Patents Assigned to J.S.T. Mfg. Co., Ltd.
  • Patent number: 10135161
    Abstract: A connector has a conductive member attaching portion to which an end portion of a conductive member is to be attached, and a holder portion provided with an insertion hole into which the conductive member is inserted, and a fitting hole into which the conductive member attaching portion is fitted, the fitting hole being in communication with the insertion hole, the holder portion being configured to hold the conductive member attaching portion. The holder portion is provided with engaged portions with which engaging portions, which are provided at respective ends of the conductive member in the width direction, engage. The conductive member attaching portion is provided with a closing portion configured to close a part of the insertion hole. When the conductive member attaching portion has been fitted into the holder portion, the closing portion closes a part of the insertion hole with the engaging portions engaged with the engaged portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: J.S.T. MFG. CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Satoshi Sunada
  • Patent number: 10129443
    Abstract: An imaging device of the present invention includes: a first case having an opening; a substrate on which a first terminal electrically connected to an imaging element is mounted, the substrate being provided in the first case; a second case covering the opening of the first case; and a connector. A first terminal accommodation portion accommodating the first terminal is fixed to the substrate. The connector includes a second terminal accommodation portion accommodating a second terminal electrically connected to the first terminal. The second case has a through hole. The first and second terminals are configured so that, in a process in which the first terminal accommodation portion and the second terminal accommodation portion are inserted to be accommodated in the through hole, the first and second terminals come into contact with each other while sliding on each other and the first and second terminals are elastically deformable upon contact with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: J.S.T. MFG. CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Makoto Shiraishi, Hiroshi Yamada
  • Patent number: 10116073
    Abstract: A board-to-board connector can electrically connect a first printed circuit board having a receptacle mounted thereon to a second printed circuit board having a plug mounted thereon. The receptacle includes a first housing and three first contacts and the plug includes a second housing and three second contacts. The first housing includes a concave portion and a first contact accommodation chamber. The concave portion can be fitted to the plug. The first contact accommodation chamber can accommodate a winding portion of the first contact. In the first contact, a lead terminal is fixed to the first printed circuit board and a contact terminal is fixed to the first housing. In the first contact, the first housing is movably supported by the winding portion with respect to the first printed circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: J.S.T. MFG. CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kiyoshi Washino, Koji Iwashita, Daizou Imoto, Hideki Takeshima
  • Patent number: 10079450
    Abstract: Provided is a connector including first and second connector members connected to each other. The first connector member is formed with a protrusion. The second connector member includes a lever member rotatably provided thereto. The lever member is formed with at least one claw-shaped part configured to lock the protrusion. When connecting the first and second connector members, the lever member is rotated so that the protrusion locked in the claw-shaped part of the lever member is drawn in a connecting direction, and the first and second connector members are moved in the connecting direction and brought into contact with each other. After the movement is restrained, the lever member is further rotated so that the lever member is fixed while being elastically deformed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2018
    Assignee: J.S.T. MFG. CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ho Jin Gang, Shinya Masada
  • Publication number: 20180248286
    Abstract: In an electrical connector, it is possible to more reliably suppress unexpected displacement of an actuator, and it is possible to more reliably bring contacts into contact with conductive portions of a flexible connection member. The actuator (20) of the electrical connector (11) is configured such that pressure contact between the contacts (21) and the flexible connection member (8) is canceled by the actuator (20) being arranged at an open position (A1), and the contacts (21) are brought into pressure contact with the flexible connection member (8) by the actuator (20) being arranged at a closed position (A2). A provisional holding mechanism (51) can hold the actuator (20) at a provisional hold position (A3) when the flexible connection member (8) is not connected to the electrical connector (11). The provisional holding mechanism (51) includes first engagement portions (52) provided on a housing (22), and second engagement portions (53) provided on the actuator (20).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2016
    Publication date: August 30, 2018
    Applicant: J.S.T. Mfg. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ryo NAEMURA, Takahiro YOSHII
  • Patent number: 10062986
    Abstract: A connector of the present invention includes an inner housing and an outer housing. The inner housing has a contact holding portion holding at least one contact, and is for attachment to a substrate. The outer housing is configured as a separate body from the inner housing, is provided between a case with the substrate attached thereto and the inner housing and is fixed to the case, and suppresses rattling of the inner housing relative to the case.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignee: J.S.T. MFG. CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takahiro Shibaya, Yasuo Kita, Yuichi Yoshiki
  • Patent number: 10044141
    Abstract: Provided is a connector having excellent abrasion resistance. The invention applies to a connector including a terminal portion electrically connecting two objects to be connected and a connector housing portion in which the terminal portion is accommodated. The connector housing portion has a first housing in which a fixing portion to which a fixed portion formed in the terminal portion is to be fixed is formed and a second housing that engages with a main body-side housing fixed to one of the objects to be connected in a state in which the first housing is accommodated in the second housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: J.S.T. Mfg. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoru Shindo, Shinji Tasaka, Kazutaka Hattori, Hitoshi Ozaki
