Hirose Electric Company, Ltd.

Yousuke Takeuchi

Ryozo Koyama

Tadashi Sakaizawa

An electrical connector to be connected to a mating connector includes a housing; a terminal; and a locking piece arranged in parallel to the terminal for engaging the mating connector. The locking piece includes a base portion; an arm portion movable by a specific amount; a fixing portion fixed to the housing; and a regulating portion fixed to the housing. The arm portion extends from the base portion toward the mating connector via a bent portion, and has a locking portion for engaging an engaged portion of the mating connector at a distal thereof. The fixing portion extends from the base portion toward the mating connector. The regulating portion is situated on an opposite side of the fixing portion with respect to the base portion, and extends from the base portion in a moving direction of the arm portion.

Electrical connector

An electric connector to be connected to a mating connector includes a plurality of terminals each having a fixed portion; a housing for holding the terminals; and a shielding member attached to the housing. The housing includes a housing body portion for holding the fixed portions and a housing fitting portion for arranging the terminals. The shielding member includes a first shielding member and a second shielding member. The first shielding member includes a shield fitting portion for covering the housing fitting portion; a first shield body portion for covering the housing body portion; and a connection portion. The shield fitting portion has a hole portion. The second shielding member includes a second shield body portion for covering the housing body portion and an extending portion extending from the second shield body portion toward the shield fitting portion. The extending portion has a protruding portion inserted into the hole portion.

An electrical connector () having a shutter () at an opening provided on a front side thereof for plug-in with a mating connector () includes a housing (), a shield case () made of a sheet metal and fixed to an outside of the housing (), at least one shutter member (and) for opening and closing the opening of the electrical connector () and having a lid (, and) moving to an open position of the shutter () when the mating connector () pushes the lid (and) during the plug-in, and a pair of bias member () for biasing the shutter member (and) to a closed position of the shutter (), wherein each of the bias members () comprises at least one resilient arm () of a plate-type spring made as one body with the shield case ().

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Tokyo, Japan

Yousuke Takeuchi