Planche à clous
English translation: bed of nails
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| 16:27 Jun 30, 2015 |
| French to English translations [PRO] Tech/Engineering - Electronics / Elect Eng / PCB design | |||||||
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|  Selected response from: Tony M France Local time: 04:58 | ||||||
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| 3 +3 | bed of nails |
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| 3 +1 | pinboard |
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| 2 -1 | Formboard |
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peer agreement (net): +1pinboard Explanation: Literally bed of nails, but I assume this is what it means. I've given it a 3 because it's not my subject. Example sentence(s):
Reference: http://www.google.com/patents/US4443756 Reference: http://www.patentbuddy.com/Patent/4935696 |
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39 mins confidence: peer agreement (net): -1
peer agreement (net): -1Formboard Explanation: http://www.google.com.ar/patents/US4218745 http://www.zuken.com/fr/products/electrical-wire-harness-des... Maybe "bed of nails" is the safest way to translate, though :)! Or ask the client! |
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20 mins confidence: peer agreement (net): +3
peer agreement (net): +3| planche à clous bed of nails Explanation: Much to my surprise, this does appear to be an 'official' term! Here is a Wiki article mentioning it — one of quite a respectable number of Google results for the term: In-circuit test - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-circuit_test It may be performed with a bed of nails type test fixture and specialist test ... to make contact with test points on a printed circuit board and are also connected to a ... I have also seen 'pin board', but with FAR fewer hits. -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 1 heure (2015-06-30 17:30:15 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- When making up prototype circuits, we still use the term 'breadboard', which once upon a time would literally have been Mum's breadboard with nails stuck in it, between which the components could be soldered! Modern versions are more sophisticated — but the name has stuck! |
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