Abstract: Each of contacts of an edge connector has a first mounted portion, a first held portion, a contact portion, a second held portion and a second mounted portion. The first mounted portion and the second mounted portion are fixed to a mount object when the edge connector is mounted on the mount object. The first held portion is located between the first mounted portion and the contact portion in the contact, and the second held portion is located between the second mounted portion and the contact portion in the contact. The first held portion and the second held portion are held by a housing. The contact portion is located between the first held portion and the second held portion in the contact and located in an accommodation portion of the housing.

Abstract: A connector assembly includes a first connector and a second connector, a passage connection port of tubular shape including in its interior a linking passage extending along the fitting direction is integrally formed in one of a first housing of the first connector and a second housing of the second connector, a passage connection port accommodation portion of recess shape for accommodating the passage connection port is integrally formed in another one of the first housing and the second housing, and when the second connector is fitted with the first connector, a first contact member of the first connector is electrically connected to a second contact member of the second connector, and the passage connection port is accommodated in the passage connection port accommodation portion whereby the first distribution port of the first housing communicates with the fluid distribution tube via the linking passage.

Abstract: A connector includes a contact connected to a flexible conductor, a housing that is attached to a flexible substrate and retains the contact, and a protection sheet that is constituted of an insulating film having a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer formed on one surface thereof and is disposed between the housing and the flexible substrate such that the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer faces the flexible substrate, the protection sheet being disposed so as to cover at least a front surface part of the flexible substrate on which the flexible conductor is formed, and is adhered to the flexible substrate with the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer, the housing having a flat surface facing the flexible substrate, an adhesive layer bonding the housing to the protection sheet being disposed between the flat surface and the protection sheet.

Abstract: A connector for biological data acquisition includes a housing attached to a mounting object and including a first exposed surface that faces an opposite side from a body surface of a user and a second exposed surface that faces the body surface, and a plurality of conductive members each extending along a fitting direction and retained by the housing in a state of passing through the housing in the fitting direction from the first exposed surface to the second exposed surface, each of the conductive members including a conductive contact portion protruding from the first exposed surface of the housing and being connected to a counter contact of the counter connector when the connector for biological data acquisition is fitted to the counter connector, and a conductive electrode portion protruding from the second exposed surface of the housing and being used to acquire biological data of the user.

Abstract: A connector is mateable with a mating connector. The connector comprises a housing and a terminal. The terminal has an arm, a contact portion and a held portion held by a holding portion of the housing. The arm couples the held portion and the contact portion to each other and supports the contact portion so that the contact portion is movable. The contact portion has a bottom portion, a first support portion, a second support portion, a first contact point and a second contact point. Each of the first support portion and the second support portion extends upward from the bottom portion. The first contact point is supported by the first support portion. The second contact point is supported by the second support portion. Under a mated state, a mating terminal of the mating connector is sandwiched and held between the first contact point and the second contact point.

Abstract: A connector assembly includes a sheet-like base that is flexible and includes a base body and a tag portion drawn from the base body, a terminal member disposed on a front surface of the base body, a wire disposed to extend from the front surface of the base body to a front surface of the tag portion, the wire having one end thereof connected to the terminal member and another end thereof extending to the front surface of the tag portion, and a connector mounted on the front surface of the tag portion and connected to the another end of the wire, and the tag portion is folded toward the base body such that a rear surface of the tag portion faces a rear surface of the base body, whereby the connector is disposed on the rear surface side of the base body.

Abstract: A connector includes a contact retained in a housing selectively in one of a first posture and a second posture inverted 180 degrees around a fitting direction, the contact including a contact portion to be contacted with a contact of a counter connector and a connection portion to be connected to a flexible conductor of a connection object, between a case where the contact is retained in the housing in the first posture and a case where the contact is retained in the housing in the second posture, the contact portion is situated at a same position with respect to the housing and the connection portion is situated at a different position with respect to the housing, the contact being retained in the housing in, of the first posture and the second posture, a posture corresponding to an orientation of a flexible conductor exposed surface of the connection object.

Abstract: A connector includes a first connector portion having an electric wire retaining portion and a locking projection, and a second connector portion having a connecting spring member and a locking spring member, the electric wire extending along a first direction, the connecting spring member and the locking spring member being disposed at a predetermined interval in a second direction, when the second connector portion is fitted to the first connector portion having the electric wire retained in the electric wire retaining portion with a sheet type conductive member being interposed therebetween, a flexible conductor of the sheet type conductive member being pressed against a conductor portion of the electric wire by the connecting spring member and electrically connected to the conductor portion, and the locking spring member catching on the locking projection.

Abstract: A connector is mounted on a circuit board when used. The connector has a housing and a terminal which has a held portion, a supporting portion, a coupling portion, a contact portion and a guiding portion. The coupling portion has a fulcrum. The guiding portion receives a vertical force from a mating terminal at a specific contact location. The guiding portion receives, at the specific contact location, a frictional force caused by friction between the mating terminal and the guiding portion upon movement of the mating terminal on the guiding portion. An action line of a combined force of the vertical force and the frictional force intersects with one of the circuit board and the housing at a reference point. The fulcrum is positioned beyond the reference point in a first orientation of a first horizontal direction.

