US 12,034,255 B2
Connector device
Takao Yamauchi, Machida (JP); Sho Suzuki, Machida (JP); and Yuki Miyazaki, Ogori (JP)
Filed by I-PEX Inc., Kyoto (JP)
Filed on Dec. 24, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/561,711.
Application 17/561,711 is a continuation of application No. PCT/JP2020/021576, filed on Jun. 1, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 2019-125583 (JP), filed on Jul. 4, 2019; application No. 2019-125584 (JP), filed on Jul. 4, 2019; and application No. 2019-185407 (JP), filed on Oct. 8, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0123508 A1, Apr. 21, 2022
Int. Cl. H01R 12/71 (2011.01); H01R 13/6585 (2011.01)
CPC H01R 13/6585 (2013.01) [H01R 12/716 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A connector device comprising a first connector and a second connector,
wherein the first connector comprises:
a plurality of conductive first contacts configured to be respectively connected to a plurality of conductors of a first board;
an insulating first contact holding portion holding the plurality of first contacts;
a conductive partition wall partitioning the first contact holding portion into a first grouping area that holds two or more first contacts and a first individual area that holds one first contact and does not hold another first contact, wherein the partition wall is configured to be electrically connected to a ground conductor of the first board; and
a conductive first surrounding wall disposed around an outer periphery of the first individual area so that the first surrounding wall and the partition wall at least partially surround the first individual area, wherein the first surrounding wall is configured to be electrically connected to the ground conductor of the first board,
wherein the second connector comprises:
a plurality of conductive second contacts configured to be respectively connected to a plurality of conductors of a second board and respectively contact the plurality of first contacts when the first connector and the second connector are fitted to each other; and
a conductive second surrounding wall configured to be electrically connected to a ground conductor of the second board, and
wherein when the first connector and the second connector are fitted to each other, the second surrounding wall is disposed inside or outside the first surrounding wall around the outer periphery of the first individual area.