Connector

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9559469-B2
Application number	US-201615091785-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 6, 2016
Priority date	Apr 21, 2015
Publication date	Jan 31, 2017
Grant date	Jan 31, 2017

Abstract

Provided is a connector whose miniaturization is easier than before. A connector includes a signal terminal as at least one first terminal having conductivity, a housing having insulating property and holding the signal terminal, a shell having conductivity and covering the housing, and an upper ground terminal as a second terminal having conductivity and a lower ground terminal as a third terminal having conductivity which are held by the housing so as to face each other via the signal terminal with a space left therebetween. Further, the upper ground terminal has a contact portion being in contact with a contact inner surface of the shell.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A connector comprising:
at least one first terminal having conductivity;
a housing having insulating property and holding the at least one first terminal;
a she having conductivity and covering the housing; and
a second terminal having conductivity and a third terminal having conductivity that are held by the housing so as to face each other via the at least one first terminal with a space left therebetween,
wherein the second terminal comprises a contact portion being in contact with a contact inner surface of the shell.

2. The connector according to claim 1 , wherein the shell comprises a shell-side elastic portion provided at the contact inner surface and adapted to be elastically deformed in a direction in which the contact portion applies a pressure.

3. The connector according to claim 1 , wherein the connector is a connector adapted to be mounted on a board and the third terminal is a lower ground terminal adapted to be connected to a ground terminal of the board.

4. The connector according to claim 1 , wherein the second terminal is an upper ground terminal adapted to be connected to a ground terminal of a mating connector adapted to be fitted to the connector.

5. The connector according to claim 1 , wherein the third terminal is a lower ground terminal adapted to be connected to a ground terminal of a mating connector adapted to be fitted to the connector.

6. The connector according to claim 1 , wherein the shell comprises a ground connecting portion adapted to be connected to a ground terminal of a unit housing adapted to be disposed outside the shell.

7. The connector according to claim 1 ,
wherein the shell has a box shape with a front surface, being opened as an open surface of surfaces crossing a direction in which a mating connector as a fitting object and the connector are fitted to each other, and
wherein the contact portion is in contact with a rear inner surface, facing the open surface, of the surfaces of the shell.

8. The connector according to claim 1 , wherein the second terminal comprises a terminal-side elastic portion that presses the contact portion into contact with the contact inner surface of the shell.

9. The connector according to claim 8 , wherein the housing comprises a backup portion provided to contact an outer surface, on a side opposite to the contact inner surface, of the shell.

10. The connector according to claim 8 ,
wherein the contact inner surface is a surface parallel to a direction in which the shell is mounted on the housing,
wherein the shell comprises a non-contact inner surface provided forward of the contact inner surface in the direction in which the shell is mounted on the housing, and
wherein the non-contact inner surface protrudes more than the contact inner surface in a direction in which the contact portion contacts the contact inner surface.

Assignees

• Japan Aviation Electronics Ind Ltd

Inventors

• Nishimori Hiroto
• Shinmyo Minoru

Classifications

• H01R13/6594

  the shield being mounted on a PCB and connected to conductive members · CPC title

• H01R13/40

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

• H01R13/6597 Primary

  the conductive member being a contact of the connector · CPC title

• H01R13/6591

  Specific features or arrangements of connection of shield to conductive members · CPC title

• H01R13/6583

  with separate conductive resilient members between mating shield members · CPC title