Electrical connector, method for manufacturing electrical connector, and method for mounting electrical connector

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12418150-B2
Application number	US-202318325101-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 29, 2023
Priority date	Jun 30, 2022
Publication date	Sep 16, 2025
Grant date	Sep 16, 2025

Abstract

An electrical connector includes: a case including an accommodation part that accommodates a receptacle, a front wall part, a restriction part, and an engagement part that retain the receptacle in the accommodation part, a contact part that makes contact with a mounting surface, and a communication hole that is extended upward from the accommodation part and open to outside at its upper end and vertically movably retains a slider; the receptacle that includes a terminal prat located at the same height as the contact part or below the contact part and is movable upward; and the slider that can press down the receptacle retained in the accommodation part by the front wall part, the restriction part, and the engagement part.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An electrical connector to be mounted on a mounting surface of a substrate, the electrical connector comprising:
a case;
a receptacle retained in the case; and
a slider retained in the case,
the case including an accommodation part that is disposed in a bottom surface to be opposed to the mounting surface and is configured to accommodate the receptacle so that the receptacle is exposed outside, a retaining part configured to retain the receptacle in the accommodation part, a contact part configured to make contact with the mounting surface, and a communication hole that is extended upward from the accommodation part and open to outside at an upper end thereof, the slider being vertically movably retained in the communication hole,
the receptacle including a terminal part to be soldered to the mounting surface, the terminal part being located at a same height as the contact part or below the contact part and being movable upward in a state where the receptacle is retained in the accommodation part by the retaining part,
the slider being capable of moving down in the communication hole to press the receptacle retained in the accommodation part by the retaining part down.

2. The electrical connector according to claim 1 , wherein:
the case includes a projecting part configured to project from the substrate when the electrical connector is mounted on the mounting surface; and
the electrical connector has a barycentric position at a portion overlapping the substrate when mounted on the mounting surface and seen from above.

3. A method for manufacturing an electrical connector to be mounted on a mounting surface of a substrate, the method comprising:
an insertion step of inserting a slider into a communication hole and inserting a receptacle into an accommodation part, the accommodation part being disposed in a bottom surface of a case to be opposed to the mounting surface, the communication hole being extended upward from the accommodation part and open to outside at an upper end thereof; and
a retaining step of retaining the receptacle inserted into the accommodation part by the insertion step in the accommodation part by a retaining part of the case in a state of being exposed outside so that a terminal part of the receptacle to be soldered to the mounting surface is located at a same height as a contact part of the case to make contact with the mounting surface or below the contact part and the receptacle is movable upward, and retaining the slider inserted into the communication hole by the insertion step in the communication hole in a state of being vertically movable so that the slider moving down in the communication hole is capable of pressing the receptacle retained in the accommodation part by the retaining part down.

4. The method for manufacturing an electrical connector according to claim 3 , wherein:
the case includes a projecting part configured to project from the substrate when the electrical connector is mounted on the mounting surface; and
the electrical connector has a barycentric position at a portion overlapping the substrate when mounted on the mounting surface and seen from above.

5. A method for mounting an electrical connector to be mounted on a mounting surface of a substrate, the method comprising,
in a state where a receptacle is retained in an accommodation part disposed in a bottom surface of a case to be opposed to the mounting surface by a retaining part of the case in a state of being exposed outside so that a terminal part of the receptacle to be soldered to the mounting surface is located at a same height as a contact part of the case to make contact with the mounting surface or below the contact part and the receptacle is movable upward, and a slider is vertically movably retained in a communication hole that is extended upward from the accommodation part of the case and open to outside at an upper end thereof, transporting the electrical connector to above the mounting surface with the slider sucked to a suction nozzle and bringing the contact part into contact with the mounting surface, pressing the slider down with the suction nozzle to move the slider down so that the slider presses the receptacle down to press the terminal part against the mounting surface, and then soldering the terminal part to the mounting surface.

6. The method for mounting the electrical connector according to claim 5 , wherein:
the case includes a projecting part configured to project from the substrate when the electrical connector is mounted on the mounting surface; and
the electrical connector has a barycentric position at a portion overlapping the substrate when mounted on the mounting surface and seen from above.

Assignees

• Smk Kk

Inventors

• Yoshiura Yasuo
• Watanabe Kensuke

Classifications

• H01R12/58

  terminals for insertion into holes · CPC title

• H01R12/716

  Coupling device provided on the PCB · CPC title

• H01R43/0256

  for soldering or welding connectors to a printed circuit board · CPC title

• H01R24/60

  Contacts spaced along planar side wall transverse to longitudinal axis of engagement · CPC title

• H01R12/707

  Soldering or welding · CPC title