Connector fixing structure

• US 7,249,957 B2
• Filed: 10/20/2004
• Issued: 07/31/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 10/21/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Ten Limited (DENSO Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Ten Limited (DENSO Corporation)
• Inventors: Watanabe, Hiromichi, Nishioka, Yasuo, Fukatsu, Yoshifumi
• Primary Examiner(s): Dinh; Phuong
• Application Number:
  US10/968,092
• Publication Number:
  US 20050118864A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,014 Days
• Field of Search: 439/76.2, 439/79, 439/81, 439/80, 439/576, 439/577
• US Class Current: 439/79
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 12/585 Terminals having a press fit or a compliant portion and a shank passing through a hole in the printed circuit board
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 12/7064 Press fitting

Abstract

A connector fixing structure includes a substrate, a connector, and a housing. The substrate defines a first hole portion and a second hole portion. The connector includes a terminal of a pressfit shape that is inserted into the first holed portion to connect with the substrate electrically, and a housing having a leg portion of a press fit shape that is inserted into the second hole portion when the terminal is inserted into the first hole portion.

Claims

1. A connector fixing structure comprising:

a substrate;

a casing that stores the substrate therein;

a connector including;

an L-shaped terminal of a pressfit shape that is connected to the substrate electrically, the terminal having an enlarged-diameter hole near a center thereof in a width direction; and

a housing that accommodates a mating connector, the housing provided in the casing and fixed onto the substrate only by the terminal; and

an engagement portion by which the casing engages with the housing, the engagement portion disposed at a position where the housing and the casing contact with each other.

2. The structure according to claim 1, wherein the engagement portion includes:

a leg portion having a pressfit shape; and

a hole portion into which the leg portion is inserted.

3. An electronic apparatus comprising:

a circuit board;

a casing that stores the circuit board therein;

a connector including;

an L-shaped terminal of a pressfit shape that is connected to the circuit board electrically, the terminal having an enlarged-diameter hole near a center thereof in a width direction; and

a housing that accommodates a mating connector, the housing provided in the casing and fixed onto the substrate only by the terminal; and

an engagement portion by which the casing engages with the housing, the engagement portion disposed at a position where the housing and the casing contact with each other.