# US 2020/0403344 A1 · Electrical connector > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 2020/0403344 A1 - Document ID: US20200403344A1 - Status: Published application - Kind: A1 - Application number: 16/887,289 - Filed: 2020-05-29 - Published: 2020-12-24 - Earliest claimed: 2019-06-24 - Assignees: Lotes Co., Ltd - Applicants: Lotes Co., Ltd - Inventors: Yong Jun Dai; Zhi Li He - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US20200403344A1 ## CPC - H01R 12/7076: {for connection between PCB and component, e.g. display} - H01R 13/2414: {conductive elastomers} - H01R 4/02: Soldered or welded connections {(H01R4/625, H01R4/723, H01R12/59 take precedence)} - H01R 12/55: characterised by the terminals - H01R 12/714: {with contacts abutting directly the printed circuit; Button contacts therefore provided on the printed circuit} - H01R 12/716: {Coupling device provided on the PCB} - H01R 13/2442: {with a single cantilevered beam} - H01R 13/2492: {multiple contact points} - H05K 7/1069: {with spring contact pieces} - H01R 12/585: {Terminals having a press fit or a compliant portion and a shank passing through a hole in the printed circuit board} - H01R: ELECTRICALLY-CONDUCTIVE CONNECTIONS; STRUCTURAL ASSOCIATIONS OF A PLURALITY OF MUTUALLY-INSULATED ELECTRICAL CONNECTING ELEMENTS; COUPLING DEVICES; CURRENT COLLECTORS - H05K: PRINTED CIRCUITS; CASINGS OR CONSTRUCTIONAL DETAILS OF ELECTRIC APPARATUS; MANUFACTURE OF ASSEMBLAGES OF ELECTRICAL COMPONENTS ## Abstract An electrical connector includes a body provided with multiple accommodating holes running through the body vertically, and multiple terminals correspondingly accommodated in the accommodating holes. Each terminal includes a main body member and multiple conductive members. The main body member has two long edges extending in a front-rear direction and two short edges. The conductive members are arranged in the front-rear direction. Each conductive member has a base electrically connected to the main body member and an elastic arm. The base has a vertical flat plate portion downward covering the main body member. The elastic arm extends upward from an upper end of the flat plate portion. Each elastic arm has at least one contact portion located in front of the corresponding base to be downward abutted by the electronic component and to move downward. Two adjacent terminals in the front-rear direction are separately provided in the front-rear direction. ## Claims ### Claim 1 An electrical connector, conductively connected to an electronic component, the electrical connector comprising: a body, provided with a plurality of accommodating holes running through the body vertically; and a plurality of terminals, correspondingly accommodated in the accommodating holes, wherein each of the terminals comprises a main body member and a plurality of conductive members, the main body member has two long edges opposite to each other in a left-right direction and two short edges connecting the two long edges, each of the long edges is provided to extend in a front-rear direction, the conductive members are arranged in the front-rear direction, each of the conductive members has a base electrically connected to the main body member and an elastic arm formed by extending upward from the base and in the front-rear direction, the base has a flat plate portion being vertical, the flat plate portion downward covers the main body member correspondingly, and the elastic arm is formed by extending upward from an upper end of the flat plate portion, wherein the elastic arm of each of the conductive members has at least one contact portion located in front of the corresponding base of each of the conductive members, the contact portion is configured to be downward abutted by the electronic component and to move downward, and two adjacent ones of the terminals in the front-rear direction are separately provided in the front-rear direction. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The electrical connector according to claim 1, wherein a gap between one of the short edges located at a front side thereof and one of the bases of the conductive members adjacent thereto is greater than a gap between the other of the short edges located at a rear side thereof and another one of the bases of the conductive members adjacent thereto. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The electrical connector according to claim 1, wherein at least one side of a left side and a right side of the main body member is concavely provided with a plurality of grooves, and the grooves correspondingly position the bases of the conductive members. ### Claim 4 (depends on 3) The electrical connector according to claim 3, wherein each of the grooves and a corresponding one of the bases of the conductive members are fixed by soldering. ### Claim 5 (depends on 3) The electrical connector according to claim 3, wherein the grooves are distributed at the left side and the right side of the main body member, each of the bases of the conductive members has two insertion legs, the two insertion legs are inserted into two of the grooves provided at the left side and the right side of the main body member. ### Claim 6 (depends on 3) The electrical connector according to claim 3, wherein each of the bases of the conductive members has a supporting leg formed by bending forward and extending, and the supporting leg abuts the upper end of the main body member. ### Claim 7 (depends on 6) The electrical connector according to claim 6, wherein the supporting leg and the upper end of the main body member are correspondingly fixed by soldering. ### Claim 8 (depends on 3) The electrical connector according to claim 3, wherein the main body member comprises a metal plate and two connecting sheets respectively fixed to a left side and a right side of the metal plate, each of the connecting sheets is provided with the grooves running therethrough in the left-right direction, and the base is