Japan Aviation Electronics Industry, Limited

Sony Corporation

Jae Hirosaki, Ltd.

Dmg Mori Company Limited

Dmg Mori Seiki Co., Ltd.

Mori Seiki & Co., Ltd.

Unisia Jecs Corporation

Mori Seiki Co., Ltd.

Akira Kimura

Kazuhito Hisamatsu

Keisuke Nakamura

Masaaki Takaku

Tetsuya Komoto

Kazushi Kamata

Tooru Sasaki

Takamitsu Wada

Tsuyoshi Inoue

Atsushi Saito

Masayuki Kikuchi

Katsuhiko Ono

Kohei Asada

Nobukazu Kato

Seiya Matsuo

Takayuki Mizuuchi

Keiichi Nakamachi

Shuuichi Ishida

Osamu Hashiguchi

Yukitaka Tanaka

Takahiro Yamaji

Yoshihide Kuroki

Shigeharu Aoki

Tadashi Watanabe

Naruhiko Abe

Akihiro Matsunaga

Masayuki Katayanagi

Masakazu Kuroiwa

Masashi Ohkubo

Tomohiko Tamada

Morio Tominaga

Kimiyuki Nishimura

Katsuhiko Ohno

Hiroki Kamata

Ken Onoe

Tomomi Sakata

Takayuki Nishimura

Hiroaki Obikane

Nobuo Kobayashi

Hideo Kawabe

Kiyofumi Inanaga

Yasuhiro Iida

Junsuke Kuroki

Masafumi Kodera

Yasufumi Yahiro

Toshiyuki Moritake

Takamitsu Nakajima

Koji Kawase

Yuzo Sato

Rintaro Kato

Tadashi Ishiwa

Masahide Watanabe

Koji Yamamoto

Eiji Yagi

Hiroyuki Sogawa

Kingo Maeda

Kiichi Hori

Ichiro Kaneda

Yasushi Katsumata

Tetsuo Uehira

Norio Sato

Kenichiro Ueno

Hideki Takedomi

Ryosuke Kamiko

Shuichi Ishida

Takahiro Shimotori

Takashi Uchida

Takehiko Tsuruyama

Manabu Ito

A connector includes a contact retained in a housing selectively in one of a first posture and a second posture inverted 180 degrees around a fitting direction, the contact including a contact portion to be contacted with a contact of a counter connector and a connection portion to be connected to a flexible conductor of a connection object, between a case where the contact is retained in the housing in the first posture and a case where the contact is retained in the housing in the second posture, the contact portion is situated at a same position with respect to the housing and the connection portion is situated at a different position with respect to the housing, the contact being retained in the housing in, of the first posture and the second posture, a posture corresponding to an orientation of a flexible conductor exposed surface of the connection object.

Connector and connecting method

A connector includes a contact connected to a flexible conductor, a housing that is attached to a flexible substrate and retains the contact, and a protection sheet that is constituted of an insulating film having a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer formed on one surface thereof and is disposed between the housing and the flexible substrate such that the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer faces the flexible substrate, the protection sheet being disposed so as to cover at least a front surface part of the flexible substrate on which the flexible conductor is formed, and is adhered to the flexible substrate with the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer, the housing having a flat surface facing the flexible substrate, an adhesive layer bonding the housing to the protection sheet being disposed between the flat surface and the protection sheet.

Connector

A contact is accommodated in a contact accommodating portion of a second insulator, an end portion of an electric wire is accommodated in an opened electric-wire-end-portion accommodating portion of a projection of a first insulator, the projection is accommodated in a projection accommodating portion of a contact with a flexible conductor being sandwiched therebetween and such that the opened electric-wire-end-portion accommodating portion is opposed to an electric-wire connection piece of the contact, the electric wire extends from the electric-wire-end-portion accommodating portion and makes contact with an electric-wire contact portion of the electric-wire connection piece of the contact, and a part of the flexible conductor is sandwiched between an outer surface of the projection and a conductor contact piece of the contact and makes contact with the conductor contact piece of the contact, whereby the electric wire is electrically connected to the flexible conductor via the contact.

Electrical connector for connecting an electric wire to a flat flexible conductor and an electrical connector assembly therefor

In a connecting method, when a flexible conductor is exposed on a top surface of a connection object, a contact is disposed on the top surface of the connection object at the predetermined position in a state where the connection object is kept as it is, and when the flexible conductor is exposed on a bottom surface of the connection object, the contact is disposed on the top surface of the connection object at the predetermined position in a state where a part of the connection object where the connection part is disposed is inverted such that the connection part faces a top surface side of the connection object while being retained at the predetermined position.

Connecting method for electrically connecting contact to flexible conductor of connection object and connector assembly having contact electrically connected to flexible conductor of connection object

A connector is mateable with a mating connector. The connector comprises a housing and a terminal. The terminal has an arm, a contact portion and a held portion held by a holding portion of the housing. The arm couples the held portion and the contact portion to each other and supports the contact portion so that the contact portion is movable. The contact portion has a bottom portion, a first support portion, a second support portion, a first contact point and a second contact point. Each of the first support portion and the second support portion extends upward from the bottom portion. The first contact point is supported by the first support portion. The second contact point is supported by the second support portion. Under a mated state, a mating terminal of the mating connector is sandwiched and held between the first contact point and the second contact point.

