Nut-prefixed connector
AssigneeKel Corporation
InventorAkira Kasuga
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Abstract
A nut-fixing part 20 formed in a housing 10 has a nut-holding room 26, where a nut 30 is insertable and detachable by a movement in a direction perpendicular to the thickness direction of the nut 30. At the entrance of the nut-holding room 26, a projection 27 is provided to prevent the inserted nut 30 from sliding out. By this construction, this type of connector can be miniaturized further. In addition, when this connector mounted on a circuit board is heated in a furnace for soldering electrical connections, even if the housing experiences a stress relief, there is no possibility of any nut falling off from the housing.
Claims10
A nut-prefixed connector comprising:
- a housing;
- a plurality of contacts, which are retained in said housing;
- and
- a nut, which is mounted in a nut-fixing part provided in said housing,
- with said contacts of said connector being placed on a circuit board, said nut being engageable with a bolt extending and inserted from a side of said circuit board to fix said housing on said circuit board;
- wherein:
- said nut-fixing part has a nut-holding room into which and from which said nut is insertable and detachable by a movement in a direction perpendicular to a thickness direction of said nut;
- and
- a projection is provided at an entrance to said nut-holding room to prevent said nut inserted in said nut-holding room from coming out.
A printed circuit board connector comprising a housing formed of plastic material retaining a plurality of contacts for connection to a printed circuit board, the housing being formed with a rotation preventing, nut receiving cavity with a clamping bolt receiving opening and a nut admitting entrance having detent catch means for retaining the nut in the cavity with a face of the nut aligned centrally with the clamping bolt receiving opening, the detent catch means being over-ridable with a detent action to admit the nut into the cavity by forcible insertion of the nut, edge first, in a direction perpendicular to a thickness direction of said nut, through the entrance.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.