Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Limited

Sumitomo Electric Industries, Limited

Autonetworks Technologies, Limited

Kentaro Hirai

Shinji Iihoshi

Mitsugu Furutani

Takashi Tonosaki

Mitsunori Kitajima

Shigeki Shimada

Takuya Yamanaka

Tetsuya Ito

A fixing memberincludes a housing mounting portionto be mounted into a housingand a board locking portionprojecting from the housing mounting portionand to be locked to a circuit board. The board locking portionincludes a resiliently deformable spring portionformed by bending a part protruding in a width direction intersecting a projecting direction from the housing mounting portionand a board contact portiondisposed on a side closer to a tip than the spring portionin a projecting direction of the board locking portionand configured to contact the circuit board. The spring portionis arranged inwardly in the width direction of both end parts on outer sides in the width direction of the housing mounting portionin a developed state of the spring portion

Fixing member and board connector

A connector is provided with a housing made of synthetic resin, a plurality of slit-like through holes formed in the housing, and a plurality of terminal fittings mounted in the housing while being passed through the through holes. The plurality of through holes are so disposed in parallel that long sides of the through holes are parallel. Projection-like supporting portions configured to come into contact with an outer surface of the terminal fitting to sandwich the terminal fitting are formed on an inner surface of the through hole. The supporting portions are disposed only on two long-side inner wall surfaces, out of the inner surface of the through hole, and project only from parts of the long-side inner wall surfaces in a penetration direction of the through hole.

Connector with housing having through holes

A connector includes a first housing, a second housing connectable to the first housing, and a lever rotatably supported on the first housing. The lever includes a lever lock portion for holding the first and second housings in a connected state. The first housing includes a first locking portion and the second housing has a second locking portion. The first and second locking portions, are arranged side by side with each other to constitute an integrated locking portion and arranged to be lockable to the lever lock portion with the first and second housings connected.

Movable connector

A press-fit terminal inserted into through hole of a circuit board along insertion direction includes a base portion extending in insertion direction, distal end portion, and two deformable portions. The distal end portion is on a front side to base portion in insertion direction and includes distal end portion side corner portions. The two deformable portions connect base portion and distal end portion and are contacted with an inner wall of through hole and elastically deformed. The two deformable portions include deformable portion side corner portions and deformable portion side corner portions include outer deformable portion side corner portions on outer side in direction crossing insertion direction. The two deformable portions include easy deformable portions, in portions having outer deformable portion side corner portions with curved surfaces whose radius of curvature RL is greater than a radius of curvature RS of curved surfaces of distal end portion side corner portions.

Press-fit terminal

A shorting terminal includes a base portion, a contact portion, a folded portion, an opposing portion and a protruding portion. The base portion is in the form of a flat plate. The contact portion can short a pair of terminal fittings by contacting the pair of terminal fittings. The folded portion extends in such a manner as to be folded from the base portion. The opposing portion extends from the folded portion toward the contact portion and is formed such that an interval between the base portion and the opposing portion is smaller than an interval between opposing inner surfaces of a shorting terminal holding chamber. The protruding portion extends from the opposing portion to the contact portion and is formed such that an interval between the base portion and the protruding portion is larger than the interval between the opposing inner surfaces of the shorting terminal holding chamber.

Shorting terminal and connector

A housing () of a board connector () to be connected to a circuit board (P) is disposed such that a connection surface to a mating connector () is exposed to outside through an opening () of a case () capable of accommodating the circuit board (P) inside. The housing () includes outer locking protrusions () for locking a peripheral edge part of the opening () of the case () from outside of the case () so that the board connector () will not displace into the case () due to forces exerted by a mating connector () during a connection operation.

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Kentaro Hirai