Hirose Electric Company, Ltd.

Funai Electric Company Ltd.

Akira Funatsu

Fuminori Tanaka

Ryusuke Horibe

Toru Watanabe

Takeshi Inoda

Yoshiaki Sano

Michitomo Shibutani

An optical-electrical composite connector includes a housing that can accommodate an extra portion of an optical fiber. The optical-electrical composite connector further includes a contact portion for electrically contacting with a mating connector, and a dividing member for dividing the housing into a first space and a second space. The optical fiber is disposed in the first space of the housing divided by the dividing member, and at least a part of the optical fiber is bent. At least another part of the optical fiber, which is other than the part accommodated in the first space thereof, is disposed in the second space of the housing divided by the dividing member.

Optical-electrical composite connector

A microphone unit converts voice into an electric signal based on the vibration of a diaphragm contained in an MEMS chip. The microphone unit includes a substrate on which the diaphragm is mounted (the MEMS chip is mounted); a cover member, having sound holes, that is disposed above the substrate so that the diaphragm is contained within the inner space formed between the cover member and the substrate; and a holding member that holds only the substrate or both of the substrate and the cover member.

Microphone unit and voice input device using same

An electrical connector apparatus consists of first and second electrical connectors (). The second electrical connector () is inserted into the first electrical connector () in an oblique direction and then fully plugged to the first electrical connector () by turning the second electrical connector (). The first electrical connector includes an insulative housing (), at least one contact element () provided in the insulative housing (), and a metal shutter () pivoted to the insulative housing () to cover the contact element () in the insulative housing (). The second electrical connector () includes a plate member () which enters between the metal shutter () and the contact element () upon plugging.

Electrical connector apparatus with metal shell

An electrical connector system comprises a shutter () having shutter members (and) with arms () pivoted to the end walls of a receptacle (). The shutter members (and) are biased by a spring member () such that the sliding sections () are closed to cover a plug fitting section () and opened by guide pins () that are provided on a plug connector ().

Electrical connector

A modular jack ( ) in which a modular plug ( ) is plugged, comprises a housing body ( ) including a cavity ( ) at a front side thereof in which the modular plug ( ) is plugged and a rear wall ( ) having openings ( and ) and fixed portions ( and ), and a plurality of terminals ( ) fixed to the fixed portions ( and ) and extend to the cavity ( ) in a form of cantilevered beams supported by the fixed portions ( and ).

Modular jack

A hot-line plug terminal (,) comprises a steady-state contact section (,B) and an initial arc contact section (,A) provided at a position which offset to a side of the steady-state contact section.

Hot-line plug terminal

An electrical connector comprises an insulating housing (,) having a plurality of arranging surfaces; a plurality of terminals (,) having contact sections (,) placed on the arranging surfaces and connection legs (,) projecting rearwardly from the housing to form connection portions (,) in a plane. A terminal (,) in a row has a plurality of connection legs (,) spaced laterally while a terminal (,) in another row has a connection leg (,) fitted in a space between the connection legs (,) such that the connection portions (,) of the terminals (,) are aligned substantially laterally in the plane.

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Tokyo, Japan

Akira Funatsu