US 6,305,984 B1Granted

Electrical connector

AssigneeFujitsu Takamisawa Component Limited

InventorsSatoshi Katoh, Takeshi Okuyama, Manabu Shimizu

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Abstract

A cable connector having a contact terminal member, a housing formed from a single sheet of metal having top, side wall and bottom portions so as to form a box enclosing the contact terminal member, a cable connector insertion port formed at a front end of the housing, and a plurality of integrated legs integrally formed with the housing and disposed so as to extend in a downward direction from side rear edges of the bottom portion of the housing, the integrated legs to be inserted in a plurality of holes formed on a printed circuit board, the connector having a front integrated leg integrally formed with the housing and disposed so as to extend in a downward direction from a bottom edge of the cable connector insertion port, the front integrated leg to be inserted in a hole formed on the printed circuit board so as to fixedly mount a front end of the connector on the printed circuit board.

Claims7

Dependent claims

A connector comprising:

a contact terminal member;
a housing formed from a single sheet of metal and having top, side wall and bottom portions so as to form a box enclosing said contact terminal member, said bottom portion being a double bottom portion having an upper bottom portion and a lower bottom portion reinforcingly disposed to engage each other, a free end of said lower bottom portion being bent upward and then backward so as to have a substantially C-shaped cross section, an upper part of said C-shaped cross section engaging a slot formed in said side wall portion of said housing;
a cable connector insertion port formed at a front end of said housing;
a plurality of legs integrally formed with said housing and disposed so as to extend in a downward direction from side rear edges of said bottom portion of said housing, said legs to be inserted in a plurality of holes formed on a printed circuit board;
and
a front leg integrally formed with said housing and disposed so as to extend in a downward direction from a bottom edge of said housing, said front integrated leg to be inserted in a hole formed on said printed circuit board so as to fixedly mount a front end of said connector on said printed circuit board.

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A connector comprising:

a contact terminal member;
a housing formed from a single sheet of metal and having top, side wall and bottom portions so as to form a box enclosing said contact terminal member, said bottom portion being a double bottom portion having an upper bottom portion and a lower bottom portion reinforcingly disposed to engage each other;
a cable connector insertion port formed at a front end of said housing;
a plurality of legs integrally formed with said housing and disposed so as to extend in a downward direction from side rear edges of said bottom portion of said housing, said legs to be inserted in a plurality of holes formed on a printed circuit board;
and
a front leg integrally formed with said housing and disposed so as to extend in a downward direction from a bottom edge of said housing, said front integrated leg to be inserted in a hole formed on said printed circuit board so as to fixedly mount a front end of said connector on said printed circuit board;
wherein a front edge of said upper bottom portion extends beyond said bottom edge of said cable connector insertion port and then bends downward and rearward so as to form a flap portion which extends rearward along an outer surface of said lower bottom portion, a tip portion of said flap portion being formed into an integrated leg extending downward therefrom, said integrated leg to be inserted in a hole formed in said printed circuit board so as to fixedly mount said front end of said connector on said printed circuit board.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.