This invention relates to a connector which is to be mounted on a circuit board and is mateable with a mating connector mounted on a mating circuit board.
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[Patent Document 1] JP 2006-302901 A, FIG. 2
It is an object of the present invention to provide a connector which is more downsized.
One aspect of the present invention provides a connector which is mateable with a mating connector along a first direction. The connector comprises a housing and a plurality of terminals, wherein the housing includes a plurality of held portions, and the terminals correspond to the held portions, respectively. Each of the terminals includes a base portion, a first portion, a second portion and a third portion. The first portion extends directly from the base portion and is provided with a first contact portion which projects towards the second portion in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. The second portion extends directly from the base portion and is provided with a second contact portion and a press-fitting projection. The second contact portion projects towards the first portion in the second direction and faces the first contact portion. The press-fitting projection projects towards the third portion in the second direction. The third portion extends directly from the base portion. Each of the held portions is held by the second portion and the third portion of the terminal corresponding thereto.
Each of the terminals has no portion press-fit into the housing. Instead, the housing is provided with the held portions, each of which is inserted between the second portion and the third portion of the terminal corresponding thereto, so as to be held by the second portion and the third portion. Therefore, the housing is not required to have thickness same as that of the connector of Patent Document 1. The housing can be downsized, and accordingly, the connector can be downsized.
An appreciation of the objectives of the present invention and a more complete understanding of its structure may be had by studying the following description of the preferred embodiment and by referring to the accompanying drawings.
While the invention is susceptible to various modifications and alternative forms, specific embodiments thereof are shown by way of example in the drawings and will herein be described in detail. It should be understood, however, that the drawings and detailed description thereto are not intended to limit the invention to the particular form disclosed, but on the contrary, the intention is to cover all modifications, equivalents and alternatives falling within the spirit and scope of the present invention as defined by the appended claims.
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The connectors 1, 1A according to the aforementioned embodiments can be modified variously. For example, although each of the housings 10, 10A according to the aforementioned embodiments is provided with the depressed portions 28, the depressed portions 28 may not be provided. In addition, the retained portions 30A may have surfaces perpendicular to the Z-direction, instead of the slopes.
While there has been described what is believed to be the preferred embodiment of the invention, those skilled in the art will recognize that other and further modifications may be made thereto without departing from the spirit of the invention, and it is intended to claim all such embodiments that fall within the true scope of the invention.
This application claims the benefit of U.S. Provisional Application No. 62/055,996 filed Sep. 26, 2014, the contents of which are herein incorporated by reference in its entirety.
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