Abstract: A connector includes a plug connector and a receptacle connector which connect a circuit board to a connecting object and allow relative movement therebetween in a common plane or in mutually parallel planes. The receptacle connector includes a receptacle contact including a pair of holding portions and a pair of guide portions which are spaced from each other with the pair of holding portions positioned therebetween, wherein each guide portion includes a support groove. The plug connector includes a plug contact and a plug insulator which holds the plug contact. The plug contact is linearly elongated and resiliently deformable in a direction of thickness thereof and includes a contact portion that is engaged in the support grooves of the pair of guide portions. The plug insulator includes an opening facing the circuit board, and an accommodation space for accommodating the receptacle contact and the plug contact.

Abstract: An electrical contact having a conductor connecting portion and a contact portion at each end, respectively, includes contact leaves arranged side by side and connected together at common edges thereof via a resilient connecting portion; engaging grooves formed on the contact leaves, respectively, and extending toward the conductor connecting portion from a front end thereof; and a pair of beveled contact surfaces respectively formed on side edges of a pair of opposed inner surfaces of each engaging groove. The pair of beveled contact surfaces come into surface contact with a corresponding pair of beveled contact surfaces of the mating electrical contact when the engaging grooves of the electrical contact are engaged with corresponding engaging grooves of the mating electrical contact upon the electrical contact being connected to the mating electrical contact.

Abstract: A connector includes an insulator, into which a thin sheet connection target is removably insertable, contacts, each provided with a fixed contact portion and a movable contact portion, and an actuator. Each fixed contact portion of the contacts is provided with a stopper protrusion and a hook portion provided on the stopper protrusion. Each movable contact portion of the contacts is provided with an engagement protrusion to be engaged with a cam portion formed in the actuator at the locked position. The actuator is provided with escape recesses, into each of which an end of the movable contact portions enter when the actuator is at the unlocked position. The actuator is provided with a rotation prohibition surface on a surface opposite to the escape recess, the rotation prohibition surface engaging with the hook portion from the fixed contact portion side when the actuator is at the unlocked position.

Abstract: A connector includes an insulator including contact insertion grooves and partition walls positioned therebetween, the contact insertion grooves being elongated in an insertion/removal direction of a thin plate-shaped object inserted into the insulator and arranged in a direction orthogonal thereto; and contacts inserted into the contact insertion grooves, each contact including first and second contact portions, and a connecting portion which connects the first and second contact portions to each other, wherein at least one of the first and second contact portions comes in contact with the thin plate-shaped object when the thin plate-shaped object is inserted into the insulator. A hollow portion is formed in each partition wall of the insulator so as to overlap part of each contact as viewed in a contact arranging direction, and so as to be prevented from being communicatively connected with the contact insertion grooves by the partition walls.

Abstract: A semiconductor light-emitting element mounting module includes a conductive plate including semiconductor light-emitting fixing portions and first and second electrical-supply segments, wherein the semiconductor light-emitting fixing portions includes first and second conductive sections in contact with one end of first and second contacts, the other end of the first and second contacts is conductive with an anode and a cathode of an light-emitting element, a pair of the first and second electrical-supply segments are electrically conductive with the first and second conductive sections at one end of the conductive plate, and the other pair of the first and second electrical-supply segments are conductive with the first and second conductive sections at other end of the conductive plate; and a resin surface-insulation portion covering the conductive plate with the other end of the first and second contacts exposed, and with the first and second electrical-supply segments exposed.

Abstract: A connector includes a plug connector and a receptacle connector which connect a circuit board to a connecting object and allow relative movement therebetween in a common plane or in mutually parallel planes. The receptacle connector includes a receptacle contact including a pair of holding portions and a pair of guide portions which are spaced from each other with the pair of holding portions positioned therebewteen, wherein each guide portion includes a support groove. The plug connector includes a plug contact and a plug insulator which holds the plug contact. The plug contact is linearly elongated and resiliently deformable in a direction of thickness thereof and includes a contact portion that is engaged in the support grooves of the pair of guide portions. The plug insulator includes an opening facing the circuit board, and an accommodation space for accommodating the receptacle contact and the plug contact.

