J.S.T. Mfg. Co., Ltd. Patent applications |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20160118182 | ELECTRICAL CONNECTION APPARATUS - A contactless electrical connection apparatus that has a simple structure and can cover a broad spectrum is provided. The electrical connection apparatus is configured including a pair of connectors each having a conductive portion shaped as a loop that has a winding number of | 04-28-2016 |
20140315438 | INTERFACE CONNECTOR - An interface connector includes a housing, a plurality of contacts, and a square tube shaped shell. The housing integrally forms a header portion and a frame portion. The plurality of contacts is arranged in parallel on one face of the header portion, the shell is attached so as to cover an outer face of the housing. The shell includes a highly solderable layer formed on an inner face and an outer face including a plate-thickness face thereof, a pair of locking strips soldered to the printed circuit board, and an opening portion that is exposed outward and through which a counterpart housing is inserted and extracted, the opening portion including an end part (a plate-thickness face) of the opening portion which is turned black by laser irradiation. | 10-23-2014 |
20140308851 | CONNECTOR - A guide connector includes a first movable body, a second movable body, a box-like body capable of accommodating the movable bodies, and a lid. The guide connector is positioned below a substrate. Contacts are inserted into a female connector after passing through contact insertion holes to of the guide connector and penetrating the substrate. After the electrical connection between the contacts and female contacts are respectively established, a slider is pressed down, which causes pressing pins and to press the first movable body and the second movable body. With this, a lower stage of the first movable body and a lower stage of the second movable body detach from restriction beams. This allows springs to extend, to move the first movable body and the second movable body away from the contacts. | 10-16-2014 |
20140308839 | CONNECTOR - After passing through respective contact insertion holes | 10-16-2014 |
20140308833 | WATERPROOF CONNECTOR AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - A waterproof connector has: at least one conductive contact; a metal shell interior of which the contact is disposed; and a housing made of an insulating resin material such that the housing fixes the contact and the shell to form an integral structure, the shell has an insertion port into which a counterpart connector is inserted on one side, and the housing is formed such that the shell is exposed at the outer circumference of and at the vicinity of the insertion port over a predetermined width in the length direction of the shell to form an outer circumferential exposure portion, and the outer circumferential exposure portion of the shell is disposed with a waterproof portion made of an elastic material. | 10-16-2014 |
20140302698 | FEMALE CONNECTOR AND CARD EDGE CONNECTOR - A female connector has a plurality of contacts to be connected to a card member having a card edge portion with a plurality of card edge terminals formed on a substrate, and a housing disposed with contact housing portions, and the housing has a flat opening portion on one side into which the card edge portion is inserted, an insertion port on the other side, and an inner space therein communicating with the flat opening portion and disposed with the card edge portion, and the contact housing portion has at least two stages of first contact housing portions formed on one side relative to the inner space of the housing and communicating with the insertion port, and a stage of second contact housing portions formed on the other side relative to the inner space of the housing and communicating with the insertion port. | 10-09-2014 |
20140273603 | CONNECTOR - It is an object of the present invention to prevent damages to a contact. A contact | 09-18-2014 |
20140154911 | ELECTRICAL CONNECTOR AND SQUIB CONNECTION DEVICE - An electrical connector of the present invention is configured such that when abutting portions of leg portions of a support member are abutted against receiving faces of jutting portions of a retainer, and a connector housing at a first position is pressed toward the mating side, an elastic member undergoes elastic deformation. If the connector housing does not reach a second position, the connector housing returns to the first position by elastic restoring force of the elastic member. If the connector housing reaches the second position, the abutting portions move away from the receiving faces due to being pressed by pressing portions, the support member is pressed toward the mating side due to being subjected to the elastic restoring force of the elastic member, and the connector housing becomes relatively positioned at the first position. Also, a squib connection device of the present invention includes this electrical connector. | 06-05-2014 |
20140106601 | ELECTRICAL CONNECTOR AND SQUIB CONNECTION DEVICE - An electrical connector of the present invention includes a housing, an electrical terminal, and a moving member that has a moving member body and a detection portion. The housing is provided with a first step portion, and the detection portion is provided with a second step portion. When the moving member is at a first position, the second step portion comes into contact with the first step portion so as to prevent the moving member from moving forward. When the mating portion is completely fitted into a retainer, the detection portion becomes displaced toward the counter mating side due to being pressed by the retainer or the inflator housing, and the second step portion becomes separated from the first step portion so as to permit the moving member to move forward. Also, a squib connection device of the present invention includes this electrical connector. | 04-17-2014 |
