US 9,039,428 B2Granted

Board-to-board connector

AssigneeMolex Incorporated

InventorsKenta Sasaki, Masami Sasao, Toru Suzuki, Kenta Amino, Jesse Darja, Taichi Taniguchi

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Abstract

A board-to-board connector is disclosed. The board-to-board connector comprises a first connector and a second connector. The first connector has first terminals and a first housing which has first fitting guide portions formed at both ends in the longitudinal direction of the first housing. The second connector has second terminals configured to make contact with the first terminals, and a second housing which has second fitting guide portions formed at both ends in the longitudinal direction of the second housing and configured to engage with the first fitting guide portions.

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Dependent claims

A board-to-board connector, the board-to-board connector comprising:

a first connector, the first connector including first terminals, a first housing and first reinforcing brackets, the first housing including first fitting guide portions, the first fitting guide portions being formed at both ends in the longitudinal direction of the first housing, one first reinforcing bracket being attached to each first fitting guide portion;
and
a second connector, the second connector including second terminals and a second housing, the second connectors configured to contact the first terminals, the second housing including second fitting guide portions, the second fitting guide portions being formed at both ends in the longitudinal direction of the second housing and configured to engage the first fitting guide portions.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 13/819,362Filed 8 Sep 2011
Priority: JP 2010-2009168 Sep 2010
Published: US 2013/0330943 A112 Dec 2013
Granted: 26 May 2015
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification7 codes

H01R 12/716
Co-operating with the surface of the printed circuit or with a coupling device exclusively provided on the surface of the printed circuit:…
H01R 13/631
Additional means for facilitating engagement or disengagement of coupling parts, e.g. aligning or guiding means, levers, gas pressure electrical…:…
H01R 12/721
Coupling with the edge of the rigid printed circuits or like structures: cooperating directly with the edge of the rigid printed circuits
H01R 12/73
Coupling with the edge of the rigid printed circuits or like structures: connecting to other rigid printed circuits or like structures

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US 2013/0330943 A1Pre-grant publication · published 12 Dec 2013
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