  • Publication number: 20180219325
    Abstract: In a connector including: a plurality of contacts each making connection by sandwiching a connecting member; and a housing in which the contacts are to be accommodated, the housing includes a housing body in which the contacts are to be accommodated, and an operating portion that moves the contacts such that the contacts perform sandwiching, and, in a case where the contacts sandwich the connecting member, a portion in which the housing body and the operating portion are connected together is cut off when the operating portion is operated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2017
    Publication date: August 2, 2018
    Applicant: J.S.T. Mfg. Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hideyasu YAMADA
  • Patent number: 10027073
    Abstract: The coaxial connector is provided with a contact, an internal housing, a shell and an electromagnetic shield plate. The contact has a connecting portion which can connect with a mating side contact, and a crimping portion which crimps the central conductor. The internal housing has a contact receiving chamber opened at a rear end portion, and the connector is retained in the contact receiving chamber. The shell has a shell main body covering an external perimeter of the internal housing, and a cable clamp. The cable clamp fixes an end of the coaxial cable. The shell main body has a lock piece. A pair of slits is provided at both sides of the lock piece. The electromagnetic shield plate is disposed at an upper face of the internal housing, and has one piece which shields a portion of the pair of slits with respect to the internal housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: J.S.T. MFG. CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Tokita, Takashi Tsutsui
  • Patent number: 10027038
    Abstract: The pressure contacting connection type contact has a base portion, a connecting terminal for a mating side contact, and a pressure contacting terminal. The pressure contacting terminal is provided with a base end section opposing an other end side of the base portion, where an extending piece extending from second both side portions of an other side of the base portion is folded such that mutual piece thickness faces are opposed, and a pair of pressure contacting pieces having spring characteristics where, from the base end section, the extending piece extends away from the base portion to the tip portion side such that the piece thickness faces are opposed, and in addition rises obliquely at an opposite side of the protrusion direction connecting terminal, and an open angle portion of the tip side of the pressure contacting pieces in which the central conductor can be inserted from an outer direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: J.S.T. MFG. CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Akihiko Otsu
  • Publication number: 20180198222
    Abstract: A board-to-board connector can electrically connect a first printed circuit board having a receptacle mounted thereon to a second printed circuit board having a plug mounted thereon. The receptacle includes a first housing and three first contacts and the plug includes a second housing and three second contacts. The first housing includes a concave portion and a first contact accommodation chamber. The concave portion can be fitted to the plug. The first contact accommodation chamber can accommodate a winding portion of the first contact. In the first contact, a lead terminal is fixed to the first printed circuit board and a contact terminal is fixed to the first housing. In the first contact, the first housing is movably supported by the winding portion with respect to the first printed circuit board.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2018
    Publication date: July 12, 2018
    Applicant: J.S.T. Mfg. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kiyoshi WASHINO, Koji IWASHITA, Daizou IMOTO, Hideki TAKESHIMA
  • Publication number: 20180183173
    Abstract: A cover member which is to be mated with a connector member and has a cover housing to be attached to an attached member. The cover housing has a plurality of attaching parts for attachment to the attached member. The attaching parts are formed so that the directions of mating with the connector member are different directions with respect to the attached member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2017
    Publication date: June 28, 2018
    Applicant: J.S.T. Mfg. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki MATSUMOTO, Shinya MASADA, Saki KATSUMOTO
  • Patent number: 9985382
    Abstract: Provided is a connector in which first and second connector members are fitted with each other. The first connector member includes a first housing formed with a protrusion. The second connector member includes a second housing; hood member; elastic member; and locking mechanism. The hood member is to cover and to be mounted with the second housing. The elastic member is to be provided between the hood member and second housing. The locking mechanism is to lock the protrusion. The locking mechanism is operated so that the protrusion is drawn in a fitting direction. After the movement of the first and second connector members in the fitting direction is restrained, the locking mechanism is operated so that the hood member is moved while compressing the elastic member, which fix the locking mechanism with the elastic member being compressed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: J.S.T. MFG. CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Matsumoto, Ho Jin Gang, Shinya Masada, Saki Katsumoto
  • Publication number: 20180145427
    Abstract: The pressure contacting connection type contact has a base portion, a connecting terminal for a mating side contact, and a pressure contacting terminal. The pressure contacting terminal is provided with a base end section opposing an other end side of the base portion, where an extending piece extending from second both side portions of an other side of the base portion is folded such that mutual piece thickness faces are opposed, and a pair of pressure contacting pieces having spring characteristics where, from the base end section, the extending piece extends away from the base portion to the tip portion side such that the piece thickness faces are opposed, and in addition rises obliquely at an opposite side of the protrusion direction connecting terminal, and an open angle portion of the tip side of the pressure contacting pieces in which the central conductor can be inserted from an outer direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2017
