Connector

• US 7,183,508 B2
• Filed: 12/16/2005
• Issued: 02/27/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 06/16/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: ARKRAY, Inc
• Original Assignee: ARKRAY, Inc
• Inventors: Kasai, Tokuo
• Primary Examiner(s): Friedhofer; Michael A.
• Application Number:
  US11/304,576
• Publication Number:
  US 20060121759A1
• Time in Patent Office: 438 Days
• Field of Search: 200 51 R- 5113, 439/62, 439/188, 439/630
• US Class Current: 200/51.09
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 27/3273 Devices therefor, e.g. test element readers, circuitry details not specific to biochemical electrodes G01N33/4875
• CPC Class Codes: H01H 27/002 wherein one single insertion movement of a key comprises an unlocking stroke and a switch actuating stroke, e.g. security switch for safety guards
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/7031 Shorting, shunting or bussing of different terminals interrupted or effected on engagement of coupling part, e.g. for ESD protection, line continuity

Abstract

In a connector, the position at which a pointed part of a rocking terminal slidingly contacts an insertion and the position at which the pointed part of the rocking terminal contacts an upper surface of a terminal plate are substantially the same. Therefore, shavings generated by the contact of the insertion and the pointed part or foreign matters adhering to the insertion may adhere to the pointed part of the rocking terminal and be pinched between the pointed part and the terminal plate, whereby no contact is caused by inserting the insertion into the connector. Then, with regard to a connector having a switch part comprising a rocking terminal (51) swayed by inserting an insertion (53) into a main body of the connector and a receiving terminal (52) arranged to contact the rocking terminal, a pointed part (51a) is formed on the rocking terminal, and the terminals contact electrically with each other by making the receiving terminal touch a side surface of the pointed part.

Claims

1. A connector having a switch part comprising a rocking terminal swayed by inserting an insertion into a main body of the connector and a receiving terminal arranged to contact the rocking terminal, characterized in that

the rocking terminal engages with an opening in the insertion when the insertion is inserted into the main body of the connector;

a pointed part is formed on the rocking terminal; and

the terminals contact electrically with each other by making the receiving terminal touch an outside surface of an inclined part of the pointed part.

2. The connector as set forth in claim 1, wherein

the receiving terminal is provided at a position opposite to the rocking terminal,

the pointed part of the rocking terminal is pointed,

an engaging part is provided on the receiving terminal at a position opposite to the pointed part, and

the terminals contact electrically with each other by making the engaging part and the pointed part engage with each other.

3. A connector having a switch part comprising a rocking terminal swayed by inserting an insertion into a main body of the connector and a receiving terminal arranged to contact the rocking terminal, characterized in that

the rocking terminal engages with an opening in the insertion when the insertion is inserted into the main body of the connector;

the rocking terminal has a basal end fixed to the main body of the connector and a tip to be inserted through the insertion;

a part of the rocking terminal slidingly contacting the insertion inserted into the connector and a part of the rocking terminal electrically contacting the receiving terminal are constructed separately; and

a salient provided adjacent the basal end of the rocking terminal and/or on the receiving terminal.

4. The connector as set forth in claim 3, wherein

a pointed part is formed on the rocking terminal, and

an electrical contact part of the rocking terminal and the receiving terminal is constructed to be separated from the pointed part.

5. The connector as set forth in claim 3, wherein

a pointed part is formed on the rocking terminal, and

an electrical contact part contacting the receiving terminal is constructed on a doglegged part of the rocking terminal at a position near and above or below the pointed part.

6. The connector as set forth in claim 3, wherein

the part of the rocking terminal slidingly contacting the insertion is constructed by a nonconductor.