Abstract: Occurrence of contact point slide due to vibration is suppressed in a movable connector that has a floating function from a technical approach that is different from the related art. A movable connector includes a displacement support member that includes a flexible support portion that is elastically deformable in a fitting direction, in which a mating connector is to be fitted with a movable housing, with the flexible support portion abutting against the movable housing. The movable housing includes a bottom wall, against which the mating connector abuts in the fitting direction. The movable housing is displaced in the fitting direction with the flexible support portion elastically deformed in the fitting direction when the mating connector presses the bottom wall in the fitting direction.

Abstract: To provide a circuit board that is capable of establishing electrical connection, that is thinner, and that has a higher maintainability. A circuit board includes a substrate including a hole portion that penetrates the substrate in a plate thickness direction, and a connector region including a first conductor layer that closes one side of the hole portion, liquid metal disposed in a recess formed by the hole portion and the first conductor layer, and a sealing layer that is the liquid metal cured on a liquid surface side. The liquid metal may be in contact with a second conductor layer formed in the recess.

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 movable connector is provided which includes a terminal formed of a single metal piece, the terminal enabling pliability in a movable portion and appropriate contact pressure in a contact portion to be obtained in a compatible way. The terminal of the movable connector includes a plate-thickness-direction conversion portion that interconnects a movable piece and a contact piece, and that reverses a plate thickness direction and a plate width direction of the terminal between the movable piece and the contact piece, and a front elastic arm and a rear elastic arm biasing respectively a front contact point and a rear contact point into pressure contact with the connection target in a direction crossing the plate thickness direction of the contact piece.

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: A connector includes: a stationary housing; a movable housing; a stationary terminal that is retained in the stationary housing; a movable terminal that includes a contact portion and that is retained in the movable housing, the contact portion of the movable terminal being configured to follow movement of the movable housing; a movable shield that follows movement of the movable housing; and a stationary shield. The movable shield and the stationary shield are in mutual contact so as to have electrical continuity. The stationary shield and the movable shield are configured to slide against one another while maintaining electrical continuity when the movable housing moves in the front-rear or the left-right direction with respect to the stationary housing.

Abstract: An imaging apparatus' parts are provided with an outer frame member, an enclosure section shielding body accommodated by the outer frame member and accommodating and achieving electrically continuous connection with an imaging part, a connection that connects a metal shield of a relay connector to the imaging apparatus by contacting with an interior of the enclosure section shielding body, a barrier wall between the relay connector and the enclosure section shielding body, and a connector terminal. The connector terminal includes an internal contact section exposed to an interior of the enclosure section shielding body, and an external contact section exposed to an interior of the connector. The enclosure section shielding body is formed of a box-shaped metal shell accommodating the internal contact section in the interior. The connector has a connector section shielding body formed of a tubular metal shell accommodating the external contact section in the interior.

Abstract: To provide a small movable connector. A movable connector includes a fixed housing mounted on a substrate, a movable housing movable with respect to the fixed housing, and terminals. The terminals each include a movable spring part supporting the movable housing movably, and a contact portion coming into conductive contact with a pin terminal. The fixed housing includes a top wall, and a bumper projection provided on the top wall. The movable housing includes an upper wall, and a bumper recess provided in the upper wall. The bumper projection and the bumper recess stop a displacement of the movable housing when the bumper recess bumps against the bumper projection. The movable connector can have a smaller size than in a case where elements that stop the displacement of the movable housing project from the side walls of the fixed housing and the end walls of the movable housing.

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: 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: There is provided a movable connector that facilitates easy engagement and improves stability in electrical connection. The movable connector includes a manipulation housing that is coupled to a movable housing by a pressing operation of the manipulation housing against the movable housing. The movable connector also includes a contact reinforcing member that moves together with the manipulation housing by the pressing operation. The contact reinforcing member comes into contact with a pair of contact portions of a circuit-board connection terminal and thereby presses the contact portions against a pin terminal.

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.

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: To provide a small movable connector. A movable connector includes a fixed housing mounted on a substrate, a movable housing movable with respect to the fixed housing, and terminals. The terminals each include a movable spring part supporting the movable housing movably, and a contact portion coming into conductive contact with a pin terminal. The fixed housing includes a top wall, and a bumper projection provided on the top wall. The movable housing includes an upper wall, and a bumper recess provided in the upper wall. The bumper projection and the bumper recess stop a displacement of the movable housing when the bumper recess bumps against the bumper projection. The movable connector can have a smaller size than in a case where elements that stop the displacement of the movable housing project from the side walls of the fixed housing and the end walls of the movable housing.

Abstract: To provide a connector that is less deformable even under a high contact pressure. A connector includes a housing having a fitting chamber, and a terminal that comes into conductive contact with a pin terminal in the fitting chamber. The terminal includes a fixing base fixed to the housing, a contact member extending from the fixing base and pressed against the pin terminal, and right and left press-supporting members extending from the fixing base. The press-supporting members include respective contact-receiving parts that face the contact member in the fitting chamber and are positioned side by side in a direction intersecting a direction of insertion of the pin terminal into the fitting chamber. Since the pressed pin terminal is received by the plurality of contact-receiving parts, the pressing force can be dispersed therebetween. Hence, the deformation of the contact member and the contact-receiving parts can be prevented.

Abstract: In a small connector including a plurality of contact portions in an insertion direction of an object to be connected, increasing the effective fitting length with the object and eliminating the risk of bucking of a terminal caused by the object being caught by the terminal. A first contact portion and a second contact portion can be extended in directions opposing each other with a first bent-back portion of a first terminal piece and a third bent-back portion of a second terminal piece, and can be close to each other compared with a known connector in which a first contact portion and a second contact portion extend in opposite directions. An effective fitting length of the first contact portion or the second contact portion with respect to the plug terminal can be increased.

Abstract: To prevent damage from being caused in a movable piece caused by inclination of the movable housing of a floating connector. Providing an inclined piece portion in a movable piece of a plug terminal of a plug connector from a middle side to an outer edge side of a bottom wall portion of a movable housing, the inclined piece portion obliquely extending so as to gradually be distanced away form a substrate. Since the inclined piece portion is distanced away from the substrate by the amount of inclination of the inclined piece portion when the movable housing is inclined, a risk of the movable piece impinging against the substrate can be reduced.

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: A movable connector includes a movable housing and a plurality of terminals. Each terminal includes a movable portion and a contact portion. The terminal includes a second fixed portion fixed to the movable housing. The second fixed portion includes a first fixed piece portion connected to the contact portion. The first fixed piece portion has press-fit shoulders, to which a pressing force is applied by using a press-fit jig during press-fitting into the movable housing. The second fixed portion further includes a second fixed piece portion connected to the movable portion and a connecting section connecting the first fixed piece portion to the second fixed piece portion.

Abstract: A movable connector is provided which includes a terminal formed of a single metal piece, the terminal enabling pliability in a movable portion and appropriate contact pressure in a contact portion to be obtained in a compatible way. The terminal of the movable connector includes a plate-thickness-direction conversion portion that interconnects a movable piece and a contact piece, and that reverses a plate thickness direction and a plate width direction of the terminal between the movable piece and the contact piece, and a front elastic arm and a rear elastic arm biasing respectively a front contact point and a rear contact point into pressure contact with the connection target in a direction crossing the plate thickness direction of the contact piece.