Abstract: An insert molded body of a connector is provided with terminals and a holding member. A supporting beam portion of each terminal extends in a width direction. First and second supporting portions extend upward from end portions of the supporting beam portion, respectively. The first and the second supporting portions have resilience and support first and second contact points, respectively. The first and the second contact points face each other in the width direction. Protruding portions protrude from the supporting beam portion in a pitch direction. The supporting beam portion has a maximum size in the pitch direction which is equal to a maximum size of the first and the second supporting portion. The protruding portions are embedded in the holding member in part, so that the terminal is held by the holding member. The supporting beam portion is visible from above.

Abstract: A coaxial connector comprises a center terminal and an outer terminal which has a projecting portion and an end surface. The projecting portion projects forward from the end surface and has a pressing portion which is located at a lower end of the projecting portion. The center terminal has a contact portion. Under a pre-connected state where the coaxial connector is not yet connected to a board, the contact portion extends forward and downward so that at least a part of the contact portion is located forward of the end surface and is located below the pressing portion. Under a connected state where the coaxial connector is connected to the board, the pressing portion presses an upper surface of the board from above, and at least a part of the contact portion is pressed against a signal line of the board to be in contact with the signal line.

Abstract: A terminal of a connector has a receiving portion, a first supporting portion which is resiliently deformable and extends from the receiving portion, a contact portion supported by the first supporting portion, a second supporting portion extending from the contact portion and an abutment portion supported by the second supporting portion. In a connection process of the connector and a mating connector, the abutment portion of the terminal begins to be brought into contact with the receiving portion at a first position on the receiving portion, and it is slid on the receiving portion until the abutment portion reaches a second position. The contact portion is brought into contact with a mating terminal when the connector is connected to the mating connector.

Abstract: A contact module comprises a ground member made of metal, an insulation portion and a conductive portion. The ground member has a ground terminal and a terminal base each of which is at least partially resilient. The ground terminal has a ground contact point configured to be connected to a first object and a ground connection portion configured to be connected to a second object. The ground contact point is movable in a predetermined direction. The terminal base is formed with the insulation portion located thereon. The insulation portion is formed with the conductive portion located thereon. The terminal base, the insulation portion and the conductive portion form a signal terminal. The conductive portion has a signal contact point configured to be connected to the first object and a signal connection portion configured to be connected to the second object. The signal contact point is movable in the predetermined direction.

Abstract: A socket connector includes a housing that is made of insulating resin and have a peripheral wall and a bottom plate, the peripheral wall projecting upward from an edge of the bottom plate, a plurality of contacts that are held by the bottom plate, an upper cover member that is disposed above a semiconductor package accommodated in the housing, holds the semiconductor package downward and thereby brings the semiconductor package into electrical contact with the plurality of contacts, and a block and a block that project upward beyond the peripheral wall. The upper cover member has relief holes in which the block and the block is to be inserted at positions opposed to the block and the block in a vertical direction.

Abstract: A connector assembly includes a first connector and a second connector having an identical configuration, the first connector including a first waterproof sheet disposed on a first joining surface of planar shape in a first insulator so as to surround a first contact accommodating portion in which a first contact is accommodated, the second connector including a second waterproof sheet disposed on a second joining surface of planar shape in a second insulator so as to surround a second contact accommodating portion in which a second contact is accommodated, when the first connector and the second connector are fitted with each other, the first waterproof sheet and the second waterproof sheet are closely adhered to each other, and the first contact and the second contact make contact with each other, whereby the first electric wire and the second electric wire are electrically connected to each other.

Abstract: A connector assembly includes a first connector and a second connector having an identical configuration, the first connector including a first insulator, and a first contact retained by the first insulator and connected to an end portion of a first electric wire, the second connector including a second insulator, and a second contact retained by the second insulator and connected to an end portion of a second electric wire, when the first connector and the second connector are fitted with each other, the first contact and the second contact make contact with each other in a state where part of the first contact is situated between the second contact and the second insulator and part of the second contact is situated between the first contact and the first insulator, whereby the first electric wire and the second electric wire are electrically connected to each other.

