Abstract: It is intended to enhance elastic force of an arm and reduce a plate material necessary for forming the arm to effectively use a resource. Provided is a connector fittable to a partner connector, the connector including an insulating housing, a contact, and a conductive shell. The shell includes at least a metal shell formed from a single metal plate. The metal shell includes a cover portion configured to cover at least part of a side portion outer peripheral surface of the housing, an elastic arm having a free end on the side of fitting to the partner connector, and a support portion coupled to a lateral side of the elastic arm to elastically connect the cover portion and the elastic arm and configured to support the elastic arm in a cantilever manner. The cover portion and the elastic arm have substantially opposing surfaces. The elastic arm has a lock portion configured to lock fitting between the connector and the partner connector at a position closer to a free end side than the support portion.

Abstract: The contact portions 22, 122 of the terminals 20, 120 of the two circuit board connectors 1 and the intermediate electrical connector 3 have leaf contact point portions 22B, 122B extending in the above-mentioned direction of connection of the connectors and protruding contact point portions 22A-1, 122A-1 located closer to the free end side of the terminals 20, 120 than to said leaf contact point portions 22B, 122B; and, in a connected state, the protruding contact point portions of the above-mentioned terminals are made contactable with the leaf contact point portions of the counterpart terminals.

Abstract: An electrical connector in a type of connectors that comes into contact with a counterpart connector in a gap between contacts of terminals is provided in which the adjustment of contact positions of the terminals is easy and therefore the manufacture of the electrical connector is easy and the manufacturing cost is low. The electrical connector includes a housing and paired terminal supports. Each of the paired terminal supports can support the terminals in cantilever fashion. Moreover, the paired terminal supports are mounted on the housing in a state of abutting each other in predetermined directions. The terminals supported by the terminals supports mounted on the housing can form a gap where a contacted object is inserted, between the contacts of the terminals in a direction along the abutment directions of the paired terminal supports.

Abstract: Provided is a power connector comprising: a housing; a power supply terminal; a regulatory protruding portion; and a locking portion, wherein the housing includes, therein, an insertion space configured in such a manner that at least part of a counterpart housing of a counterpart connector is inserted thereinto, the insertion space communicates with an insertion port, the power supply terminal includes an exposed portion provided in a state of being exposed from the housing toward the insertion space, and a contact portion being at least part of the power supply terminal, the contact portion being configured to come into contact with a counterpart-side power supply terminal provided to the counterpart housing upon at least part of the counterpart housing being inserted through the insertion port, the regulatory protruding portion is placed on a side closer to the insertion port than to the exposed portion in a direction of the insertion of at least part of the counterpart housing, in the insertion space, the

Abstract: In a typical connector, one or more ground terminals need to be, in addition to signal terminals, arranged between signal terminals formed in pairs or between one signal terminal pair and the other signal terminal pair. This leads to a problem that the number of components forming the connector is increased and an internal structure of the connector is complicated. A connector is provided, which is a substrate-side connector including two terminal groups arranged along a connector fitting direction to face each other, an insulator holding the terminal groups, and an outer conductor shell housing the insulator. In the substrate-side connector, a shell mounting portion for mounting the outer conductor shell on a substrate is, passing through between the two terminal groups, mounted between a mounting portion for a group of terminals of multiple terminals included in one terminal group and a mounting portion for a group of the terminals of multiple terminals included in the other terminal group.

Abstract: A connector with stationary housings, a movable housing, and terminals. The terminals have a movable-side retained portion including a contact portion secured in place by unitary molding in a movable-side retaining portion of the movable housing, a stationary-side retained portion secured in place by unitary molding at a location proximate the connecting portion of the terminals in a stationary-side retaining portion of the stationary housing, and a resiliently displaceable resilient portion coupling the movable-side retained portion to the stationary-side retained portion. The resilient portion has a curved apex portion constituting the upper end of the resilient portion outwardly of the movable-side retained portion in the connector-width direction, and lateral open spaces, which are open in the connector-width direction, are formed in a range including at least the apex portion below the above-mentioned movable-side retaining portion positioned above the apex portion.

Abstract: L-shaped coaxial terminals, shielding members shielding these coaxial terminals, and a housing with insulating material having L-shaped terminal holding portions that hold the coaxial terminals and shielding members; the external terminal of the coaxial terminals has a conductor mounting portion extending in a forward-rearward direction and a terminal connecting portion extending downwardly from the front end side of the conductor mounting portion; the shielding members cover a section in the external terminal extending from the bottom face of the front end portion of the conductor mounting portion to the rear face of the upper end portion of the terminal connecting portion, electrically connecting the conductor mounting portion to the terminal connecting portion, forming an electrical path in the external terminal that passes through an area extending from below the front end portion of the conductor mounting portion to the rear of the upper end portion of the terminal connecting portion.

Abstract: Electrical connector for circuit boards provided with terminals having connecting portions configured to be connected to a circuit board at one end in the longitudinal direction of said terminals and contact portions configured to be placed in contact with a counterpart connector component at the other end, and a housing holding a plurality of said terminals in place in array form. Said housing having disposed therein the contact portions of the terminals, and formed such that it is divided into a receiving-side housing, which accommodates the contact portions and receives a counterpart connector component such that it is placed in contact with the contact portions, and a board-side housing, which holds the terminals in place in sections more proximal to the connecting portions than to the contact portions and which is mounted to a circuit board, and the receiving-side housing and the board-side housing are molded as a single unit.

