Matsushita Electric Works, Ltd.

Panasonic Electric Works Co., Ltd.

Matsushita Electric Works Co., Ltd.

Masaki Fujimoto

Tsuyoshi Yamane

Tetsurou Kitao

Daisuke Satou

Daisuke Sato

Kenji Okura

Narutoshi Hoshino

Hisahiro Ono

Takeshi Hashimoto

Yoshihisa Inaba

Shuji Kato

Shinya Sasaki

Hiroyuki Tominaga

In a connector receptacle which is mounted on a printed circuit board, a pair of protection protrusions is formed to protrude outward in a insertion direction of a plug from a rear end of a bottom board of a metal shell. A plurality of terminals held on a plug holder is arranged between the protection protrusions in a widthwise direction in a cut portion of the bottom board, so that twisting force acting of the connector receptacle is mainly received by the protection protrusions, and thus, the terminals are protected from peeling off from the printed circuit board. A pair of slits is formed along an extension line of the rear end on the bottom board, so that melted solder for fixing the connector receptacle on the printed circuit board rarely diffused to a lower face of the bottom board.

Connector receptacle

Connector

There is provided a connector which can downsize the peripheral device. A receptacleis capable of receiving both a mini-A plug based on a USB OTG standard and a mini-B plug based on a USB 2.0 standard. Further, the receptacleincludes first postscompliant with the USB standard and second postsdisposed at an opposite side to the first  postswith a connecting partinserted into a connecting recessof a plugtherebetween. Furthermore, the plugincludes second contactscorresponding to the second postsin addition to first contactscorresponding to the first posts. Accordingly, it is possible to transmit data other than the data which are transmitted through the known USB connector by using the second postsand the second contacts. In addition, it is possible to down size the peripheral device compared to the case where the size increases when a connector for transmitting the other data is installed in addition to the USB connector.

A compact receptacle for mating connection with a complementary coaxial plug connector. The receptacle is in use to be mounted on a mobile phone for switching a signal line from an internal antenna to a vehicle's external antenna when placed on a cradle in a vehicle in mating connection with the plug connector on the cradle. The receptacle has a dielectric mold carrying an outer conductor shield fitted on top of the mold, a single spring member, and a single fixed contact member. The conductor shield includes an electrode socket for connection with an outer conductor tube of the plug. The spring member integrally carries a center electrode for connection with a center conductor post of the plug, and a movable contact which forms a normally-closed switch with a fixed contact on the fixed contact member for the above signal switching.

Receptacle for coaxial plug connector

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Tsu, Japan

Masaki Fujimoto