20140080333 | MODULAR JACK - A modular jack is composed of: a base connector installed on a printed circuit board, and a socket connector with a parallel crank mechanism at an extremity thereof, the parallel crank mechanism being slidably connected to the base connector and switching an upper housing between a raised state and a lowered state. When the upper housing is laid toward the front side of the socket connector, the socket connector can be housed inside the casing and both faces of the upper housing, the socket housing, and the base housing are made in a flat plate-like shape. This contributes to height reduction in the modular jack. The socket connector is configured such that, when the upper housing is pulled out from a side face of the casing and raised outside the casing, a plug can be electrically connected to the socket connector. | 03-20-2014 |
20130316586 | FEMALE CONNECTOR AND CARD EDGE CONNECTOR - A female connector connected with a card member includes a contact and a housing. The contact includes a connecting part connected to a card edge terminal on one side and a wire mounting part integrally formed with the connecting part on the other side. The housing has a flat opening to which the card edge part is inserted on one side and an inserting part through which the wire is inserted on the other side. The housing has inside an interior space communicating with the flat opening and accommodates the card edge part, and includes contact accommodating parts oppositely provided with the interior space interposed therebetween. The interior space of the housing has on at least one spot a rib connecting one side and the other side of the contact accommodating part. This can prevent reduction in contact pressure between the contact and the card edge terminal. | 11-28-2013 |
20130267108 | CARD UNIT AND CARD EDGE CONNECTOR - A card unit comprises a substrate having a card edge section in which a plurality of card edge terminals connected to an opposing connector are formed on at least one surface, and a case formed as a bottomed box shape having an accommodating section in which the substrate is accommodated and an open section provided at one end; wherein a retainer is mounted to the case so as to close up the open section, the retainer is formed as a box shape having an opening at one end and a closed section disposed inside the case at the other end, and having a core section formed shorter than the length of the case; a groove section into which the card edge section protrudes is formed in the closed section; and the card edge section is covered by the core section of the retainer. | 10-10-2013 |
20130217278 | CONNECTOR - A connector includes a housing and contacts. Each of the contacts includes a leading end, a connecting part, a held part, and a flange part. The housing has a holding part having a contact insertion hole into which the held part is inserted. The contact insertion hole includes: a first insertion hole in which a side surface of the held part of the contact is held; a second insertion hole formed in a size that holds one opposite side surface of the held part of the contact, and having a space on the other opposite side surface side, the second insertion hole being formed to be longer than the first insertion hole; and a flange holding part. The held part of the contact is made longer than the leading end of the contact. This configuration can improve alignment accuracy of the contacts without using a compensation plate. | 08-22-2013 |
20130170163 | ELECTRICAL COMPONENT WHICH CAN BE RELIABLY SOLDERED - Electrical component ( | 07-04-2013 |
20130084759 | CONTACT AND ELECTRICAL CONNECTOR - A contact includes an arm portion extending in a predetermined direction and having a punched surface formed by pressing. The arm portion includes the punched surface, a projecting contact portion provided on the punched surface, and a gold plating layer. The gold plating layer of the punched surface is provided only on the contact portion. | 04-04-2013 |
20130084758 | CONTACT AND ELECTRICAL CONNECTOR - A contact includes a contact portion to which a conductive portion of a connecting member is connected upon sliding in at least one sliding direction. The contact includes a first arm portion extending in parallel to the sliding direction. The arm portion includes a punched surface, a chevron portion provided on the punched surface and projecting in a direction intersecting the sliding direction, and a gold plating layer provided on the punched surface. The chevron portion has an apex portion making up the contact portion and one pair of inclined surface portions disposed at respective sides of the apex portion in regard to the sliding direction. The gold plating layer provided on the punched surface is disposed only on at least a portion of the inclined surface portion at an opposite direction side of the sliding direction and at least a portion of the apex portion. | 04-04-2013 |
20130084751 | CONNECTOR - A female contact | 04-04-2013 |
20130084733 | ELECTRICAL CONNECTOR WITH LOCKING MECHANISM - An electrical connector with a locking mechanism includes a housing and a locking mechanism provided in the housing. The locking mechanism includes a first support portion extending from the housing, a lock main body supported by the first support portion in a swingable manner, an engagement tab capable of engaging with and disengaging from an engagement portion provided in a counterpart electrical connector according to swinging of the lock main body, and an operating portion arranged to be pressed in order to swing the lock main body. The operating portion includes a second support portion provided in the lock main body and an operating portion main body supported by the lock main body via the second support portion. A space for allowing the operating portion main body to bend is formed between the operating portion main body and the lock main body. | 04-04-2013 |
