Connector
AssigneesFujikura Ltd., DDK Ltd.
InventorsNorifumi Nagae, Issey Miyake, Masayuki Suzuki, Hirokazu Takahashi, Yuuki Nakano
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Abstract
A connector includes a required number of contacts, an electrical insulation housing and a metallic shell. A tab is formed in the connector. A pressure receiving portion of the tab is pushed by a pushing portion of the shell to move the pressure receiving portion toward a mounting face of a substrate for applying a force in the insertion of FPC but not applying a force to the tab in the detaching thereof, whereby an engaging portion of the tab is moved in a direction opposing to the mounting face of the substrate to unfasten the engaging portion from an locking portion of the FPC.
Claims11
A connector mounted onto a substrate and inserting a connection body with a locking portion from a direction substantially parallel to a mounting face of the substrate, which comprises a required number of contacts each having a contacting portion contacting with the connection body and a connecting portion mounted onto the substrate;
- an electrical insulation housing for supporting the contacts and having an insertion port inserting the connection body;
- a metallic shell covering the housing;
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- a lock member engaging with the locking portion, characterized in that the lock member comprises a first piece provided on an end side thereof with an engaging portion located at a side of the connection body opposite to the mounting face of the substrate and engaged with the locking portion and on the other end side with a pressure receiving portion pressed by the shell, a second piece provided on an end side or other end side with another connecting portion mounted onto the substrate, and a connection portion connecting an approximately middle portion of the first piece to an end or the other end of the second piece;
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- the shell comprises a pushing portion arranged at an opposite side of the insertion port and at a position of the shell corresponding to the pressure receiving portion, and a first displacement means facilitating an elastic deformation of the pressure receiving portion.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.