IP Library › Granted Patent US 10,833,443
Granted Patent B2
US 10,833,443 · App. 16/324,085 · Granted Nov 10, 2020

Connector

Inventor: Shunsuke Morita (Yokohama, JP)
Assignee: KYOCERA CORPORATION
H01R13/40H01R12/721H01R12/91H01R13/631
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Patent No.
US 10,833,443
App. No.
16/324,085
Granted
Nov 10, 2020
Kind
B2
Abstract

A connector including a plurality of electrically conducting contacts and fitted to another connector, the connector includes: a fixing insulator having a frame shape; a plurality of metal fittings that are disposed at both ends of the fixing insulator in a contact array direction in which the contacts are arrayed, and that are provided inside the fixing insulator; and a movable insulator that is disposed inside the fixing insulator, that is connected to the fixing insulator through elastic deformation portions of the contacts, and that is movable at least in a direction perpendicular to a fitting direction of the fitting with the other connector by elastic deformation of the elastic deformation portions, both ends of the movable insulator in the contact array direction facing the respective metal fittings.

Claims (11)

1. A connector including a plurality of electrically conducting contacts and fitted to another connector, said connector comprising:

a fixing insulator having a frame shape;

a plurality of metal fittings that are disposed at both ends of said fixing insulator in a contact array direction in which said contacts are arrayed, and that are provided inside said fixing insulator; and

a movable insulator that is disposed inside said fixing insulator, that is connected to said fixing insulator through elastic deformation portions of said contacts, and that is movable at least in a direction perpendicular to a fitting direction of said fitting to said other connector by elastic deformation of said elastic deformation portions, both ends of said movable insulator in said contact array direction, in which said contacts are arrayed, being disposed under and facing said respective metal fittings,

wherein each of the plurality of metal fittings is disposed between said fixing insulator and said movable insulator in said fitting direction of said fitting to said other connector.

2. The connector according to claim 1 , wherein said both ends of said movable insulator in said contact array direction, in which said contacts are arrayed, are formed to be wider than a central part of said movable insulator in a width direction orthogonal to said contact array direction, in which said contacts are arrayed, on a plane perpendicular to said fitting direction of said fitting to said other connector.

3. The connector according to claim 1 , wherein both ends of said movable insulator in said contact array direction, in which said contacts are arrayed, are restricted by said metal fittings when removed from said other connector.

4. The connector according to claim 1 , wherein said fixing insulator includes a fitting surface in said fitting direction of said fitting to said other connector, said fitting surface being formed of only said fixing insulator.

5. The connector according to claim 4 , wherein said fitting surface is flat and provided in an identical plane.

6. The connector according to claim 4 , wherein said fitting surface is flat and continuously formed on a whole circumference of said fixing insulator.

7. The connector according to claim 1 , wherein a bottom surface of said movable insulator on an opposite side of a fitting surface side fitted to said other connector has a shape in which a distance from a virtual plane facing said bottom surface increases from a center to an end in a direction perpendicular to said fitting direction of said fitting to said other connector.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 7, 2019
From: MORITA, SHUNSUKE
To: KYOCERA CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 048271/0598 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2016-158225 · Aug 10, 2016 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20190214762A1 · Jul 11, 2019