Thin connector

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9252515-B2
Application number	US-201514605469-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 26, 2015
Priority date	Mar 26, 2014
Publication date	Feb 2, 2016
Grant date	Feb 2, 2016

Abstract

A thin connector includes a first connector portion having arrayed first contacts with first contact portions and a second connector portion having arrayed second contacts with second contact portions, each first contact including a first movable portion displaceable in the direction in which the first contacts are arrayed and a second movable portion connected to the first movable portion and displaceable in a direction orthogonal to the direction in which the first contacts are arrayed, the first contact portion being disposed in the second movable portion, the first connector portion and the second connector portion being fitted with each other by sliding relatively in the direction in which the first contacts and the second contacts are arrayed.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A thin connector comprising:
a first connector portion having a flat plate shape; and
a second connector portion having a flat plate shape superimposed on and fitted with the first connector portion in a fitting plane,
wherein the first connector portion includes a plurality of first contacts arrayed in a direction, each of the plurality of first contacts having a first contact portion,
wherein the second connector portion includes a plurality of second contacts arrayed in a same direction as the direction in which the plurality of first contacts are arrayed, each of the plurality of second contacts having a second contact portion,
wherein each of the plurality of first contacts includes a first movable portion having spring properties so as to be displaceable in the direction in which the plurality of first contacts are arrayed and a second movable portion being connected to the first movable portion, having spring properties so as to be displaceable in a direction orthogonal to the direction in which the plurality of first contacts are arrayed, the first contact portion being disposed in the second movable portion, and
wherein the first connector portion and the second connector portion are superimposed on each other in the fitting plane and are slid relatively in the direction in which the plurality of first contacts are arrayed so that the second contact portion of each of the plurality of second contacts in the second connector portion comes in contact with the first contact portion of a corresponding first contact among the plurality of first contacts in the first connector portion while the first movable portion and the second movable portion of the first contact in the first connector portion are displaced, whereby the first connector portion and the second connector portion are fitted with each other, and a displacement amount of the first movable portion in the direction in which the plurality of first contacts are arrayed is smaller than a displacement amount of the second movable portion in the direction orthogonal to the direction in which the plurality of first contacts are arrayed.

2. The thin connector according to claim 1 , wherein the first movable portion of each of the plurality of first contacts has a cantilever shape extending in the direction orthogonal to the direction in which the plurality of first contacts are arrayed, and the second movable portion is connected to an end portion of the first movable portion.

3. The thin connector according to claim 1 , wherein each of the first connector portion and the second connector portion has an insulating sheet and a conductive material attached to a surface of the insulating sheet, and the plurality of first contacts and the plurality of second contacts are formed at the conductive material.

4. The thin connector according to claim 3 , wherein the insulating sheet is attached on only the first movable portion, of the first movable portion and the second movable portion of each of the plurality of first contacts.

5. The thin connector according to claim 3 , wherein the insulating sheet is made of polyimide.

6. The thin connector according to claim 3 , wherein the first connector portion includes a reinforcing plate attached to another surface of the insulating sheet on an opposite side to the conductive material.

7. The thin connector according to claim 1 , wherein the first movable portion of each of the plurality of first contacts has a width wider than a width of the second movable portion.

8. The thin connector according to claim 1 , wherein each of the plurality of second contacts has a projection portion projecting in a direction perpendicular to the fitting plane, and the second contact portion is constituted of a side surface of the projection portion.

9. The thin connector according to claim 8 , wherein the projection portion of each of the plurality of second contacts has on an upper part thereof an overhang portion overhanging along the fitting plane.

10. The thin connector according to claim 8 , wherein the projection portion of each of the plurality of second contacts is formed by additive plating.

11. The thin connector according to claim 1 , wherein the first connector portion and the second connector portion have first lock portions and second lock portions, respectively, disposed at both end portions of the first connector portion and both end portions of the second connector portion in the direction in which the plurality of first contacts and the plurality of second contacts are arrayed, the first lock portions and the second lock portions maintaining a state of fitting between the first connector portion and the second connector portion.

12. The thin connector according to claim 1 , wherein the first connector portion includes a plurality of displacement restriction portions each of which is formed between adjacent first contacts among the plurality of first contacts and restricts a maximum displacement amount of the first movable portion of each of the plurality of first contacts in the direction in which the plurality of first contacts are arrayed.

Assignees

• Japan Aviation Electron

Inventors

• Komoto Tetsuya
• Hashiguchi Osamu
• Tatebe Yu

Classifications

• H01R13/24

  resilient; resiliently-mounted · CPC title

• H01R12/89

  acting manually by moving connector housing parts linearly, e.g. slider · CPC title

• H01R12/716 Primary

  Coupling device provided on the PCB · CPC title