Hirose Electric Company, Ltd.

Xingyu Cheng

Nobuhiro Tamai

Shota Yamada

Takafumi Sugawara

[Problem] To provide an electrical connector capable of adequately ensuring a stable state of electrical communication between ground members. [Means of Solution] The retaining member, which retains rows of signal transmission paths consisting of multiple signal transmission paths arranged side by side in a direction along the major faces of the retaining member together with a first and a second ground member, has perforation portions extending in the through-thickness direction of the retaining member at locations between adjacent signal transmission paths; the electrical connector has provided therein a shorting member of electrically conductive plastics co-molded with the first ground member and second ground member; and the shorting member has first base portions that are located at the first ground member side and are in contact with the first ground member, second base portions that are located at the second ground member side and are in contact with the second ground member, and coupling portions that are located within the perforation portions and couple the first base portions and the second base portions.

Electrical connector with stable state electrical communication between ground members

An intermediate electrical connectorwhich, upon connection of a first counterpart connect bodyand a second counterpart connect body each from different sides in a manner permitting plugging and unplugging, mediates between the two counterpart connect bodies, the intermediate electrical connectorcomprising terminals that are enabled to contact, respectively, the first counterpart connect bodyand the second counterpart connect body, and a housing that directly or indirectly secures the terminals in place, wherein the connector has locking fittingssupported by the housing of the intermediate electrical connector, and the locking fittingshave locking portionsA enabled to engage lockable portionsprovided in the first counterpart connect bodyin the direction of disengagement when the intermediate electrical connectorand said first counterpart connect bodyare connected.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Xingyu Cheng