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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 12, 2025
Filed:
May. 17, 2023
Hirose Electric Co., Ltd., Kanagawa, JP;
Ryota Ikeda, Kanagawa, JP;
HIROSE ELECTRIC CO., LTD., Kanagawa, JP;
Abstract
A flat conductor electric connector includes: a housing; multiple terminals arrayed and held in a terminal array direction; a metal fitting arranged outside a terminal array area in the terminal array direction and held on the housing; and a movable member movable between a closed position and an open position, in which the movable member has a locking portion, and removal of a flat conductor from the housing is blocked by the locking portion, and is allowed by release of the locking portion, the metal fitting has a body portion adjacent to the movable member with a plate surface at a right angle to the terminal array direction, and a biasing portion on the movable member, the body portion having a movable arm portion deformable in a thickness direction of the flat conductor, the biasing portion extending from the movable arm portion toward the movable member biasing the movable member.