20120149228 | PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARD CONNECTOR - A printed circuit board connector is equipped with a housing and plurality of contacts. The housing has an insertion chamber | 06-14-2012 |
20110318963 | SHIELD CONNECTOR - A metal shell includes a pair of side face shield walls for respectively covering both side faces of a housing and a coupling shield wall perpendicular to the side face shield walls and coupling the side face shield walls together, and covers the circumference of the housing. A metal slider is movably attached to at least one of the housing and the shell while coming into slidable contact therewith. The slider electrically connects contacts and conductors of a flexible conductive member and is electrically connected to the shell and a shield portion exposed on the surface of the flexible conductive member, in a state where the slider has moved from the rear side toward the front side with respect to the housing. | 12-29-2011 |
20110318960 | CONTACT FOR COAXIAL CABLE AND END PROCESSING METHOD FOR COAXIAL CABLE - A contact for coaxial cable attached to an end of a coaxial cable includes a contact part and a connection part. The connection part includes a conductor barrel, an open crimp barrel, and a junction band narrow in width. The conductor barrel is disposed on a side to a base end portion of the contact part and can crimp the inner conductor. The open crimp barrel is adjacent to the conductor barrel and can crimp an exposed portion of the dielectric body so as to surround the exposed portion of the dielectric body in a cylindrical shape. The junction band joins the conductor barrel with the open crimp barrel so as to bridge the two. The both end portions of the junction band are torn during or after crimping of the conductor barrel and the open crimp barrel. | 12-29-2011 |
20110207359 | MALE AND FEMALE CONNECTORS AND ELECTRICAL CONNECTOR INCLUDING THE SAME - A female housing of the female connector has a slider slidably installed in a direction orthogonal to a longitudinal joining direction. The slider includes a first cam provided with a first ridge portion, and a pair of opposing first and second slanting portions extending from the first ridge portion. The male housing of the male connector is formed with a second cam on an outer wall surface thereof. The second cam provided with a second ridge portion, a third slanting portion coming into abutment and slidably contacting with the first slanting portion of the slider, and a fourth slanting portion being slidably in contact with the second slanting portion and pressed and retained by the second slanting portion. Thus a half-fitted state can be detected and the connectors are prevented from loosening. | 08-25-2011 |
20100323544 | ELECTRICAL CONNECTOR - A connector includes a housing, a pair of headers, a pair of crank levers, a pair of ejectors, and a pair of clip arms. When a printed substrate is inserted into the housing, the pair of crank levers is caused to pivot so as to raise the pair of ejectors. Then, by moving the pair of clip arms from a third groove to a second groove at which the width is narrower, a pair of projections fits a pair of locking holes so as to sandwich both sides of the printed substrate. The connector can securely lock the printed substrate since the header prevents widening of the distance of the pair of projections even in a case in which a force aimed to detach the printed substrate from the housing works is acting thereon. | 12-23-2010 |
20100304605 | Battery connector - A battery connector includes a housing, a contact, a lid housing, and a pair of rotor rods. The housing includes at a bottom portion a pair of slit apertures into which a positive electrode and a negative electrode can be inserted. At the contact, a pair of movable strips contacts opposing surfaces of the positive electrodes and the negative electrodes. The lid housing fits to the housing. The pair of the rotor rods is supported so as to be rotatable at and adjoining with or spaced from both end portions of the lid housing. The contact includes a guide strip provided with a pair of cam grooves of a V-shape at both end portions, and when the lid housing is inserted into the housing, the contact moves the pair of the rotor rods to be adjoining each other and presses the positive and negative electrodes to the pair of the movable strips. | 12-02-2010 |
20100248536 | Electrical connector - A connector includes a housing to be attached to a front face of a panel. A panel has a mounting opening through which a rear portion of the housing is inserted. The rear portion of the housing has a lance extending in a direction parallel to the front face of the panel. The mounting opening has a concave portion through which the lance is inserted. When the housing is moved in a first direction along the front face of the panel, a locking piece that continues to a concave portion locks the tip of the lance such that the housing is difficult to move in a second direction. | 09-30-2010 |
20100232118 | Component joining structure, IC card, and connector - An ultrasonic weld is provided in a cover component, is formed protruding from the cover component, and is provided so that it can join the cover component and the body component together by being fixed to the body component with ultrasonic welding. A locking mechanism is provided so that it can join the cover component and the body component together via engaging portions that engage with each other. The locking mechanism includes a first engaging portion provided in the cover component, and a second engaging portion that is provided in another component fixed to the body component, and that can engage with the first engaging portion. Thus, it is possible to decrease the number of components, and also reduce equipment costs and production control costs. | 09-16-2010 |
