Abstract: A board connector A includes a housing 10 to be mounted on a circuit board P, and first and second terminal fittings 21, 31 mounted in the housing. The first and second terminal fittings 21, 31 include first and second board connecting portions 22, 32 projecting from a facing surface 15 of the housing 10 facing the circuit board P and to be surface-mounted on the circuit board P. The first and second board connecting portions 22, 32 extend in a direction intersecting a facing direction of the circuit board P and the facing surface 15. A jig accommodating portion 16 recessed from a region of the facing surface 15 not facing the first and second board connecting portions 22, 32 is formed in a region of the facing surface 15 facing the first and second board connecting portions 22, 32.

Abstract: A connector 10 includes a board-side housing 21 to be installed on a circuit board 100, and mating housings 61A, 61B to be connected to the board-side housing 21. The board-side housing 21 includes front and back walls 26, 27, left and right walls 28, 29 and accommodation chambers 32A, 32B arranged between the front and back walls 26, 27 and between the left and right walls 28, 29 and open upward. The mating housings 61A, 61B include protruding portions 78 exposed above the board-side housing 21 and protruding toward both front and back sides beyond the front and back walls 26, 27 with the mating housings 61A, 61B accommodated in the accommodation chambers 32A, 32B.

Abstract: A connector includes a housing including a terminal accommodation chamber, a terminal fitting including a locking hole and to be inserted into the terminal accommodation chamber from behind the housing, and a locking lance for retaining the terminal fitting inserted into the terminal accommodation chamber. The locking lance is cantilevered forward and includes a body portion resiliently displaceable in a direction intersecting an insertion direction of the terminal fitting and a projection projecting from the body portion toward the terminal fitting and configured to enter the locking hole when the terminal fitting is inserted into the terminal accommodation chamber. A width of the projection is smaller than that of the locking hole. A maximum width of the body portion is larger than the width of the projection. A part of the body portion connected to the projection is formed with a guiding portion gradually reduced in width toward the projection.

Abstract: A connector 10 disclosed by this specification is to be mounted on a circuit board having lands and includes a housing 12 to be connected to a mating housing, and a pair of pegs (board fixing portions) 16 to be respectively mounted into both side portions of the housing 12 and soldered and fixed to the lands. The pair of pegs 16 respectively have peg-side contact surfaces (fixing portion-side contact surfaces) 26S to be held in surface contact with a pair of housing-side contact surfaces 52S located on both side surfaces of the housing 12. The housing 12 includes a pair of first projections (projections) 64 projecting toward back surfaces 26B of the pair of pegs 16 on sides opposite to the peg-side contact surfaces 26S.

Abstract: A connector assembly (10) disclosed by this specification is provided with a male connector (first connector) (14) including a connector-side receptacle (24) and to be fixed to a printed body (fixing member) (12), a female connector (second connector) to be fit into the connector-side receptacle of the first connector, and a case configured to accommodate the fixing member. The connector-side receptacle has a first facing surface configured to face a second facing surface provided on the second connector in a connecting direction. The case includes a connection stopping portion configured to come into contact with a contact portion provided on the second connector. A connecting operation of the first connector and the second connector is stopped in a state where the first facing surface and the second facing surface are not in contact by the contact of the contact portion and the connection stopping portion.

Abstract: A metal paste formed by kneading a solid content including silver particles and a solvent, in which the solid content includes silver particles containing silver particles having a particle size of 100 to 200 nm by 30% or more based on the number of particles, the silver particles have an average particle size of 60 to 800 nm as a whole, the silver particles constituting the solid content are bound with an amine compound having 4 to 8 carbon atoms in total as a protective agent, and the metal paste contains as an additive a high-molecular-weight ethyl cellulose having a number average molecular weight of 40000 to 90000. Since the metal paste contains a high-molecular-weight ethyl cellulose, a sintered body having a low resistance can be maintained while printability is improved. The metal paste has favorable printability, and can form a sintered body having a low resistance even in a low temperature region of 150° C. or lower.

