Abstract: A cable assembly comprises a cable and a conductive member. The cable extends in a longitudinal direction. The cable has a first location and a second location in the longitudinal direction. The cable comprises a conductive portion and an outer cover. The outer cover covers the conductive portion. The conductive member is attached with the cable. The conductive member has a first portion, a second portion and a planar portion. The first portion is positioned at the first location in the longitudinal direction. The first portion is crimped to the outer cover. The second portion is positioned at the second location in the longitudinal direction. The second portion is crimped to the conductive portion. The planar portion extends from the first location to the second location in the longitudinal direction.

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 facing portion of an antenna is provided with a first capacitance complementary adjusting portion which adjusts variation of a capacitance caused by a first movement of a second facing portion relative to a first facing portion and a second capacitance complementary adjusting portion which adjust variation of the capacitance caused by a second movement of the second facing portion relative to the first facing portion. The first capacitance complementary adjusting portion has a first variable portion and a second variable portion which have mutually opposite effects on the capacitance. The second capacitance complementary adjusting portion has a third variable portion and a fourth variable portion which have mutually opposite effects on the capacitance.

Abstract: An antenna comprises a split ring resonator. The antenna has a main portion which forms a split ring with a split portion. The main portion has an upper surface portion, a first fixed portion, a second fixed portion, a third fixed portion, a first reinforcing portion, a second reinforcing portion, a feed portion, a first end portion and a second end portion. Each of the first fixed portion, the second fixed portion and the third fixed portion is fixed on a circuit board when the antenna is mounted on the circuit board. Lower ends of the first fixed portion, the second fixed portion and the third fixed portion define an imaginary plane perpendicular to an up-down direction. Each of lower ends of the first reinforcing portion, the second reinforcing portion and the feed portion is positioned between the upper surface portion and the imaginary plane in the up-down direction.

Abstract: A connector device comprises a connector and a mating connector. Under a mated state where the connector and the mating connector are mated with each other, the mating connector is positioned forward of the connector in a front-rear direction. The connector comprises at least one supporting portion, at least one lock portion and a receiving portion. The mating connector has at least one mating lock portion and an abutment portion. At least one of the lock portion and the mating lock portion has an intersecting surface which intersects with both the front-rear direction and a perpendicular direction. Under the mated state, the abutment portion is positioned forward beyond the receiving portion in the front-rear direction and is brought into abutment against the receiving portion by a rearward force so that a rearward movement of the abutment portion beyond the receiving portion is regulated by the receiving portion.

Abstract: A connector includes two insulators which hold contacts connected to lead wires and are arranged on two surfaces of a ceramic element, a spring component which includes two cantilever-shaped spring pieces and has a flexed portion at a middle portion of each spring piece, and a cylindrical sleeve. The two spring pieces are located over two outer surfaces of the two insulators, and are elastically deformed toward the two insulators by the sleeve hanging over the two spring pieces. The two insulators pushed by the flexed portions of the two elastically deformed spring pieces hold the ceramic element from two sides to push the contacts against the terminal electrodes.

Abstract: A connector includes two insulators which hold contacts connected to lead wires and are arranged on two surfaces of a base end portion of a ceramic element, two spring components which have flat plate portions located on respective outer surfaces of the two insulators and spring portions supported by the flat plate portions, and a cylindrical sleeve. Each spring portion has an inclined surface which inclines in a movement direction in which the sleeve moves toward the spring components. Each spring portion is elastically deformed by the sleeve hanging over the spring portion. The two insulators hold the base end portion from two sides by being pushed by the flat plate portions in directions in which the two insulators are brought closer to each other. The contacts are pushed against the terminal electrodes.

Abstract: A connector includes a contact member having a contact, and an elastic member having an elastic member body and a rotation operating portion, the contact member having a conductor-contact portion formed of part of the contact and an elastic member-contact portion disposed to be separated from the conductor-contact portion in a predetermined direction, the elastic member body having a base portion joined to the rotation operating portion and a pressing portion disposed to be separated from the base portion in the predetermined direction and being elastically displaceable in the predetermined direction, part of the flexible conductor being disposed between the pressing portion and the conductor-contact portion, the base portion coming into contact with the elastic member-contact portion, and the pressing portion elastically displaced pressing the part of the flexible conductor against the conductor-contact portion, whereby the contact is electrically connected to the flexible conductor.

Abstract: A socket contact includes a cylindrical sleeve, a plurality of cantilever-shaped spring pieces arranged in rotational symmetry with respect to the central line of the sleeve as a symmetric axis, and a base portion to which fixed ends of the plurality of spring pieces are fixed. The sleeve is movably mounted to the base portion, the plurality of spring pieces has bent portions between free ends and the fixed ends, the plurality of spring pieces is elastically deformed so that the free ends come close to each other when the sleeve is moved and covers the free ends, and a pin contact inserted among the plurality of spring pieces is sandwiched by the bent portions of the plurality of spring pieces elastically deformed by the moved sleeve, electrically connected, and held.