Connector comprising a terminal with an arm having a base portion extending alongside a contact poriton

A connector is mounted on a circuit board when used. The connector has a housing and a terminal which has a held portion, a supporting portion, a coupling portion, a contact portion and a guiding portion. The coupling portion has a fulcrum. The guiding portion receives a vertical force from a mating terminal at a specific contact location. The guiding portion receives, at the specific contact location, a frictional force caused by friction between the mating terminal and the guiding portion upon movement of the mating terminal on the guiding portion. An action line of a combined force of the vertical force and the frictional force intersects with one of the circuit board and the housing at a reference point. The fulcrum is positioned beyond the reference point in a first orientation of a first horizontal direction.

An electronic equipment comprises a case and a connector which is attached to the case. The connector comprises a housing and a waterproofing member. The waterproofing member is sandwiched by a mating connector and a side portion of the housing in a second direction when the connector is mated with the mating connector. The waterproofing member has at least one first contact portion, at least one second contact portion, at least one third contact portion and at least one fourth contact portion. The third contact portion is pressed against the side portion in the second direction by elasticity of the waterproofing member upon the mating of the connector with the mating connector. The fourth contact portion is pressed against and in contact with the mating connector in the second direction by the elasticity of the waterproofing member upon the mating of the connector with the mating connector.

Electronic equipment

In a connector, a contact includes: a first connection portion and a second connection portion that are retained between a first insulator and a second insulator and face each other; and a pressing force receiving portion that makes contact with the second insulator and receives a pressing force from the second insulator to thereby press the first connection portion against the second connection portion. A connection object is sandwiched between the first connection portion and the second connection portion, and at least one of the first connection portion and the second connection portion makes contact with a flexible conductor of the connection object, whereby the contact is electrically connected to the flexible conductor of the connection object.

This invention provides a linear encoder having an arbitrary size while maintaining high producibility. An absolute linear encoder includes a long scale formed by continuously connecting a first short scale and a second short scale in which a first cyclic bit string and a second cyclic bit siring generated using the same initial value for different generator polynomials are arranged, and at least two sensors arranged at positions facing the long scale side by side in a longitudinal direction of the long scale.

Absolute linear encoder

An encoder includes a scale having a pattern to be detected, a detecting sensor outputting a signal corresponding to the pattern, a position calculator calculating a relative position between the scale and the detecting sensor based on the signal, a position data storage storing the calculated position data, and a position estimator estimating a relative position between the scale and the detecting sensor at a calculation-target time point based on the stored position data. The position estimator estimates the position at the calculation-target time point based on positions at first and second time points each preceding the calculation-target time point by a predetermined time. The position estimator processes position data in a first time width centered on the first time point and position data in a second time width centered on the second time point to calculate the positions at the first and second time points.

Encoder

A connector includes a pushing member having a projection, and a contact having a projection accommodating portion of a recess shape, the projection includes a holding portion extending across the projection in a direction orthogonal to a projecting direction of the projection and holding a flexible conductor, when the projection is inserted into the projection accommodating portion of the contact together with the flexible conductor with a middle part of the flexible conductor being held by the holding portion of the projection, parts of the flexible conductor that are situated on opposite sides of and are adjoining the middle part of the flexible conductor are sandwiched between a lateral surface of the projection and an inner surface of the projection accommodating portion to contact the inner surface of the projection accommodating portion, whereby the contact is electrically connected to the flexible conductor.

A connector includes a base member having a projection, a contact made of a conductive material and having a projection accommodating portion of a recess shape into which the projection is inserted, and a housing holding the contact. The housing has a holding mechanism configured to hold a flexible conductor disposed to extend across an opening end portion of the projection accommodating portion of the contact. When the projection of the base member is inserted into the projection accommodating portion of the contact together with the flexible conductor held by the holding mechanism, the flexible conductor is sandwiched between a lateral surface of the projection and an inner surface of the projection accommodating portion to contact the inner surface of the projection accommodating portion. The contact is electrically connected to the flexible conductor.

A continuous structure capable of producing a connector cover is made from a single strip-shaped flat plate. The continuous structure has a structure in which a unit structure repeatedly and regularly appears in a longitudinal direction of the strip-shaped flat plate. The unit structure includes a flat-plate portion and two side wall portion groups. One of the two side wall portion groups includes a first side wall portion standing on one of two edges of the flat-plate portion in a width direction of the flat-plate portion, and the other of the two side wall portion groups includes a second side wall portion standing on the other of the two edges of the flat-plate portion. The second side wall portion is a spring portion which generates pressing force in the width direction. The first side wall portion faces the second side wall portion.

Connector cover, continuous structure capable of producing connector cover, and production method for connector cover

A connector comprises a fixed housing and a movable housing movable relative to the fixed housing. The fixed housing has an end wall, and the movable housing has a regulated portion. The end wall is provided with a stopping portion and a projecting portion projecting inward in a pitch direction (Y-direction). The regulated portion is provided with a reference surface, a stopped portion and a receiving recess. The stopped portion projects outward in the pitch direction beyond the reference surface to be located below the stopping portion, and an upward movement thereof is regulated by the stopping portion. The receiving recess is recessed inward in the pitch direction beyond the reference surface. The receiving recess faces, at least in part, the projecting portion in the pitch direction or receives, at least in part, the projecting portion.

A connector assembly comprises a first connector having a first contact and a second connector having a second contact. The first contact has a first supported portion which is supported not to be moved in a horizontal direction, a first resiliently-support portion extending from the first supported portion and a first contact point supported by the first resiliently-support portion. The second contact has a second supported portion which is supported not to be moved in the horizontal direction, a second resiliently-support portion extending from the second supported portion and a second contact point supported by the second resiliently-support portion. Under a completely-mated state where the first connector and the second connector are completely mated with each other, the first contact point is in contact with the second supported portion, and the second contact point is in contact with the first supported portion.

Connector assembly

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