Connector
AssigneeJapan Aviation Electronics Industry, Limited
InventorKeisuke Nakamura
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Abstract
A connector includes a base member having a first surface facing a bottom surface of a flexible substrate, a contact having a second surface facing a conductive portion exposed on a top surface of the flexible substrate, a projection protrudingly formed at one of the base member and the contact, a projection accommodating portion of recess shape disposed at the other of the base member and the contact and configured to accommodate the projection as sandwiching the flexible substrate therebetween, and a blade member configured to cut the flexible substrate at a position corresponding to the projection when the projection is accommodated in the projection accommodating portion with the flexible substrate being sandwiched therebetween.
Claims15
A connector to be mounted on a flexible substrate that has a top surface and a bottom surface facing in opposite directions to each other and has a conductive portion exposed at least on the top surface, the connector comprising:
- a base member having a first surface facing the bottom surface of the flexible substrate;
- a contact made of a conductive material and having a second surface facing the conductive portion exposed on the top surface of the flexible substrate;
- a projection protrudingly formed at one of the base member and the contact;
- a projection accommodating portion of recess shape disposed at the other of the base member and the contact and configured to accommodate the projection as sandwiching the flexible substrate therebetween;
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- a blade member configured to cut the flexible substrate at a position corresponding to the projection when the projection is accommodated in the projection accommodating portion with the flexible substrate being sandwiched therebetween,
- wherein the projection has a size in a thickness direction of the blade member larger than a thickness of the blade member, and
- wherein the first surface of the base member comes into contact with the bottom surface of the flexible substrate while the second surface of the contact comes into contact with the top surface of the flexible substrate, the contact is fixed to the base member with the projection being accommodated in the projection accommodating portion, and a cut-end-portion of the flexible substrate cut with the blade member is sandwiched between an outer surface of the projection and an inner surface of the projection accommodating portion, whereby the conductive portion comes into contact with the contact, so that the contact is electrically connected to the conductive portion.
A connector to be mounted on a flexible substrate that has a top surface and a bottom surface facing in opposite directions to each other and has a conductive portion exposed at least on the top surface, the connector comprising:
- a base member having a first surface facing the bottom surface of the flexible substrate;
- a contact made of a conductive material and having a second surface facing the conductive portion exposed on the top surface of the flexible substrate;
- a housing to be fixed relative to the base member to thereby fix the contact to the base member;
- a projection formed at one of the base member and the housing;
- a projection accommodating portion of recess shape disposed at the other of the base member and the housing and configured to accommodate the projection as sandwiching the flexible substrate therebetween;
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- a blade member configured to cut the flexible substrate at a position corresponding to the projection when the projection is accommodated in the projection accommodating portion with the flexible substrate being sandwiched therebetween,
- wherein the projection has a size in a thickness direction of the blade member larger than a thickness of the blade member,
- wherein the contact has a flexible substrate connection portion that is inserted into the projection accommodating portion when the contact is fixed to the base member by means of the housing, and
- wherein the first surface of the base member comes into contact with the bottom surface of the flexible substrate while the second surface of the contact comes into contact with the top surface of the flexible substrate, the housing is fixed to the base member with the projection being accommodated in the projection accommodating portion, and a cut-end-portion of the flexible substrate cut with the blade member and the flexible substrate connection portion of the contact are sandwiched between an outer surface of the projection and an inner surface of the projection accommodating portion, whereby the conductive portion comes into contact with the flexible substrate connection portion of the contact, so that the contact is electrically connected to the conductive portion.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.