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US 6,672,908 B2Granted
Substrate connector
AssigneeYazaki Corporation
InventorsToshiaki Okabe, Tetsuya Yamashita
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Abstract
This invention provides a substrate connector (63) allowing mating terminals to be inserted into terminal accommodating chambers in the housing main body (67) from one side or the other side and comprises an insertion guide portion (75) provided around an installation opening (73) in the housing main body (67) and for guiding the mating terminals into the terminal accommodating chambers (65) when inserting the mating terminals into the terminal accommodating chambers (65) from the other side of the housing main body (67).
Claims12
A substrate connector comprising:
- a housing main body fixed to a substrate having a through hole, the housing main body having terminal accommodating chambers;
- terminals accommodated and held in the terminal accommodating chambers, the terminals configured to be connected to mating terminals;
- an insertion opening formed on one side of the housing main body, the insertion opening configured to allow the mating terminals to be inserted into the terminal accommodating chambers from one side of the housing main body;
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- an installation opening formed on the other side of the housing main body, the installation opening configured to allow the installation of the terminals in the terminal accommodating chambers,
- wherein the through hole in the substrate is in communication with the installation opening, and the through hole and installation opening are configured to allow the mating terminals to be inserted into the terminal accommodating chambers from the other side of the housing main body, the insertion of the mating terminals into the terminal accommodating chambers being selectively carried out, based on the specification of the mating terminals, on one side of the housing main body or the other side of the housing main body,
- wherein the substrate connector further comprises an insertion guide portion provided around the installation opening in the housing main body, the insertion guide portion configured to guide the mating terminals into the terminal accommodating chambers when the mating terminals are inserted into the terminal accommodating chambers from the other side of the housing main body.
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A substrate connector comprising:
- a housing main body fixed to a substrate having a through hole, the housing main body comprising:
- terminals accommodated and held in terminal accommodating chambers, the terminals configured to be connected to mating terminals;
- an insertion opening on a first side of the housing main body, the insertion opening configured to allow a first set of mating terminals to be inserted into the terminal accommodating chambers through the insertion opening, the first set of mating terminals having a first configuration;
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- an installation opening on a second side of the housing main body, the installation opening being in communication with the through hole in the substrate and configured to allow the installation of the terminals in the terminal accommodating chambers through the installation opening;
- wherein the through hole in the substrate and the installation opening are configured to allow the insertion of a second set of mating terminals into the terminal accommodating chambers through the through hole in the substrate and the installation opening, the second set of mating terminals having a second configuration different from the first configuration, and the installation opening being configured so as to not allow the first set of mating terminals to be inserted into the terminal accommodating chambers through the installation opening.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.