Connector
AssigneeJapan Aviation Electronics Industry, Limited
InventorsYukitaka TANAKA, Chikara Kawamura
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Abstract
A shielded connector which makes a shell unnecessary while ensuring a shielding function. A housing holds a housing plurality of contacts each including a contact portion brought into contact with an associated one of contact portions of a plurality of mating contacts. The connector is provided with a shield member including a shield plate body which partitions the contact portions of the contacts into two groups, a first spring portion which is brought into contact with an inner wall surface of a shell of a mating connector, and a second spring portion which is brought into contact with the inner wall surface of the shell.
Claims8
A connector that is fitted to a mating connector including a plurality of mating contacts held by a mating housing, and a shell mounted on the mating housing such that the shell surrounds mating contact portions of the plurality of mating contacts, comprising:
- a housing;
- a plurality of contacts that are held by said housing, and each include a contact portion which is brought into contact with an associated one of the mating contact portions of the plurality of mating contacts;
- and
- a shield member that is mounted on said housing, and includes a shield plate body which partitions said contact portions of said plurality of contacts into a plurality of groups, and a spring portion formed on said shield plate body, which is brought into contact with an inner wall surface of the shell.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.