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US 4,790,777 AGranted
Connector housing
AssigneesJapan Aviation Electronics Industry, Limited, Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsIsao Iimori, Kazumi Otsubo
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Abstract
A connector housing composed of a block of an insulating material wherein a plurality of contact receiving holes penetrating from the front surface to the rear surface of said block are formed in at least one row and a slit is formed in the rear surface of the block to communicate said connector receiving holes with one another, whereby the connector housing can be used in common for a connector for wire connection and a connector for FFC connection.
Claims3
A connector housing formed of a block of an insulating material, comprising:
- a plurality of elongated contact receiving holes extending between front and rear surfaces of said block, said contact receiving holes having openings arranged in at least two rows in parallel to each other in each of said front and rear surfaces of said block, each of said contact receiving holes comprising a front half portion with a low ceiling and a rear half portion with a higher ceiling, thereby defining a step portion which is oriented at substantially a right angle to the longitudinal direction of each hole at an intermediate portion of each of said contact receiving holes:
- a plurality of projections provided on the respective ceilings of said rear half portions of said contact receiving holes;
- a slit formed in said rear surface of said block to communicate respective ones of said contact receiving holes with one another in each of said rows;
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- a plurality of guide holes formed separately from said contact receiving holes in said front surface of said block to reach corresponding ones of said projections, respectively.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.