Kel Corporation

Texell Corp.

Hirofumi Ohno

Shigeru Hayashi

Fumio Narui

An electrical connector of the zipper type comprises first and second connector members with respective rows of contact elements and insulating elements which are brought into intermeshing relation when the connector members are closed together. The contact elements are located in a mold as stamped and formed contact strips and in-molded with a carrier of resilient insulating material, which also covers one side of each contact element in insulating relation, to provide an elongate connector member which can be handled as only a single piece.

Zipper-type electrical connector

A low profile socket connector includes a plastic, rectangular, frame-like base member (11) having substantially rigid walls (21,22,23,24) defining between them a socket (20), receiving an LGA device (16) in coplanar relation. Beam springs (34,35), integrally formed with two adjacent walls (22,24) adjacent one corner, protrude into the socket (20) into biassing engagement with adjacent edge portions of the LGA device (16) forcing opposite adjacent edge portions into abutment with walls (23,25) defining the opposite corner, automatically locating and maintaining the device (16) in a reference position (A). A stud-like, outer securing member (14) with flexible legs (48) is insertable in a mounting socket (38) in the base member (11) and through an aperture in a circuit board (18) and an inner securing member (15) is completely receivable in an axial passageway (43) in the outer securing member (14) to spread the legs (48) into anchoring engagement with the circuit board (18). Recesses (27,28) with retaining pins (31,32) on a lower face of the base member (11) enable secure preassembly of an elastomer connector (13) on the base member (11) prior to application to the circuit board (18).

Growing community of inventors

Tama, Japan

Hirofumi Ohno