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US 2001/0027035 A1Published application
Electrical connector
AssigneeDDK Ltd.
InventorsTomonari Otsuki, Yasue Yamazaki
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AssigneeDDK Ltd.
InventorsTomonari Otsuki, Yasue Yamazaki
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An electrical connector includes a first connector having a connector plate and a plurality of electric contacts thereon, and a second connector having a plurality of electric contact elements provided on conductors arranged on a board. The board is formed with slits around the conductors to support the conductors elastically by parts of said board surrounded by the slits. The first and second connectors are brought into detachable abutment against each other to electrically connect to electric contacts and the electric contact elements of the first and second connectors. The electric contact elements of the second connector each are provided with at least one ridge, preferably plural ridges facing to the electric contact of the first connector. The ridges preferably extend in parallel with the direction of sliding movement of the electric contacts caused by the elastic support of the conductors. With this arrangement, after repeated connections between two connectors a great many times more than thousands, no foreign substance can adhere to the electric contact elements and no longer is there any incorrect electrical connection between the contacts.
An electrical connector including a first connector having a connector plate and a plurality of electric contacts provided on one surface of said connector plate, and a second connector having a board and a plurality of electric contact elements provided on conductors arranged on said board, said board formed with slits around said conductors to support said conductors and the like elastically by parts of said board surrounded by said slits, said first and second connectors being brought into detachable abutment against each other to electrically connect said electric contacts and said electric contact elements of said first and second connectors, wherein said electric contact elements of the second connector each comprise at least one ridge having a sharp crest thereon facing to said electric contact of said first connector.
The electrical connector as set forth in claim 5, wherein the number of said ridges is decided in consideration of a positional deviation between the electric contact element of said second connector and the mating electric contact of the first connector.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.