Hirose Electric Company, Ltd.

Mitsuo Ishida

Shoichi Tomioka

Toshiyuki Takada

Kazuhisa Tsunematsu

Yoshinori Takashita

Syu Obara

Tomonari Kuwata

An electrical connector has a plurality of sheet-type terminals ( and ) which are received into corresponding receiving slots ( and ) of a housing ( ) and are arranged parallel each other in a direction. The terminals ( ) have connection sections ( and ) at their ends, which are arranged so as to face the same side and protrude outward from a bottom surface of the housing. The movable member ( ), which presses a flat cable (C) toward contact sections ( ), is movably supported at an open mouth of the housing ( ). The connection sections ( and ) have connection surfaces ( A and A) for contact with circuit sections of a circuit board, which are staggered in a receiving direction of the terminals to the housing.

Electrical connector for a circuit board

An electrical connector connection system for connecting a pair of receptacle connectors ( ) comprises an intermediate board ( ) which interconnects the receptacle connectors ( ) and has signal and ground connection portions ( and ) on opposite edges thereof and signal transmission portions ( ) for interconnecting corresponding signal connection portions ( ) and a ground transmission portion ( ) for interconnecting the ground connection portions ( ).

Electrical connector connecting system and intermediate board support for the same

An ejector comprises an ejector bar (,), a pressed section (,) provided at an end of the ejector bar, a press button (,) rotatably linked to the pressed section for rotation between an operation position where the press button projects in the lengthwise direction of the ejector bar and a stand-by position at right angles with the ejector bar and an engaging member (,) having at one end an engaging claw (,) which is movable between an ejection position where a card is inserted or ejected and an engaging position where the engaging claw engages the rear end of a card to prevent accidental ejection of the card, the press button and the engaging member being linked such that when the press button is at the operational position, the engaging member is at the ejection position while when the press button is at the stand-by position, the engaging member is at the engaging position.

Ejector for electrical card connector

A card ejector for a PC card connector, includes an ejector button (1) movable between a retreated position and an advanced position where a PC card is ejected from the PC card connector; an ejector bar (2) for guiding the ejector button (1) by a predetermined distance between the retreated position and the advanced position; a spring member (10) provided between the ejector button (1) and the ejector bar (2) to bias the ejector button (1) to the retreated position where the ejector button (1) is rotatable by a predetermined angle with respect to the ejector bar (2).

Card ejector for PC card connector

A metal panel (11) for covering a PC card has an accommodating opening (18) for exposing the ground connection section (21) of a socket connector (2). A projected edge (7B) is provided on the frame holder (4) and a liner projection (32) is formed on the socket connector (2). The projected edge (7B) is located to fill in and close gaps between the ground connection section (21) and edges of the accommodation opening (18). In other embodiments, a C-shaped projection (32) on the socket (30) is used as the sole means to close or fill in the gap.

PC card and frame kit therefor

A metal panel (4) is provided to cover the entire PC card (P). The ground plate (10) has an attaching portion and outer and inner terminals (11) and (12) extending rearwardly from the attaching portion. The attaching portion is attached to the attaching means of the housing (6). The outer and inner terminals (11) and (12) contact the inner face of the panel (4) and the ground circuit (3B) of an inner board (3), respectively.

PC card socket connector and PC card with same

A PC card electrical connector includes a case (40); an ejector (20) having a front button (21) and a rear arm (22); a first spring (27) for forwardly biasing the ejector; an intermediate bar (10) for abutment with the ejector having a cam follower (13); a second spring (49) for biasing the intermediate bar toward the rear arm of the ejector; an ejector bar (5) for abutment with the intermediate bar; a cam member (63) movable on the bottom of the case and having an engaging portion; a first cam channel (I) provided on the ejector so as to engage the cam member such that when a PC card is inserted, the engaging portion is held at a lock position where the ejector button is held at a depressed position and, when the ejector button is depressed, the engaging portion is released from the lock position and, when the ejector button is depressed again, the ejector is moved to a projected position while the engaging portion is returned to the lock position; and a second cam channel (II) provided on the bottom of the case so as to engage the cam follower such that upon first depression, the intermediate bar is placed against the rear arm and, upon second depression, the intermediate bar is brought to the position opposed to the ejector, thereby enabling to eject the PC card from the receiving slot.

PC card electrical connector with expandable ejector

A surface contact card connector which includes a base section 2 made of an insulating material; a cover section 3 made of an insulating material and attached to the base section at a rear end for rotation between open and close positions; first and second engaging side walls 7 and 15 provided on opposite sides of the base and cover sections, respectively, such that when the cover section is closed, they are opposed to each other; first or second engaging side walls are flexible laterally; engaging windows or depressions 9, 10 being provided in the first or second engaging side walls; engaging and releasing projections 16 and 17 provided on the second or first engaging side walls such that when the cover section is closed, they flex the first or second side walls laterally and engage the engaging members; the engaging projections having a rectangular triangle shape whose upper side 16A is substantially at right angles to the engaging side walls while the release projections being provided at positions flexible with respect to the engaging projections when the cover section is opened.

Surface contact card connector

A PC card electrical connector which includes a housing having at least upper and lower storage cavities for accepting PC cards (1) one for each storage cavity; at least upper and lower movable plates (2) disposed near the upper and lower storage cavities, respectively, each movable plate having at least one abutment member (2A) for abutment with a portion of the PC cards; at least upper and lower eject levers (5) rotatably supported by the housing in planes parallel to the PC cards and coupled at one end to the movable plates; at least upper and lower intermediate bars (6) coupled to the other end of the upper and lower eject levers, respectively, and movable along sides of the storage cavities; and an ejector (8, 9) for selectively engaging and pushing one of the upper and lower intermediate bars, thereby permitting operation of one of the eject levers to eject the desired PC card with ease and few errors.

PC card electrical connector

The IC card electrical connector includes an ejector button (10), a spring member (11) for biasing the ejector button forwardly, an engaging member (12) pivoted to the ejector button and engaging with the housing to hold the ejector button in place, and a cam mechanism. The cam mechanism includes a cam section (9) having a first cam face (9A) and a second cam face (9B) and an intermediate member (6) having a cam follower (6B). When the engaging member is released to allow forward movement of the ejector button, the intermediate member is biased into a space between the ejector button and the eject bar. The cam follower is provided on a resilient arm (6A) so that it moves on the first cam face whereas when an IC card is inserted to move the eject bar forwardly, it slides on the second cam face to escape from the space.

Electrical connector for IC card

A PC card electrical connector with an expandable ejector includes an intermediate bar (10) having a cam follower pin (13); an ejector button section (20) for motion between a lock position (A2) where the ejector button section projects little more than a front end of the casing and a release position (C2) where the ejector button section projects far from the front end of the casing; a line spring (28) having a cam follower end (30); a first biasing spring (30) for biasing the ejector button section forwardly so that when the ejector button section is depressed a first time to release the follower end of the line spring from the lock position, the ejector button section is brought to the release position; and a second biasing spring (49) for biasing the intermediate bar onto a side of the ejector button section so that when the ejector button section is moved forward to the release position, the intermediate bar is turned to connect to the ejector button section, thereby making it possible that by depressing a second time the ejector button section to move the intermediate bar rearwardly, the receiving plate is brought to the removing position for removal of the PC card.

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Tokyo, Japan

Mitsuo Ishida