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US 2012/0256991 A1Published application
Recording Apparatus and Terminal Module for Recording Apparatus
AssigneeSeiko Epson Corporation
InventorsHidetoshi Kodama, Masaru Takahashi
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Abstract
A terminal module includes a housing having slits and a plurality of contact terminals mounted in the slits. The housing includes a trap portion having protective walls formed at a wall surface on a circuit board side of the housing on the further forward side of the slit than a contact piece in a bending direction.
Claims8
A recording apparatus comprising:
- a recording material accommodation container mounting portion into which a recording material accommodation container having a plurality of container side terminals is able to be inserted in a predetermined mounting direction;
- and
- a plurality of contact terminals which are respectively connected to the plurality of container side terminals in a state where the recording material accommodation container is mounted in the recording material accommodation container mounting portion,
- wherein the plurality of contact terminals have contact points coming in contact with the container side terminals,
- the contact terminals are disposed in a housing having a plurality of slits formed in parallel to each other so that at least the contact points protrude outward from the slits, and
- a trap portion having a protective wall intersecting the mounting direction is provided on a side further forwards in the mounting direction than the contact points of the housing.
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A terminal module provided in a recording apparatus in which a recording material accommodation container is mounted, the terminal module comprising:
- a housing having a plurality of slits formed in parallel to each other;
- and
- a plurality of contact terminals which are fixed to the housing and each of which has an arm and a contact piece that is formed at one end of the arm and includes a contact point coming in contact with a container side terminal provided in the recording material accommodation container,
- wherein the housing has a trap portion which is further towards the arm than the contact point and has a protective wall formed in an arrangement direction in which the plurality of slits are arranged.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.