Japan Aviation Electronics Industry, Limited

Kel Corporation

Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Shigeyasu Kitamura

Toshihiro Oka

Nobuhiro Ogawa

Junichi Miyamoto

Osamu Takagi

Masaki Ishiguro

Masao Yamamoto

Takashi Tokunaga

Yuichi Uchiyama

Minoru Shinmyo

Etsuro Doi

Tomoyuki Uchida

Youichi Suzuki

Shigenori Koike

Hironori Kanda

Akira Kasuga

Youichiro Azuma

Connector

In a connector having a housing and a plurality of terminals, the plurality of terminals is configured as surface mount terminals, and each surface mount terminal includes a terminal portion arranged inside the housing, a fixed portion fixed to the housing, and a mount portion soldered to a mount surface of a board. The surface mount terminals are arranged side by side from one side to the other side in a Y-direction when the connector mounted on the mount surface is viewed in an X-direction, and a surface mount terminal having the smallest length dimension from the mount portion to the fixed portion is arranged at the leftmost end in the Y-direction, and the length dimension from the mount portion to the fixed portion is larger or the same dimension according to the arrangement order from the left side to the right side in the Y-direction.

Board mounted connector with terminals arranged by length

A substrate-mounting connector includes a housing, a contact mounted to the housing, and a shield shell. The shield shell includes a first plate and a second plate disposed adjacently. A part of the first plate serves as a first contact portion. A first extension piece is formed in the second plate. A part of the first extension piece serves as a second contact portion. A part of the housing serves as a pressing portion facing the first plate, in a covering state in which the shield shell is mounted to the housing. A part of the first plate, different from the first contact portion, or a part of the first extension piece, different from the second contact portion, serves as a pressed portion pressed by the pressing portion in the covering state. The pressing portion presses the pressed portion to make the first contact portion contact the second contact portion.

Connector for mounting to a substrate

A connector comprises a housing and a terminal assembly accommodated in the housing. The housing has two sidewalls in a lateral direction and a coupling portion. Each of the sidewalls has a through hole, an upper sidewall and a lower sidewall. The through hole pierces the sidewall in the lateral direction. The upper sidewall is located on the through hole while the lower sidewall is located under the through hole. The coupling portion is located at a front side of the through hole. The upper side wall and the lower sidewall of each of the sidewalls are coupled by the coupling portion. The terminal assembly has a shell formed with a protrusion. The protrusion is visible through the through hole from outside in the lateral direction.

Connector and mating connector

Provided is a connector comprising a plurality of rows of contacts and minimized in a front-rear direction. A first contactpositioned in an upper-row has a special shape constituted by a held portionheld by a housing, a connection portionextending in a width direction from a rear end of the held portion, a first bent portionextending from a front end of the connection portionand being bent downward, and a first contact portionextending downward from the first bent portion. A second contactpositioned in a lower-row has an L-shape. A second contact portionof the second contactis positioned obliquely rearward of the first contact portionof the first contact

A connector is mateable with a mating connector having a mating terminal. The connector comprises a housing and a terminal held by the housing. The housing has an accommodating portion and a lock portion which are formed integrally. The terminal is accommodated in the accommodating portion so as to be connectable to the mating terminal. When the connector is in a mated state where the connector is mated with the mating connector, the lock portion locks the mated state. In detail, the lock portion has a flexible portion and a lock protrusion. The flexible portion is located over the accommodating portion. The lock protrusion is provided on the flexible portion. No wall is provided between the flexible portion and the accommodating portion so that the flexible portion is resiliently deformable toward the accommodating portion. The lock protrusion moves downward when the flexible portion is resiliently deformed downward.

An electrical connector has an insulative housing, a fixture, and a shield. The fixture is used for fixing this insulative housing on a circuit board, and the shield is to cover the insulative housing. The insulative housing, which is made of an electrically insulating material, comprises a main body and an engaging portion, which protrudes forward from the main body to engage with a matable connector. The insulative housing also comprises fixture retaining slots, which extend through the main body in the vertical or to-and-fro direction at the lateral ends of the main body of the housing. Into each of these fixture retaining slots, a fixture, which is made of an electrically conductive metallic material, is press-fit to fix the insulative housing onto a circuit board. The shield, which is made of an electrically conductive metallic material, comprises a peripheral portion and contact portions in a one-piece body. The peripheral portion covers the perimeter of the engaging portion of the insulative housing, and each of the contact portions extends into a respective fixture retaining slot. With this construction, each fixture is retained in contact with a respective contact portion in a respective fixture retaining slot grounding the shield when the electrical connector is mounted on a circuit board with the fixtures being surface-mounted onto grounding pathways on the circuit board.

Electrical connector

A surface-contact connector comprises a plurality of terminals 50 and a housing 11. The terminals 50 are made of an electrically conductive, resilient material and are formed in an identical shape. These terminals 50 are retained in the housing 11 in a row. Each terminal 50 includes an anchoring portion 51, an resilient portion 54, and a contacting portion 55. The anchoring portion 51 is fixedly retained in the housing 11, and the resilient portion 54, which is capable of elastic deformation, extends from the anchoring portion 51. The contacting portion 55 is continuous from a front end of the resilient portion 54 to protrude in the direction of engagement with a part to be electrically connected to. The housing 11 is provided with protrusion-regulating portions 16 and 17 which meet with the resilient portions 54 or contacting portions 55 of the terminals to regulate the amounts of protrusion of the contacting portions 55 in the direction of the engagement.

Surface-contact connector

A stacking connector assembly of adjustable height comprises a matable connector member mounted on a circuit board engaging positioning plate by a pair of spacing arms which are integrally formed in one piece with either the positioning plate or the matable connector member and are severable to selected lengths. Lead forming posts extend from a rear face of the connector member, away from a mating face, and the positioning plate is formed with a series of post receiving through-apertures, predetermined of which are of smaller cross-section than the posts to receive posts as a force fit.

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Shigeyasu Kitamura