Abstract: A terminal (11) to be mounted into a housing (20) mounted on a circuit board (40) includes a terminal contact portion (12) to be disposed in a forwardly open receptacle (21) of the housing (20), an inserting portion (14) to be inserted into a terminal insertion hole (24) penetrating through a rear wall (22) of the receptacle (21) in a front-rear direction, and a board connecting portion (16) to be drawn out rearward from the terminal insertion hole (24) and connected to the circuit board (40). The inserting portion (14) includes a first press-fit portion (31) projecting in a first direction intersecting the circuit board (40) and to be press-fit to an inner wall of the terminal insertion hole (24) and a second press-fit portion (33) projecting in a second direction intersecting the first direction and to be press-fit to the inner wall of the terminal insertion hole (24).

Abstract: A board connector (20) is provided with first terminals (30), second terminals (40) and a housing (21) including a wall (23) for holding the first and second terminals (30, 40). The first terminal 30 includes a first extending portion (35) extending out from the wall (23), and the second terminal 40 includes a second extending portion (45) extending out from the wall (23). The first extending portion (35) includes a first connecting portion (38) that can be soldered to a land (12A) of a board (11). The second extending portion (45) includes a second connecting portion (49) that can be soldered to a land (12B) of the board (11) at a position more distant from the wall (23) than the first connecting portion (38) and a bent portion (48) is bent to approach the first connecting portion (38) at a position not overlapping the first connecting portion (38).

Abstract: It is aimed to provide a terminal capable of realizing a cost reduction while maintaining solder wettability. The terminal has a board connecting portion to be connected to a circuit board, and includes a base and a plating layer. The base has a plated surface covered by the plating layer and an exposed surface. The plating layer on the board connecting portion has a first inclined surface for covering a slope connecting the plated surface and the exposed surface.

Abstract: A connector housing (20) includes a housing body (21) to which a mating connector housing is to be fit from front. A lock arm (40) has front and rear ends fixed to the housing body (21). A lock (42) is provided in a central part of the lock arm (40) in the front-rear direction and is configured to lock the mating connector housing. A pressing surface (43) is on a rear end part of the lock arm (40) and is configured to displace the lock (42) in an unlocking direction by being pressed. A coupling portion (44) couples the pressing surface (43) to the central part of the lock arm (40) in the front-rear direction.

Abstract: A connector assembly (10) disclosed by this specification is provided with a male connector (first connector) (14) including a connector-side receptacle (24) and to be fixed to a printed body (fixing member) (12), a female connector (second connector) to be fit into the connector-side receptacle of the first connector, and a case configured to accommodate the fixing member. The connector-side receptacle has a first facing surface configured to face a second facing surface provided on the second connector in a connecting direction. The case includes a connection stopping portion configured to come into contact with a contact portion provided on the second connector. A connecting operation of the first connector and the second connector is stopped in a state where the first facing surface and the second facing surface are not in contact by the contact of the contact portion and the connection stopping portion.

Abstract: A connector (C) includes a housing (60), a terminal fitting (10) and a retainer (80). The housing (60) includes a cavity (64) extending in a front-rear direction and a retainer insertion hole (72) intersecting and communicating with the cavity and open in an outer surface. The terminal fitting (10) is inserted into the cavity (64) from behind, and a stabilizer configured to guide an inserting operation into the cavity (64) and restrict the inserting operation in an erroneous posture projects on an outer side. The retainer (80) is inserted into the retainer insertion hole (72) and include a retaining portion (85) configured to face the stabilizer from behind.

Abstract: A terminal fitting (T) includes an inner conductor (11) and an outer conductor (12). The inner conductor (11) has a mating connecting portion (15) to be connected to a mating terminal fitting and a center conductor crimping portion (16) to be crimped to a center conductor of a shielded cable. The outer conductor (12) has a tubular portion (19) configured to surround the mating connecting portion (15). A coupling (21) is behind the tubular portion (19). The center conductor crimping portion is inside the coupling (21). A shield crimping portion (22) is behind the coupling (21) and is to be crimped to a shield layer of the shielded cable. A conductive member (60) extends in a front-rear direction and includes a bridge (61) to electrically contact the tubular portion (19) and the shield crimping portion (22) across the coupling (21).