Abstract: A connector having a plug connector and a receptacle connector, one of which includes a first fixed insulator, first contacts aligned in a first direction orthogonal to a connecting/disconnecting direction and each including a first resiliently deformable portion deformable in a second direction orthogonal to the connecting/disconnecting direction and the first direction, a first movable insulator supported by the first contacts, and partition walls on the first fixed insulator and/or the first movable insulator. The other of the plug connector and the receptacle connector includes a second fixed insulator, second contacts aligned in the first direction, each including a second resiliently deformable portion deformable in the first direction and contactable with one first contact, and a second movable insulator supported by the second contacts and engaged with the first movable insulator when the first and second contacts come in contact with each other.

Abstract: An electrical contact having a conductor connecting portion and a contact portion at each end, respectively, includes contact leaves arranged side by side and connected together at common edges thereof via a resilient connecting portion; engaging grooves formed on the contact leaves, respectively, and extending toward the conductor connecting portion from a front end thereof; and a pair of beveled contact surfaces respectively formed on side edges of a pair of opposed inner surfaces of each engaging groove. The pair of beveled contact surfaces come into surface contact with a corresponding pair of beveled contact surfaces of the mating electrical contact when the engaging grooves of the electrical contact are engaged with corresponding engaging grooves of the mating electrical contact upon the electrical contact being connected to the mating electrical contact.

Abstract: A connector including a receptacle connector and a plug connector. The receptacle connector includes a receptacle insulator in which an accommodation recess is formed, and receptacle contacts mounted on a circuit board, supported by the receptacle insulator. The plug connector includes a plug insulator which is accommodated in the accommodation recess, plug contacts which are supported by the plug insulator, and cables, one ends of which are connected to the plug contacts. Each receptacle contact includes a bifurcated connecting portion. Each plug contact includes a contacting portion held between a bifurcated connecting portion. Engaging/holding grooves are formed on a portion of the plug insulator which faces a bottom surface of the accommodation recess. Each contacting portion is shaped into a flat plate which projects in an opposite direction to that of the other ends of the cables. The receptacle contacts are orientated in a common direction.

Abstract: A connector to which an object is to be connected, includes an insulator having at least one contact support groove, and at least one contact which is fixed to the insulator by being inserted into the contact support groove, the contact being contactable with the object after the object is inserted into the insulator. The insulator includes at least one holding portion formed as one of a recess and a through-hole, which is communicatively connected with the contact support groove, and the contact includes a locking protrusion, which comes into engagement with the holding portion to hold the contact to the insulator when the contact is inserted into the contact support groove.

Abstract: A connector includes an insulator having an accommodation space into which an object to be connected to the connector is removably insertable, the object being a thin plate having a pair of engaging recesses at opposite side edges thereof; at least one contact fixed to the insulator, the object being connected to the contact upon insertion into the accommodation space; and a pair of resilient engaging protrusions, each having an engaging portion, which are resiliently deformable away from each other in a plane in which the object lies, the engaging portions being respectively engaged in the pair of engaging recesses of the inserted object. A distance between the engaging portions of the pair of resilient engaging protrusions in a free state is smaller than a width of an insertion end of the object which is to be inserted into the accommodation space.

Abstract: A connector to which an object is to be connected, includes an insulator having at least one contact support groove, and at least one contact which is fixed to the insulator by being inserted into the contact support groove, the contact being contactable with the object after the object is inserted into the insulator. The insulator includes at least one holding portion formed as one of a recess and a through-hole, which is communicatively connected with the contact support groove, and the contact includes a locking protrusion, which comes into engagement with the holding portion to hold the contact to the insulator when the contact is inserted into the contact support groove.

Abstract: A receptacle includes contact modules, each of which includes contacts, one of common ends thereof being connected to contact pins of a plug when the receptacle and the plug are connected to each other, and the other of the common ends of the contacts being connected to a circuit board. Each contact module includes holding plates arranged in a direction of thickness of the each contact module. At least one conductive layer and at least one insulating portion are formed on opposed surfaces of adjacent holding plates. At least one of contacts is held between the insulating portions that are formed on the opposed surfaces of the adjacent holding plates.

