Abstract: To reduce the displacement load of a spring portion in order to improve the workability of insertion and extraction of a movable connector. A spring portion has an upper piece portion and a lower piece portion having a linear shape, and is formed in such a square wave shape that an outer vertical piece portion having a linear portion extends from a first end of the upper piece portion, a central vertical piece portion having a linear shape and connected to a first end of the lower piece portion extends from a second end of the upper piece portion, and an inner vertical piece portion having a linear shape extends from a second end of the lower piece portion.

Abstract: In an imaging device, an electric connection is achieved in which a pressing force of a terminal of a substrate-side connector does not act on a substrate stored in a housing. Harness connection terminals have plate-shaped contact pieces projecting from an inner peripheral surface of a cylindrical peripheral wall of a rear housing. Terminals of a connector have clamp contact portions that clamp the plate-shaped contact pieces to be in conductive contact therewith. The pressing force of the clamp contact portions acts in the plate thickness direction of the plate-shaped contact pieces, but does not act in the plate thickness direction of the substrate. This avoids warpage of the substrate.

Abstract: In a connector, a terminal has a pair of contact portions that are fixed to a housing and disposed so as to provide a stable and reliable electrical connection. In the connector, a movable housing has a first contact portion fixation groove that supports a first contact portion of the terminal and a second contact portion fixation groove that supports a second contact portion. The terminal has a link portion that can join the first contact portion and the second contact portion to each other so as to be able to adjust the clearance therebetween. The link portion can absorb a variation in the clearance between the first contact portion fixation groove and the second contact portion fixation groove and a variation in the clearance between the first contact portion and the second contact portion.

Abstract: To provide a flat-conductor connector that implements, with a simple structure, a function of preventing a flat conductor from coming out thereof. A flat-conductor connector includes a housing including a holding portion into which a flat conductor is inserted to be electrically connected. The housing includes a deformation guiding portion that comes into contact with the flat conductor and that causes a side edge portion of the flat conductor to be curved and deformed in a thickness direction and a retaining engagement portion that is located on a far side of the deformation guiding portion in an insertion direction of the flat conductor and that engages an edge of a recess formed in the side edge portion of the flat conductor that has returned from a state of being curved and deformed to its original shape, in a direction in which the flat conductor is to be pulled.

Abstract: There is provided an imaging apparatus that is resistant to electromagnetic noise and can be readily manufactured at low cost. An outer frame member 7 is provided with an inner frame member 6, which is a box-shaped metal shell, to suppress influence of electromagnetic noise on the interior of the outer frame member 7. A tubular section 72 is provided with a pin shield 53, which is a tubular metal shell, to suppress influence of electromagnetic noise on the interior of the tubular section 72, which connects an external conductor to the imaging apparatus. A bad influence of external electromagnetic noise on pin terminals 52, which serve as an electrically continuous path, can be avoided. The inner frame member 6 and the pin shield 53 are members separate from each other and can therefore each be relatively readily manufactured as a press-worked metal thin plate.

Abstract: There is provided an imaging apparatus capable of efficiently dissipating heat generated by an electronic circuit unit and eliminating noise. The imaging apparatus includes a housing 8, which includes an outer frame member 7 and an inner frame member 6 that is made of a metal, a lens unit 3, which is attached to an opening of the housing 8, a substrate 41, on which a heat dissipating wiring line is formed, an electronic circuit unit 4, which is provided in the inner frame member 6, and a fixing member 9, which is made of a metal, is in contact with the heat dissipating metal wiring line 43 in the electronic circuit unit 4 and the inner frame member 6, and fixes the electronic circuit unit 4 to the inner frame member 6. The configuration described above achieves not only efficient dissipation of the heat from the electronic circuit unit 4 via the heat dissipating metal wiring line 43and the fixing member 9 to the inner frame member 6 but noise elimination.

Abstract: A multi-contact connector includes terminals, which each include a first contact piece section, which has a first contact section, which achieves pressing contact with a pin terminal in a first direction, and a first elastic arm, which extends in a direction that intersects the first direction and displaceably supports the first contact section, and a second contact piece section, which has a second contact section, which achieves pressing contact with the pin terminal in the first direction, and a second elastic arm, which displaceably supports the second contact section. The second elastic arm extends in the first direction, which intersects the direction in which the first elastic arm extends, and an end portion of the second elastic arm or the end portion in the extending direction, that is, the front end facing the first elastic arm is formed as a spring piece linked to the second contact section.

Abstract: In an accommodation hole of a dielectric, an external connection terminal, a board connection terminal, and a first coil spring that make up an internal conductor are disposed compactly in a straight line along the hole axis of the accommodation hole. Therefore, an external connection connector can be reduced in size in the radial direction, the projected area on a second board can also be reduced, and it is possible to contribute to the reduction in size of the entire imaging device by the reduction in size of the second board.

Abstract: A connector to which a connection target object is fitted and connected by inserting the connection target object into a fitting chamber is configured to allow the fitting operation to be readily performed even in a case where the connector is small. An insertion guiding surface is provided round an insertion port through which the connection target object is inserted. The insertion guiding surface has an inner guiding surface that extends from the edge of the insertion port toward the fitting chamber, an intermediate guiding surface provided in a region outside the inner guiding surface, and an outer guiding surface provided in a region outside the intermediate guiding surface. The inner guiding surface differs from the intermediate guiding surface in terms of shape, and the intermediate guiding surface differs from the outer guiding surface in terms of shape.

