US 12,328,810 B2
Connector and method for manufacturing same
Yoichi Hashimoto, Machida (JP); Sho Suzuki, Machida (JP); and Shogo Matsuo, Machida (JP)
Assigned to I-PEX Inc., Kyoto (JP)
Filed by I-PEX INC., Kyoto (JP)
Filed on Mar. 6, 2024, as Appl. No. 18/597,652.
Application 18/597,652 is a continuation of application No. 17/598,639, granted, now 11,956,886, previously published as PCT/JP2020/015421, filed on Apr. 3, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 2019-071593 (JP), filed on Apr. 3, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2024/0215148 A1, Jun. 27, 2024
Int. Cl. H04B 10/00 (2013.01); G02B 6/42 (2006.01); H01R 13/6581 (2011.01); H05K 1/02 (2006.01)
CPC H05K 1/0209 (2013.01) [G02B 6/4268 (2013.01); G02B 6/428 (2013.01); H01R 13/6581 (2013.01)] 21 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A connector comprising:
a circuit board that is connected to an outside via a signal wire;
a first heat transfer material that is arranged on one principal surface of the circuit board;
a first shell of which one end is connected to a mating connector in a state in which a terminal end portion of the circuit board protrudes from the one end, and which includes an opposite opposed to at least a part of a target region that is a region other than the terminal end portion of the circuit board, covers at least a part of the target region, and is conductive;
a second shell that is connected to another end of the first shell, covers at least a part of the target region in the one principal surface of the circuit board, is thermally conductably connected to the circuit board in contact with the first heat transfer material, and is conductive; and
a third shell that is connected to the second shell, covers at least a part of the target region in another principal surface of the circuit board, and is conductive;
wherein the first shell, the second shell, and the third shell cover the target region of the circuit board,
the second shell and the third shell are exposed to an outside,
at least a portion of the one principal surface of the circuit board covered by the second shell opposes a principal surface of the second shell and abuts on the principal surface of the second shell via the first heat transfer material, and
the first heat transfer material is an adhesive; and
wherein the first shell further comprises a latch to maintain a state in which the one end of the first shell is connected to the mating connector by the one end being connected to the mating connector, and the latch has a C-shape, and two ends of the latch are rotatably engaged with the first shell.