Electrical connector having a holddown for ground connection
AssigneeJapan Aviation Electronics Industry, Limited
InventorsMasafumi Kodera, Joe Motojima, Akira Natori, Keiichiro Suzuki
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Abstract
An electrical connector comprises an insulator to be mounted to a substrate, a conductive cover member coupled to the insulator, and a conductive holddown held by the insulator to connect the cover member and a ground conductor portion formed on the substrate. The cover member has first and second cover contacting portions. The holddown has a holddown contacting portion extending to face an outer surface of a side wall portion of the insulator. The holddown contacting portion is clamped between the first and the second cover contacting portions in a direction along the outer surface of the side wall portion.
Claims7
An electrical connector comprising a conductive contact, an insulator holding the contact and adapted to be mounted to a substrate, a conductive cover member held by the insulator, and a conductive holddown held by the insulator to connect the cover member and a ground conductor portion of the substrate, wherein:
- the insulator has a base portion holding the contact and a side wall portion extending from the base portion;
- the cover having a cover main plate portion faced to the base portion, a cover side plate portion extending from one side of the cover main plate portion to face an outer surface of the side wall portion, a first cover contacting portion formed on the cover main plate portion in the vicinity of the cover side plate portion, and a second cover contacting portion formed on the cover side plate portion;
- at least one of the first and the second cover contacting portions having elastic restoring force;
- the holddown having a holddown contacting portion extending across the side wall portion to the outside of the side wall portion to face the outer surface of the side wall portion;
- the holddown contacting portion being located between the first and the second cover contacting portions and clamped by the first and the second cover contacting portions in a direction along the outer surface of the side wall portion.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.