Abstract: A multi-contact connector includes terminals, which each include a first contact piece section, which has a first contact section, which achieves pressing contact with a pin terminal in a first direction, and a first elastic arm, which extends in a direction that intersects the first direction and displaceably supports the first contact section, and a second contact piece section, which has a second contact section, which achieves pressing contact with the pin terminal in the first direction, and a second elastic arm, which displaceably supports the second contact section. The second elastic arm extends in the first direction, which intersects the direction in which the first elastic arm extends, and an end portion of the second elastic arm or the end portion in the extending direction, that is, the front end facing the first elastic arm is formed as a spring piece linked to the second contact section.

Abstract: In an imaging device, an electric connection is achieved in which a pressing force of a terminal of a substrate-side connector does not act on a substrate stored in a housing. Harness connection terminals have inner-surface contact pieces each shaped like a flat plate and extending along an inner peripheral surface of a cylindrical peripheral wall of a rear housing. Terminals of a connector have press contact portions in press contact with the inner-surface contact pieces in a radial direction of the cylindrical peripheral wall. The pressing force of the press contact portions acts in the radial direction of the cylindrical peripheral wall, but does not act in the plate thickness direction of the substrate. This avoids warpage of the substrate.

Abstract: There is provided a movable connector that more reliably suppresses pivotal motion of a connection target object at a contact section serving as the center of the pivotal motion. Further, reliable suppression of the pivotal motion of the connection target object at the contact section is achieved with no increase in the size of terminals. A contact section includes a first contact piece section having a first contact section that achieves pressing contact with a pin terminal T in a first direction, a second contact piece section having a second contact section that achieves pressing contact with the pin terminal T in the first direction in a position shifted from the first contact section toward the far side, and a contact receiving section that faces the first and second contact sections and has a contact surface section that comes into contact with the pin terminal T over the length thereof.

Abstract: A connector which is provided with connector terminals which include a plurality of terminals that are configured to be in contact with a connection target and achieves reliable contact with the connection target while preventing the plurality of terminals from being in contact with each other when the plurality of terminals come into contact with the connection target and are displaced by the connection target is provided. A connector includes a housing and a connector terminal, and the connector terminal includes a front terminal including a contact portion that comes into contact with a plug connector inserted from an insertion port of the housing and an elastic arm that supports the contact portion in a displaceable manner; and a rear terminal including a contact portion that comes into contact with the plug connector subsequent to the contact portion of the front terminal and an elastic arm.

Abstract: An object is to reduce the size of a multi-contact connector having a wiping function. A multi-contact connector includes a front terminal and a rear terminal. The front terminal and the rear terminal are independently housed in one terminal accommodating groove in a housing in such a manner as to separate from each other. Unlike terminals of a multi-contact connector according to the related art, each terminal has no junction where it divides into a front contact and a rear contact. The housing requires no space for accommodating such a junction, and this reduces the size of the multi-contact connector.

Abstract: In a substrate-side housing of a plug connector and a housing of a socket connector, an abutment receiving portion and a columnar projection are provided to disable the socket connector from being inserted into the substrate-side housing when the socket connector is misaligned beyond a movable range of a fitting-side housing of the plug connector.

Abstract: A movable connector with which an insertion force of a connection object that places a load on a solder portion can be reduced, that has a floating function, and that can be reduced in size is provided. As a result of a pushing operation in which an operation housing is pushed into a fixed housing, a relay terminal is conductively connected to a substrate connection terminal, which is in conductive contact with a substrate, and a pin terminal, which is disposed in a movable housing and serves as the connection object, in the movable housing. Accordingly, the overall size of the movable connector can be reduced. In addition, the insertion force applied to the pin terminal is not applied to the solder portion by which the movable connector is fixed to the substrate, so that conduction failure does not occur.

Abstract: To reduce the displacement load of a spring portion in order to improve the workability of insertion and extraction of a movable connector. A spring portion has an upper piece portion and a lower piece portion having a linear shape, and is formed in such a square wave shape that an outer vertical piece portion having a linear portion extends from a first end of the upper piece portion, a central vertical piece portion having a linear shape and connected to a first end of the lower piece portion extends from a second end of the upper piece portion, and an inner vertical piece portion having a linear shape extends from a second end of the lower piece portion.

Abstract: In an accommodation hole of a dielectric, an external connection terminal, a board connection terminal, and a first coil spring that make up an internal conductor are disposed compactly in a straight line along the hole axis of the accommodation hole. Therefore, an external connection connector can be reduced in size in the radial direction, the projected area on a second board can also be reduced, and it is possible to contribute to the reduction in size of the entire imaging device by the reduction in size of the second board.

Abstract: To provide an imaging device and an electronic component for the imaging device that are capable of achieving both electromagnetic wave shielding and heat radiation. An external connection connector of a rear housing includes a resin holding portion, and the holding portion includes a case portion connection portion that holds a metal case portion, and a shielding member connection portion that holds a metal shielding member. Accordingly, with a housing including a rear housing, and an imaging device including the housing, heat generated by an electric component can be radiated to the outside effectively with the metal case portion. Furthermore, the metal shielding member can also exert the effect of shielding a pin terminal from electromagnetic waves.

Abstract: To provide an electronic component and an imaging device including the electronic component, which can readily integrate the connector portion to the housing. The shielding member includes a screw portion. The screw portion is fastened by being screwed to a screw hole of a holding wall of a case portion configuring a rear housing. An external connection connector can be readily integrated to the rear housing in the above manner.