Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Hirose Electric Company, Ltd.

Matsuo Industries, Inc.

Akira Ishimaru

Hironao Hayashi

Yoshikazu Suzuki

Tomokiyo Suzuki

Iori Kobayashi

Kensuke Nakanishi

Osamu Kuriyagawa

Kensaku Sato

Akira Shirai

Toru Takahashi

Yuki Yamakawa

Masanori Sumida

Shigeru Hayashida

A case with a connector integrally formed with a resin connector, and can be manufactured with a small number of processes is provided. The connector case includes a housing, a resin connector, and a ground terminal extending along an outer periphery of the connector. A terminal-side fixing portion extending backward from the ground terminal is crimped to or pressed over a housing-side fixing portion. When molds are closed after the housing and the ground terminal are placed in the molds for injection molding of the resin connector, a pressing portion formed on the mold presses the terminal-side fixing portion against the housing-side fixing portion to crimp or press the terminal-side fixing portion to or over the housing-side fixing portion. As a result, in the process for the injection molding of the connector, the ground terminal is fixed to the housing at the same time. The connector case with the ground terminal fixed to the housing can be manufactured in a small number of processes.

Case with connector and manufacturing method thereof

A contactor () has a joint portion () which is jointed to each contactor pad () of one wiring board () by using a solder at one end portion thereof and a connecting portion () which is dip-soldered in each through hole () of the other wiring board () at the other end portion thereof. A housing () is constituted by integrally molding a housing main body (F) having a U-like shape as seen from a plane and a reinforcing bar portion () which connects intermediate portions of opposed parts (A) and (B) of the housing main body (F) with each other. Cavities () are substantially linearly formed in the housing main body (F) at predetermined intervals. The contactors () are inserted into cavities (), and the contactors () are movably held in the housing () with a holding member.

Surface-mounted electrical connector

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