US 12,204,288 B2
Connector, band and timepiece
Ryosuke Hata, Tachikawa (JP)
Assigned to CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD., Tokyo (JP)
Filed by CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD., Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Nov. 19, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/531,191.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-193134 (JP), filed on Nov. 20, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0163928 A1, May 26, 2022
Int. Cl. G04G 17/06 (2006.01); A44C 5/14 (2006.01); G04B 37/14 (2006.01); H01R 13/639 (2006.01)
CPC G04G 17/06 (2013.01) [A44C 5/147 (2013.01); G04B 37/1493 (2013.01); H01R 13/639 (2013.01)] 11 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A connector comprising:
an attachment member which has an attachment hole and is provided on one of a connection object and a connection target; and
a connection member which (i) includes a slide member that has a lever and is slidable in a cylindrical member inserted into the attachment hole, and (ii) is attached to an other one of the connection object and the connection target by the slide member protruding from an end of the cylindrical member,
wherein the attachment member has a slit hole which is formed extending from one end of the attachment hole to an other end of the attachment hole and in which the lever is slidable,
wherein the attachment member has formed therein a cutout portion in which the lever of the connection member is rotated centering on a central axis of the attachment hole and arranged in a manner to be rotatable in an axial direction of the attachment hole, and
wherein the cutout portion is formed such that a length in the axial direction of the attachment hole is longer than an axial length of a portion of the slide member which protrudes from the cylindrical member and shorter than an axial length of an opening formed in an end portion of the cylindrical member.