Hirose Electric Company, Ltd.

Tsuyoshi Sakata

Tsutomu Matsuo

Yoku Yamagami

Hirokatsu Yaegashi

Takashi Nagawatari

Satoshi Watanabe

Tatsuya Arai

Takeshi Yamazaki

Ryozo Koyama

Ikuo Denpouya

Takeshi Fukushima

Tsutomu Mtsuo

Kouki Adachi

A cable connector is to be fitted to a mating connector attached to a circuit board. The cable connector includes a housing including a terminal hole for inserting a cable with a terminal; and a movable member attached to the housing for positioning the terminal at a regular position. The movable member includes an attached portion attached to the housing and a pressing portion retained in the terminal hole to be movable to an advance position for positioning the terminal at the regular position. The attached portion includes an upper plate portion and a lower plate portion both extending forward from a rear wall portion of the movable member to be guided along a top wall of the housing. The pressing portion includes a thrust arm portion extending forward from the rear wall portion and having a pressing surface on a front edge surface thereof.

Cable connector and connector assembly

An electrical connector to be connected to a cable includes a first housing having a casing with a substantially rectangular shape and a fitting section protruding from the casing in a direction that the electrical connector is fitted to a mate connector; a first shell covering the casing; and a first terminal arranged in the fitting section. The first terminal has contact sections at upper and lower sides of one end thereof for contacting with a terminal of the mate connector, and a connecting section at the other end thereof for connecting with a core wire of the cable. It is arranged such that a distance from the contact section at the upper side to the connecting section is substantially same as a distance from the contact section at the lower side to the connecting section.

Electrical connector

An electro-optical composite connector includes a receptacle connector including a receptacle housing to be mounted on a first board, a receptacle shell for covering the receptacle housing, and a receptacle terminal arranged on the receptacle housing; and a plug connector including a plug housing for holding an optical fiber, a plug shell for covering the plug housing, and an optical module to be connected to the optical fiber. The optical module includes a second board; a light receiving/emitting element mounted on one surface of the second board; at least one of a plug terminal and a land mounted on the one surface of the second board for transmitting a signal relative to the receptacle terminal; and a grounding surface formed on the other surface of the second board opposite to the one surface. The grounding surface is electrically connected to an inner wall of the plug shell.

Electro-optical composite connector

A circuit board electrical connector includes a connector housing ( ) having a front edge holding section ( ) with a receiving groove ( ) for receiving a leading edge of a circuit board ( ) having a plurality of contact pads ( ) on the leading edge and an aperture or notch ( ) therein, and a pair of guiding sections ( ) extending upward from opposite ends of the front edge holding section for guiding the circuit board; a plurality of contact elements ( ) provided in the receiving groove for contact with the contact pads of the circuit board; a pair of insertion slots ( ) provided in the guiding sections and having a width slightly greater than a thickness of the circuit board; at least one pair of pressure portions ( A) provided on opposed faces of one of the insertion slots such that a distance between the pressure portions is slightly less than the thickness of the circuit board so as to hold the circuit board between them; and at least one pair of engaging projections ( B) provided on the pressure portions for engagement with the notch or aperture of the circuit board when the circuit board is inserted in the receiving groove.

Circuit board electrical connector

A module mounting system includes a mother board ( ) having a plurality of layers, first and second sockets ( ) provided on a face of the mother board ( ) such that their rear faces ( ) are opposed to each other, and a plurality of wiring patterns ( ) provided one for each layer to interconnect the terminals ( ) of the first and second sockets ( ).

Module mounting system

An intermediate electrical connector comprises a housing (,) having apertures (,A,,A) and a contact element (,) which comprises a retention section (,) held between the peripheries of the apertures (,A,,A), a pair of contact sections (,A,,B) projecting from the apertures (,A,,A) in opposite directions, and a transmission path (,) provided between the contact sections (,A,,B).

Intermediate electrical connector

A contact element (,) comprises a fixed section (,) inserted into the slot (,) along the first minor side of the slot, a flexible section (,) extending from the fixed section toward the second minor side of the slot in a plane and being flexible in the plane, and contact portions (,A,,B) extending from the flexible section so as to project from the major faces of a housing (,). The fixed section, the flexible section, and the contact portions are in the plane parallel to the major faces of the slot. A conductive layer or sheet (,) is provided on the major sides of the slot. A sliding contact (,A,,B) are provided near the contact portions are brought into sliding contact with the conductive layer or sheet.

