US 12,255,413 B2
Board mounted connector with terminals arranged by length
Shigeyasu Kitamura, Tokyo (JP); Toshihiro Oka, Tokyo (JP); and Youichi Suzuki, Toyota (JP)
Assigned to JAPAN AVIATION ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY, LIMITED, Tokyo (JP); and TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed by JAPAN AVIATION ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY, LIMITED, Tokyo (JP); and TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed on Aug. 29, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/897,658.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-144793 (JP), filed on Sep. 6, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0074315 A1, Mar. 9, 2023
Int. Cl. H01R 12/57 (2011.01); H01R 13/04 (2006.01); H01R 13/50 (2006.01); H01R 13/6581 (2011.01)
CPC H01R 12/57 (2013.01) [H01R 13/04 (2013.01); H01R 13/50 (2013.01); H01R 13/6581 (2013.01)] 7 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A connector comprising:
a housing formed of resin; and
a plurality of terminals formed of metal and installed in the housing, the connector being mounted on a mount surface of a board parallel to a plane defined by a first direction and a second direction which are orthogonal to each other,
wherein at least some of the plurality of terminals are formed as a plurality of surface mount terminals, and each of the plurality of mount terminals includes a terminal portion arranged inside the housing, a fixed portion fixed to the housing, and a mount portion soldered to an electrically conductive pad portion formed on the mount surface of the board,
wherein the plurality of surface mount terminals is arranged from one side to the other side in the second direction when the connector mounted on the mount surface of the board is viewed in the first direction, a surface mount terminal having a smallest length dimension from the mount portion to the fixed portion among the plurality of surface mount terminals is arranged at an outermost end on the one side in the second direction, and a length dimension from the mount portion to the fixed portion becomes larger or is the same in order of an arrangement of the plurality of surface mount terminals from the one side to the other side in the second direction,
wherein the plurality of surface mount terminals is arranged so that the arrangement of the plurality of surface mount terminals arranged side by side from the one side to the other side in the second direction forms at least two rows when the mount surface of the board is viewed in a third direction orthogonal to the first direction and the second direction, and
wherein the surface mount terminal having the smallest length dimension from the mount portion to the fixed portion in each of the at least two rows is arranged at the outermost end on the one side in the second direction, and surface mount terminals in the at least two rows arranged at the outermost end on the one side in the second direction are arranged at positions which overlap each other when the connector mounted on the mount surface of the board is viewed in the first direction.