positioned in two of the grooves of the two connecting sheets. ### Claim 9 (depends on 1) The electrical connector according to claim 1, wherein a left side and a right side of each of the accommodating holes are respectively concavely provided with a plurality of positioning slots, the positioning slots run upward through the body, and two of the positioning slots opposite to each other in the left-right direction correspondingly position one of the bases of the conductive members. ### Claim 10 (depends on 1) The electrical connector according to claim 1, wherein the main body member comprises a metal plate and a connecting sheet fixed to one of a left side and a right side of the metal plate, the bases of the conductive members are integrally connected by the connecting sheet, and the flat plate portion is provided to form an angle relative to the connecting sheet. ### Claim 11 (depends on 10) The electrical connector according to claim 10, wherein the base comprises a bending portion bending forward and extending from the flat plate portion, and the bending portions of the conductive members are connected to the connecting sheet. ### Claim 12 (depends on 10) The electrical connector according to claim 10, wherein the main body member comprises two connecting sheets, each of the left side and a right side of the metal plate is fixed with one of the two connecting sheets, the conductive members are divided into two groups, one of the two connecting sheets is integrally connected with one of the two groups of the conductive members, and the other of the two connecting sheets is integrally connected with the other of the two groups of the conductive members. ### Claim 13 (depends on 12) The electrical connector according to claim 12, wherein the one of the two groups of the conductive members and the other of the two groups of the conductive members are alternately arranged in the front-rear direction. ### Claim 14 (depends on 1) The electrical connector according to claim 1, wherein the main body member comprises a metal plate and a plurality of connecting sheets respectively fixed to one of a left side and a right side of the metal plate, the connecting sheets are arranged in the front-rear direction, the base has a bending portion bending and extending from the flat portion, a rear side of each of the connecting sheets is integrally connected with one of the bending portions of the conductive members, and a front side of each of the connecting sheets is integrally connected with another one of the bending portions of the conductive members. ### Claim 15 (depends on 14) The electrical connector according to claim 14, wherein: the two bending portions connected to each of the connecting sheets are defined as a first bending portion and a second bending portion, and a lower end of the second bending portion is lower than a lower end of the first bending portion; and each respective connecting sheet of the connecting sheets has a first protruding portion located below the first bending portion, the first protruding portion protrudes in the front-rear direction relative to a connecting location of the first bending portion and the respective connecting sheet, an upper end of the first protruding portion is higher than the lower end of the second bending portion, and a lower end of the first protruding portion is lower than the lower end of the second bending portion. ### Claim 16 (depends on 15) The electrical connector according to claim 15, wherein the first protruding portion and the metal plate are fixed by attaching. ### Claim 17 (depends on 15) The electrical connector according to claim 15, wherein each respective connecting sheet of the connecting sheets further has a second protruding portion located below the second bending portion, the second protruding portion protrudes in the front-rear direction relative to a connecting location of the second bending portion and the respective connecting sheet, and the second protruding portion and the first protruding portion protrude toward opposite directions. ### Claim 18 (depends on 15) The electrical connector according to claim 15, wherein the metal plate has a plurality of opening holes downward concavely provided on an upper end of the metal plate and provided separately in the front-rear direction, each of the opening holes accommodates the flat plate portion which is connected to one of the second bending portions of the conductive members, and the upper end of the protruding portion is not higher than the upper end of the metal plate. ### Claim 19 (depends on 14) The electrical connector according to claim 14, wherein the left side and the right side of the metal plate are respectively fixed with the connecting sheets, the two conductive members integrally connected to one of the connecting sheets at the left side of the metal plate and the two conductive members integrally connected to one of the connecting sheets at the right side of the metal plate are arranged to be one-by-one staggered in the front-rear direction, each of the connecting sheets has a recess, and the flat plate portion of one of the conductive members connected to one of the connecting sheets at one of the left side and the right side of the metal plate is accommodated in the recess of one of the connecting sheets at the other of the left side and the right side of the metal plate. ### Claim 20 (depends on 1) The electrical connector according to claim 1, wherein each of the terminals further comprises a stopping sheet fixed to one of a left side and a right side of the metal plate, the stopping sheet is made of a metal plate material, a plate thickness of the stopping sheet is less than a plate thickness of the metal plate, the stopping sheet has at least one stopping portion formed by extending away relative to the metal plate in the left-right direction, and the at least one stopping portion matches with the body to limit the corresponding terminal from moving upward.