Electrical connector
AssigneeHirose Electric Co., Ltd.
InventorKazuya MIDORIKAWA
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Abstract
An electrical connector (a connector) includes a housing and a terminal disposed in the housing. The terminal includes a contact portion. When the connector is fitted to a mating connector in a fitting direction, the contact portion pushes a mating terminal of the mating connector in a pushing direction perpendicular to the fitting direction and deforms the mating terminal elastically in the pushing direction. The contact portion includes a guide portion and a sliding contact portion with a protruded band shape situated at a rear position in the fitting direction relative to the guide portion. The guide portion guides the mating terminal and the sliding contact portion slides against the mating terminal when the connector is fitted to the mating connector.
Claims6
An electrical connector to be connected to a mating connector, comprising:
- a housing including a receptacle portion for receiving the mating connector in a fitting direction;
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- a terminal disposed in the housing, said terminal including a contact portion for pushing a mating terminal of the mating connector in a pushing direction perpendicular to the fitting direction to elastically deform the mating terminal in the pushing direction, said contact portion including a guide portion for guiding the mating terminal and a sliding contact portion situated at a rear position in the fitting direction relative to the guide portion for sliding against the mating terminal, said sliding contact portion being arranged to protrude in the pushing direction further than the guide portion.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.