Connector for flexible printed circuit board

A connector adapted for receiving a longitudinally inserted flexible printed circuit board therein, comprising:

• an insulating housing defining a mouth at a rear thereof and a receiving recess at a front thereof for receiving the flexible printed circuit board therein, a front wall of the mouth protruding rearward to form a tongue board, each side wall of the mouth defining a first locating trough and a second locating trough in front of the first locating trough, a projection being formed between the first locating trough and the second locating trough;
• a plurality of electric terminals disposed in the insulating housing in a transverse row, each of the electric terminals having a lying-H shaped base frame which has a base portion, a contacting arm and a connecting arm extended frontward from the base portion and spaced from each other, and both a bearing arm and a holding arm extended rearward from an upper portion and a lower portion of the base portion respectively and spaced from each other, the contacting arm and the connecting arm being disposed in the inner surfaces of the receiving recess, the holding arm being disposed in the tongue board and the bearing arm stretching into the mouth, the flexible printed circuit board being inserted between the contacting arms and the connecting arms for electrically connecting the electric terminals;
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• an actuator pivoted in the mouth of the insulating housing above the tongue board, the actuator having a pressing bar transversely formed at an edge thereof and two piloting portions protruded oppositely from two opposite ends of the pressing bar, the pressing bar being located between the bearing arms and the holding arms, the piloting portions being slid into the corresponding second locating troughs from the first locating troughs pivoted with the piloting portions by way of the projections to act on the bearing arms by the pressing bar so as to make the contacting arms incline toward the corresponding connecting arms for further clipping the flexible printed circuit board therebetween after the actuator is closed.