Abstract: A harness comprises a connector body, a cable and a cable-holding portion which holds the cable. The connector body comprises a base portion. The cable is connected to the connector body. The cable has an end portion received in the base portion and a main portion extending rearward from the end portion. The cable-holding portion is formed with a recessed portion which opens at least downward in the upper-lower direction (Z-direction). The base portion has an interference portion. The recessed portion and the interference portion are located at opposite sides of the harness, respectively, in the lateral direction (Y-direction). The recessed portion is, at least in part, located at a position same as that of the interference portion in the front-rear direction (X-direction). The recessed portion is, at least in part, located at a position same as that of the interference portion in the upper-lower direction.

Abstract: A housing of a connector has an end face in a perpendicular direction perpendicular to an up-down direction. A side portion of a guide member is apart from the end face of the housing. The end face of the housing, the side portion of the guide member and supporting portions of the guide member form a receiving portion which guides and receives a protruding block of a mating connector. When the connector is mounted on a substrate, the side portion and the supporting portions are apart from the substrate. Outside the end face of the housing in the perpendicular direction and under the side portion and the supporting portions in the up-down direction, a lower space is formed to communicate with the receiving portion. The guide members 16 is not located in the lower spaces 20 at all.

Abstract: A waterproof connector comprises a terminal, a housing and a seal member. The housing is provided with an attachment portion. When the attachment portion is viewed along a front-rear direction, the attachment portion has an outer circumferential shape including first sides and first coupling portions. The seal member is formed of elastic material and is attached to the attachment portion. When the seal member is viewed along the front-rear direction, the seal member has a closed-ring shape including second sides and second coupling portions. The second sides correspond to the first sides, respectively. The second sides include at least one specific second side. L1 > L2, where L2 is a length of each of the second sides in a state before the seal member is attached to the attachment portion, and L1 is a length of the corresponding first side.

Abstract: Antenna has a split ring resonator. Moreover, the antenna is provided with a first conductor and a second conductor which form, at least in part, an open stub or a short stub which has a predetermined electrical length. With this structure, the antenna can have a plurality of operating frequencies.

Abstract: A connector with an interlock housing, to which an interlock terminal is attached, separately from a lever that performs connection and disconnection of main terminals with a mating connector, and a first spring piece is formed on the lever. After the main terminals are mutually connected by rotating the lever from a first position to a second position, the lever is slid from the second position to a third position and the interlock housing is pushed down from an opening position to a closing position. When the lever is on the third position and the interlock housing is on the opening position, the first spring piece generates a first elastic restoring force. When applying no external force that slides the lever to the third position against the first elastic restoring force, the lever moves away from the third position and the interlock housing cannot be pushed down.

Abstract: A connecting apparatus comprising a holding member and a conductive member. The holding member has holding portions. The conductive member has a plurality of held portions, a plurality of contact portions, a plurality of extending portions and a plurality of coupling portions. Each of the extending portions extends rearward in a front-rear direction from one of the held portions and protrudes rearward in the front-rear direction beyond the holding portion. The extending portions are positioned apart from each other in a right-left direction. The coupling portions are positioned apart from each other in the right-left direction. The coupling portions are positioned rearward of the extending portions in the front-rear direction. Each of the coupling portions couples two of the extending portions with each other. Two of the held portions, which are adjacent to each other in the right-left direction, are coupled with the two extending portions, respectively.

Abstract: A busbar is placed on an anvil, and a core wire of a cable is placed on the busbar. While the core wire is pressed onto the busbar using a horn chip, ultrasonic vibration is given to the core wire to join the core wire to the busbar. The horn chip has two flat portions and a recessed portion located between the flat portions. When the core wire is pressed onto the busbar using the horn chip, each of the flat portions and the busbar sandwich a part of the core wire therebetween while the recessed portion and the busbar put a remaining part of the core wire therebetween. Each of the sandwiched parts of the core wire does not reach an outer end of the corresponding flat portion to leave a space between the corresponding flat portion and the busbar.

Abstract: An atomic beam is irradiated with a first laser beam, a second laser beam, and a third laser beam. The first laser beam and the third laser beam each have a wavelength corresponding to a transition between a ground state and a first excited state. The second laser beam has a wavelength corresponding to a transition between the ground state and a second excited state. First, atoms each having a smaller velocity component than a predetermined velocity in a direction orthogonal to the traveling direction of the atomic beam are changed from the ground state to the first excited state by the first laser beam. Subsequently, a momentum is provided for individual atoms in the ground state by the second laser beam, which removes the atoms from the atomic beam. Finally, atoms in the first excited state are returned from the first excited state to the ground state by the third laser beam.

Abstract: An antenna assembly 10 is provided with an antenna body 20 formed of a sheet metal, an electric cable 40 and a conductive film 50. The antenna body 20 is provided with at least one crimp portion 28. The conductive film 50 has a main portion 52 and at least one connected portion 54 extending from the main portion 52. The electric cable 40 has a conductor portion 46.

Abstract: A connector includes a plurality of contacts made of metal material and arranged in an arrangement direction orthogonal to a fitting direction, an insulator made of insulating resin material and holding the plurality of contacts, and a reinforcement terminal made of metal material and attached to an end portion of the insulator in the arrangement direction, the insulator including a fitting portion extending along the arrangement direction and projecting in the fitting direction for fitting to a portion to be fitted of the counter connector, the reinforcement terminal including a terminal accommodating portion of recess shape for accommodating a reinforcement terminal of the counter connector, and a wall portion facing an end portion of the fitting portion in the arrangement direction across the terminal accommodating portion, the reinforcement terminal including a resin material flow passage penetrating the wall portion and reaching the end portion of the fitting portion.

Abstract: An antenna assembly comprises an antenna body made of metal plate, a pressing portion and a conductive film. The antenna body is provided with a pressed portion. The pressing portion presses the conductive film against the pressed portion and thereby the conductive film and the pressed portion are electrically connected to each other.

Abstract: A locator is for aligning cables which are configured to be connected with a circuit board having an accommodated portion. The locator comprises at least a main portion which extends in a pitch direction. The main portion is, at least in part, formed with at least one circuit board accommodating portion. The main portion is formed with at least one first through hole and at least one second through hole which is different from the first through hole. The at least one circuit board accommodating portion is configured to accommodate the accommodated portion of the circuit board. The at least one circuit board accommodating portion opens at least forward in a front-rear direction perpendicular to the pitch direction. In the pitch direction, the at least one first through hole is provided at a location which is different from a location of the circuit board accommodating portion.

Abstract: A lever of a connector can rotate between a first position and a second position and can slide between the second position and a third position. When the lever is rotated to the second position in a state in which the connector whose lever is on the first position is on a fitting preparation position with respect to a mating connector, the connector is drawn to a fitting position, which is closer to the mating connector, by a cam mechanism and a main terminal of the connector and a mating main terminal of the mating connector are connected with each other. When the lever is slid to the third position, a flange portion provided to a housing of the connector and a mating flange portion provided to a mating housing of the mating connector are accommodated in a groove portion of the lever.