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US 7,399,190 B2Granted
Connecting device
AssigneeHosiden Corporation
InventorYasuhiro Ohmori
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Abstract
A connecting device of the invention includes a contact for electrically connecting with a lead terminal of cold cathode fluorescent lamp (electronic component), a body for accommodating the contact and having an insertion opening to allow the lead terminal to be inserted/removed from a side of the body, a shutter for opening/closing the insertion opening of the body, and an operation member mounted to the body for operating the open/close of the shutter.
Claims10
A connecting device, comprising:
- a body having an insertion opening for removably receiving a lead terminal from a side thereof;
- a contact to be accommodated inside the body, the contact being contactable with the lead terminal inserted into the body through the insertion opening;
- a shutter provided in the body so as to openably close the insertion opening;
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- an operating member mounted on the body for operating the shutter, said operating member being movable in an insertion/removal direction of the lead terminal,
- wherein said shutter is engageable with a guide groove provided on said operating member, said guide groove being oblique to the movement axis of the operating member, such that said shutter is caused to move in said guide groove for opening and closing the insertion opening in response to movement of the operating member.
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A connecting device, comprising
- a body having an insertion opening for removably receiving a lead terminal from a side thereof;
- a contact to be accommodated inside the body, the contact being contactable with the lead terminal inserted into the body through the insertion opening;
- a shutter provided with the body so as to openably close the insertion opening;
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- an operation member mounted on the body movably in an insertion/removal direction of the lead terminal, adapted for operation to move at least the shutter, wherein
- the body is provided with a mounting hole comprising a long hole extending in a direction substantially orthogonal to the insertion/removal direction of the lead terminal and penetrating the body,
- the operation member has a guide groove in a face thereof facing the body, the guide groove obliquely crossing the mounting hole and fitting the shutter thereinto through the mounting hole, and
- the shutter is adapted to move from one end portion of the guide groove to the other end portion of the guide groove in accordance with a movement of the operation member and thereby move in the mounting hole from an opening position to open the insertion opening to a closing position to close the insertion opening.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.