Abstract: Provided is a connector which includes: an insulating housing; and a conductive terminal, in which the terminal is fixed to the housing, and includes a mounting portion connected to a board and a contact portion protruding from the mounting portion in a fitting direction, and a thickness of the contact portion is greater than a thickness of the mounting portion in a direction perpendicular to the board.

Abstract: Housings have blade receiving portions for blade insertion formed in a peripheral wall by two side walls facing each other in the through-thickness direction of the blades and two end walls; the multiple connecting units include end connecting units located at the opposite ends in the through-thickness direction of the blades and intermediate connecting units located between the end connecting units; engagement grooves engaging with counterpart connect bodies formed in the intermediate connecting units between the side walls and the end walls of the housing to extend in the through-thickness direction of the blades and be open toward the counterpart connect bodies; and no grooves are formed in end connecting units to an extent equal to or greater than the depth of the engagement grooves of the intermediate connecting units between the end walls and the outer side walls located on the outside in the through-thickness direction of the blades.

Abstract: An intermediate electrical connector 1 which, upon connection of a first counterpart connect body 2 and a second counterpart connect body each from different sides in a manner permitting plugging and unplugging, mediates between the two counterpart connect bodies, the intermediate electrical connector 1 comprising terminals that are enabled to contact, respectively, the first counterpart connect body 2 and the second counterpart connect body, and a housing that directly or indirectly secures the terminals in place, wherein the connector has locking fittings 100 supported by the housing of the intermediate electrical connector 1, and the locking fittings 100 have locking portions 104A enabled to engage lockable portions 151 provided in the first counterpart connect body 2 in the direction of disengagement when the intermediate electrical connector 1 and said first counterpart connect body 2 are connected.

Abstract: Provided a connector including a plurality of terminals insert molded with a housing. At least one of terminals includes a first terminal portion and a second terminal portion spaced apart from the first terminal portion in a direction along a direction of mating to a counterpart connector. The first terminal portion includes a first surface extending along a plane crossing the mating direction on a side opposite to the side that mates to the counterpart connector. The first surface includes a portion that does not overlap the second terminal portion as the first and second terminal portions are viewed in the direction from the side opposite to the side that mates to the counterpart connector. At least a partial region of the portion, which does not overlap the second terminal portion, of the first surface is exposed to an outside of the housing through an opening of the housing.

Abstract: Provided is a connector including a housing. The housing has a terminal array wall, an insertion/detachment direction restriction portion provided in an area defined by the terminal array wall and contacts the partner connector to set a maximum depth position of the partner connector upon fitting, and an inclination restriction portion. The inclination restriction portion is, at a position outside the area defined by the terminal array wall, positioned with a predetermined clearance from a corresponding portion of the partner connector at the maximum depth position upon fitting in a connector insertion/detachment direction.

Abstract: Example implementations described herein are directed to reducing far end cross talk (FEXT), including differential-to-differential far end crosstalk (DDFEXT) or single ended FEXT through generating and applying a delay shifter/inverter that is cascaded onto a target electrical system and shifts the even-mode and odd-mode propagation delay of a target electrical system to be substantially equal, which in turn reduces FEXT in the overall system.

Abstract: Provided is a cable holding member which includes: an insulated main body; a through-hole; a bend portion; and a cover portion, in which the through-hole is configured to allow a cable to be inserted therethrough from one end side toward the other side of the main body, the cover portion is configured in such a manner as to be bendable relative to the main body along the bend portion, and at least a part of the cover portion is configured to, upon the cover portion being bent relative to the main body, be capable of covering a plane intersecting with a direction where the cable is inserted, at an opening end face of an opening portion of the through-hole, the opening end face being located on the other end side, or a vicinity thereof.

Abstract: The rotation sensing device comprises a magnet, magnetic sensors, and yokes, which are secured to the base and control the magnetic flux of the magnetic field formed by the magnet; each magnetic sensor comprises a magnetic wire, a coil, and a bobbin; each yoke comprises a left yoke piece and a right yoke piece partially covering the left portion and the right portion of the magnetic sensor; the left yoke piece has a left front plate portion, the left front plate portion, which extends linearly from the front of the left portion of the bobbin, which is to the left of the section where the coil is provided, all the way to the front of the coil, and is inclined with respect to the direction of extension of the magnetic wire such that the right end thereof is located rearwardly of left end thereof.

Abstract: Provided is a connector fitting which includes: a fixed portion provided on a side wall of a housing of a connector; and a projecting portion provided on the side wall of the housing and projecting from the side wall of the housing with respect to the fixed portion, in which the fixed portion is wider than the projecting portion, the fixed portion includes a pair of shoulder portions on both side surfaces of the fixed portion, and the shoulder portions are provided on a side surface between the fixed portion and the projecting portion.

Abstract: The movable housing has an entry wall portion that enters the interior space of the stationary housing; terminal holding grooves accommodating a portion of the resilient portions, which extend in the direction of connection to a counterpart connect body, are formed to be arranged in the terminal array direction on one wall surface of the entry wall portion; movable-side terminal holding portions securing the movable-side retained portions of the terminals are formed on the opposite side in the connector width direction perpendicular to said one wall surface; between adjacent terminal holding grooves. When the terminals are attached in the direction of connection from the circuit board side, the projections have gaps formed between them and the resilient portions of the terminals located within the terminal holding grooves in the terminal array direction.