Abstract: In order to maintain the image quality of a recent high-speed electrophotographic apparatus, a charging member is provided which hardly causes charging unevenness of a photosensitive member even when vibration of the photosensitive member occurs. The charging member includes an electro-conductive support, an electro-conductive elastic layer, and a surface layer. The elastic layer contains a resin having an epichlorohydrin chain in the molecular structure and a specific flavonoid compound having two or more hydroxyl groups in the molecular structure.

Abstract: It is aimed to provide a terminal capable of realizing a cost reduction while maintaining solder wettability. The terminal has a board connecting portion to be connected to a circuit board, and includes a base and a plating layer. The base has a plated surface covered by the plating layer and an exposed surface. The plating layer on the board connecting portion has a first inclined surface for covering a slope connecting the plated surface and the exposed surface.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for producing silver particles, including the steps of: mixing a thermally decomposable silver compound and an amine compound to prepare a silver-amine complex as a precursor; and heating the silver-amine complex at a heating temperature equal to or higher than the decomposition temperature of the silver-amine complex to precipitate silver particles, the silver compound being silver carbonate, the amine compound being terminated with a primary amino group on at least one end and containing a predetermined hydrocarbon group R with a carbon number of 4 to 10. In the method of the present invention, silver particles with the particle size controlled to fall within the range of 20 nm to 200 nm in terms of an average particle size can be produced.

Abstract: A connector (C) includes a housing (60), a terminal fitting (10) and a retainer (80). The housing (60) includes a cavity (64) extending in a front-rear direction and a retainer insertion hole (72) intersecting and communicating with the cavity and open in an outer surface. The terminal fitting (10) is inserted into the cavity (64) from behind, and a stabilizer configured to guide an inserting operation into the cavity (64) and restrict the inserting operation in an erroneous posture projects on an outer side. The retainer (80) is inserted into the retainer insertion hole (72) and include a retaining portion (85) configured to face the stabilizer from behind.

Abstract: A terminal fitting (T) includes an inner conductor (11) and an outer conductor (12). The inner conductor (11) has a mating connecting portion (15) to be connected to a mating terminal fitting and a center conductor crimping portion (16) to be crimped to a center conductor of a shielded cable. The outer conductor (12) has a tubular portion (19) configured to surround the mating connecting portion (15). A coupling (21) is behind the tubular portion (19). The center conductor crimping portion is inside the coupling (21). A shield crimping portion (22) is behind the coupling (21) and is to be crimped to a shield layer of the shielded cable. A conductive member (60) extends in a front-rear direction and includes a bridge (61) to electrically contact the tubular portion (19) and the shield crimping portion (22) across the coupling (21).

Abstract: A connector housing (20) includes a housing body (21) to which a mating connector housing is to be fit from front. A lock arm (40) has front and rear ends fixed to the housing body (21). A lock (42) is provided in a central part of the lock arm (40) in the front-rear direction and is configured to lock the mating connector housing. A pressing surface (43) is on a rear end part of the lock arm (40) and is configured to displace the lock (42) in an unlocking direction by being pressed. A coupling portion (44) couples the pressing surface (43) to the central part of the lock arm (40) in the front-rear direction.

Abstract: In order to maintain the image quality of a recent high-speed electrophotographic apparatus, a charging member is provided which hardly causes charging unevenness of a photosensitive member even when vibration of the photosensitive member occurs. The charging member includes an electro-conductive support, an electro-conductive elastic layer, and a surface layer. The elastic layer contains a resin having an epichlorohydrin chain in the molecular structure and a specific flavonoid compound having two or more hydroxyl groups in the molecular structure.