Alps Electric Co., Ltd.

Alps Alpine Co., Ltd.

Takashi Kawahata

Junichiro Yokota

Seiichiro Sato

Shuji Omura

Rikiya Suzuki

Takeshi Murayama

Toru Wagatsuma

Kazuki Satoh

Sato Seiichiro

Omura Shuji

Sato Seiichrio

A pressure contact type connector includes: an upper flat plate portion; a lower flat plate portion which is disposed below the upper flat plate portion; a first spring portion which connects the upper and lower flat plate portions; and a second spring portion which extends upward from the lower flat plate portion and applies a resilient force to the upper flat plate portion, in which the first and second spring portions are wound about the upper flat plate portion when viewed from above in a plan view, and extend so that the spring portions do not interfere with each other when being compressed and extended in the vertical direction, the first spring portion is formed to be bent so that a width dimension is larger than a thickness dimension, and the second spring portion is formed to be bent so that a width dimension is larger than a thickness dimension.

Pressure contact type connector and manufacturing method of the same

A connector mechanism for a card, capable of being thinned, and a card adaptor having a connector mechanism for a card. A connector mechanism for a card, having an installation section () in which a card () having external connection sections is installed and having a terminal member () with which the external connection sections of the card () can come into contact. The mechanism further has a lift-up mechanism including a projection section () that once lift a front end section () of the card () upward and then causes each of the external connection sections of the card () to be in contact with a corresponding one of the terminals (-) of the terminal member ().

Card connector mechanism and card adapter having the card connector mechanism

There is provided a card connector device in which the length and the width thereof can be reduced. The connector device includes an insertion portioninto which a cardhaving a notch portionis inserted, and a detecting switchfor detecting that the cardinserted into the insertion portionis mounted at a predetermined card mounting position, wherein the detecting switchis arranged so that at least a portion of the detecting switchis positioned in a space defined by the notch portionof the cardmounted at the predetermined card mounting position.

Card connector device having detecting switch for detecting mounting of card

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Tokyo, Japan

Takashi Kawahata