Electronic apparatus and connector
AssigneeKabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
InventorYutaka Murakami
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Abstract
According to one embodiment, a connector into which a first plug and a second plug are insertable. The connector includes a housing and a terminal portion provided in the housing. The housing includes an insertion opening part which exposes the terminal portion outside, a back part positioned at an end part opposite to the insertion opening part in the housing, and a side part provided between the insertion opening part and the back part and configured to oppose to the plug when the plug is inserted into the connector. The side part includes an inclined part which continues to the insertion opening part and is inclined such that a distance between the inclined part and the plug increases in a direction from the back part toward the insertion opening part to form a gap between the inclined part and the plug.
Claims13
A connector configured to selectively connect to a first plug and a second plug different than the first plug comprising:
- an insertion open portion;
- a back portion positioned opposite to the insertion open portion;
- first walls;
- and
- second walls,
- wherein the first walls and the second walls are between the insertion open portion and the back portion and the first walls have a first width between them at the insertion open portion and the second walls have a second width between them at the insertion open portion,
- wherein each first wall comprises a sloped, substantially straight portion and a portion perpendicular to the back wall,
- wherein the sloped, substantially straight portion is not perpendicular to the back wall, and the length of the sloped, substantially straight portion is equal to or larger than half of the length of each first wall, and
- wherein the sloped, substantially straight portion extends to the insertion open portion.
An electrical connector configured to connect to a first plug and a second plug different than the first plug comprising:
- a first plastic port;
- a second plastic port;
- an open portion configured to expose a portion of the first plug or the second plug outside of the first plastic port and the second plastic port respectively;
- and
- a back portion configured to abut against the first plug and the second plug when the first plug and the second plug are connected to the first port and the second port respectively,
- wherein the first plastic port comprises a pair of first side walls comprising a first width, and
- wherein the second plastic port comprises a pair of second side walls comprising a proximal portion and a distal portion,
- the proximal portion comprising a sloped, substantially straight portion extending to the open portion, and
- the distal portion comprising a second width, and
- wherein each of the first side walls comprises a first region and each of the second side walls comprises a second region, wherein the first region and the second region partially overlap with each other and the sloped substantially straight portion is in the second region away from the first region.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.