    Publication date: May 24, 2018
    Applicant: J.S.T. Mfg. Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Akihiko OTSU
  • Patent number: 9979129
    Abstract: Provided are a connector member and a connector that are easy to assemble and capable of adjusting of misalignment or inclination of a fitting axis. In the connector, a first connector member having a first housing is fitted with a second connector member having a second housing and a supporting member supporting the second housing. The first housing includes a guide pin, the second housing includes a guide-pin guiding part, and the guide-pin guiding part includes a guide hole. The second housing has a pair of shaft pins. The supporting member has a support claw for holding each of the shaft pins. When the guide pin is inserted into the guide hole, the guide pin presses the guide hole to cause the shaft pin to move with the shaft pins being held by the support claw, thereby the second housing being moved, enabling the fitting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: J.S.T. MFG. CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Matsumoto, Koji Wada
  • Publication number: 20180138604
    Abstract: To provide a pressure contacting connection type contact for reliably connecting a coaxial cable and a mating side contact. The contact is provided with a connecting terminal and a pressure contacting terminal. The connecting terminal has a pair of contact pieces, and the mating side connector can be inserted between the pair of contact pieces. The pressure contacting terminal has an extending piece and a plurality of pressure contacting pieces. The extending piece extends from a base portion. The plurality of pressure contacting pieces are alternately disposed along both sides of the extending piece separately at the extending piece, such that the central conductor can be inserted from an outer periphery. In a state wherein the central conductor is inserted between the plurality of pressure contacting pieces separately disposed at the extending piece, the plurality of pressure contacting pieces can reliable contact the central conductor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2017
    Publication date: May 17, 2018
    Applicant: J.S.T. Mfg. Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Akihiko OTSU
  • Patent number: 9972958
    Abstract: The press-fitting device has: a base; a rear surface plate; and a vertical operation section and mounts PF terminals having a shoulder section and a PF section to the member to be mounted. Provided on the vertical operation section are: an insertion path wherein a continuous PF terminal body formed by consecutive PF terminals is inserted; a movable feeding means that feeds the continuous PF terminal body along; a dividing means that divides the continuous PF terminal body into individual PF terminals; and a mounting means that mounts the PF terminals to the mounting member. A fixed feeding means is fixed to the rear surface plate in a static state relative to the vertical operation section, and restricts continuous PF terminal body movement that is in conjunction with the vertical operation section. The PF terminals are mounted to the mounting member by the vertical movement of the vertical operation section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
    Assignee: J.S.T. MFG. CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Junji Onishi, Masataka Nishiura
  • Patent number: 9972936
    Abstract: Provided are a connector member and a connector that suppress a half-fitted condition of the connector, movement of a slide member with an external force, and release of fitting. In a connector, a first connector member including a first housing provided with a locking projection is fitted with a second connector member including a slide member having a locking part and a second housing. An elastic member is provided between the second housing and the slide member; the slide member includes a movable piece that has a pressed part and a locking part; movement of the first housing causes the pressed part to be pressed by the locking projection; and after movement of the slide member in fitting direction, the movable piece rotates, the pressed part is separated from the locking projection, the slide member moves with an elastic force, and the locking part engages with the locking projection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
    Assignee: J.S.T. MFG. CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Matsumoto, Koji Wada
  • Patent number: 9967443
    Abstract: An imaging device includes: a first case having an opening; a substrate where a first terminal electrically connected with an imaging element is mounted, the substrate being provided in the first case; and a second case closing the opening. The second case includes an accommodation portion accommodating a second terminal designed to be electrically connected with the first terminal. A mating portion capable of being mated with the accommodation portion is secured to the substrate. Inside the mating portion, the first terminal extends along a mating direction of the accommodation portion and the mating portion. The first and second terminals are designed to come into contact with each other while sliding along the mating direction in a mating process of the accommodation portion and the mating portion, and to be elastically deformable in a first direction orthogonal to the mating direction upon contact with each other in the mating process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignee: J.S.T. MFG. CO., LTD
    Inventors: Makoto Shiraishi, Hiroshi Yamada
  • Patent number: 9960533
    Abstract: The connector is provided with a locking mechanism capable of engaging and disengaging with each other a receptacle and a plug. The receptacle is provided with a first housing and a first contact. The plug is provided with a second housing and a second contact. The first housing has at a recess portion a lock arm provided at its end with a hook portion. The second housing has at a header portion an engaging protrusion. When the header portion is inserted into the recess portion, the engaging protrusion rides over the hook portion, and the complete fitting of the receptacle and the plug can be felt. When the header portion is pulled out from the recess portion, the hook portion is displaced, and the plug can be readily pulled out from the receptacle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: J.S.T. MFG. CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hironori Kudo