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US 2012/0258637 A1Published application
Terminal Module and Recording Apparatus
AssigneeSeiko Epson Corporation
InventorHidetoshi Kodama
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Abstract
A terminal module includes a housing having slits and a plurality of contact terminals mounted in the slits. A slit width in an arrangement direction of the slit is greater on an insertion position side than that at a mounting position. The housing has a guide portion which is formed along the insertion direction of the slits, has a guide surface inclined toward the mounting position side from the insertion position, and guides the contact terminal toward a mounting completion position as a tip end of an insertion side of the contact terminal reaches the guide surface.
Claims9
A terminal module comprising:
- a housing having a plurality of slits arranged in parallel to each other;
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- a plurality of contact terminals each of which has an arm and a contact piece formed at one end of the arm and which are mounted in the slits by being inserted into mounting positions from insertion positions of the slits in an insertion direction intersecting an arrangement direction of the slits, the contact pieces being connected to external terminals as the arms are elastically deformed in a bending direction aligned with a depth direction of the slits,
- wherein a slit width in the insertion direction is greater than a slit width at the mounting position, and
- the housing has a guide portion which is formed along the insertion direction of the slits, has a guide surface inclined toward the mounting position from the insertion position, and guides the contact terminals toward the mounting position as a tip end of an insertion side of the contact terminal reaches the guide surface.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.