US 2014/0213079 A1Published application

Connector

AssigneesJAE Electronics, Inc., Japan Aviation Electronics Industry, Limited

InventorsTakayuki NISHIMURA, Joe MOTOJIMA

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Abstract

A connector comprises a contact and a housing. The contact has a fixed portion, a contact portion, a spring portion and a held portion. The spring portion supports the contact portion. The held portion is located between the fixed portion and the support portion. The housing has a sidewall portion and a bottom portion. The sidewall portion is located outward of the spring portion in a predetermined direction and holds the held portion. The bottom portion is located under the spring portion in a vertical direction perpendicular to the predetermined direction. The housing has a gap between a lower surface of the spring portion and the bottom portion. The bottom portion and the sidewall portion hide the contact except the held portion both when the connector is seen from below along the vertical direction and when the connector is seen from the outside along the predetermined direction.

Claims5

Dependent claims

A connector configured to be mounted on a circuit board, the connector comprising:

a contact having a fixed portion, a contact portion, a spring portion and a held portion, the fixed portion being configured to be fixed to the circuit board, the spring portion supporting the contact portion, the held portion being located between the fixed portion and the support portion;
and
a housing having a sidewall portion and a bottom portion, the sidewall portion being located outward of the spring portion in a predetermined direction and holding the held portion, the bottom portion being located under the spring portion in a vertical direction perpendicular to the predetermined direction, the housing having a gap between a lower surface of the spring portion and the bottom portion, the bottom portion and the sidewall portion hiding the contact except the held portion both when the connector is seen from below along the vertical direction and when the connector is seen from outside along the predetermined direction.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 13/752,645Filed 29 Jan 2013
Published: 31 Jul 2014
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification7 codes

H01R 12/7082
Coupling devices: coupling device supported only by cooperation with PCB
H01R 13/405
Securing contact members in or to a base or case; Insulating of contact members: securing in non-demountable manner, e.g. moulding, riveting
H01R 43/24
For assembling or disassembling contact members with insulating base, case or sleeve: assembling by moulding on contact members
H01R 12/716
Co-operating with the surface of the printed circuit or with a coupling device exclusively provided on the surface of the printed circuit:…