Connector

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12537335-B2
Application number	US-202318102971-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 30, 2023
Priority date	Jan 30, 2023
Publication date	Jan 27, 2026
Grant date	Jan 27, 2026

Abstract

An embodiment includes a main body holding pin groups and partition walls partitioning adjacent signal pins from each other, each of the signal pins has a fixing part located on a mount part side and fixed to a substrate, tip parts located on an insertion-extraction part side and serving as a free end, and a contact part provided between the fixing part and the tip parts and configured to be in electrical contact with electrodes of a device, and the adjacent tip parts are located via an opening.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A connector comprising:
a mount part mounted on an external substrate; an insertion-extraction part in and from which an external device is inserted and extracted in an insertion-extraction direction; a pin group in which a plurality of contact pins configured to be in electrical contact with electrodes of the device are aligned; a housing that holds the pin group; and a partition wall that partitions adjacent contact pins from each other, wherein each of the contact pins has a fixing part located on a mount part side and fixed to the substrate, a tip part located on an insertion-extraction part side and serving as a free end, and a contact part provided between the fixing part and the tip part and configured to be in electrical contact with each of the electrodes of the device, and wherein in a state where the contact part is in contact with each of the electrodes of the device, adjacent tip parts are located via a space where the partition wall is absent.

2 . The connector according to claim 1 , wherein the space is formed of an opening formed in the partition wall.

3 . The connector according to claim 2 ,
wherein the partition wall comprises a connecting part provided such that a wall end part serving as a free end of the partition wall is formed continuously in a longitudinal direction, and wherein a perimeter of the opening is closed by the connecting part.

4 . The connector according to claim 1 , wherein a transmission rate is 100 Gbps or higher.

5 . A connector comprising:
a mount part mounted on an external substrate; an insertion-extraction part in and from which an external device is inserted and extracted in an insertion-extraction direction; a pin group in which a plurality of contact pins configured to be in electrical contact with electrodes of the device are aligned; and a resin housing that holds the pin group, wherein each of the contact pins has a press-fit part, the press-fit part having a shape formed such that an elongate plate-like member extending in a longitudinal direction is bent at a plurality of points, and the press-fit part being press-fitted into and secured in the housing, wherein the press-fit part has a protruding part, the protruding part protruding from a main body of the press-fit part outwardly in a width direction orthogonal to a plate-thickness direction and the longitudinal direction of the contact pins, the protruding part being in contact with and press-fitted into the housing, wherein in the housing, a space is formed so as to form a noncontact region in which a planar part in the width direction of the press-fit part is not in contact with the housing at a position corresponding to the protruding part, and wherein the planar part of the press-fit part is in contact with the housing in a region other than the noncontact region.

6 . The connector according to claim 5 ,
wherein the pin group comprises a first pin group and a second pin group facing the first pin group, wherein the press-fit part of each of the contact pins of the first pin group has a larger dimension in the longitudinal direction than the press-fit part of each of the contact pins of the second pin group, and wherein the noncontact region is provided at a position corresponding to the protruding part of the press-fit part of the first pin group.

7 . The connector according to claim 5 , wherein each of the contact pins comprises, between the protruding part and the main body, a narrow-width part having a smaller dimension in the width direction than the protruding part and the main body.

8 . The connector according to claim 5 , wherein the contact pins comprise a signal pin configured to transmit a signal and a ground pin to be grounded, and wherein a position of the protruding part of the signal pin is a position that differs in the longitudinal direction from a position of the protruding part of the ground pin adjacent to the signal pin.

9 . A connector comprising:
a mount part mounted on an external substrate; an insertion-extraction part in and from which an external device is inserted and extracted in an insertion-extraction direction; a pin group in which a plurality of contact pins configured to be in electrical contact with electrodes of the device are aligned; a housing that holds the pin group; and a conductive member being in electrical contact with ground pins to be grounded of the contact pins of the pin group and extending in an alignment direction of the contact pins of the pin group, wherein each of the ground pins comprises, as the mount part, a substrate fixing part to be fixed to the substrate, wherein the substrate fixing part has a fixing face to be fixed to the substrate and a back face on an opposite side in a plate-thickness direction to the fixing face, and wherein the conductive member is held between the back face of the ground pins and the housing.

10 . The connector according to claim 9 , wherein the conductive member comprises a main body and a first protrusion part erected from the main body toward the substrate fixing part of the ground pins and being in electrical contact with the back face.

11 . The connector according to claim 10 , wherein each of the ground pins has a base end part bent and connected to the substrate fixing part, and wherein the conductive member comprises a second protrusion part erected toward a base end part side and being in electrical contact with the base end part.

12 . A connector comprising:
a mount part mounted on an external substrate; an insertion-extraction part in and from which an external device is inserted and extracted in an insertion-extraction direction; a pin group in which a plurality of contact pins configured to be in electrical contact with electrodes of the device are aligned; and a housing that holds the pin group, wherein each of the contact pins has a press-fit part, a contact part, and an intermediate part located between the press-fit part and the contact part, the press-fit part having a shape formed such that an elongate plate-like member extending in a longitudinal direction is bent at a plurality of points, the press-fit part being press-fitted into and secured in the housing, and the contact part being located on an insertion-extraction part side and configured to be in electrical contact with the electrodes of the device, and wherein in the housing, slits opened to outside of the housing are each formed at a position corresponding to the intermediate part.

13 . The connector according to claim 12 , wherein the contact pins comprise a signal pin configured to transmit a signal and a ground pin to be grounded, and wherein one slit is provided at each of positions corresponding to the signal pin and the ground pin.

14 . The connector according to claim 12 , wherein the contact pins comprise a signal pin configured to transmit a signal and a ground pin to be grounded, and wherein one slit is provided at each of positions corresponding to the signal pin and no slit is formed at a position corresponding to the ground pin.

15 . The connector according to claim 12 ,
wherein the contact pins comprise signal pins configured to transmit signals and ground pins to be grounded and are aligned such that one ground pin is arranged each on both sides of a pair of adjacent two signal pins in parallel, and wherein one slit is provided at a position corresponding to the two signal pins.

Assignees

• Yamaichi Electronics Co Ltd

Inventors

• Ito Toshiyasu
• Takai Yosuke
• Saito Masaaki

Classifications

• H01R24/60

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

• H01R13/40

  Securing contact members in or to a base or case; Insulating of contact members · CPC title

• H01R13/502 Primary

  composed of different pieces (H01R13/514 takes precedence) · CPC title

• H01R12/724

  containing contact members forming a right angle · CPC title

• H01R13/6474

  by variation of conductive properties, e.g. by dimension variations · CPC title