US 12,451,650 B2
Electrical connector and electrical connector assembly
Kosuke Maeba, Tokyo (JP); and Tomoha Goto, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to TE CONNECTIVITY JAPAN G.K., Kawasaki (JP)
Filed by TYCO ELECTRONICS JAPAN G.K., Kawasaki (JP)
Filed on Apr. 7, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/715,189.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-067588 (JP), filed on Apr. 13, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0329011 A1, Oct. 13, 2022
Int. Cl. H01R 13/631 (2006.01); H02K 5/22 (2006.01)
CPC H01R 13/631 (2013.01) [H01R 2201/10 (2013.01); H02K 5/225 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An electrical connector comprising:
a housing including a housing body having a housing hole, the housing body includes an end wall at a mating end of the housing configured to be mated with a mating electrical connector along a mating axis;
at least one contact that is housed in the housing hole in the housing body of the housing, the at least one contact extends in a predetermined direction from the end wall into an open space beyond the end wall, the at least one contact being a tab type contact including a two-layer connecting end that is mated to a receptacle-type mating contact in a mating side, and is formed by bending a metal plate and an elastic portion that is linked to the connecting end, and is formed of a one-layer metal plate, the elastic portion includes an S-shaped bent region; and
a guide that is disposed contiguously to the housing body, the guide extends from the end wall into the open space beyond the end wall parallel to and spaced from the at least one contact such that the guide is configured to engage the mating electrical connector prior to the housing body engaging the mating electrical connector during mating,
wherein a size of a portion of the guide, extending from the housing body, is greater than a size of a portion of the contact, extending from the housing body such that a distal end of the guide is located forward of a distal end of the at least one contact.