Abstract: A connector including a receptacle connector and a plug connector. The receptacle connector includes a receptacle insulator in which an accommodation recess is formed, and receptacle contacts mounted on a circuit board, supported by the receptacle insulator. The plug connector includes a plug insulator which is accommodated in the accommodation recess, plug contacts which are supported by the plug insulator, and cables, one ends of which are connected to the plug contacts. Each receptacle contact includes a bifurcated connecting portion. Each plug contact includes a contacting portion held between a bifurcated connecting portion. Engaging/holding grooves are formed on a portion of the plug insulator which faces a bottom surface of the accommodation recess. Each contacting portion is shaped into a flat plate which projects in an opposite direction to that of the other ends of the cables. The receptacle contacts are orientated in a common direction.

Abstract: A receptacle includes contact modules, each of which includes contacts, one of common ends thereof being connected to contact pins of a plug when the receptacle and the plug are connected to each other, and the other of the common ends of the contacts being connected to a circuit board. Each contact module includes holding plates arranged in a direction of thickness of the each contact module. At least one conductive layer and at least one insulating portion are formed on opposed surfaces of adjacent holding plates. At least one of contacts is held between the insulating portions that are formed on the opposed surfaces of the adjacent holding plates.

Abstract: A connector includes an electrical insulator made of an insulating material; a plurality of contacts fixed to the electrical insulator aligned in one direction, each contact including a contacting arm which can be in electrically continuous conduction with one of front and rear surfaces of a connection target; and a base portion from which the contacting arm extends to support the contacting arm; and an actuator which presses against the other of the front and rear surfaces of the connection target. At least one of the contacts includes a holding arm which extends from the base portion in a direction substantially parallel to the contacting arm to press the actuator toward the connection target. One of a through-hole and a cutout portion is formed in at least one of the contacts through the base portion thereof in a thickness direction thereof.

Abstract: A connector includes a plug including a plug body made of an insulating material and a plug contact; a receptacle including a receptacle body made of an insulating material and a receptacle contact, wherein the receptacle contact contacts the plug contact to be electrically connected with the plug contact when the plug is inserted into the receptacle; a plug-contact contacting portion formed on the receptacle contact for contacting the plug contact when the plug is inserted into the receptacle; an inner-wall-contacting portion extending from an end of the plug-contact contacting portion toward an inner wall of the receptacle body; and a contacting portion formed on the plug contact extending in a plug insertion/extraction direction. The first contacting portion slides on the plug-contact contacting portion and the inner-wall-contacting portion contacts the inner wall of the receptacle body when the plug is inserted in/extracted from the receptacle.

Abstract: A board-to-board connector includes a receptacle and a plug for inserting into the receptacle. The receptacle includes a receptacle insulator including two opposed side walls and opposed receptacle contacts symmetrically arranged and supported by the two opposed side walls. Each of the two opposed receptacle contacts includes an inverted U-shaped portion and a U-shape-grooved continuity. The plug includes a plug insulator including two opposed insert walls and opposed plug contacts symmetrically arranged and supported by the two opposed insert walls. Each of the two opposed plug contacts includes a U-shaped continuity portion and is inserted into the U-shape-grooved continuity portion to establish electrical connection therewith. When the plug is inserted into the receptacle, the U-shaped continuity portions of the two opposed plug contacts deform the U-shape-grooved continuity portions of the two opposed receptacle contacts resiliently away from the two opposed side walls of the receptacle insulator.

Abstract: A cable connector having a receptacle connector, the receptacle connector includes a receptacle body which is made of an insulating material and into which a cable is inserted; a plurality of contacts which are provided in the receptacle body; a spacing member which separates the cable inserted into the receptacle body from the contacts by an elastic force of the spacing member to thereby provide an electrically disconnected state; and a biasing member which biases the cable toward the contacts against an elastic force of the spacing member. A movement restricting portion which restricts the movement of the cable toward the contacts so that the cable is brought into conductive contact with the contacts by the biasing force of the biasing member only when the cable is inserted to the predetermined position in the receptacle body.

Abstract: A card connector for accommodating a removable card, includes a housing into and from which the removable card is inserted and ejected; connector terminals which come in contact with contacts of the removable card, respectively, when the removable card is inserted into the housing; a slider which moves in a card insertion direction and a card ejection direction, opposite to the card insertion direction, when the removable card is inserted and ejected into and from the housing, respectively; a first coil spring which biases the slider in the card insertion direction; and a second coil spring which biases the slider in the card ejection direction. Each of the first coil spring and the second coil spring remains in contact with the slider and the housing, respectively, regardless of the position of the slider.