Japan Aviation Electronics Industry, Limited

Tyco Electronics Japan G.k.

Yuji Umemura

Yukitaka Tanaka

Goro Haga

The invention is embodied in a contact that is fixed in a housing of a socket to be connected with an electronic component and makes a contact with an electrical contact of the electronic component. The contact has a pair of contact pins and a spring member. Each of the contact pins includes a straight section approximately straightly extending from a first end section to a second end section, and are coupled with each other in an attitude in which the first end section is respectively oriented to the second end section and the respective straight sections overlap with each other, and each of the contact pins includes a clip section being folded back in a curve from the second end section to cooperate with the second end section to pinch the first end section of a counterpart therebetween. The spring member surrounds both of the straight sections of the pair of contact pins and gives a force in a direction in which the clip sections of the pair of contact pins are moved away from each other.

Contact with pair of pins each with a folded end

A connector which makes it possible to take out a holding member thereof from a housing without breaking the housing. The housing is formed by a main housing and a sub housing connected to the main housing. The main housing is formed with a hole having a contact portion-accommodating portion and a contact-inserting portion. In the sub housing, there is formed a clip-accommodating hole which is opposed to the contact portion-accommodating portion and the contact-inserting portion in the directions of insertion and removal of the contact, when the sub housing is connected to the main housing. The inner diameter of the clip-accommodating hole is set to be larger than the inner diameter of the contact portion-accommodating portion and that of the contact-inserting portion. The clip is accommodated in the clip-accommodating hole.

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Tokyo, Japan

Yuji Umemura