Electronic component and imaging device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10263354-B2
Application number	US-201715822566-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 27, 2017
Priority date	Dec 1, 2016
Publication date	Apr 16, 2019
Grant date	Apr 16, 2019

Abstract

In an imaging device, an electric connection is achieved in which a pressing force of a terminal of a substrate-side connector does not act on a substrate stored in a housing. Harness connection terminals have plate-shaped contact pieces projecting from an inner peripheral surface of a cylindrical peripheral wall of a rear housing. Terminals of a connector have clamp contact portions that clamp the plate-shaped contact pieces to be in conductive contact therewith. The pressing force of the clamp contact portions acts in the plate thickness direction of the plate-shaped contact pieces, but does not act in the plate thickness direction of the substrate. This avoids warpage of the substrate.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An electronic component comprising:
a housing; and
a terminal fixed to the housing,
the housing including
an external-conductor connecting portion fitting and connecting to an external conductor,
a cylindrical peripheral wall receiving a substrate with a connector mounted thereon, and
a partition provided to close one end of the cylindrical peripheral wall and separating the external-conductor connecting portion and an inside of the cylindrical peripheral wall along a direction intersecting a cylinder axis of the cylindrical peripheral wall, and

the terminal having an outer contact portion disposed in the external-conductor connecting portion to be in conductive contact with the external conductor,
wherein the terminal includes
an inner contact portion projecting from an inner peripheral surface of the cylindrical peripheral wall in the direction to be in conductive contact with a connector terminal of the connector, and
a relay portion embedded tightly in the partition and extending to connect the outer contact portion and the inner contact portion along the direction, and in an end portion of the relay portion on a side of the cylindrical peripheral wall, a bent portion provided to be bent from the partition toward the cylindrical peripheral wall and located between the relay portion and the inner contact portion.

2. The electronic component according to claim 1 , wherein the inner contact portion has such a length as to protrude from the partition through a plate thickness of the substrate.

3. The electronic component according to claim 1 , wherein the relay portion is formed as a flat conductive piece made of a flat metal piece.

4. The electronic component according to claim 1 , wherein the inner contact portion is formed as a plate-shaped contact piece having a plate surface projecting from the inner peripheral surface.

5. The electronic component including the connector according to claim 1 , wherein the connector terminal has a clamp contact portion that clamps the inner contact portion in a plate thickness direction.

6. An imaging device comprising the electronic component according to claim 1 .

Assignees

• Iriso Electronics Co Ltd

Inventors

• Sakamoto Tetsuma

Classifications

• H01R13/113 Primary

  co-operating with pins or blades having a rectangular transverse section · CPC title

• H01R12/7076

  for connection between PCB and component, e.g. display · CPC title

• H01R12/725

  containing contact members presenting a contact carrying strip, e.g. edge-like strip · CPC title

• H01R31/06

  Intermediate parts for linking two coupling parts, e.g. adapter (with a holder adapted for supporting apparatus to which its counterpart is attached H01R33/94) · CPC title

• G03B17/02 Primary

  Bodies · CPC title