Matsushita Electric Works, Ltd.

Panasonic Electric Works Co., Ltd.

Mitsuru Iida

Tomokazu Harano

Shunsuke Hashimoto

Hirohisa Tanaka

Kenji Jounen

Kousuke Yoshioka

Shinji Hashimoto

Narutoshi Hoshino

Hidetoshi Takeyama

Toshihiro Yamamoto

Kenichi Shimaya

Yoshiaki Kambe

Yoshihisa Inaba

Mitsutaka Abe

Hidetaka Mori

A photoelectric transforming connector for optical fibers capable of application to a compact mobile apparatus such as a mobile phone comprises: a plug having a first light emitting portion for transmitting a light signal and/or a first light receiving portion for receiving a light signal through an optical fiber; an MID having a second light receiving portion facing the first light emitting portion and transforming the light signal from the first light emitting portion to an electric signal and/or a second light emitting portion facing the first light receiving portion and transforming an electric signal to a light signal and transmitting it to the first light receiving portion; and a shell to which the plug and the MID are attached. The shell has a bottom plate to which the plug and the MID are attached in a manner so that the first light emitting portion faces the second light receiving portion and/or the first light receiving portion faces the second light emitting portion, and a plurality of elastic pieces provided for standing up toward top face side from four side of the bottom plate and contacting the plug and the MID. Thereby, the plug can be attached to and detached from the bottom plate of the shell in a vertical direction.

Photoelectric transforming connector for optical fibers

An optical and electrical compound connector, which enables to transmit and to receive light signals and electric signals of a plurality of systems and to transmit and to receive these signals with respect to other electric wiring board, is achieved with downsizing and easing connection work thereof. The optical and electrical compound connectoris comprised of a sheet-shaped base boardand a socketinto which this base boardis inserted. The sheet-shaped base boardis a flexible base board capable of transmission and reception of the light and electric signals, in which a light guideand conductor patternsextended in an insertion directionare formed. The socketperforms the transmission and reception of the light and electric signals with the sheet-shaped base boardand transmits and receives the signals with an electric wiring boardThe socketcomprises a connector main bodyto which the sheet-shaped base boardis connected, a light-sensitive element and/or a light emitting elementwhich performs the transmission and/or reception of the light signals with the light guideand contactswhich performs the transmission and/or reception of the electric signals with the conductor patternsThe connector main bodyhas a first to third wallstoenclosing the sheet-shaped base boardfrom both sides in a thickness direction and from a front endside, and the light-sensitive element and/or the light emitting elementand the contactsare disposed on any one of these walls.

Optical and electrical compound connector

This connector assembly comprises a headerto which a plurality of coaxial cablesare connectable and a socketconfigured to be mounted on a printed board. The headercan be detachably coupled to the socket. The headerhas a first terminal arrayto which the coaxial cablesare electrically connectable. The sockethas a second terminal arraywhich makes contact with the first terminal arraywhen the headeris coupled to the socket. The first terminal array has a plurality of first terminals each having a wire terminalfor connection with each conductive wire of the cables and a contactfor contact with the second terminal array. The feature of the present invention resides in that the wire terminalsare arranged in a line, and the contactsof the first terminal array are arranged in two rows in a staggered configuration, and a pitch of the contactsof each row is larger than a pitch of the wire terminals

Connector assembly

A compact and simple constitution of a card connector, with which attaching and detaching works of a card can be performed easily, is provided. The connectorcomprises: a bodyhaving a recessfor a card; six contact springs projecting from a bottom faceof the recesson which the IC cardis disposed, and elastically contacting with contact terminalsof the card; a stationary hooking portionprovided on a rear face side of the body; a movable hooking memberprovided on a front face side of the body, and movable in a anteroposterior direction of the body; and a plate springfor charging the movable hooking membertoward the rear face of the body, and wherein a tapered faceis formed on a rear face side of a hooking portionso as to come closer to the rear face of the bodyas approaching to the bottom faceof the recess. A front end of the IC cardis held between the stationary hooking memberand the bottom faceof the recess, and a rear end of the IC cardis held by means of the hooking portionprovided on the rear face side of the movable hooking memberand the bottom faceof the recess

Card connector with stationary and movable hooks

Connector for photoelectric conversion

This connector assembly comprises a headerto which a plurality of coaxial cablesare connectable and a socketconfigured to be mounted on a printed board. The headercan be detachable coupled to the socket. The headerhas a first terminal arrayto which the coaxial cablesare electrically connectable. The sockethas a second terminal arraywhich makes contact with the first terminal arraywhen the headeris coupled to the socket. The first terminal array has a plurality of first terminals each having a wire terminalfor connection with each conductive wire of the cables and a contactfor contact with the second terminal array. The feature of the present invention resides in that the wire terminalsare arranged in a line, and the contactsof the first terminal array are arranged in two rows in a staggered configuration, and a pitch of the contactsof each row is larger than a pitch of the wire terminals

In a connector with a component built-in, a base member is formed of three-dimensional formation circuit substrate, and has a fitting portion that is to be fitted to a connector of counterpart. Terminals electrically connected to a wiring pattern on a mother board, contacts electrically connected to contacts of the connector of counterpart, and a conductive pattern electrically connected to the electronic component are formed on a surface of the base member. Thus, the conductive pattern can easily be modified depending on application, and it is possible to provide complicated wirings. Furthermore, since the electronic component is mounted on the base member, it is possible to make the connector embed a lot of electronic components, and degrees of freedom of design are increased. Still furthermore, the electronic component can be connected by reflow soldering, so that mounting workability of the electronic component is increased.

Connector having a built-in electronic part

A connector has a connector plug and a connector receptacle for connecting a cable and a substrate. The connector plug has a shell made of a conductive material with both sides open, and an insulator made of a resin molding. The insulator has a first fitting part on a first side for mating with the connector receptacle, a second fitting part on the other side for mating with the cable, and a plurality of contacts disposed on the second fitting part side. The shell has flexible parts for flexibly contacting a connector receptacle shell mated with the first fitting part. The insulator is fit into the shell from an opening on one side of the shell.

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Yokohama, Japan

Mitsuru Iida