An intermediate electrical connector comprises a support plate (,) which is made of a dielectric material and has at least one support aperture (,) having an inside diameter; and at least one conductive member (,) provided through the support aperture to short-circuit circuit portions of connection objects. The conductive member is made of a conductive elastomer and comprises a retention section (,) with flange portions for engage with the support aperture to attach the conductive member to the support plate; and an elastic protruded section (,). The elastic protruded section extends from the retention section in a direction of thickness of the support plate to form at opposite ends contact faces (,) for elastic contact with the circuit portions (,A,,A) of the connection objects (,) and has, adjacent to the retention section, shoulder (,) portions having an outside diameter which is smaller than the inside diameter of the support aperture.

An electrical connector for connecting to a mother board a daughter board having a plurality of pads on a front edge and a hole, includes an insulation housing (,) to be mounted on the mother board and having a slot (,) for receiving the daughter board and a pair of front and rear rows of terminal receiving apertures (,); a plurality of lower and upper contact terminals (,) provided in the front and rear terminal receiving apertures, respectively, such that a distance between lower and upper contact sections (,) of the lower and upper contact terminals is equal to or slightly larger than a thickness of the front edge and that a vertical distance between the upper and lower contact sections before the daughter board is rotated rearwardly is smaller than that after the daughter board is rotated rearwardly, and that the upper and lower contact sections are brought into contact with the pads with a predetermined contact force.

An electrical connector for connecting to a mother board a daughter board having a plurality of pads on a front edge thereof includes a plurality of contact terminals made by stamping and bending a resilient conductive sheet so as to provide first retaining sections which are fixed to the insulating housing. The daughter board is inserted between upper and lower contact portions of the contact terminals with a zero-insertion force and then rotated to bring the pads into contact with the contact portions with a predetermined contact force, with the spring sections flexed so as to reduce the distance between the upper and lower contact portions and made floating.

An electrical connector for connecting to a mother board a daughter board having a plurality of pads on a front edge thereof includes a plurality of contact terminals made by stamping and bending a resilient conductive sheet so as to provide first and second retaining sections which are fixed to the insulating housing. The daughter board is inserted between upper and lower contact portions of the contact terminals with a zero-insertion force and then rotated to bring the pads into contact with the contact portions with a predetermined contact force.

An electrical connector includes a board latch which has an L-shaped engaging arm for latching a board. The outside face of a free end of the engaging arm is flush with the outside face of a vertical portion of the engaging arm. A ridge is provided on the engaging arm for positioning the board in the longitudinal direction of a board receiving slot.

An electrical connector for connecting a daughter board to a mother board includes an insulating housing to be mounted on the mother board; a plurality of contact terminals disposed in the insulating housing; an open mouth provided in the insulating housing for receiving and allowing the daughter board to be turned toward a latch a pair of latch levers provided on opposite sides of the open mouth and having a latch portion and a sliding member at an upper portion thereof; a protective member provided on the insulation housing and spaced from the sliding member by a predetermined distance; a front surface of the latch portion being made in such a form that the daughter board can pass over the latch portions, with opposite sides thereof pushing the latch levers outwardly, when it is turned rearwardly about the edge portion; and a rear surface of the latch portion being made in such a form that it latches the daughter board to the electrical connector when the daughter board is connected to the electrical connector but it permits the latch lever reflects and the sliding member to abut against the protective member thereby pushing the latch levers outwardly to permit the daughter board to pass over the latch portion.

An electrical connector for connecting a daughter board to a mother board, includes an insulating housing; contact terminals disposed in the insulating housing; an open mouth provided in the insulating housing for receiving the daughter board; terminal receiving slots provided in the open mouth; each of the contact terminals being made by stamping and forming a spring conductive sheet so as to have a fixing section to be fitted in the terminal receiving slot, a reverse U-shaped section extending upwardly from the fixing section and then downwardly into the open mouth to provide a lower contact point, a J-shaped section extending upwardly from the lower contact point and toward the rear wall and then upward to provide a stopper section, and a C-shaped section extending upwardly from the J-shaped section and into the open mouth to provide an upper contact point; the reverse U-shaped section, the J-shaped section, and the C-shaped section constituting a spring unit; shoulders provided on the rear wall of the open mouth for engagement with the stopper section to hold the contact terminal in the terminal receiving slot with the spring unit under a preload condition so that when the daughter board is turned to the latch position to flex the spring section, the upper contact points are brought into contact with the pads on the edge portion with a predetermined contact force.

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Tsuyoshi Sakata