Hirose Electric Company, Ltd.

Shingo Masaki

Shoichi Mizusawa

The locking members have an upper arm portion, a mountable portion, and a strut portion; the upper arm portion has a pressure-receiving arm portion and a locking arm portion; the mountable portion has an upper clamping portion and a lower clamping portion that extend in the forward-backward direction, and a coupling portion that couples the upper clamping portion and the lower clamping portion, with the upper clamping portion being resiliently displaceable in the up-down direction, and the mounting portion of the housing being clamped by the upper clamping portion and lower clamping portion in the up-down direction; the strut portion extends upwardly from the upper clamping portion and is coupled to the upper arm portion; the movable member has cam portions located above the pressure-receiving arm portions; and the cam portions depress the pressure-receiving arm portions downward when the movable member moves from the closed position to the open position.

Electrical connector for flat-type conductors

Terminals have a retained portion located forwardly of a receiving space and retained in a housing, and a contact arm portion that extends toward the rear from the retained portion; a contact arm portion has a contact portion that protrudes toward the receiving space in the connector thickness direction perpendicular to the forward-backward direction and the terminal array direction and is capable of contacting the counterpart connect body; a contact portion faces the interior surface of the receiving space across a gap in the connector thickness direction; the terminals have an extension portion located forwardly of the contact portion; the extension portion has a reflective portion in the rear end portion thereof; the reflective portion has a rear end face within a range that includes the protruding end of the contact portion when viewed from the rear; and the rear end face is formed as a reflecting surface.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Shingo Masaki