CONNECTOR AND CONNECTION DEVICE FOR ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT

• US 20120315779A1
• Filed: 02/25/2011
• Published: 12/13/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 03/03/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: EX Company Limited (Mystar Engineering Corporation)
• Original Assignee: EX Company Limited (Mystar Engineering Corporation)
• Inventors: Yudate, Shinya, Ozaki, Masanobu
• Granted Patent: US 11,545,781 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 439/271
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 12/724 containing contact members forming a right angle
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/5202 Sealing means between parts of housing or between housing part and a wall, e.g. sealing rings
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/521 Sealing between contact members and housing, e.g. sealing insert
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/6581 Shield structure
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/6591 Specific features or arrangements of connection of shield to conductive members

Abstract

The length of a waterproof and dustproof connector can be reduced to decrease its occupation area so as to secure the occupied area of the circuit board for electronic equipment and so as to design the layout of the electronic equipment more freely and so as to downsize the electronic equipment. The connector for electronic equipment includes an approximately cylindrical housing 2, a support 21 provided in the form of a wall in the housing 2, a contact terminal 3 and a power terminal 4 supported by the support 21, a shell 5 mounted inside the housing 2, and a seal 6 provided along the outer circumference adjacent to the end on the connection terminal inserting side of the housing 2. Preferably, the seal 6 is welded to the housing 2 and made of a resin softer than the resin of the housing 2.

Claims

1-7. -7. (canceled)

8. A connector for electronic equipment comprising:

an approximately cylindrical housing;

a support provided in the form of a wall in the housing;

a contact terminal and a power terminal supported by the support;

a shell mounted inside the housing; and

a seal provided along the outer circumference adjacent to the end on the connection terminal inserting side of the housing.

9. The connector for electronic equipment according to claim 8, wherein the seal is welded to the housing and made of a resin softer than the resin of the housing.

10. The connector for electronic equipment according to claim 8 further comprising an additional seal provided in an innermost recess surrounded by the innermost peripheral wall of the housing and the support.

11. The connector for electronic equipment according to claim 9 further comprising an additional seal provided in an innermost recess surrounded by the innermost peripheral wall of the housing and the support.

12. The connector for electronic equipment according to claim 8, wherein the seal projects from the end on the connection terminal inserting side of the housing to the connection terminal inserting side and can then be brought into press contact with the surface of the connection terminal inserting side of the case in which the housing is placed.

13. The connector for electronic equipment according to claim 12 further comprising an elongated protrusion peripherally projecting adjacent to the end on the connection terminal inserting side of the housing and then contacting with the innermost end of the seal;

a projection formed on the innermost surface of the elongated protrusion; and

a wedge enabling the housing to be biased to the terminal insertion side by being pushed to the housing side and then contacted with the projection.

14. The connector for electronic equipment according to claim 9 comprising an elongated protrusion peripherally projecting adjacent to the end on the connection terminal inserting side of the housing and then contacting with the innermost end of the seal, wherein an engagement recess is formed on a part of the surface on the connection terminal inserting side of the elongated protrusion and welded to be engaged with the seal, and the seal projects from the end on the connection terminal inserting side of the housing to the connection terminal inserting side and can then be brought into press contact with the surface on the connection terminal inserting side of the case in which the housing is placed.

15. The connection device for electronic equipment, comprising the connector for electronic equipment according to claim 12;

and one and the other cases that form the case, wherein the connector includes an elongated protrusion peripherally projecting adjacent to the end on the connection terminal inserting side of the housing and then contacting with the innermost end of the seal, and a projection formed on the innermost surface of the elongated protrusion, one case includes a guide guiding the elongated protrusion to a storage recess toward the connection terminal inserting side along an inclined surface, and the other case includes a wedge enabling the housing to be biased to the terminal insertion side by being pushed to the housing side and then contacted with the projection.