Flexible flat cable connector

• US 6,948,973 B1
• Filed: 04/16/2004
• Issued: 09/27/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 04/16/2004
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Chen-Yin Hsu
• Original Assignee: Chen Yin Hsu
• Inventors: Yang, Sheng-Chiu, Hsu, Chen-Yin
• Primary Examiner(s): NGUYEN, TRUC T
• Application Number:
  US10/825,106
• Publication Number:
  US 20050233632A1
• Time in Patent Office: 529 Days
• Field of Search: 439492-497, 439357-358
• US Class Current: 439/495
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 12/592 connections to contact elements
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 12/79 connecting to rigid printed circuits or like structures
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/6275 Latching arms not integral with the housing H01R13/6276, H01R13/6277, H01R13/6278 take precedence

Abstract

A flexible flat cable connector providing reliable incorporation between a clamping member and a socket, having a clamping member to hold the coupling end of the cable in position before the clamping member to be inserted into a socket with the latter serving as the main portion of plug-in and plug-out of the entire connector; a locking plate protruding toward the socket being each axially provided on both sides of the clamping member; a hooking portion being provided on the front end of the locking plate protruding from the socket; a spring tongue being provided on the other end of the locking plate to compress the socket.

Claims

1. A flexible flat cable connector for a cable comprising:

a clamping member to secure a coupling end of the cable in position;

the clamping member being incorporated to a socket; and

the socket serving as a main portion of plug-in and plug-out of the entire connector wherein a locking plate protruding toward the socket being each axially provided on both sides of the clamping member;

a hooking portion being provided on one end of the locking plate protruding from the front edge of the socket; and

a spring tongue being provided at another end of the locking plate to compress the socket, wherein the clamping member is comprised of a casing and a lid to secure the FCC in position;

a limiting groove to receive the insertion of the locking plate is each provided on both sides of the top of the lid;

a positioning axial protrudes from the middle of the limiting groove;

a positioning hole to allow the insertion by the positioning axial is each provided to the locking plate; and

the locking plate swings by having the positioning axial as the axis, wherein, an expansion groove for the positioning hole is provided to the external circumference of the positioning hole of the locking plate.

2. A flexible flat cable connector as claimed in claim 1, wherein, the spring tongue is integrated with the locking plate.

3. A flexible flat cable connector as claimed in claim 1, wherein, an ear is upwardly provided at a right angle each on both sides of the casing of the clamping member;

a matching hole is each provided on the lid;

the ear passes through the hole and is folded toward the lid for the lid to be locked to the casing.

4. A flexible flat cable connector as claimed in claim 1, wherein, the front end of the casing protrudes out of the lid for a given length and a positioning portion to limit the cable is protruding upwardly from each of two sides of the front end of the casing.