US 12,355,176 B2
Connector and manufacturing method thereof
Tetsuya Komoto, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to Japan Aviation Electronics Industry, Ltd., Tokyo (JP)
Filed by Japan Aviation Electronics Industry, Ltd., Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Jan. 20, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/157,103.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-034068 (JP), filed on Mar. 7, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0283005 A1, Sep. 7, 2023
Int. Cl. H01R 13/405 (2006.01); H01R 13/115 (2006.01); H01R 43/24 (2006.01)
CPC H01R 13/405 (2013.01) [H01R 13/115 (2013.01); H01R 43/24 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A manufacturing method of a connector comprising:
a laminating step of laminating an insulating layer on a metal hoop material;
a conductive pattern formation step of forming a plurality of conductive patterns as contacts on the insulating layer;
a punching step of punching the hoop material in such a way that the hoop material includes a plurality of fixed parts linking together in an unbroken manner in a feed direction of the hoop material and at least one projecting part projecting from each fixed part, and each conductive pattern extends from each fixed part to each projecting part;
a bending step of bending the at least one projecting part at least in a thickness direction of the fixed part;
an accommodating step of accommodating the hoop material into an injection mold in such a way that the hoop material is supported at both ends in the injection mold by using two fixed parts corresponding to a front end and a back end in the feed direction among a plurality of fixed parts remaining in a housing even at a completion stage of a connector; and
an insert molding step of molding the housing integrally with the hoop material by insert molding.