Wiring board and electronic component testing apparatus comprising coaxial connector, and coaxial connector

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2021376544-A1
Application number	US-202117201593-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Mar 15, 2021
Priority date	May 26, 2020
Publication date	Dec 2, 2021
Grant date	—

Abstract

A wiring board includes a wiring board body and a coaxial connector. The coaxial connector includes coaxial terminals and a housing. The coaxial terminals are arranged in row. Each of the coaxial terminals includes a signal terminal and a ground terminal. The ground terminal includes a tubular main body and first and second contact pieces that respectively extend from the main body and respectively include first and second contact portions in contact with the wiring board body, in a transparent plan view seen through the wiring board along a normal direction of the wiring board body. A part of the first contact piece of a first coaxial terminal overlaps with a part of the second contact piece of a second coaxial terminal adjacent to the first coaxial terminal.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A wiring board comprising:
a wiring board body; and a coaxial connector mounted on the wiring board body, wherein the coaxial connector comprises:
coaxial terminals arranged in a row; and
a housing that holds the coaxial terminals,
each of the coaxial terminals comprises:
a signal terminal; and
a ground terminal that covers the signal terminal at intervals,
the ground terminal comprises:
a tubular first main body;
a first contact piece that extends from the first main body and includes a first contact portion that contacts the wiring board body; and
a second contact piece that extends from the first main body and includes a second contact portion that contacts the wiring board body,
two of the coaxial terminals are a first coaxial terminal and a second coaxial terminal adjacent to the first coaxial terminal, and in a transparent plan view seen through the wiring board along a normal direction of the wiring board body, a part of the first contact piece of the first coaxial terminal overlaps with a part of the second contact piece of the second coaxial terminal.

2 . The wiring board according to claim 1 , wherein
the first contact piece includes:
the first contact portion disposed outside the first main body in the transparent plan view;
a first root portion connected to the first main body; and
a first bent portion interposed between the first contact portion and the first root portion and disposed inside the first main body in the transparent plan view,
the second contact piece includes:
the second contact portion disposed inside the first main body in the transparent plan view;
a second root portion connected to the first main body; and
a second bent portion interposed between the second contact portion and the second root portion and disposed outside the first main body in the transparent plan view; and
in the transparent plan view, the first contact portion of the first coaxial terminal overlaps with the second bent portion of the second coaxial terminal.

3 . The wiring board according to claim 1 , wherein
the coaxial terminals are arranged in rows that are parallel to each other, the coaxial terminals in mutually adjacent rows are arranged alternately, the signal terminal comprises:
a second main body; and
a third contact piece that extends from the second main body and includes a third contact portion that contacts the wiring board body,
in the transparent plan view, the first contact portion of the first coaxial terminal is disposed on a first virtual straight line, another of the coaxial terminals is a third coaxial terminal, and the first virtual straight line passes through the third contact portion of the first coaxial terminal and the third contact portion of the third coaxial terminal in an adjacent row.

4 . The wiring board according to claim 3 , wherein
the third contact piece extends from the second main body in a first direction in the transparent plan view, and the first direction is a direction parallel to an arrangement direction of the coaxial terminals included in the same row and is a direction from the second contact piece toward the first contact piece in the transparent plan view.

5 . The wiring board according to claim 1 , wherein
each of the coaxial terminals comprises a pair of second contact pieces including the second contact piece, and in the transparent plan view, each of the pair of second contact pieces partially overlaps with the signal terminal.

6 . The wiring board according to claim 1 , wherein
the coaxial terminals are arranged in rows that are parallel to each other, the coaxial terminals in adjacent rows are arranged alternately, in the transparent plan view, a part of the signal terminal of the first coaxial terminal is disposed on a second virtual straight line, another of the coaxial terminals is a third coaxial terminal, and the second virtual straight line extends in a direction perpendicular to an arrangement direction of the coaxial terminals included in the same row and passes through the second contact portion of the third coaxial terminal in an adjacent row.

7 . The wiring board according to claim 1 , wherein
the coaxial terminals are arranged in rows that are parallel to each other, the coaxial terminals in adjacent rows are arranged alternately, in the transparent plan view, a part of the signal terminal of the first coaxial terminal is disposed on a third virtual straight line, another of the coaxial terminals is a third coaxial terminal, and the third virtual straight line extends in a direction perpendicular to an arrangement direction of the coaxial terminals included in the same row and passes through a part of the signal terminal of the third coaxial terminal in an adjacent row.

8 . The wiring board according to claim 1 , wherein
the ground terminal comprises a fourth contact piece that extends from an end of the first main body, and the end is opposite to another end of the first main body from which the first and second contact pieces extend.

9 . The wiring board according to claim 1 , wherein
the signal terminal comprises:
a second main body;
a third contact piece that extends from the second main body and includes a third contact portion that contacts the wiring board body; and
a fifth contact piece that extends from an end of the second main body, wherein the end is opposite to another end of the second main body from which the third contact piece extends.

10 . The wiring board according to claim 1 , wherein
each of the coaxial terminals comprises:
a pair of the first contact pieces; and
a pair of the second contact pieces,
in the transparent plan view, the pair of first contact pieces are arranged in line symmetry with respect to a centerline of each of the coaxial terminals, the centerline extends along a direction parallel to an arrangement direction of the coaxial terminals included in the same row, and in the transparent plan view, the pair of second contact pieces are arranged in line symmetry with respect to the centerline.

11 . The wiring board according to claim 1 , wherein
each of the coaxial terminals comprises an insulator interposed between the signal terminal and the ground terminal.

12 . The wiring board according to claim 1 , wherein
the wiring board body comprises:
a first wiring pattern that contacts the first and second contact portions of the ground terminal; and
a second wiring pattern that contacts the third contact portion of the signal terminal.

13 . An electronic component testing apparatus that tests a DUT, the apparatus comprising:
a wiring board according to claim 1 .

14 . A coaxial connector comprising:
coaxial terminals; and a housing that holds the coaxial terminal, wherein the coaxial terminals are arranged in a row, each of the coaxial terminals comprises:
a signal terminal; and
a ground terminal that covers the signal terminal at intervals,
the ground terminal comprises:
a tubular first main body;
a first contact piece that extends from the first main body and includes a first contact portion at a tip of the first contact piece; and
a second contact piece that extends from the first main body and includes a second contact portion at a tip of the second contact piece,
two of the coaxial terminals are a first coaxial terminal and a second coaxial terminal adjacent to the first coaxial terminal, and in a state where the coaxial connector is mounted on a wiring board body to assemble a wiring board, a part of the first contact piece of the first coaxial ter

Assignees

• Advantest Corp
• Molex Llc

Inventors

• Seshimo Takahito
• Shibuya Atsunori
• Arai Masayuki
• Oyama Masataka
• Akiyama Shigeru
• Matsumoto Ayako

Classifications

• H01R13/6585

  Shielding material individually surrounding or interposed between mutually spaced contacts · CPC title

• H05K1/181

  associated with surface mounted components · CPC title

• H05K2203/167

  Using mechanical means for positioning, alignment or registration, e.g. using rod-in-hole alignment · CPC title

• H05K2201/09809

  Coaxial layout · CPC title

• H05K2201/10189

  Non-printed connector · CPC title