Kel Corporation

Mutsuo Hatanaka

Etsuro Doi

Kiyoshi Atoh

Akira Shimada

A surface mount connector comprises two assemblable housing parts for engagement with a circuit board and for mating with a complementary connector respectively. A series of contacts are anchored in the board engaging part and the other mating part is provided with contact locating surface portions which engage and press the contacts into a coplanar circuit board engaging position when the two housing parts are assembled together.

Connector with contact locating housing part

A two-piece connector having a header, a receptacle, a first group of contacts incorporated in the header, and a second group of contacts incorporated in the receptacle. The header can be inserted into the receptacle. When the receptacle is inserted into the header, the contacts of the first group are electrically connected to those of the second group. Lock lever engaging bodies are formed on both sides of the header. Lock levers are provided on both sides of the receptacle. Each lock lever has a lift pawl and a lock pawl. These pawls can engage with the upper and lower surfaces of the lock lever engaging body corresponding to the lock lever. They are arranged such that the lock lever engaging body is located between them when the receptacle is inserted in the header. The header and the receptacle are designed so that no surface contacts occur between the lock levers and the lock lever engaging bodies once the header has been inserted into the receptacle, with the lock pawls set in a closed state.

Two-piece connector and method of press-connecting flat cables together

A surface mount connector comprises an insulating housing body in which a series of electrical contacts are secured with contact leg portions thereof extending externally alongside a housing face and a contact aligning member for assembly with the housing by forcible insertion between the housing face and the contact leg portions thereby urging the contact leg portions away from the housing face to bring contact ends thereof into a common circuit board engaging plane and a predetermined spaced apart relation. The guide means comprises an insulating bar formed with a row of ribs defining between them contact receiving alignment channels at the predetermined spacing. Ears extend from the housing face at respective opposite ends of the series of contacts and have respective recesses aligned with each other and the contact leg portions for receiving the aligning member as a force fit to assemble the aligning member with the housing.

Surface mount connector with contact aligning member

A flat cable connector for terminating respective individual conductors of first and second flat cables stacked in overlapping relationship one above the other has a cable connecting face which is stepped to provide lower and upper for corresponding termination zones and a first and second series of terminals anchored in the housing and having pressure connecting portions protruding into such zones for connection to the first and second flat cables, respectively, with conductor connecting portions of some of the terminals of the second series upstanding, unsupported, from the lower level. A first cable engaging cover member is formed with guide surfaces providing guiding engagement with unsupported lengths of the second series of conductor connecting portions during termination movement, obviating risk of damage and deformation thereof. The step may be a separately formed insert mounted on the housing prior to termination, thereby simplifying manufacture and assembly of terminals in the housing.

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Tama, Japan

Mutsuo Hatanaka