US 2018/0026384 A1Published application

Electrical connector for circuit board

AssigneeHirose Electric Co., Ltd.

InventorKazunari SHIBUYA

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Abstract

An electrical connector with terminals having contact portions that come into contact with a connected circuit board and a housing that supports the terminals. The housing has a stationary housing for attaching to a circuit board and a movable housing configured to move with respect to the stationary housing. The connecting circuit board contacts the contact portions on the movable housing side. The terminals each have a stationary-side supported portion that is supported by the stationary housing, a movable-side supported portion that is supported by the movable housing, and an elastic portion that links the stationary-side supported portion and the movable-side supported portion. The elastic portions each have longitudinal portions extending in the connector mating direction, and a lateral portion extending in a direction perpendicular to the mating direction, and reach the stationary-side supported portions via bent portions that are bent at the inner ends of the lateral portions.

Claims5

Dependent claims

An electrical connector for a circuit board, comprising:

terminals on which connection portions for connecting to a circuit board are formed on one end side and contact portions for making contact with a counterpart connected circuit board are formed on the other end side, and
a housing that supports said terminals, said housing having a stationary housing for attaching to a circuit board via the terminals, and a movable housing that is formed as a separate member from the stationary housing and is able to move with respect to the stationary housing, and said counterpart connected circuit board coming into contact with the contact portions of the terminals on the movable housing side,
wherein the terminals each have a stationary-side supported portion that is supported by the stationary housing, a movable-side supported portion that is supported by the movable housing, and an elastic portion that links the stationary-side supported portion and the movable-side supported portion and is capable of elastic displacement, and
the elastic portions each have longitudinal portions extending in the connector mating direction and a lateral portion extending in a direction perpendicular to the mating direction, and bent portions are formed by being bent at the inner ends of the lateral portions.

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Facts

Application: 15/657,192Filed 23 Jul 2017
Priority: JP 201614507925 Jul 2016
Published: 25 Jan 2018
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification5 codes

H01R 12/737
Printed circuits including an angle between each other: printed circuits being substantially perpendicular to each other
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:…
H01R 12/91
Coupling devices: allowing relative movement between coupling parts, e.g. floating or self aligning
H01R 31/06
Coupling parts supported only by co-operation with counterpart: intermediate parts for linking two coupling parts, e.g. adapter

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