Molex Corporation

Hideyo Tagami

Naoya Inoue

Yasuaki Kobayashi

A connector is provided which has a housing, an actuator, and a plurality of primary terminals. The housing has an insertion passage for insertion of a flat cable from the front end. The actuator has a pressure-applying portion, and an engaging portion pushed upwards by the end portion of the flat cable as the flat cable is being inserted. Each of the primary terminals has an upper beam positioned above the insertion passage. Each upper beam has a contact portion for making contact with the flat cable, and a receiving portion positioned in front of the contact portion and arranged above the pressure-applying portion. The receiving portion makes contact with and is pushed upward by the pressure-applying portion when the engaging portion is pushed upward by the end portion of the flat cable.

Connector

A connector is provided which has an actuator able to rotate around a pressure-applying portion arranged below upper beams between an open orientation and a closed orientation, and a stopping portion. The actuator is able to move with the actuator in the closed orientation between a first position where the stopped portion of the actuator comes into contact with the stopping portion to prevent rotation of the actuator from the closed orientation to the open orientation, and a second position where the stopped portion of the actuator has moved away from the stopping portion to allow rotation of the actuator from the closed orientation to the open orientation.

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Yamato, Japan

Hideyo Tagami