Abstract: The connector includes a first insulator including a first retaining surface and a protrusion portion formed on and protruding from the first retaining surface, and a second insulator including a second retaining surface opposed to the first retaining surface and a recess portion formed in the second retaining surface and corresponding to the protrusion portion, the first insulator and the second insulator are connected to each other with the sheet type conductive member and the electric wire being held between the first retaining surface and the second retaining surface, and at least part of the protrusion portion is housed in the recess portion, whereby the conductor portion of the electric wire is electrically connected to the flexible conductor of the sheet type conductive member in the recess portion.

Abstract: The connector includes an inner contact formed of a plate member inserted into a recess of a plug contact, the plate member having a first constituent portion including an elastically displaceable contact portion and a second constituent portion including a pressing portion that is elastically displaceable independently of elastic displacement of the contact portion, part of a sheet-like connection target in which a flexible conductor is exposed on at least one surface being sandwiched between the pressing portion and an inner surface of the recess in a direction orthogonal to the fitting axis, the inner surface of the recess coming into contact with a front surface of the connection target while the pressing portion coming into contact with a back surface of the connection target.

Abstract: A connector assembly comprises a connector and a mating connector mateable with each other. The mating connector comprises a mating lock member having a mating lock portion. The connector comprises a holding member and a lock member. The holding member has a holding portion and a stop portion. The lock member has a held portion and a lock portion. The held portion is held by the holding portion. The lock portion is located below the mating lock portion and faces the mating lock portion in the upper-lower direction under the mated state. The coupling portion has an abutment portion. When the lock portion is moved toward the held portion in the first horizontal direction in accordance with removal of the connector from the mating connector, the abutment portion is brought into abutment with the stop portion so that a movement of the lock portion is restricted.

Abstract: A sheet type conductive member includes a flexible conductor formed of a conductive thread embroidered on or woven into a sheet body, the flexible conductor including a first end portion disposed to be superposed on a wiring portion of a garment, a second end portion electrically connected to a contact, and a joint portion joining the first end portion and the second end portion together, the sheet body having an opening portion used for attachment to a connector, the second end portion extending from its connection portion with the joint portion toward an edge of the opening portion and being disposed near the opening portion to be spaced from the edge by a predetermined distance.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a sheet type conductive member is a method in which, by continuously embroidering or weaving a conductive thread on or into an insulating sheet member including a sheet body region and a peripheral region, a plurality of flexible conductors situated inside the sheet body region and at least one connection conductor situated in the peripheral region and interconnecting corresponding two flexible conductors are formed, and thereafter, the peripheral region of the sheet member is separated from the sheet body region, and the at least one connection conductor is separated from the plurality of flexible conductors.

Abstract: A sheet type conductive member includes a flexible conductor formed of a conductive thread embroidered on or woven into a sheet body, the flexible conductor including a first end portion electrically connected to a wiring portion of a garment, a second end portion electrically connected to a contact, and a joint portion joining the first end portion and the second end portion together, an exposure area of the conductive thread per unit area in the first end portion and the second end portion being larger than an exposure area of the conductive thread per unit area in the joint portion.

Abstract: A sheet type conductive member includes a flexible conductor extending along a surface of a sheet body, the flexible conductor including a first end portion disposed to be superposed on a wiring portion of a garment, a second end portion electrically connected to a contact, and a joint portion joining the first end portion and the second end portion together, the first end portion having a width larger than a width of the second end portion and being electrically connected to the wiring portion of the garment by being sewed to the wiring portion.

Abstract: An electronic equipment comprises a case and a connector which is attached to the case. The connector comprises a housing and a waterproofing member. The waterproofing member is sandwiched by a mating connector and a side portion of the housing in a second direction when the connector is mated with the mating connector. The waterproofing member has at least one first contact portion, at least one second contact portion, at least one third contact portion and at least one fourth contact portion. The third contact portion is pressed against the side portion in the second direction by elasticity of the waterproofing member upon the mating of the connector with the mating connector. The fourth contact portion is pressed against and in contact with the mating connector in the second direction by the elasticity of the waterproofing member upon the mating of the connector with the mating connector.

Abstract: A base includes a lower surface opposed to a lower board on which a receptacle is surface-mounted. The lower surface includes a solder connection part exposed toward the lower board without being covered with a housing so that it is soldered to a ground pattern of the lower board. This structure improves signal characteristics of a contact at low cost in a surface-mounting connector where the contact and the housing are integrated by insert molding. The signal characteristics of each conductive pattern are thereby improved at low cost.

Abstract: A receptacle includes a housing made of insulating resin and a first receptacle contact assembly integrally formed with the housing by insert molding. The first receptacle contact assembly includes a plurality of contact units arranged in a pitch direction. Each contact unit includes a base made of metal including a fixed part in a flat-plate shape fixed to the housing and four projecting parts projecting upward from the fixed part, an insulating layer that covers the base, and four conductive patterns that are formed on the insulating layer, extend from the fixed part to the four projecting parts, and function as contacts. The fixed parts of the plurality of contact units link together in an unbroken manner in the pitch direction.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a receptacle includes an assembly manufacturing step, an accommodating step, and an insert molding step. The assembly manufacturing step manufactures each receptacle contact assembly in such a way that a base includes two supporting bases with a coupling base interposed therebetween in a pitch direction. The accommodating step accommodates a plurality of receptacle contact assemblies into an injection mold in such a way that each receptacle contact assembly is supported at both ends in the injection mold by using the two supporting bases. The insert molding step molds a receptacle housing integrally with the plurality of receptacle contact assemblies by insert molding.