Connector

• US 7,144,260 B2
• Filed: 11/04/2005
• Issued: 12/05/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 05/28/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Advantest Corporation
• Original Assignee: Advantest Corporation
• Inventors: Hama, Hiroyuki, Matsumura, Shigeru, Kaneko, Masanori, Murayama, Shigeru, Sekizuka, Takashi
• Primary Examiner(s): Patel, Tulsidas C.
• Assistant Examiner(s): NGUYEN, PHUONGCHI T
• Application Number:
  US11/268,264
• Publication Number:
  US 20060057874A1
• Time in Patent Office: 396 Days
• Field of Search: 439/108, 439/579, 439/581, 439/63, 439/608, 439/101
• US Class Current: 439/108
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 12/716 Coupling device provided on the PCB
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 12/721 cooperating directly with the edge of the rigid printed circuits
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 12/725 containing contact members presenting a contact carrying strip, e.g. edge-like strip
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/6581 Shield structure
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/6585 Shielding material individually surrounding or interposed between mutually spaced contacts
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 2103/00 Two poles
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 2201/20 for testing or measuring purposes
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 24/52 mounted in or to a panel or structure
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 31/06 Intermediate parts for linking two coupling parts, e.g. adapter with a holder adapted for supporting apparatus to which its counterpart is attached H01R33/94

Abstract

A connector mounted on a board having a plurality of board signal lines for transmitting a signal and a board ground line grounded. Each of the plurality of board signal lines includes a plurality of signal terminals formed in correspondence to each of the signal lines. Each of the signal terminals comprises: a signal core line formed of conductor by extension in the shape of a line; a shield for core line formed of conductor insulated from the signal core line electrically so as to extend in an axis direction of the signal core line and enclose the signal core line; a signal electrode formed by extension from the signal core line for connecting the signal core line with the board signal line corresponding to the signal terminal; and a plurality of ground electrodes extended from the shield for core line and opposed to each other by intervention of the signal electrode for connecting the shield for core line with the board ground line respectively.

Claims

1. A connector mounted on a board, comprising:

a plurality of signal terminals; and

a housing for holding said plurality of signal terminals by zigzag arrangement of a first row, a second row, a third row and a fourth row, all of them being parallel to each other,

wherein said housing has at least two positioning holes to prescribe a position of other connectors to said connector, and

wherein said positioning holes are disposed in said second and third rows, both being inner, by zigzag arrangements with said signal terminals, such that said positioning holes are adjacent to said signal terminals disposed on one end of each of said first and fourth rows, both being outer, and that said positioning holes are faced each other by intervention of said plurality of signal terminals.

2. The connector according to claim 1, wherein each of said signal terminals comprises:

a signal core line formed of conductor by extension in the shape of a line;

a shield for core line formed of conductor insulated from said signal core line electrically so as to extend in an axis direction of said signal core line;

a signal electrode formed by extension from said signal core line for connecting said signal core line with said board; and

a ground electrode extended from said shield for core line for connecting said shield for core line with said board.

3. A connector mounted on a board, comprising:

a plurality of signal terminals; and

a housing for holding said plurality of signal terminals by zigzag arrangement of a first row, a second row, a third row and a fourth row, all of them being parallel to each other,

wherein said housing has through-holes for passing through rivets therein to fasten said housing to the board, and

wherein said through-holes are disposed in said first and fourth rows, both being outer, by zigzag arrangements with said signal terminals.

4. The connector according to claim 3, wherein each of said signal terminals comprises:

a signal core line formed of conductor by extension in the shape of a line;

a shield for core line formed of conductor insulated from said signal core line electrically so as to extend in an axis direction of said signal core line;

a signal electrode formed by extension from said signal core line for connecting said signal core line with said board; and

a ground electrode extended from said shield for core line for connecting said shield for core line with said board.

5. The connector claimed in claim 3, wherein two of said through-holes are disposed in said first row, and other two of said through-holes in said fourth row,

wherein one of said two through-holes of said first row is disposed in one end of said first row, and one of said two through-holes of said fourth row are disposed in the other end of said fourth row, so as to face each other by intervention of said plurality of signal terminals, and

wherein the other of said two through-holes of said first row and the other of said row through-holes of said fourth row are disposed in zigzag arrangements with said four through-holes.

6. The connector according to claim 5, wherein each of said signal terminals comprises:

a signal core line formed of conductor by extension in the shape of a line;

a shield for core line formed of conductor insulated from said signal core line electrically so as to extend in an axis direction of said signal core line;

a signal electrode formed by extension from said signal core line for connecting said signal core line with said board; and

a ground electrode extended from said shield for core line for connecting said shield for core line with said board.

7. The connector claimed in claim 5, wherein said housing has at least two positioning holes to prescribe a position of other connectors to said connector, and

wherein said positioning holes are disposed in said second and third rows, both being inner, by zigzag arrangements with said signal terminals, such that said positioning holes are adjacent to said signal terminals disposed on one end of each of said first and fourth rows, and that said positioning holes are faced each other by intervention of said plurality of signal terminals.

8. The connector according to claim 7, wherein each of said signal terminals comprises:

a signal core line formed of conductor by extension in the shape of a line;

a shield for core line formed of conductor insulated from said signal core line electrically so as to extend in an axis direction of said signal core line;

a signal electrode formed by extension from said signal core line for connecting said signal core line with said board; and

a ground electrode extended from said shield for core line for connecting said shield for core line with said board.

9. A connector mounted on a board, comprising:

a plurality of signal terminals; and

a housing for holding said plurality of signal terminals by zigzag arrangement of a first row, a second row, a third row and a fourth row, all of them being parallel to each other, wherein each of said signal terminals includes;

a signal core line formed of conductor by extension in the shape of a line;

a shield for core line formed of conductor insulated from said signal core line electrically so as to extend in an axis direction of said signal core line;

a signal electrode formed by extension from said signal core line for connecting said signal core line with said board; and

a ground electrode extended from said shield for core line for connecting said shield for core line with said board.

10. The connector claimed in claim 9, wherein said ground electrode includes a plurality of grand electrodes extended from said shield for core line and opposed to each other by intervention of said signal electrode for connecting said shield for core line with said board.

11. A connector mounted on a board having a plurality of board signal lines for transmitting a signal and a board ground line grounded, including:

a plurality of signal terminals; and

a housing for holding said plurality of signal terminals by zigzag arrangement of a first row, a second row, a third row and a fourth row, all of them being parallel to each other,

wherein said housing has at least two positioning holes to prescribe a position of other connectors to said connector, and

wherein said positioning holes are disposed in said second and third rows, both being inner, by zigzag arrangements with said signal terminals, such that said positioning holes are adjacent to said signal terminals disposed on one end of each of said first and fourth rows, both being outer, and that said positioning holes are faced each other by intervention of said plurality of signal terminals,

wherein said signal terminals includes;

a signal core line formed of conductor by extension in the shape of a line;

a first shield formed of conductor insulated from the signal core line electrically and accommodated in the housing so that the first shield encloses the signal core line by the extension from the vicinity of the tip of the signal core line to an axis direction of the signal core line;

a protrusion part protruded in a direction depart from the signal core line and formed by the extension from the termination end of the first shield to be locked in the surface of the housing; and

a second shield formed of conductor insulated from the signal core line electrically so that the tip intervenes between the signal core line and the first shield in the vicinity of the protrusion part and the second shield encloses the signal core line by the extension from the tip to an axis direction.

12. The connector according to claim 11, wherein said signal core line is electrically connected to a central conductor of a conical cable, and said second shield is electrically connected to an outer conductor of the conical cable.