second electronic device to at least partially cover the electrical contact.