Amp LLC

The Whitaker Corporation

Junichi Tanigawa

Shoji Kikuchi

Nobuaki Onoue

Contact tie-ins (68, 70, 72) are arrayed in two rows at the bottom (20) of the housing (10) of tape-carrier type electric connector (1). Tie-ins (68) and (70) are located nearly at the center line of the bottom (20), and tie-ins (72) are arranged in a row located at some distance from the center line. Tie-ins (68) which also play the role of the posts are longer than tie-ins (70) and (72), and they are attached to the carrier tape.

Tape-carrier-type electrical connector and method of manufacturing same

An electrical connector (1,1') having multiple contacts (40') are arranged in the insulating housing (10) at a predetermined pitch and have a J-shaped connecting section (44). When an external force (F), which tends to pull a flat cable (4) in a direction away from connector (1) is applied to the flat cable (4), connecting sections (44) of all contacts (40) are bent and their back surfaces (56) are pressed against the inner wall (30) of the insulating housing (10). This pressure generates resistance from the inner wall (30) resulting in a strong frictional force between connecting sections (44) and flat cable (4), thus reliably securing cable (4) in the connector housing.

Connector for flat cables

An electrical connector (10) includes a plastic housing (12) of a configuration to fit through an aperture (32) of a printed circuit board (30) having circuits (34) on the undersurface (33) thereof with the connector housing having wing portions (14) carrying contact portions (26) adapted to engage the circuits of the underside of the printed circuit board and be soldered thereto to minimize the overall height of the assembly formed of the connector and board.

Through board surface mounted connector

An electrical connector (10,20,30,40) having an insulating housing (11,21,31,41) and electric contacts (14,24,34,44) therein has been disclosed. The electric contacts (14,24,34,44) are individually formed by removing selected parts (53,55,56,58,59,61,62) from stamped electric contact elements (50). The housing (11,21,31,41) includes cavities (12,32) opening on a front surface and cavities (22,42) opening on a back surface.

Electrical connector and electric contact therefor

An electrical connector (21) comprises a dielectric housing (20) having apertures in which contact sections (6) of electrical contacts (2) are secured while termination sections (10) of the contacts (2) extend at a 45 degree angle with respect to the contact sections (2) and along a bottom surface (23) of the housing (20) so that the termination sections (10) are parallel and extend outwardly from at least one of the side walls of the housing (20) for connection to conductive members on a circuit board. Connector (40), 40a-c) is provided with contacts (2a) having tines (34) for disposition in holes (32) in a circuit board (31) for connection to conductive areas on a bottom surface (31') of the board while termination sections of contacts (2) are connected to conductive areas on an upper surface (31') of the board (31).

Electrical connector for surface mounting onto circuit boards

A hinged electrical connector comprises connector members (1, 2) mounted onto circuit boards (11a, 11a) and hingedly connected together by shafts (4) and recesses (6). Receptacle contact sections (8a) of receptacle contacts (8) in connector member (2) have low-pressure contact members (22) in electrical engagement with outer ends (13) of tab contact sections (7b) of tab contacts (7) in connector member (1) when the circuit board (11a, 11b) are parallel to one another (FIG. 7A). High-pressure contact members (23) of the receptacle contact sections (8a) are in electrical engagement with inner sections (13') of the tab contact sections (7b) when the circuit boards (11a, 11b) are at a right angle with respect to one another (FIG. 7C).

Hinged electrical connector

A hinged electrical connector comprises a receptacle connector (RC) and a tab connector (TC) that are hingedly connected together by hinge members (3, 4, 5a, 6), the connectors having coplanar receptacle contact sections (12) of receptacle contacts (7) electrically engaged with tab contact sections (14) of tab contacts (8) and conductor-engaging sections (9,10) electrically engaged with conductive areas of circuit boards (11a, 11b) enabling the boards to be moved between angular positions and maintained thereat.

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Junichi Tanigawa