US 12,327,942 B2
Connector and connection unit for use in an electrical device
Takao Yamauchi, Machida (JP); Sho Suzuki, Machida (JP); and Kenta Tanaka, Machida (JP)
Assigned to I-PEX Inc., Kyoto (JP)
Appl. No. 17/789,485
Filed by I-PEX Inc., Kyoto (JP)
PCT Filed Dec. 28, 2020, PCT No. PCT/JP2020/049189
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jun. 27, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/132721, PCT Pub. Date Jul. 1, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 2019-239999 (JP), filed on Dec. 28, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2023/0030519 A1, Feb. 2, 2023
Int. Cl. H01R 12/71 (2011.01); H01R 12/72 (2011.01); H01R 13/629 (2006.01); H01R 13/6588 (2011.01)
CPC H01R 12/716 (2013.01) [H01R 12/72 (2013.01); H01R 13/629 (2013.01); H01R 13/6588 (2013.01)] 26 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A connector that is installed on a circuit board and that is electrically connected to a circuit of the circuit board, the connector comprising:
a set of type 1 contacts that is disposed in a type 1 holding area, the type 1 contacts being disposed facing each other; and
a type 2 contact that is disposed in each of two type 2 holding areas that sandwich the type 1 holding area, wherein
when viewed from above, at least a portion of each of the type 2 contact is disposed in a range obtained by extending, in a first direction in which the type 1 holding area and the two type 2 holding areas are arranged, a region in which the set of type 1 contacts oppose each other in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction,
each of the type 2 contact includes a connecting portion that is connected to the circuit of the circuit board, and a contacting portion that is disposed at a position separated from the connecting portion in a normal direction of an installation surface to the circuit board, and that contacts a terminal of a mating connector,
when viewed from above, all of the type 1 contacts and all of the type 2 contacts are disposed having point symmetry with respect to one predetermined point, and
the connecting portion and the contacting portion are disposed having point symmetry with respect to the one predetermined point, and the connecting portion is disposed on an extended line of a center line of the set of type 1 contacts that oppose each other, the center line passing through the one predetermined point.