Electrical connector
AssigneeHirose Electric Co., Ltd.
InventorYohei Hasegawa
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Abstract
An electrical connector includes a housing and a plurality of terminals. Each of the terminals is formed of a sheet metal and held by the housing. Each of the terminals has a contact section to contact with a mating terminal and a connecting section to be connected to a circuit board each forming a continuous flat sheet surface. The contact section has a contact surface that slidably contacts with the mating terminal so as to extend in a connector fitting direction, and the plurality of terminals is arranged so that adjacent terminals have the contact surfaces parallel to each other.
Claims6
An electrical connector to be connected to a mating connector in a connecting direction, comprising:
- a housing;
- and
- a plurality of terminals disposed in the housing and arranged in a first direction perpendicular to the connecting direction, each of said terminals including a contact section for contacting with a mating terminal of the mating connector and a connecting section to be connected to a circuit board, said contact section being formed of a single flat member having two opposite surfaces, said contact section including a contact surface extending in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction and a latching section formed adjacent to the contact surface, said contact surface being arranged to contact with the mating terminal of the mating connector, said latching section being formed in a step shape so that the latching section engages with the mating terminal when the mating terminal reaches to a specific contact position,
- wherein said contact surface is formed on both of the two opposite surfaces of the single flat member.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.