Abstract: The first board connector 2, at the opposite ends in the connector width direction, has fittings 80 that extend in the connector length direction perpendicular to both the connector width direction and the vertical direction; the fittings 80 have resilient pieces 83 that extend upwardly and are resiliently deformable in the connector width direction; the resilient pieces 83, in the top end portions thereof, have locking portions 83B that protrude outwardly in the connector width direction; the intermediate connector 1 has a housing 20 capable of receiving the first board connector 2 from below; the housing 20 has lateral walls 22 that extend in the connector length direction at the opposite ends in the connector width direction; and the lateral walls 22 have lockable portions 22C-1 lockingly engageable with the locking portions 83B from below at locations corresponding to the resilient pieces 83 in the connector length direction.

Abstract: The supported portions of the substrate are positioned offset from the center of the substrate in the vertical direction; adjacent intermediate bodies are provided in orientations vertically inverted relative to each other and every two supported portions are positioned so as to differ by a predetermined dimension P in the vertical direction; the lower lateral walls of the housing have formed therein, in an alternating manner, first lower supporting portions and second lower supporting portions positioned so as to differ by the predetermined dimension P in the vertical direction; the first lower supporting portions protrude upwardly of the second lower supporting portions and support from below the supported portions of the intermediate bodies in which the supported portions are positioned with an upward offset; and the second lower supporting portions support from below the supported portions of the intermediate bodies in which the supported portions are positioned with a downward offset.

Abstract: The intermediate circuit board has a plate-shaped substrate and a plurality of signal transmission line pairs for differential signal transmission extending on a major face of the substrate from one end to the other end of the substrate in the direction of connection to the counterpart connect bodies; the substrate has a fiber cloth formed by braiding a plurality of fibers used to reinforce the substrate in a mesh pattern and a plate-like member made of plastic having the fiber cloth embedded therein; the plurality of signal transmission line pairs have straight pairs and cross pairs disposed in an alternating manner in the width direction of the substrate; and the straight pairs and cross pairs, when viewed in the through-thickness direction of the substrate, are formed extending inclined at an angle relative to the fibers of the fiber cloth.

Abstract: [Problem] To provide an electrical connector capable of adequately ensuring a stable state of electrical communication between ground members.

Abstract: The signal transmission paths are transmission path pairs 22, 24 located spaced apart in the arrangement direction of the signal transmission paths 22, 24, the transmission path pairs 22, 24 have two types of pairs, straight pairs 22 and cross pairs 24, the straight pairs 22 and the cross pairs 24 are alternately disposed in the arrangement direction, the signal transmission paths arranged in the arrangement direction form signal transmission path rows, a plurality of the signal transmission path rows are provided, and of two adjacent signal transmission path rows, at least a part of the transmission path pairs 22, 24 of one signal transmission path row in the height direction is offset in the arrangement direction with respect to the transmission path pairs 22, 24 of the other signal transmission path row.

Abstract: In an electrical connector wherein signal transmission paths 53 have signal connecting portions 53 C soldered to signal circuit units on a circuit board, ground members 54, 55 have ground connecting portions 54C, 55C soldered to ground circuit units on the circuit board, and the ground connecting portions 54C, 55C are positioned in the arrangement direction of the signal transmission paths 53 between the signal connecting portions 53C of adjacent signal transmission paths, a width range WG between the opposite end locations of the ground connecting portions 54C, 55C of the ground members 54, 55 in the width direction, which is parallel to the mounting surface of the circuit board and perpendicular to the arrangement direction, extends beyond the width range WS of the signal connecting portions 53C of the signal transmission paths 53.