Abstract: To provide an electrical connector with flat-type conductors, a counterpart electrical connector, and an electrical connector assembly, in which the size of the connector is not increased in the thickness direction of the flat-type conductors when using two flat-type conductors disposed in parallel opposite each other.

Abstract: The movable housing has an entry wall portion that enters the interior space of the stationary housing; terminal holding grooves accommodating a portion of the resilient portions, which extend in the direction of connection to a counterpart connect body, are formed to be arranged in the terminal array direction on one wall surface of the entry wall portion; movable-side terminal holding portions securing the movable-side retained portions of the terminals are formed on the opposite side in the connector width direction perpendicular to said one wall surface; between adjacent terminal holding grooves. When the terminals are attached in the direction of connection from the circuit board side, the projections have gaps formed between them and the resilient portions of the terminals located within the terminal holding grooves in the terminal array direction.

Abstract: An electrical connector with a flat-type conductor 1 for matingly connecting a front end section of a flat-type conductor C with a strip-like configuration extending in the forward-backward direction to a counterpart electrical connector 2, said electrical connector with a flat-type conductor 1 comprising the flat-type conductor C and a housing 10 holding the front end section of the flat-type conductor C, wherein the housing 10 has a locking portion 11E lockable to the counterpart electrical connector 2 and receiving spaces 10D for receiving counterpart terminals 30 provided in the counterpart electrical connector 2, and the locking portion 11E, along with being positioned differently from the position of the receiving spaces 10D when viewed in the thickness direction of the flat-type conductor C, is positioned so as to at least partially overlap with the receiving spaces 10D in the thickness direction of the flat-type conductor C.

Abstract: The housing has a locking portion, which is positioned within the range between the circuits positioned at the outermost ends in the strip width direction of the flat-type conductor and is lockable to the counterpart electrical connector, and a holding space, which holds the retainer along with the front end section of the flat-type conductor, the front end section of the flat-type conductor has formed therein a pass-through portion extending through the flat-type conductor in the thickness direction of said flat-type conductor at a location at least partially overlapping with the locking portion in the strip width direction, and the retainer has a protrusion that protrudes in the thickness direction of the flat-type conductor and enters the pass-through portion of the flat-type conductor, thereby making it possible to limit the rearward movement of the flat-type conductor with the help of said protrusion.

Abstract: A flat conductor electric connector mounted on a circuit board and electrically connected to a front end side portion of a band-shaped flat conductor extending in a front-back direction, comprising: multiple terminals in such a shape that metal plate members are bent in a plate thickness direction thereof; and a housing holding, by insert molding, the multiple terminals arrayed in a terminal array direction which is a band width direction, wherein each of the multiple terminals has, at least at one end portion in the front-back direction, a holding target portion held on the housing and an extending portion extending from the housing and formed with a mounting portion to be mounted on the circuit board by soldering, and the holding target portions adjacent to each other and the extending portions adjacent to each other are arrayed and positioned in the terminal array direction. The mounting portion includes an opening to receive a pin of a molding device.

Abstract: An electrical connector includes: an insulating spacer formed including an insulating material; a shell formed including a conductive material, the shell being configured to cover at least a part of the insulating spacer; and a plurality of terminals configured to be held by the insulating spacer. Each of the plurality of terminals includes a contact portion that contacts a terminal of a counterpart connector, and a board connection portion that is connected to a circuit on a board where the electrical connector is mounted, and the insulating spacer includes a cavity for preventing the inflow of a coating along a surface facing the board, between the board connection portion and the contact portion in the surface facing the board.

Abstract: Provided is a connector assembly including a first connector including a first terminal on a bottom surface thereof, and a first contact portion being a part of the first terminal and a projection portion on a surface opposite to the bottom surface; and a second connector including a second terminal on a bottom surface thereof, and a second contact portion being a part of the second terminal, the second contact portion being configured to be electrically connected to the first contact portion, and a groove portion configured to receive the projection portion, on a surface opposite to the bottom surface, wherein at least a part of a surface of the projection portion is in intimate contact with a part of a surface of the groove portion, and each of the first and second connectors is an integrally-molded product including an insulating member and a conductive member.

Abstract: Provided is a connector which includes: a fixed housing; a movable housing in the fixed housing which mates with a counterpart connector; and a plurality of terminals held by the fixed housing and the movable housing, the plurality of terminals being configured to contact terminals of the counterpart connector, in which each of the plurality of terminals includes: a first fixed portion buried by integral molding in the fixed housing; a second fixed portion buried by the integral molding in the movable housing; an elastic portion between the first fixed portion and the second fixed portion, the elastic portion having elasticity that allows the movable housing to be displaced relative to the fixed housing; and a contact portion at an end of the second fixed portion, the contact portion having elasticity and being configured to contact the terminal of the counterpart connector mated with the movable housing.