US 12,278,449 B2
Connector and socket and header used for the connector
Takuya Hayashi, Mie (JP); Yoji Miyazaki, Mie (JP); Hiroshi Tanaka, Osaka (JP); and Kazumasa Iijima, Kyoto (JP)
Assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD., Osaka (JP)
Filed by Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd., Osaka (JP)
Filed on Apr. 22, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/727,174.
Application 17/727,174 is a continuation of application No. 17/001,253, filed on Aug. 24, 2020, granted, now 11,342,715.
Claims priority of application No. 2019-180690 (JP), filed on Sep. 30, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0247132 A1, Aug. 4, 2022
Int. Cl. H01R 13/6587 (2011.01); H01R 13/11 (2006.01); H01R 13/6582 (2011.01); H01R 13/6594 (2011.01); H01R 12/70 (2011.01); H01R 12/71 (2011.01); H01R 12/73 (2011.01); H01R 13/20 (2006.01); H01R 13/639 (2006.01); H01R 13/6591 (2011.01); H01R 27/02 (2006.01)
CPC H01R 13/6587 (2013.01) [H01R 13/11 (2013.01); H01R 13/6582 (2013.01); H01R 13/6594 (2013.01); H01R 12/70 (2013.01); H01R 12/71 (2013.01); H01R 12/712 (2013.01); H01R 12/716 (2013.01); H01R 12/73 (2013.01); H01R 13/20 (2013.01); H01R 13/639 (2013.01); H01R 13/6591 (2013.01); H01R 27/02 (2013.01)] 21 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A header to be fitted to a socket, comprising:
a housing;
a header terminal section held by the housing and electrically connected to a socket terminal section serving as a terminal section of the socket; and
a first shield member that includes a first shield portion extending in a first direction and is held by the housing, wherein:
the header terminal section includes a first header terminal section that includes a plurality of contacts arranged in the first direction and serves as at least one header terminal section,
the first header terminal section is aligned with the first shield portion in a second direction intersecting the first direction,
the header and the socket are inserted into each other in a third direction,
the first direction and the second direction intersect with each other in the third direction,
the first shield portion includes a shield body and a plurality of shield terminals projecting downward from a lower end of the shield body in the third direction,
the plurality of contacts of the first header terminal section include a first contact and a second contact aligned with the first contact in the first direction,
the plurality of shield terminals include a first shield terminal and a second shield terminal aligned with the first shield terminal in the first direction,
an end for mounting of the first contact and an end for mounting of the second contact are located inside the header separately from the first shield terminal and the second shield terminal, and
as viewed in the second direction, only the first contact among the plurality of contacts of the first header terminal section is disposed between the first shield terminal and the second shield terminal.