US 2010/0144184 A1Published application

Electrical connector

AssigneeHirose Electric Co., Ltd.

InventorsNorimasa NISHIMATSU, Fuminobu Tamura

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Abstract

An electrical connector for a flat conductive member includes a housing having a bottom wall, a top wall, a first receiving groove, and a second receiving groove. The first receiving groove and the second receiving groove extend from a first side toward a second side. The connector includes a first terminal disposed in the first receiving groove; a second terminal disposed in the second receiving groove; and a pressing member disposed to be movable between an open position and a closed position for pressing the first terminal and the second terminal. The first terminal includes a first fixing arm portion contacting with the bottom wall, a first movable arm portion contacting with the top wall, and a first connecting portion. The second terminal includes a second fixing arm portion contacting with the bottom wall, a second movable arm portion contacting with the top wall, and a second connecting portion.

Claims5

Dependent claims

An electrical connector to be attached to a flat conductive member, comprising:

a housing having a bottom wall, a top wall, a first receiving groove, and a second receiving groove, said first receiving groove and said second receiving groove extending from a first side toward a second side;
a first terminal disposed in the first receiving groove, said first terminal including a first fixing arm portion, a first movable arm portion, and a first connecting portion, said first fixing arm portion contacting with the bottom wall, said first movable arm portion contacting with the top wall;
a second terminal disposed in the second receiving groove, said second terminal including a second fixing arm portion, a second movable arm portion, and a second connecting portion, said second fixing arm portion contacting with the bottom wall, said second movable arm portion contacting with the top wall;
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a pressing member disposed to be movable between an open position and a closed position for pressing the first terminal and the second terminal.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 12/707,800Filed 18 Feb 2010
Priority: JP 2007-0241482 Feb 2007
Published: 10 Jun 2010
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification2 codes

H01R 12/79
For flexible printed circuits, flat or ribbon cables or like structures: connecting to rigid printed circuits or like structures
H01R
Electrically-conductive connections

Family

Application12/010,923Continuation · filed 31 Jan 2008
Application12/385,233Continuation · filed 2 Apr 2009
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