Abstract: Cleaning apparatus for an electronic game console and associated game cartridges, wherein the game console is of the type having a first edge connector adapted to engage a mating second edge connector provided in the game cartridge. The cleaning apparatus includes a cleaning cartridge having a housing portion at one end and a handle portion at the other end, the housing portion having first and second separable portions, and having a recessed forward end. A first cleaning element is mounted within the recessed forward end, the cleaning element being sized and shaped to correspond substantially to the first edge connector, so that the cleaning pad engages the second edge connector upon insertion into the game console port. A second cleaning element is carried within the housing portion of the cartridge, the second cleaning element including an elongated member having a washing pad on one end thereof and a drying pad on the other end thereof, for cleaning the edge connector of the game cartridge.

Abstract: The present invention provides a multi-pole electrical connector for which mounting on a printed circuit board is simplified and which may be made as a compact design.The multi-pole electrical conenctor of the present invention includes pieces divided into upper contact pieces and lower contact pieces which are respectively disposed in a main body in upper and lower stages. The respective contact pieces have contacts which correspond to external contacts of a printed circuit board and also have contacts which correspond to contacts of another multi-pole electrical connector. The multi-pole electrical connector may be mounted on a printed circuit board and connected to another multi-pole electrical connector by contacting the contacts of the multi-pole electrical connector with the contacts of the printed circuit board and the contacts of the other multi-pole electrical connector.

Abstract: Cleaning apparatus for an electronic game console and associated game cartridges, wherein the game console is of the type having a first edge connector adapted to engage a mating second edge connector provided in the game cartridge. The cleaning apparatus includes a cleaning cartridge having a housing portion at one end and a handle portion at the other end, the housing portion having first and second separable portions, and having a recessed forward end. A first cleaning element is mounted within the recessed forward end, the cleaning element being sized and shaped to correspond substantially to the first edge connector, so that the cleaning pad engages the second edge connector upon insertion into the game console port. A second cleaning element is carried within the housing portion of the cartridge, the second cleaning element including an elongated member having a washing pad on one end thereof and a drying pad on the other end thereof, for cleaning the edge connector of the game cartridge.

Abstract: The electrical connector in accordance with the present invention may be connected to, for example, other connector mounted on a circuit board of a machine. This electrical connector is provided at one end of the housing thereof with a board connection space into or from which a circuit board incorporated in a game cassette or the like may be inserted or removed. This electrical connector is provided at the other end of the housing thereof with a connector connection portion into or from which said other connector is adapted to be inserted or removed. Thin plate-like contact members extending over the board connection space and the connector connection portion are inserted from the side of the connector connection portion into the housing of this electrical connector. The contact members are provided at the base ends thereof with transversely turned projecting pieces. By applying a punch to the projecting pieces, the contact members may be readily pushed into the housing without the contact members damaged.

Abstract: The present invention discloses an electrical connector having a first frame and a second frame each having a U-shape portion. The first and second frames are provided at the end edges of the leg portions of the U-shape portions thereof with inwardly turned engagement portions. These engagement portions of the first and second frames of the first and second frames are inserted, as brought face to face with each other, into engagement grooves formed in left- and right-hand lateral sides of a contact piece supporting member, so that the first and second frames are mounted on the contact piece supporting member. That is, the first and second frames surround the contact piece supporting member with no portions of the frames overlapping each other. A cap which overlaps portions of the frames may be slidably put and mounted on a signal cable.

Abstract: A connector for a thin cartridge is related. The connector has a first wall which holds contact members, and a second wall of which at least a portion is connected to the first wall. Only the first wall is inserted into the frame of the cartridge. The printed circuit board mounted on the cartridge is housed between the first wall and the second wall. The contact members held by the first wall come in contact with the terminals of the thin cartridge as a result of inserting the first wall into the frame of the cartridge.

Abstract: The invention discloses a connector for printed circuit board comprising a first contact piece with a spring contactor, a second contact piece with a spring contactor, and a body in which these spring contactors can be arranged at their positions deviated from each other in lengthwise direction and a printed circuit board can be inserted in and out obliquely between contact points of the spring contactors, characterized in that when the printed circuit board inserted obliquely in the body is situated in substantially horizontal state, the printed circuit board is tightly contacted with the contact points of the spring contactors, thereby electrical connection between the printed circuit board and the first and second contact pieces being exactly and appropriately insured over a long period irrespective of frequency in insertion in and out of the printed circuit board.

Abstract: A connector for flexible substrates which can prevent the flexible substrate exactly from being pulled against ordinary pull-out force and allows the flexible substrate to be pulled out without being broken even when abnormally strong pull-out force beyond the assumed range is applied, and comprising a flexible substrate having an expanded section on its ends, a connector body having a cavity opened upward and the movable contact points of a number of terminals arranged side by side in a row in the cavity, and a housing mounted onto the connector body so as to close opening of the cavity and to hold the end of the flexible substrate inserted through the window of the top wall between a tongue and the movable contact point of the terminals, in which the window of the housing is formed of a wide opening to insert the expanded section of the flexible substrate, and a narrow opening communicated with the wide opening into which non-expanded section following the expanded section of the flexible substrate is fitte