Abstract: A connector is disposed on a board in a first direction and includes a housing, a contact, and a movable. The housing is provided with a bottom surface facing the board and a through hole formed along the first direction. The contact is held in the through hole and has its end portion on a board side exposed at the bottom surface via the through hole. The movable terminal is formed as a separate member from the contact, disposed at a close position to the contact in the through hole, and movable in the first direction relative to the contact. One end of the movable terminal in the first direction is fixed to the board and projects from the bottom surface in accordance with movement of the movable terminal, and a projection amount of the one end changes depending on a position of the movable terminal in the first direction.

Abstract: A connector has an insulator and a plurality of contacts. The insulator has a partition portion. The partition portion is formed with a plurality of accommodating ditches. The accommodating ditches are classified into two groups. The accommodating ditches of one of the groups are different in position from the accommodating ditches of a remaining one of the groups in a pitch direction. Each of the accommodating ditches has a receiving portion. In a width direction, the receiving portion extends across a middle of the partition portion. The contacts correspond to the accommodating ditches, respectively. Each of the contacts is partially accommodated in the corresponding accommodating ditch. Each of the contacts has a distal end portion. The receiving portion of each of the accommodating ditches is able to receive, at least in part, the distal end portion of the corresponding contact upon mating of the connector with a mating connector.

Abstract: A connector assembly comprises a coaxial connector, a fixed member and two fixing members. The coaxial connector comprises an outer terminal and a center terminal. The outer terminal has two projecting portions which are apart from each other in the lateral direction. The center terminal has a contact portion which is located between the two projecting portions in the lateral direction. The fixed member is located below the flexible board under a connected state where the connector assembly is connected to the flexible board. Under the connected state, the two fixing members are fixed to the two projecting portions, respectively, while pressing the flexible board, and thereby the contact portion of the center terminal is pressed against and is in contact with the signal line of the flexible board.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a connector comprises providing a housing and a contact intermediate product, making the holding portion of the housing hold a held portion of the contact intermediate product to attach the contact intermediate product to the housing, and inserting a jig between a contact point and the held portion to deform the contact intermediate product plastically and thereby forming a contact. The contact intermediate product does not enter an allowing portion in a state where it is attached to the housing. After the plastically deformation, a tip portion is situated in the allowing portion, and it is hidden by a movement suppression portion at least in part when viewed along an up-down direction.

Abstract: A connector includes a first insulator having a recessed portion formed in a first retaining surface and a projection formed in the recessed portion to project higher than the first retaining surface, and a second insulator having a protrusion portion formed on a second retaining surface and a projection accommodating portion of recess shape formed in the protrusion portion and is deeper than the second retaining surface, the first insulator and the second insulator being joined to each other such that the projection is inserted in an opening portion of a sheet type conductive member, that the sheet type conductive member and an electric wire are held between the first retaining surface and the second retaining surface, and that the sheet type conductive member and the electric wire are disposed to overlap each other between the recessed portion and the protrusion portion.

Abstract: An antenna is provided with a conductive member. The conductive member has a main part, an opposing part, a first feed terminal, and a second feed terminal. The main part extends along a horizontal plane so as to have an opened ring shape. The main part has a first end section and a second end section that are located apart from each other. The opposing part includes a first opposing part provided on the first end section and a second opposing part provided on the second end section. The first opposing part and the second opposing part are spaced apart from, and opposed to, each other. The main part has a thin part that is thinner than both the first opposing part and the second opposing part.

Abstract: An electrical component inspection instrument includes a substrate and a rod-shaped conductor component having one end for contact with a conductor of an electrical component which is an object to be inspected. A conductor pattern on a board surface of the substrate reaches an edge of the substrate, and the other end of the rod-shaped conductor component is electrically connected to the conductor pattern at the edge of the substrate. A direction in which the rod-shaped conductor component extends is orthogonal to the direction of the normal to the board surface of the substrate.