Abstract: A connector includes a pushing member having a projection, a support member disposed to contact a lateral surface of the projection, and a contact made of a conductive material and having a support member facing portion facing the support member, a part of the flexible conductor being disposed between the support member and the support member facing portion of the contact, the lateral surface of the projection pressing the part of the flexible conductor against the support member facing portion of the contact via the support member, whereby the contact is electrically connected to the flexible conductor.

Abstract: A connector includes a first insulator having a through-hole for contact, a contact held by the first insulator and having a projecting portion inserted into the through-hole for contact, and a receiving member disposed on a side of a second surface of the first insulator and surrounding the projecting portion of the contact, the flexible conductor being disposed along the second surface of the first insulator, the contact including an extending portion formed on another end of the projecting portion and disposed on the side of the second surface of the first insulator to extend outside of the through-hole for contact along the second surface, a part of the flexible conductor being held between the extending portion of the contact and the receiving member to contact the extending portion, whereby the contact is electrically connected to the flexible conductor.

Abstract: A connector includes a base member having a projection, a contact made of a conductive material and having a projection accommodating portion of a recess shape into which the projection is inserted, and a housing holding the contact, the housing having a holding mechanism configured to hold a flexible conductor disposed to extend across an opening end portion of the projection accommodating portion of the contact, when the projection of the base member is inserted into the projection accommodating portion of the contact together with the flexible conductor held by the holding mechanism, the flexible conductor being sandwiched between a lateral surface of the projection and an inner surface of the projection accommodating portion to contact the inner surface of the projection accommodating portion, whereby the contact is electrically connected to the flexible conductor.

Abstract: An electrical connecting element includes a stretchable insulation sheet, two or more first conductive threads on one surface of the insulation sheet, and two or more first resin threads on the one surface of the insulation sheet. The first conductive threads extend in a predetermined direction and are disposed in parallel with each other orthogonally to the predetermined direction. The first resin threads have thermal adhesiveness. The first resin threads do not overlap with any of the first conductive threads.

Abstract: A connector includes a pushing member having a projection, and a contact having a projection accommodating portion of a recess shape, the projection includes a holding portion extending across the projection in a direction orthogonal to a projecting direction of the projection and holding a flexible conductor, when the projection is inserted into the projection accommodating portion of the contact together with the flexible conductor with a middle part of the flexible conductor being held by the holding portion of the projection, parts of the flexible conductor that are situated on opposite sides of and are adjoining the middle part of the flexible conductor are sandwiched between a lateral surface of the projection and an inner surface of the projection accommodating portion to contact the inner surface of the projection accommodating portion, whereby the contact is electrically connected to the flexible conductor.

Abstract: There is provided a circuit board assembly constructed by stacking a first circuit board having a first contact portion and a second circuit board having a second contact portion to allow the first and second contact portions to contact each other, which is bendable along a first direction. The first circuit board has a first hole that is formed within a range in which a pair of first projection pieces are present in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, at least part of the first hole being situated between the pair of first projection pieces in the first direction, and the second circuit board has a second hole that is formed within a range in which the pair of second projection pieces are present in the second direction, at least part of the second hole being situated between the pair of second projection pieces in the first direction.

Abstract: An antenna has an antenna main portion formed on a substrate and a facing portion separate and distinct from the substrate. The antenna main portion has a ring shape with a split and has a first end portion and a second end portion which form the split. The facing portion has a holding member, a first facing portion made of conductive material and a second facing portion made of the conductive material. The first facing portion and the second facing portion are held by the holding member so as to be located apart from each other. The first facing portion has a first principal portion and a first connected portion connected to the first end portion. The second facing portion has a second principal portion facing the first principal portion and a second connected portion connected to the second end portion.

Abstract: An antenna has an antenna main portion formed on a substrate and a facing portion separate and distinct from the substrate. The antenna main portion has a ring shape with a split and has a first end portion and a second end portion which form the split. The facing portion has a first facing portion and a second facing portion which are made of insulating material and apart from each other. The first facing portion has a first principal portion and a first connected portion connected to the first end portion. The second facing portion has a second principal portion facing the first principal portion and a second connected portion connected to the second end portion.

Abstract: A facing portion of an antenna is provided with a first capacitance complementary adjusting portion which adjusts variation of a capacitance caused by a first movement of a second facing portion relative to a first facing portion and a second capacitance complementary adjusting portion which adjust variation of the capacitance caused by a second movement of the second facing portion relative to the first facing portion. The first capacitance complementary adjusting portion has a first variable portion and a second variable portion which have mutually opposite effects on the capacitance. The second capacitance complementary adjusting portion has a third variable portion and a fourth variable portion which have mutually opposite effects on the capacitance.

Abstract: An antenna comprises a main portion, a facing portion, a first feed terminal and a second feed terminal. The main portion has a ring shape with a split. The main portion has a first end portion and a second end portion. The first end portion and the second end portion are positioned away from each other in a right-left direction with the split left therebetween. The facing portion includes a first facing portion and a second facing portion. The first facing portion and the second facing portion are spaced away from each other. The first facing portion has an upper facing portion and a lower facing portion. The second facing portion is interposed between the upper facing portion and the lower facing portion in an up-down direction perpendicular to the right-left direction.