US 12,218,464 B2
Connector assembly having a mating connector and a connector configured to be mounted on an object wherein an abutment portion of a supporting portion of a terminal of the connector is in contact with a receiving portion of a coupling portion of the terminal under a mated state
Keisuke Nakamura, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to Japan Aviation Electronics Industry, Limited, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by Japan Aviation Electronics Industry, Limited, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Apr. 28, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/731,336.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-092054 (JP), filed on Jun. 1, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0385004 A1, Dec. 1, 2022
Int. Cl. H01R 13/73 (2006.01); H01R 13/24 (2006.01); H01R 13/405 (2006.01); H01R 13/64 (2006.01)
CPC H01R 13/73 (2013.01) [H01R 13/24 (2013.01); H01R 13/405 (2013.01); H01R 13/64 (2013.01)] 6 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A connector assembly comprising a mating connector and a connector which is configured to be mounted on an object, wherein:
the mating connector is mateable from above with the connector which is positioned below the mating connector in an up-down direction;
the mating connector comprises a mating housing and a mating terminal;
the mating housing holds the mating terminal;
the connector comprises a housing and a terminal;
the housing holds the terminal;
the terminal has a fixed portion, a held portion, a coupling portion, a supporting portion and a contact point;
the fixed portion is configured to be fixed to the object;
the held portion is held by the housing;
the coupling portion couples the fixed portion and the held portion with each other;
the coupling portion has a receiving portion;
the supporting portion extends from the held portion and is resiliently deformable;
the supporting portion has an abutment portion;
the abutment portion is positioned above the receiving portion in the up-down direction;
the abutment portion is in contact with the receiving portion under a mated state where the connector and the mating connector are mated with each other;
the contact point is supported by the supporting portion;
the contact point is brought into contact with the mating terminal under the mated state;
the contact point is movable in a first horizontal direction perpendicular to the up-down direction under an unmated state where the connector and the mating connector are not mated with each other; and
the abutment portion is positioned between the held portion and the fixed portion in the first horizontal direction.