Japan Aviation Electronics Industry, Limited

Jae Yamagata, Ltd.

Hiroki Abe

Kazuaki Ibaraki

Yoshiaki Ishiyama

Hiroaki Obikane

Masao Higuchi

Takashi Kuwahara

Takasuke Omi

Shigenori Itoh

Masahiko Komachi

Masakazu Matsuda

Electrical connector

In a connector having a plurality of conductive contacts assembled to an insulator, each of the contacts has unique structure for electrically connecting a first and a second board to each other. The first board has a primary surface and a secondary surface opposed to each other. The second board has a principal surface facing the secondary surface with a space left therebetween. In the unique structure, a base portion is placed in the space and held by the insulator. A first elastic portion extends from the base portion to face a primary surface. A first contact portion is protruded from the first elastic portion to come in contact with one of electrode patterns arranged on the primary surface. A second elastic portion extends from the base portion. A second contact portion is protruded from the second elastic portion to come in contact with one of electrode patterns arranged on the principal surface.

Board-to-board connector capable of readily electrically connecting two parallel boards to each other

A connectable plate (2) is mounted on an upper surface of a horizontal portion (the uniform thickness portion) (1b) of a housing (1). A plurality of contacts (3) mounted on the housing come into contact with a pattern of the connectable plate. A clip (4) has a U-shaped cross-sectional configuration. A spacing of a resilient forked portion of the contacts (an opening width) is larger than the thickness of the connectable plate but smaller than the sum of the thickness of the connectable plate and the thickness of the uniform thickness portion. When the clip is mounted to the connectable plate and the housing, an insulating coating portion (4d) of the clip slides onto the upper surface of the connectable plate, and a connector-housing-side end portion (4b) of the clip presses against an inclined portion (1a) of the housing. Thus, the opening width of the clip becomes larger, so that the connector-housing-side end portion slides smoothly onto the lower surface of the uniform thickness portion. As a result, the clip holds the connectable plate and the housing, and does not cause damage to either the connectable plate or to the clip connector.

Clip connector

An LCD panel (45) has a plurality of terminal electrodes (45d) formed at a peripheral portion thereof. The LCD panel (45) is brought into contact with conductive contact elements (13) and fixed by fixing means (71) to be electrically connected to a circuit board (81). An insulator (11) has a first surface (11a) for mounting the peripheral portion of the LCD panel (45), and a second surface (11b) to be faced to the circuit board (11b). The contact elements (13) are fixedly mounted in the insulator (11) to be brought into contact with the terminal electrodes (45d), respectively, when the LCD panel (45) is disposed on the first surface (11a) of the insulator (11). The fixing means (71) clamps and fixedly holds the insulator (11) and the LCD panel (45) when the LCD panel (45) is disposed on the first surface (11a). The insulator (11) is combined with a header (100) to be mounted on the circuit board (81).

LCD panel connector for use in connection between an LCD panel and a

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Kitamurayama-gun, Japan

Hiroki Abe