Electrical connector with fixity members having similar shapes as contacts from which contact portions are omitted
AssigneeJapan Aviation Electronics Industry, Limited
InventorsHiroaki Obikane, Toshio Masumoto
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Abstract
A surface mountable connector (100) comprises an insulator (10), a plurality of contacts (30) and a plurality of fixity members (40). The contacts (30) are held by the insulator (10). Similarly, the fixity members (40) are held by the insulator (10). The fixity member (40) has a specific shape similar to the contact (30) except for a contact portion of the contact (30) which is a part of the contact (30) brought into contact with a contact of a mating connector when the connector (100) is mated with the mating connector. The fixity member (40) can be easily manufactured by cutting off the contact portion from the contact (30).
Claims12
A connector which is mountable in/on a surface of a substrate and is connectable to a mating connector in a first direction perpendicular to the surface of the substrate, wherein the connector comprises an insulator, a plurality of contacts and a plurality of separate fixity members adjacent to the contacts;
- the insulator is formed with a plurality of first holding portions for holding the respective contacts and a plurality of second holding portions for holding the respective fixity members;
- the first and the second holding portions are arranged in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction;
- each of the contacts has a first held portion held by the corresponding one of the first holding portions, a first fixing portion for fixing the contact on the surface of the substrate, and a contact portion for being brought-into contact with contacts of the mating connector;
- and the fixity members serve to fix the insulator to the substrate in cooperation with the first fixing portions of the contacts, the connector being characterized in that:
- each of the fixity members is made of the same material as the contacts and is comprised of a second held portion and a second fixing portion;
- the second held portion has the same shape as the first held portion and is held by the corresponding one of the second holding portions of the insulator;
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- the second fixing portion has the same shape as the first fixing portion and is for fixing the fixity member on the surface of the substrate, the fixity members do not make electrical contact.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.