Connector

• US 9,088,082 B2
• Filed: 07/05/2013
• Issued: 07/21/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 07/06/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Orui, Kazuya, Katsui, Masayoshi
• Primary Examiner(s): DINH, PHUONG K
• Application Number:
  US13/935,747
• Publication Number:
  US 20140011406A1
• Time in Patent Office: 746 Days
• Field of Search: 439/660, 439/862
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/04 Pins or blades for co-operation with sockets
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/20 Pins, blades, or sockets shaped, or provided with separate member, to retain co-operating parts together
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/405 Securing in non-demountable manner, e.g. moulding, riveting
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/631 for engagement only
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 24/62 Sliding engagements with one side only, e.g. modular jack coupling devices

Abstract

A connector includes: a plurality of connecting terminals; a resin connecting portion, formed in a protruded shape, configured to hold the plurality of connecting terminals; and a metal protecting portion, formed integrally with one of the plurality of connecting terminals and provided on a side surface of the connecting portion, configured to cover at least a part of the side surface of the connecting portion closest to the distal end portion of the connecting portion.

Claims

1. A connector comprising:

a plurality of connecting terminals;

a resin connecting portion, formed in a protruded shape, configured to hold the plurality of connecting terminals; and

a metal protecting portion, formed integrally with one of the plurality of connecting terminals and provided on a side surface of the connecting portion, configured to cover at least a part of the side surface of the connecting portion closest to the distal end portion of the connecting portion.

2. The connector according to claim 1, wherein the plurality of connecting terminals are arranged side by side in the width direction of the connecting portion, and the one of the plurality of connecting terminals is the outermost one of the plurality of connecting terminals.

3. The connector according to claim 2, wherein the one of the plurality of connecting terminals and the protecting portion form an L-shape in cross-section as viewed along the direction in which the connecting portion protrudes.

4. The connector according to claim 3, wherein the one of the plurality of connecting terminals is formed in plate shape whose thickness direction is the thickness direction of the connecting portion, and the protecting portion is formed in a plate shape whose thickness direction is the width direction of the connecting portion.

5. The connector according to claim 3, further comprising:

a connector case; and

a resin main body portion fixed to the connector case,

wherein the connecting portion protrudes from the resin main body portion, the one of the plurality of connecting terminals and the protecting portion extend along the direction in which the connecting portion protrudes, the proximal end portions of the one of the plurality of connecting terminals and the protecting portion are fixed to the resin main body portion, and the distal end portion of the one of the plurality of connecting terminals is fixed to the distal end portion of the connecting portion.

6. The connector according to claim 5, wherein the proximal end portions of the one of the plurality of connecting terminals and the protecting portion are embedded in the resin main body portion, a fixing portion is formed by bending in the distal end portion of the one of the plurality of connecting terminals, and the distal end portion of the one of the plurality of connecting terminals is fixed to the distal end portion of the connecting portion by embedding the fixing portion in the distal end portion of the connecting portion.

7. The connector according to claim 1, wherein the protecting portion covers the entire side surface of the connecting portion.

8. The connector according to claim 1, wherein the distal end portion of the protecting portion is protruded closer to the distal end portion of the connecting portion than the distal end portions of the plurality of connecting terminals.

9. The connector according to claim 1, wherein a bent portion that is bent toward the inner side in the width direction of the connecting portion is formed in the distal end portion of the protecting portion.

10. The connector according to claim 1, wherein the connecting portion is integrated with the plurality of connecting terminals by resin mold forming.

11. The connector according to claim 1, wherein the protecting portion is provided on each side surface of the connecting portion.

12. The connector according to claim 11, wherein one of terminal members that is provided on one of the side surfaces of the connecting portion and that has the protecting portion is formed symmetrically in the width direction of the connecting portion to the other of the terminal members that is provided on the other of the side surfaces of the connecting portion and that has the protecting portion.

13. The connector according to claim 1, wherein the protecting portion is provided on only one of both side surfaces of the connecting portion.

14. The connector according to claim 1, wherein the protecting portion is formed integrally with the one of the plurality of connecting terminals, and a terminal member having the one of the plurality of connecting terminals and the protecting portion is formed in a three-dimensional shape by forming a flat member having parts corresponding to the one of the plurality of connecting terminals and the protecting portion by punching and bending the flat member.

15. The connector according to claim 1, wherein the connector corresponds to the standard of one of Mini Universal Serial Bus (USB), Micro USB, Micro High-Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI), and Types A to D.

16. A connector comprising:

a connector case;

a resin connecting portion, formed in a protruded shape and placed in the connector case, configured to hold a plurality of connecting terminals; and

a metal protecting portion, provided on a side surface of the connecting portion and opposite to a side wall portion of the connecting portion with a space, configured to cover at least a part of the side surface of the connecting portion closest to the distal end portion of the connecting portion,

wherein the protecting portion is formed integrally with one of the plurality of connecting terminals.