Method of assembling a connector using frangible contact parts
AssigneeFujitsu Limited
InventorsAkira Tamura, Hidehisa Sakai, Mikio Nishihara, Kyoichiro Kawano
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Abstract
A contact pin includes: a pin terminal secured to a stationary base art by press-fitting a press-fitted part into the stationary base part, the pin terminal projecting from the stationary base part and being joined to the board; a contact part inserted into a contact pin through-hole of a movable lock part so that a plug pin terminal is fitted into the contact part; and an auxiliary plate 6 reinforcing the press-fitted part, engaged with the movable lock part and transmitting a force caused by a movement of the movable lock part to the press-fitted part. A connector constructed in the described manner includes a plurality of above-mentioned contact pins.
Claims4
A method of forming a connector by assembling a plurality of contact pin composites, each including a pin terminal to be joined to a board and a contact part for receiving an external electrode terminal, comprising the steps of:
- providing a stationary base part having a plurality of holes for receiving the pin terminals of the respective contact pin composites;
- providing a movable lock part having a plurality of holes aligned with the respective pin terminal-receiving holes of said stationary base part for receiving the contact parts of the respective contact pin composites;
- providing each said contact part at the end thereof with a frangible assembly-aiding part;
- inserting the pin terminal of each composite into a cooperating hole in said stationary base part;
- locating the ends of said contact parts containing said assembly aiding part in the contact pin through-holes in said movable locking part;
- moving said movable locking part with respect to said stationary base part to forcibly insert said assembly-aiding part and said contact part into each of said plurality of contact pin through-holes while detaching said assembly-aiding part from said composite to form a contact pin thereby.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.