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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 18, 2014
Filed:
Jan. 29, 2013
Japan Aviation Electronics Industry, Limited, Tokyo, JP;
Jae Electronics, Inc., Irvine, CA (US);
Takayuki Nishimura, Tokyo, JP;
Joe Motojima, Irvine, CA (US);
Japan Aviation Electronics Industry, Limited, Tokyo, JP;
JAE Electronics, Inc., Irvine, CA (US);
Abstract
A connector has a contact and a housing. The contact has a fixed portion, a contact portion, a spring portion and a held portion. The spring portion supports the contact portion. The held portion is located between the fixed portion and the spring portion. The housing has a sidewall portion and a bottom portion The sidewall portion is located outward of the spring portion in a predetermined direction and holds the held portion. The bottom portion is located under the spring portion in a vertical direction perpendicular to the predetermined direction. The housing has a gap between a lower surface of the spring portion and the bottom portion. The bottom portion and the sidewall portion hide the contact except the fixed portion both when the connector is seen from below along the vertical direction and when the connector is seen from the outside along the predetermined direction.