Japan Aviation Electronics Industry, Limited

Ono Sokki Co., Ltd.

Jae Europe Limited

Yuzo Sato

Hiroaki Obikane

Yasufumi Yahiro

Takayuki Nishimura

Akira Kimura

Yohei Yokoyama

Akihiro Matsunaga

Masaaki Takaku

Yuichi Saito

Kouhei Ueda

Eiichi Ishino

A connector includes contacts arranged in a contact-arrangement plane and including a source contact and a signal contact, each of the contacts having a contact portion that comes into contact with a contact of a counter-connector, a ground plate made of metal disposed in parallel with the contact-arrangement plan, an insulator that holds the contacts and the ground plate, and a shell that covers an outer periphery of the insulator and is made of metal, the ground plate being disposed so as to face the contacts through a portion of the insulator with the contact portion of each contact being exposed, and having a cutout formed at an end of the ground plate adjacent to the contact portion of the source contact, and the insulator having a projection that fills the cutout of the ground plate.

Connector

A connector capable of improving the durability and the contact reliability of a contact. In the contact, a pair of spring portions for pressing a contact portion against a card-type electronic component are formed continuous with the contact portion that is brought into contact with the card-type electronic component. A holding portion held by a housing is formed continuous with the spring portions A connection portion connected to a printed board is formed continuous with the holding portion. The spring portions are made elastically deformable independently of each other, and are bent such that part and the other part of each spring portion do not interfere with each other in a direction of height of the housing when the spring portion is elastically deformed.

Electrical connector

A connector having a housing and terminals, mates with a mating connector having mating terminals. The housing has a side wall, a facing wall and a receiving depression between the side wall and the facing wall. Each terminal is installed in the receiving depression and has an attached portion attached to the housing, a first spring portion extending from the attached portion, an upward-extending portion extending from the first spring portion, an elastic support portion extending from the upward-extending portion, and a contact portion supported by the elastic support portion. The upward-extending portion has an abutting portion opposite the facing wall. The elastic support portion is bendable more easily than a spring formed with the first spring portion and the upward-extending portion. The contact portion contacts the mating terminal when the connector is mated with the mating connector and the abutting portion is pressed against the facing wall.

Provided is a technique of reducing a force required to couple a receptacle connector and a plug connector. A receptacle assistant fitting of the receptacle connector includes a cantilevered lock beam having a deflection part extending in a direction substantially parallel to a connector mounting surface of a receptacle side substrate and in the outside of a receptacle housing. A plug assistant fitting of the plug connector includes an engagement part that pushes aside the free end of the lock beam and rides over the free end of the lock beam so as to be engaged with the free end of the lock beam when the plug connector and the receptacle connector are coupled to each other.

To enable extraction of one specific optical fiber from a plurality of optical fibers at remote sites. An environment variable apparatus is mounted to provide a temperature difference at a predetermined position of an optical fiber. An environment variable apparatus is mounted to detect scattered light of light incident on the optical fiber through one end thereof so as to extract a target optical fiber from a large member of optical fibers. Further, synchronous devices are mounted to transmit from the environment variable apparatus to the extracting apparatus a message in that the temperature difference is given to the optical fiber, and transmit from the extracting apparatus to the environment variable apparatus a decision signal as to whether or not the optical fiber is to be extracted.

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Tokyo, Japan

Yuzo Sato