Japan Aviation Electronics Industry, Limited

Jae Hirosaki, Ltd.

Nec Corporation

Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Pioneer Corporation

Yasufumi Hayashi

Osamu Takagi

Seiichi Hara

Terumi Nakaya

Mamoru Suzuki

Takao Suzuki

Naotaka Kumakiri

Nobuhiro Koyota

Yoshifumi Kubota

Kiyohito Koide

Tadashi Ishiwa

Junichiro Shibata

Hideyuki Ohtani

Takashi Yanagihara

Reisuke Sato

Kazumi Takishima

Kyosuke Takeuchi

Yosuke Kuroki

Yutaka Osanai

In a connector including an insulator and a contact held by the insulator, a fixing member is coupled to the insulator for fixing the insulator to an object. The fixing member includes a main body received in a receiving portion formed to the insulator. A leg mechanism extends from the main body for being fixed to the object. In addition, a first engaging mechanism extends from the main body and is engaged with the receiving portion in a first direction. On the other hand, the second engaging mechanism extends from the main body and is engaged with the insulator in a second direction opposite to the first direction.

Connector capable of being firmly fixed to an object and a fixing member used in the connector

In a connector to be connected to a cable having a core wire, a retainer is fitted into a rear portion of an insulator holding a contact. The core wire is crimped by a wire crimping barrel formed to the contact. The cable is clamped in cooperation with the retainer and the insulator and extracted through the rear portion of the insulator. In addition, the contact has a locking barrel. On the other hand, the retainer includes a locking portion which is engaged with the locking barrel to prevent the contact from being released rearward from the insulator.

Cable connector having a retainer which serves to hold a cable, to protect a connecting portion, and to prevent undesirable releasing of a contact

In a crimp contact to be connected to a cable having a conductive core wire and an insulating cladding portion covering the core wire, the crimp contact has a cladding crimping portion for crimping the cladding portion and a core wire crimping portion arranged adjacent to the cladding crimping portion for crimping the core wire. The core wire crimping portion has a base portion for receiving the core wire and a first core wire barrel extending from the base portion for crimping the core wire to cover an outside of the core wire. The first core wire barrel has a relatively longer length from the base portion at a part relatively far from the cladding crimping portion and a relatively shorter length from the base portion at another part relatively near to the cladding crimping portion.

Crimp contact which can easily be reduced in size

A connector includes a contact, a housing receiving the contact, and an engaging member engaged in the housing. The housing has a first receiving portion receiving the contact and a second receiving portion receiving the engaging member. The engaging member has an inserting portion for being inserted with the cable and a cable holding portion for holding the cable with being elastically deformed by the second receiving portion when the engaging member is inserted into the second receiving portion.

Connector having an engaging member for holding a cable

In a music apparatus of this invention, digital data received at a digital input terminal are stored in a primary memory area on a hard disk drive . Subsequently, a music data converter performs a predetermined conversion of the digital data stored in the primary memory area to obtain digital data having a different form, and the altered data are thereafter stored in a secondary memory area on the hard disk drive

Music data compression apparatus and method

In a connector in which a conductive contacting portion ( ) is supported by a spring portion ( ) to be elastically movable in a first direction ( ) and a second direction ( ) perpendicular to the first direction, the contacting portion has a contact point ( ) maintained in a specific condition such that the contact point is offset from a predetermined position in the second direction. The contact point is formed at its one end to be brought into contact with a mating object ( ) in the first direction at the predetermined position. When the contacting portion is moved in a direction opposite to the first direction, the specific condition is released.

Connector excellent in reliability of contact

In a shielded connector for being connected to a mating connector in a first direction, a metal shell (41) has a shielding portion (51) and a coupling portion (53) whichis formed integral with the shielding portion. The shielding portion covers an insulator (43) to electromagnetically shield contact members which are conductive. The coupling portion is for being mechanically coupled to the mating connector in the first direction. The dontact members are held to the insulator to be arranged in a second direction perpendicularto the first direction. The coupling portion is movable substantially in a third direction perpendicular to said first and said second directions.

Shielded connector having a shell with integral latch arms

In an electrical jumper connector unit having two connectors connecting two electronic circuit boards included in an information processing apparatus, there are a first connector, a plate, a second connector fixed on the plate, and plural discrete cables connecting both the two connectors in a shell las a casing of the electrical jumper connector unit. The plate is included in the shell so as to move in any direction within a predetermined range relative to the shell, and a pair of knobs is fixed to the plate so as to protrude from a pair of openings of the shell. When the pair of the knobs moves in any direction within the predetermined range to the shell, the second connector fixed to the plate moves in the same way. When the second connector fixed to the plate agrees with an external output connector fixed on one of the two electronic circuit boards, the motion of the pair of the knobs discontinues.

Electrical jumper connector unit having shell and mechanism for enabling

An insulator having a through hole has at its rear end portion a square-shaped pedestal portion projecting down therefrom, and the pedestal portion has a slot extending forwardly from its rear end face and communicating with the through hole. A center conductor has a contact portion for engagement with the mating connector, a middle portion, and a terminal portion bent at right angles to the axis of the through hole of the insulator. The contact portion projects forwardly of the insulator in its axial direction, the terminal portion passes through the slot of the pedestal portion and projects at right angles to the axis of the through hole, and the middle portion of the center conductor is inserted in the through hole. The insulator carrying the center conductor is housed in a housing portion of an external conductor stamped out of a resilient metallic plate through press work, and the external conductor and the insulator are engaged with each other.

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Yasufumi Hayashi