Abstract: In a plug connector that incorporates an optical connector and a photoelectric conversion module connected with the optical connector, the optical connector attached to an optical cable is accommodated in an end bell and the photoelectric conversion module is accommodated in a barrel inserted into a mating receptacle connector. The barrel and the end bell go in a fitting completion state (locked state) by a Z-axis-direction locking mechanism and a rotation locking mechanism around the Z axis when the end bell is fitted to the barrel and the end bell is rotated about an axial center thereof (Z axis). The end bell can be detached from the barrel when the end bell is rotated in a reverse direction to that in locking while operating the locking member functioning as a rotation lock and releasing the rotation lock.

Abstract: A connector includes a bendable housing and contacts retained in the housing with arranged in an arrangement direction orthogonal to a fitting direction, the housing having first projections arranged in the arrangement direction to correspond to the contacts and projecting in the fitting direction, each of the contacts having a contact portion retained in a corresponding one of the first projections and configured to make contact with a corresponding counter contact of a counter connector, a connection portion connected to a corresponding one of flexible conductors of a mounting object, and a joint portion joining the contact portion and the connection portion to each other, the plurality of first projections being separate from one another.

Abstract: A connector electrically connecting a module substrate and a main substrate includes: a housing mounted on the main substrate; contacts held on the housing and including contact parts and connection parts connected to the main substrate; a frame including side board parts sandwiching a flat board part and the main substrate, the side board parts forming one of a cam groove and a projection; and a slider having opposite side portions forming the other of the cam groove and the projection, forming an insertion space between the slider and the housing upon the projection's insertion into the cam groove and the slider's attachment to the frame, pressing the module substrate against the contact parts upon the slider sliding in the module substrate's insertion direction, sandwiching main substrate, the housing and the module substrate between the slider and the flat board part.

Abstract: A fixing device is used to fix a cable to a substrate. The cable has a first conductor and a second conductor. The substrate has a first substrate fixing portion and a second substrate fixing portion which corresponding to the first conductor and the second conductor, respectively. The fixing device has a first electrode portion, a second electrode portion and a coupling portion which connects the first electrode portion and the second electrode portion to each other. The first electrode portion has a first connection portion to be connected to the first conductor and a first fixing portion to be connected to the first substrate fixing portion. The second electrode portion has a second connection portion to be connected to the second conductor and a second fixing portion to be connected to the second substrate fixing portion.

Abstract: A connector includes a conductive plug contact including a recessed portion, a conductive inner contact inserted in the recessed portion, and a bottom insulator including a projection inserted in the recessed portion, the inner contact including a contact portion that is elastically displaceable in an orthogonal direction perpendicular to the fitting axis and makes contact with the plug contact in the recessed portion, a projection contacting portion that is elastically displaceable in the orthogonal direction and makes contact with a lateral surface of the projection in the recessed portion, and a pressing portion that is elastically displaceable in the orthogonal direction and faces an inner surface of the recessed portion, a part of a sheet type connection object being sandwiched between the pressing portion and the inner surface of the recessed portion in the orthogonal direction.

Abstract: The cable connection component includes a locator extending in the alignment direction, a plurality of first restriction portions disposed in the locator and separately restricting movements, at least in the alignment direction, of tip ends in an extension direction of the plurality of cables, and a plurality of second restriction portions disposed in the locator and separately restricting movements, at least in the alignment direction, of the plurality of cables at positions on a proximal side of the plurality of cables away from the tip ends of the plurality of cables along the extension direction by a predetermined distance, and the plurality of conductor portions exposed from the plurality of cables between the plurality of first restriction portions and the plurality of second restriction portions are soldered to the plurality of connection portions of the substrate.