Abstract: A socket terminal includes a movable portion that includes a first extension that extends from a position near a fixed housing in an insertion/extraction direction of a plug connector, a hairpin portion that is continuous with the first extension, and a second extension that is continuous with the hairpin portion and that extends in the insertion/extraction direction toward a movable housing. The movable portion elastically supports the movable housing in such a way that the movable housing is displaceable relative to the fixed housing. The second extension of the movable portion includes a spring portion that is bent in such a way that the width of a gap between the second extension and a base at one end portion of the second extension continuous with the hairpin portion is larger than that at the other end portion of the second extension continuous with the base.

Abstract: An electrical connector includes a fixed housing, a movable housing, and socket terminals. Each of the socket terminals includes a movable portion, a base, a front contact-point portion, and a rear contact-point portion. The movable portion includes a first extension, a hairpin portion, and a second extension, and elastically supports the movable housing so as to be displaceable relative to the fixed housing. The base is fixed to the movable housing and continuous with the second extension. The front contact-point portion and the rear contact-point portion extend from the base in an insertion/extraction direction and contact the plug terminal. A cutout portion, which faces the second extension and the hairpin portion, is formed is a side surface of the base adjacent to the movable portion, and at least part of the movable portion is disposed in a recess formed by the cutout portion.

Abstract: An electrical connector includes a socket housing and socket terminals. Each socket terminal includes a front terminal and a rear terminal. The front terminal contacts a plug connector inserted into the socket housing. The front terminal includes front contact-point portion that contacts the plug connector and an elastic piece that supports the front contact-point portion so as to be elastically displaceable. The rear terminal includes a rear contact-point portion and an elastic piece that supports the rear contact-point portion so as to be elastically displaceable. The rear contact-point portion contacts the plug connector after the front contact-point portion has contacted the plug connector. The front contact-point portion and the elastic piece, and the rear contact-point portion and the elastic piece are each formed so as to maintain a plate surface of a flat metal plate.

Abstract: A socket terminal includes front and rear terminals. The front terminal includes a front contact-point portion that wipes off foreign material adhered to a terminal surface of a plug terminal. The rear terminal includes a rear contact-point portion that contacts the terminal surface wiped by the front contact-point portion. The socket terminal also includes a movable portion between a circuit-board connection portion and circuit board. The movable portion cancels a reduction in impedance of at least the front terminal and rear terminal for a transmission signal flowing from the circuit-board connection portion connected to the circuit board. This can provide a socket terminal allowing the rear contact-point portion to contact the terminal surface from which foreign material has been wiped off, and allowing impedance mismatching at a terminal transmission path to be eliminated; and to provide an electric connector including the socket terminal.

Abstract: A connector which permits the resistance against the deformation of a shield to be increased and a method of manufacturing the connector. The shield is made up of an inner shield member disposed on the inner surface side of the shield and anouter shield member disposed on the outer surface side and, therefore, the strength of the shield can be increased by the double structure of the shield members. As a result of this, the shield is not deformed easily even in the case where an excessive external force is applied to the shield in the vertical direction or in the horizontal direction, for example, in inserting and extracting a mating connector into and out of the shield.

Abstract: A housing of a linear conductor connection terminal is provided with a first contact point portion having a recessed portion composed of a metal plate and opening inwardly of the housing. The recessed portion allows insertion of a linear conductor inserted into the housing from an insertion port. The housing is further provided with a second contact point portion that supports contact between the linear conductor and the first contact point portion. This allows the linear conductor to reliably conductively contact the first contact point portion and the second contact point portion.

Abstract: A second elastic portion includes a bent section connected via the proximal end portion to a first fixing portion formed so as to circumvent along a shape of a distal end portion and a part of a lateral face of a projecting portion of a first movable housing.

Abstract: The movable portion of the first terminal of the first connector is formed to be larger in the width direction than in the thickness direction, so as to be elastically deformed in the front-back direction of the connector, and the movable portion of the second terminal of the second connector is formed to be larger in the thickness direction than in the width direction, so as to be elastically deformed in the width direction of the connector. Therefore, the movable portions can be formed with an increased cross-sectional area, thereby enabling the allowable current of the terminals to be increased, unlike a configuration in which the movable portion is elastically deformable to a sufficient extent both in the front-back direction and in the width direction of the connector.

Abstract: An electrical connector includes a terminal that includes a front terminal portion, and a rear terminal portion the contact position of which is located further from the insertion opening of the connector than the contact position of the front terminal portion, and that is electrically connected with a mating terminal as an object to be connected. The front terminal portion has a front elastic arm, and a front contact portion formed at the distal end of the front elastic arm, and the front contact portion has a front contact that comes into contact with the mating terminal, and a dummy contact that is located closer to the insertion opening of the connector than the front contact, and that wipes a foreign substance adhering to the mating terminal.

