Sumitomo Electric Industries, Limited

Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Limited

Autonetworks Technologies, Limited

Akihiro Nishitani

Masaaki Tabata

Teruo Hara

Shunya Takeuchi

Kenji Makino

Yutaka Kobayashi

Takashi Natsume

Tomoyuki Nagai

It is aimed to prevent a resilient displacement of a lock arm from being hindered while achieving a height reduction. A connector (A) is provided with a connector housing () and a lock arm () extending rearward along an outer surface of the connector housing (). A deflection allowance space () for enabling the lock arm () to be resiliently displaced in a direction approaching the outer surface of the connector housing () is provided between the outer surface of the connector housing () and the lock arm (). The connector housing () is formed with a covering portion () for covering the lock arm () from behind by projecting from the outer surface of the connector housing ().

Connector

It is aimed to provide a connector and a connector mounting body capable of ensuring good workability at the time of manufacturing and connection reliability with a circuit board. A connector includes a connector housing and a flexible cable arranged in the connector housing and including conductive paths. The flexible cable includes terminal connecting portions to be connected to mating terminals on one end sides of the conductive paths and board connecting portions to be connected to a circuit board on the other end sides of the conductive paths. The connector includes a reinforcement plate for reinforcing a region of the flexible cable on the side of the terminal connecting portions.

Connector and connector mounting body

A female terminal includes a terminal connecting portion extending along a length direction and having an insertion opening on a front end in the length direction, a male terminal being inserted into the insertion opening, a resilient contact piece disposed inside the terminal connecting portion and configured to sandwich the male terminal between the terminal connecting portion and the resilient contact piece, a plurality of spring members disposed side by side across a gap along the length direction inside the terminal connecting portion and configured to resiliently contact the male terminal from one side in a width direction intersecting the length direction and the height direction, and a projecting portion projecting from the other side in the width direction toward the one side in the width direction inside the terminal connecting portion and configured to sandwich the male terminal between the plurality of spring members and the projecting portion.

Female terminal with a plurality of spring members and a projecting portion

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Mie, Japan

Akihiro Nishitani