US 12,136,780 B2
Connector comprising a terminal with an arm having a base portion extending alongside a contact poriton
Tetsuya Komoto, Tokyo (JP); Akira Kimura, Tokyo (JP); and Keisuke Nakamura, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to JAPAN AVIATION ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY, LIMITED, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by JAPAN AVIATION ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY, LIMITED, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Feb. 8, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/666,626.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-065451 (JP), filed on Apr. 7, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0328994 A1, Oct. 13, 2022
Int. Cl. H01R 12/71 (2011.01); H01R 12/82 (2011.01); H01R 13/20 (2006.01)
CPC H01R 12/82 (2013.01) [H01R 12/716 (2013.01); H01R 13/20 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A connector mateable with a mating connector along an upper-lower direction, the mating connector comprising a mating terminal, wherein:
the connector comprises a housing and a terminal;
the housing has a holding portion and an accommodation portion;
the terminal has a held portion, an arm, and a contact portion;
the held portion is held by the holding portion;
the arm couples the held portion and the contact portion to each other and supports the contact portion so that the contact portion is movable;
at least a part of the arm is resiliently deformable;
the contact portion is accommodated in the accommodation portion, and an entirety of the contact portion is movable;
the contact portion has a bottom portion, a first support portion, a second support portion, a first contact point, and a second contact point;
the arm is connected to at least one of the bottom portion and the first support portion;
each of the first support portion and the second support portion extends upward from the bottom portion;
the first contact point is supported by the first support portion;
the second contact point is supported by the second support portion;
the second contact point is located between the first contact point and the held portion in a first horizontal direction perpendicular to the upper-lower direction;
when the contact portion is seen along a second horizontal direction perpendicular to both the first horizontal direction and the upper-lower direction, the first contact point and the second contact point are apart from each other;
under a mated state where the connector is mated with the mating connector, the mating terminal is sandwiched and held between the first contact point and the second contact point;
the accommodation portion opens downward from the housing; and
the bottom portion is visible when the connector is seen from below along the upper-lower direction.