Abstract: An electric connector including a housing having an insertion opening for a flat conductor, a connector terminal that is conductively connected to the flat conductor, an actuator having a pressing surface, and a shaft portion. The connector terminal is provided with a terminal portion that comes in contact with the flat conductor and a base end that supports the terminal portion. The terminal portion is provided with a front terminal that includes a front contact portion that is provided on an insertion opening side with respect to the shaft portion so as to face the pressing surface and a rear terminal that includes a rear contact portion that is provided on the rear side of the housing with respect to the pressing surface and at a position that is closer to the pressing surface with respect to the front contact portion.

Abstract: A terminal of a connector includes two contact points, that is, a front contact point and a rear contact point. An angle formed by a line extending from an upper end of a rear terminal portion to the rear contact point and a direction in which the connector is inserted and removed is smaller than an angle formed by a line extending from an upper end of a front terminal portion to the front contact point and the direction in which the connector is inserted and removed. Thus, the insertion force used to insert the rear contact point can be reduced.

Abstract: A socket terminal includes front and rear terminals. The front terminal includes a front contact-point portion that wipes off foreign material adhered to a terminal surface of a plug terminal. The rear terminal includes a rear contact-point portion that contacts the terminal surface wiped by the front contact-point portion. The socket terminal also includes a movable portion between a circuit-board connection portion and circuit board. The movable portion cancels a reduction in impedance of at least the front terminal and rear terminal for a transmission signal flowing from the circuit-board connection portion connected to the circuit board. This can provide a socket terminal allowing the rear contact-point portion to contact the terminal surface from which foreign material has been wiped off, and allowing impedance mismatching at a terminal transmission path to be eliminated; and to provide an electric connector including the socket terminal.

Abstract: A connector terminal includes a front contact-point portion that wipes off foreign material by slidingly contacting a plug terminal and a rear contact-point portion that is conductively connected with the plug terminal. The front contact-point portion has a sliding edge that slidingly contacts the plug terminal. The rear contact-point portion includes a contact edge that is thinner than the sliding edge, has a sliding width that is less than that of the sliding edge, and is conductively connected with the plug terminal by passing a sliding path of the sliding edge. Therefore, it becomes less likely for the contact edge to contact foreign material adhered to a portion other than portions at the sliding path. Thus, conduction failure can be prevented. In addition, by providing the connector terminal, it is possible to provide a socket that can similarly prevent conduction failure caused by foreign material.

Abstract: A socket terminal includes a front connection portion that comes into contact with a plug terminal, in which a recess having an inner wall is formed in a contact surface that comes into contact with the front connection portion. The front connection portion is locked on the inner wall by coming into contact with the inner wall when moving in a direction in which the plug terminal is pulled out from the socket terminal. The front connection portion also includes a contact edge that wipes impurities off the contact surface. An electrical connection between the socket terminal and the plug terminal can be maintained by locking the socket terminal on the inner wall even with an application of vibrations in directions in which the plug terminal is inserted and pulled out. Since the contact edge can remove the impurities, the electrical connection between the terminals can be stabilized.

Abstract: A connector which, when two contacts contact a connection object at positions different from each other in the insertion/extraction direction of the connection object, suppresses deflection of the connection object without increasing a pressing member size. The connector configured so, when the pressing member is rotated to a closed position, a pressing plate is brought into surface contact with the other thickness direction surface of a flexible circuit while pressed by a pressing member pressing portion, and a range including the contact positions between the flexible circuit and first and second contacts is pressed from the side of the other thickness direction surface of the flexible circuit via the pressing plate, so one thickness direction surface of the flexible circuit is brought into press-contact with the first and second contacts. Deflection of the flexible circuit is suppressed by the pressing plate, and the pressing member size need not be increased.

Abstract: Provided is a connector in which a decrease in contact pressure due to the shape degradation of the pressing portions does not occur even if the operation of rotating the pressing member is repeated. Since the connector main body has, at the rear end, supporting portions that rotatably support the pressing portion, the pressing portion rotates while butting the rear ends of the movable pieces and the supporting portions so that the rear ends of the movable pieces are pushed up by the pressing portion, the butting of the pressing portion and the supporting portions is contact between synthetic-resin components, this eliminates the pressing portion being cut off due to contact with the supporting portions even if the rotation of the pressing member is repeated, and hence the shape degradation of the pressing portion can be prevented.

Abstract: Provided is a connector in which a decrease in contact pressure due to the shape degradation of the pressing portions does not occur even if the operation of rotating the pressing member is repeated. Since the connector main body has, at the rear end, supporting portions that rotatably support the pressing portion, the pressing portion rotates while butting the rear ends of the movable pieces and the supporting portions so that the rear ends of the movable pieces are pushed up by the pressing portion, the butting of the pressing portion and the supporting portions is contact between synthetic-resin components, this eliminates the pressing portion being cut off due to contact with the supporting portions even if the rotation of the pressing member is repeated, and hence the shape degradation of the pressing portion can be prevented.

Abstract: A connector is provided to sufficiently absorb the displacements of a plurality of connection objects with respect to a substrate even when the plurality of connection objects are connected. Two movable housings are formed by separate members that can move relative to each other, thereby absorbing the displacements of two mating connectors connected to the respective movable housings by each of the respective movable housings. This can sufficiently absorb the displacements of the mating connectors relative to a substrate.