US 8,011,973 B2Granted

Connector and a method of manufacturing the same

AssigneeBYD Company Limited

InventorsJiang Feng, Wang Zhenbo, Zhang Zifeng, Wang Kun, Huang Zhixue

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Abstract

The invention discloses a connector that comprises an insulation body and one or more conductive terminals within the insulation body. The one or more conductive terminals comprise at least one clamping portion to clamp onto the insulation body. The invention further discloses an endoscope, which comprises a telescope, an imaging means, an image sensor that transforms optical signals from the imaging means into electrical signals and a PCB board that organizes and outputs the electrical signals, the imaging means, image sensor and PCB board being located in the telescope, wherein the endoscope further comprises the connector that electrically connects the image sensor and the PCB board to form a first assembly. The invention further discloses a method to make the connector.

Claims14

Dependent claims

An electrical connector for use in an endoscope, comprising:

an elongated insulation body having a longitudinal axis and including a matrix of welding pads divided by a plurality of parallel guiding grooves located at an end surface that is substantially perpendicular to the longitudinal axis;
and
a plurality of conductive terminals that are permanently fixed within the elongated insulation body, substantially parallel to the longitudinal axis of the elongated insulation body, and electrically insulated from one another,
wherein each conductive terminal includes a head that is bent to be electrically coupled to one of the matrix of welding pads, a pair of clamping fins that are projected into the elongated insulation body in respective directions that are substantially deviated from the longitudinal axis of the elongated insulation body, and a tail that is located outside the elongated insulation body substantially along the longitudinal axis of the elongated insulation body.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 12/346,753Filed 30 Dec 2008
Priority: CN 2008 2 0095657 U18 Jul 2008
Published: US 2010/0015857 A121 Jan 2010
Granted: 6 Sep 2011
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification10 codes

H01R 13/405
Securing contact members in or to a base or case; Insulating of contact members: securing in non-demountable manner, e.g. moulding, riveting
A61B 1/0011
Constructional details of the endoscope body: manufacturing of endoscope parts
A61B 1/00124
Connectors, fasteners and adapters, e.g. on the endoscope handle: electrical, e.g. electrical plug-and-socket connection
A61B 1/051
Characterised by the image sensor, e.g. camera, being in the distal end portion: details of CCD assembly