Connector
AssigneeJapan Aviation Electronics Industry, Limited
InventorYusuke OBATA
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Abstract
A connector that is attachable to an end of a flat cable and is connectable to a counterpart connector includes a housing having a plate-shaped portion and a terminal accommodating portion, and a socket terminal housed in the terminal accommodating portion. The socket terminal has a box portion in which a pin terminal of the counterpart connector is to be inserted, and a spring portion having a cantilever shape, the spring portion extending from the box portion and protruding onto the plate-shaped portion. The end of the flat cable is to be interposed between the plate-shaped portion and the spring portion of the socket terminal. The terminal accommodating portion receives part of force that the spring portion receives from the flat cable.
Claims12
A connector connectable to a counterpart connector having pin terminals and attachable to a flat cable at an end thereof having lands for electrical contacts, the connector comprising:
- a housing including a plate-shaped portion and a terminal accommodating portion continuous with the plate-shaped portion, the terminal accommodating portion having accommodating holes, each of the accommodating holes penetrating through the terminal accommodating portion and having an end opening to the plate-shaped portion;
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- socket terminals respectively held in the accommodating holes, each of the socket terminals including a box portion and a spring portion, the box portion being used for receiving a corresponding one of the pin terminals of the counterpart connector, and the spring portion having a cantilever shape and extending from the box portion, through the end of a corresponding one of the accommodating holes, onto the plate-shaped portion,
- wherein the spring portion is configured to:
- in response to insertion of the end of the flat cable, separate from the plate-shaped portion in order to make space for the end of the flat cable;
- make contact with a corresponding one of the lands of the flat cable after the insertion of the end of the flat cable;
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- make contact with the terminal accommodating portion to transmit to the terminal accommodating portion part of force that the spring portion receives from the end of the flat cable.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.