Japan Aviation Electronics Industry, Limited

Jae Electronics, Inc.

Takashi Omodachi

Takayuki Nishimura

Hiroaki Obikane

Daisuke Machihara

Atsushi Kobayashi

Taiki Haneishi

Joe Motojima

Connector

An island-like part includes an island-like main part, and two island-like end parts adjacent to the island-like main part in a pitch direction of a plurality of socket contacts. Each of the island-like end parts has an upper surface, an outward lengthwise side surface facing outward in the pitch direction, and two crosswise side surfaces facing in the width direction. Each of the protective metal fittings includes an upper-surface protective part covering an upper surface, an outward protective part extending downward from the upper-surface protective part and covering the outward lengthwise side surface, and two lateral protective parts extending downward from the upper-surface protective part and covering the two crosswise side surfaces, respectively. The outward protective part and the two lateral protective parts are directly connected to each other without the upper-surface protective part being interposed therebetween.

Socket connector

A socket connector includes: a socket housing; a plurality of contacts arranged in the housing; and a protective metal fitting configured to protect an island-like end part. The protective metal fitting includes: an upper-surface protective part covering an upper surface of the island-like end part; two crosswise surface protective parts extending downward from both ends of the upper-surface protective part in a width direction, and opposed to two crosswise side surfaces, respectively, of the island-like end part that face in the width direction; and two curling parts extending from lower ends of the two crosswise surface protective parts, respectively, in such a manner that the two curling parts get closer to each other as they extend.

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Tokyo, Japan

Takashi Omodachi