Amp LLC

Nobuaki Onoue

Shoji Kikuchi

Akira Imai

Junichi Tanigawa

An electrical contact comprising a holding section (2) formed of opposing side plates (6) bent from a bottom plate (5), a contact section (3) extending outwardly from the holding section (2) for electrical connection with a circuit board, a wire-connection section (4) between the side plates (6) for electrical connection to an insulated electrical wire (30), projections (18) at the sides of the wire-connection section (4) disposed in projection-receiving holes (8) in the side plates (6), and the side plates (6) having thermal-insulation holes (9, 9') adjacent the projection-receiving holes (8) to dissipate heat conducted along the contact section (3) and holding section (2) when the contact section (3) is soldered to the circuit board to obviate the melting or softening of the insulation of the electrical wire (30) in the wire-connection section (4).

Electrical contact

An electrical connector for connecting a flexible printed cable (14, 23) to a circuit board 13 comprises a dielectric housing (3, 10, 20) having electrical contact members (2a, 11, 21) secured in opposing sides of the housing, the contact members having contact sections (2a, 11A, 21c) inside of the housing for electrical connection to exposed conductors of the flexible printed cable when a section is positioned in the housing and maintained in connection therewith by a cover member (4, 12, 22) which is pivotally mounted on the housing and latched hereto by latch members (10A, 12A; 20b, 22a). Leg members (2b, 11B, 11C, 11d, 11E, 21a) of the contact members (2a, 11, 21) have terminating sections that are disposed along a bottom of the housing or extend outwardly from the housing in a plane of the bottom surface of the housing for electrical and mechanical connection to respective coductive and metal areas on a surface of the circuit board or the terminating section extend parallel to the sides of the housing and extend through holes in the circuit board for electrical and/or mechanical connection to conductive and metal areas on a bottom surface of the circuit board.

Flexible printed cable connector

An electrical connector (21) comprises a dielectric housing (20) having apertures in which contact sections (6) of electrical contacts (2) are secured while termination sections (10) of the contacts (2) extend at a 45 degree angle with respect to the contact sections (2) and along a bottom surface (23) of the housing (20) so that the termination sections (10) are parallel and extend outwardly from at least one of the side walls of the housing (20) for connection to conductive members on a circuit board. Connector (40), 40a-c) is provided with contacts (2a) having tines (34) for disposition in holes (32) in a circuit board (31) for connection to conductive areas on a bottom surface (31') of the board while termination sections of contacts (2) are connected to conductive areas on an upper surface (31') of the board (31).

Growing community of inventors

Sagamihara, Japan

Nobuaki Onoue