Abstract: Provided is a connector configured so that tensile strength when an attempt is made to forcibly detach the connector from a partner connector can be enhanced. A housing includes a body portion and a fitting target portion extending to the side of fitting to the partner connector. The diameter of a side portion outer peripheral surface of the fitting target portion is, at at least part thereof, smaller than that of the body portion. A conductive shell includes a first shell and a second shell. The first shell includes a cover portion configured to cover at least part of an outer peripheral surface of the housing, an elastic arm having a free end on the side of fitting to the partner connector, and a support portion elastically connecting the cover portion and the elastic arm and configured to support the elastic arm in a cantilever manner.

Abstract: Provided is a technology for improving high-frequency characteristics in an electrical connector such as a BNC coaxial connector. An electrical connector according to the present disclosure includes: a cylindrical outer conductor; a center terminal located on a central axis of the outer conductor along an axial direction of the central axis; an insulator located coaxially between the outer conductor and the center terminal; and a band-shaped C-ring located inside the outer conductor. The outer conductor includes a housing groove for housing the C-ring, the housing groove being formed on an inner peripheral surface of the outer conductor on a front end side of the center terminal, and the housing groove includes a slope of which inner diameter is smaller on a front end side than on a rear end side, the slope being formed on a front end portion of the housing groove. An end surface on a front end side of the C-ring is corrugated.

Abstract: In a typical connector, without closing up a clearance between connectors sufficiently upon fitting with a partner connector, a problem such as significant lowering of high-frequency characteristics due to backlash is caused upon high-speed electric signal transfer. A connector is provided, which includes multiple terminals, an insulator holding the multiple terminals, and an outer conductor shell housing the insulator. In the connector, an inclined portion raised from a side wall of the outer conductor shell is provided at a side wall portion which is to contact an edge portion of a fitting recessed portion of a partner connector.

Abstract: There is provided a connector that can decrease a crosstalk generated between facing terminals by a shield plate in a case where at least one of a terminal adjacent to a first ground terminal and a terminal adjacent to a second ground terminal facing the first ground terminal functions as a signal terminal, by forming the shield plate so that one end of the shield plate is coupled to the first ground terminal arranged at each of both ends of one terminal group and the other end of the shield plate is coupled to the second ground terminal arranged at each of both ends of the other terminal group.

Abstract: Example implementations involve an electrical connector and a test method of the electrical connector, wherein the electrical conduction condition between a ground member and a ground terminal can be easily confirmed while reliably contacting the ground member and ground terminal. Electrical connector involves a plurality of terminals including two types of terminals, namely, signal terminals and ground terminals; a retaining body, made of an insulating material, that arranges and retains the plurality of terminals in a condition where the signal terminals and ground terminals are intermingled; and a ground member retained by the retaining body on the inward side of the retaining body, in a condition contacting at least two ground terminals; wherein the ground member has a detecting part exposed from the retaining body in order to detect an electrical conduction condition between the ground terminals and the ground member.

Abstract: Terminals 40 including stationary-side retained portions are held in place by stationary housings 20, movable-side retained portions are held in place by a movable housing 30, and resilient portions are provided between said stationary-side retained portions and movable-side retained portions, and, in the movable housing 30, abutment portions 72 of abutment fittings are provided on the bottom face that faces the circuit board, thereby facilitating the above-mentioned abutment portions 72 to abut the surface of the circuit board when the movable housing 30 moves towards the circuit board.

Abstract: A coaxial connector is provided which has a shell having a mating portion for mating with a counterpart connector, a signal terminal having a contact portion for contacting a counterpart signal terminal of the counterpart connector, and a housing having a cylindrical portion supporting the signal terminal, wherein the cylindrical portion is internally mounted to the mating portion with a part of an outer peripheral surface of the cylindrical portion attached to an inner peripheral surface of the mating portion, the contact portion of the signal terminal is on a center of the mating portion extending toward a mating with the counterpart connector, and the inner peripheral surface of the mating portion includes an annular no-attachment area in which the outer peripheral surface of the cylindrical portion is not attached, the no-attachment area being disposed between a farthest-end surface of the mating portion and a position spaced apart from the farthest-end surface of the mating portion in a mating direction.

Abstract: The following steps are provided: encapsulating a series of connector components arranged in a column direction among multiple connector components on a support member that are arranged in each direction, respectively, in a row direction and in a column direction, in a state of substantial isolation from connector components adjacent to the series of connector components in the row direction using a first resin member; dicing the multiple connector components on the support member encapsulated using the first resin member into row units in the row direction; molding the multiple connector components on the support member, which have been encapsulated using the above-mentioned first resin member and diced, using a second resin member on a column-by-column basis; and dicing off the multiple molded connector components on the support member in the column direction one by one.

Abstract: The following steps are provided: encapsulating a series of connector components arranged in a column direction among multiple connector components on a support member that are arranged in each direction, respectively, in a row direction and in a column direction, in a state of substantial isolation from connector components adjacent to the series of connector components in the row direction using a first resin member; dicing the multiple connector components on the support member encapsulated using the first resin member into row units in the row direction; molding the multiple connector components on the support member, which have been encapsulated using the above-mentioned first resin member and diced, using a second resin member on a column-by-column basis; and dicing off the multiple molded connector components on the support member in the column direction one by one.

Abstract: For example, the provision of a cable connector where a cable holder can maintain the position of a member where the cable holder is mounted, before and after the mounting. The cable connector includes a housing and paired cable holders. One end of a cable can be mounted in each of the paired cable holders. Each of the paired cable holders includes a cantilevered arm portion extending in a mounting direction of the cable holder on the housing. At least part of the arm portion can come face to face with part of the housing in a direction along a lead-out direction of the cable from the cable holder, at the time and after the mounting of the cable holder on the housing.