Movable connector
To prevent damage from being caused in a movable piece caused by inclination of the movable housing of a floating connector. Providing an inclined piece portion in a movable piece of a plug terminal of a plug connector from a middle side to an outer edge side of a bottom wall portion of a movable housing, the inclined piece portion obliquely extending so as to gradually be distanced away form a substrate. Since the inclined piece portion is distanced away from the substrate by the amount of inclination of the inclined piece portion when the movable housing is inclined, a risk of the movable piece impinging against the substrate can be reduced.
1. A movable connector comprising:
a fixed housing fixed to a substrate;
a movable housing fitted and connected to an object to be connected; and
a terminal including
a fixed housing fixing portion fixed to the fixed housing,
a movable housing fixing portion fixed to the movable housing, and a movable piece that is located between the fixed housing fixing portion and the movable housing fixing portion and that elastically supports the movable housing so as to allow the movable housing to be displaced with respect to the fixed housing,
wherein the movable piece includes
a first spring piece portion that extends in a direction away from the substrate,
a bent-back portion that bends from the first spring piece in a return direction,
a second spring piece portion that extends toward the substrate from the bent-back portion,
a first bend portion that bends from the second spring piece portion along the substrate or an opposing surface of the fixed housing that opposes a bottom surface of the movable housing,
an inclined piece portion that extends along the substrate or the opposing surface from the first bend portion, and
a second bend portion that bends from the inclined piece portion in the direction away from the substrate, and
wherein the inclined piece portion obliquely extends from a middle side of the bottom surface of the movable housing toward a lateral surface of the movable housing so as to gradually be distanced away from an opposing surface of the substrate or the opposing surface of the fixed housing that opposes the bottom surface.
2. The movable connector according to claim 1 ,
wherein the movable housing includes a bottom wall that forms the bottom surface, and
wherein the bottom wall includes an inclined surface portion that obliquely extends from a middle side thereof towards the outer edge side thereof along the inclined piece portion.
3. The movable connector according to claim 1 ,
wherein the movable housing includes a displacement restricting protrusion that opposes at least the fixed housing or the substrate, and
wherein the displacement restricting protrusion includes a corner edge absent portion in at least a surface opposing the fixed housing or a surface opposing the substrate.
4. The movable connector according to claim 1 ,
wherein the fixed housing includes an accommodation portion that accommodates the movable housing and that surrounds the lateral surface.
5. The movable connector according to claim 1 ,
wherein the inclined piece portion includes
a lower side inclination end portion that connects to the second bend portion and that opposes the substrate or the opposing surface, and
an upper side inclination end portion that connects to the first bend portion and being distanced more away from the substrate or the opposing surface than the lower side inclination end portion.
6. The movable connector according to claim 4 ,
wherein the second spring piece portion, the first bend portion, the inclined piece portion and the second bend portion are located in the movable housing.