Position compensating connector

• US 4,810,215 A
• Filed: 06/06/1986
• Issued: 03/07/1989
• Est. Priority Date: 06/06/1985
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
• Original Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
• Inventors: Kaneko, Tomohisa
• Primary Examiner(s): Eley, Timothy V.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Ross, Taylor J.
• Application Number:
  US06/871,373
• Time in Patent Office: 1,005 Days
• Field of Search: 29/830, 29/842, 29/845, 439/76, 439/845, 439/849, 439/850, 439/865-867
• US Class Current: 439/845
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 12/716 Coupling device provided on the PCB
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 12/737 Printed circuits being substantially perpendicular to each other for printed connections H05K3/366
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/49147 Assembling terminal to base
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/49153 with shaping or forcing terminal into base aperture

Abstract

A connector has a connector terminal that has a connecting section for a partner terminal on one end of a conducting plate, a board insertion section on the other end, and a curved section for absorbing the deviations in the vertical. The connector also has horizontal directions in the middle of the conducting plate, and a housing which houses the connector terminal which has a board mounting plate on the side of the base end, and the board mounting plate mounted so as to be horizontally movably on the board via a fixing stand of the board insertion section.

Claims

1. A connector comprising:

(i) a connector terminal having;

a connecting section formed on one end of the terminal for connecting the terminal with a partner terminal,

a board insertion section formed on the other end of the terminal,

a first and a second bendable section that are bendable in first and second directions, respectively, that are mutually perpendicular and are respectively perpendicular to the connecting direction of said partner terminal, between both ends of said terminal,

(ii) a housing having a housing section and a base end section, said housing section having means for receiving said connector terminal, said housing further having;

a board mounting plate provided on the base end side of said housing.

2. The connector as claimed in claim 1, in which said connector terminal is formed by bending a strip-like structure in the form of the letter L and said first bendable section comprises the L-shaped bent section.

3. The connector as claimed in claim 1, in which said connector terminal is a monolithic elastic piece.

4. A connector comprising:

(i) a connector terminal having;

a connecting section formed on one end of the terminal for connecting the terminal with a partner terminal,

a board insertion section formed on the other end of the terminal,

a first and a second bendable section that are bendable in first and second directions, respectively, that are mutually perpendicular and are respectively perpendicular to the connecting direction of said partner terminal, between both ends of said terminal,

(ii) a housing having a housing section and a base end section, said housing section having means for receiving said connector terminal, said housing further having;

a board mounting plate provided on the base end side of said housing;

in which said connector terminal is formed by bending a strip-like structure in the form of the letter L with an arching section at the corner of the letter L, which projects from the exterior side of the letter L, and said first bendable section comprises said arching section.

5. A connector comprising:

(i) a connector terminal having;

a connecting section formed on one end of the terminal for connecting the terminal with a partner terminal,

a board insertion section formed on the other end of the terminal,

a first and a second bendable section that are bendable in first and second directions, respectively, that are mutually perpendicular and are respectively perpendicular to the connecting direction of said partner terminal, between both ends of said terminal,

(ii) a housing having a housing section and a base end section, said housing section having means for receiving said connector terminal, said housing further having;

a board mounting plate provided on the base end side of said housing;

in which said connector terminal has a linear form and said first bendable section comprises an arching section in the conducting plate that is provided at the midsection of the linear form.

6. A connector comprising:

(i) a connector terminal having;

a connecting section formed on one end of the terminal for connecting the terminal with a partner terminal,

a board insertion section formed on the other end of the terminal,

a first and a second bendable section that are bendable in first and second directions, respectively, that are mutually perpendicular and are respectively perpendicular to the connecting direction of said partner terminal, between both ends of said terminal,

(ii) a housing having a housing section and a base end section, said housing section having means for receiving said connector terminal, said housing further having;

a board mounting plate provided on the base end side of said housing;

in which the second bendable section of said connecting terminal is comprised of walls formed by bending both sides of a part of said second bendable section,

notching a part in the longitudinal direction of the band-like plate held between the side walls,

and curving said side walls on both sides of the notched section.

7. A connector comprising:

(i) a connector terminal having;

a connecting section formed on one end of the terminal for connecting the terminal with a partner terminal,

a board insertion section formed on the other end of the terminal,

a first and a second bendable section that are bendable in first and second directions, respectively, that are mutually perpendicular and are respectively perpendicular to the connecting direction of said partner terminal, between both ends of said terminal,

(ii) a housing having a housing section and a base end section, said housing section having means for receiving said connector terminal, said housing further having;

a board mounting plate provided on the base end side of said housing;

in which said connector is formed by bending a strip-like structure in the form of the letter L and said first bendable section comprises the L-shaped bent section,

in which the second bendable section of said connector terminal is constructed

by forming a side wall by bending the edge of one side of said conducting plate, notching a part in the longitudinal direction of the band-like plate on the side where the side wall is formed,

and by curving said side wall at the position where there is created the notched section.

8. A connector comprising:

(i) a connector terminal having;

a connecting section formed on one end of the terminal for connecting the terminal with a partner terminal,

a board insertion section formed on the other end of the terminal,

a first and a second bendable section that are bendable in first and second directions, respectively, that are mutually perpendicular and are respectively perpendicular to the connecting direction of a partner terminal, between both ends of said terminal,

(ii) a housing having a housing section and a base end section, said housing section having means for receiving said connector terminal, said housing further having;

a board mounting plate provided on the base end side of said housing;

in which on the side of said one end of said connector terminal, where said connecting section is provided, there is formed a hooking hole for hooking said connecting section to the inside of the housing.

9. A connector terminal comprising;

(i) a connecting section formed on one end of said terminal for connecting the terminal with a partner terminal,

(ii) a board insertion section formed on the other end of the terminal,

(iii) a first and a second bendable section that are bendable in first and second directions, respectively, that are mutually perpendicular and are respectively perpendicular to the connecting direction of said partner terminal, between both ends of said terminal.