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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 11, 1999
Filed:
Dec. 05, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
Takeshi Kondo, Kanagawa-ken, JP;
Naoki Hayashi, Kanagawa-ken, JP;
Assignee:
Kyocera Elco Corporation, Kanagawa-Ken, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01R / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
439267 ; 439495 ;
Abstract
A connector for a flexible printed circuit board or flexible flat cable includes an insulator having an insertion opening for a flexible printed circuit board or a flexible flat cable, a plurality of contacts supported by the insulator, contact leg portions formed on the contacts, which come into elastic contact with an upper or lower inner surface of the insertion opening in the insertion direction, and a pusher which is adapted to elastically deform the contact leg portions to disconnect the latter from the inner surface of the insertion opening.