20100184310 | IC card - An IC card includes a frame with a rectangular border open on one side, a printed circuit board equipping an electronic component, a plate-shaped connector, and one pair of conductive shell plates. The connector constitutes one side of the frame. The one pair of shell plates covers both faces of the frame and the connector. The connector has a housing, a plurality of male contacts arranged in parallel in the interior of the housing, and a short circuit terminal. The male contacts are such that one end portion is a connecting portion to an external terminal and another end portion is connected to the printed circuit board. The short circuit terminals are mounted on the housing such that one end portion is in contact with a predetermined male contact among the plurality of male contacts and another end portion is in contact with an inner wall of a shell plate. | 07-22-2010 |
20100182756 | IC card - An IC card includes a frame of a rectangular border-shape, a printed circuit board, and one pair of shells. The printed circuit board is disposed on an interior portion of the frame and equips an electronic component. The one pair of shells cover the area surrounded by the frame with both faces of the shells, and constitute an outer shell of the IC card. One of the shells has a plurality of intermittent bent pieces on a periphery thereof. The bent pieces face an edge portion of the frame. The bent pieces establish one pair of hook pieces which protrude from a plate thickness surface (a flat side) on a front end portion thereof. Ultrasonic vibration is applied to a front end portion of the bent pieces while an edge portion of the frame is subjected to pressure, joining the bent pieces to the frame. | 07-22-2010 |
20100151742 | CONNECTOR - The present invention provides a connector capable of being simply and easily connected without loss of electrical continuity even in a harsh environment. | 06-17-2010 |
20100130041 | CARD CONNECTOR - A card connector includes a housing inserted a card therein, a slider, a rotating cam member having a shaft portion that is retained so as to be rotatable by the slider, and a compression coil spring that biases the rotating cam member. The slider includes second chevron teeth that engage with first chevron teeth provided at an end of the rotating cam member. The rotating cam member is provided with a first broad protrusion and a second narrow protrusion alternately at an outer circumference of the shaft portion. When inserting the card, since the rotating cam member turns by a predetermined angle so that the first protrusion faces the starting end of the passage groove, the slider is locked. When pushing the card again, since the rotating cam member turns by a predetermined angle, the second protrusion faces the starting end of the passage groove, the card can be ejected. | 05-27-2010 |
20100128429 | CARD CONNECTOR - The present invention provides a card connector that can be loaded on a double-sided printed circuit board and allows intergration of components using common components. A first and a second housing | 05-27-2010 |
20090325416 | CONNECTOR - There is provided a connector capable of being simply and easily connected without loss of electrical continuity even in a harsh environment. In an electrical connector | 12-31-2009 |
20090239397 | Socket contact - A low-profile socket contact is provided that is mountable on a print substrate and has a high contact pressure. The socket contact includes a base portion provided on a print substrate, and a contact connecting portion connecting to the tab-shaped contact provided on a central portion of the base portion. The base portion has an opening in which the tab-shaped contact passes through, and a plurality of lead portions solderable to the print substrate. The contact connecting portion has a pair of first bending fragments, a pair of first inverted arms, a pair of second bending fragments, and a pair of second inverted arms. A contact point in contact with the tab-shaped contact is provided on each front ends of the pair of first inverted arms, and a guiding face in which the tab-shaped contact slides is provided on the pair of second inverted arms. | 09-24-2009 |
20090191757 | Electronic card - The electronic card of the present invention enables prevention of failure of an electronic circuit incorporated in the electronic card by establishing an electrostatic shielding unit. A connector has a plurality of contacts and a housing. A container case has a side facing a face of one side of the substrate on which an electronic circuit is imprinted, and a first shell and a second shell of electrically conductive material positioned on a side facing the face of the other side of the substrate, respectively. An opening is established on a front end section relating to insertion and removal of the connector in a housing, and is held in a state in which contacts are exposed internally. An electrostatic shielding unit is of electrically conductive material that is electrically connected to the container case, and is positioned in an exposed state on a surface of the above-mentioned front end section. | 07-30-2009 |
20090111314 | LATCH-MOUNTABLE CONNECTOR HOUSING, LATCH-MOUNTABLE CONECTOR, AND ELECTRIC CONNECTING DEVICE - A metal-latch-mountable connector housing | 04-30-2009 |
20090111313 | LATCH-MOUNTABLE CONNECTOR HOUSING, AND ELECTRIC CONNECTING DEVICE - An electric connecting device of the present invention includes: a first connector having a first housing | 04-30-2009 |
20090111308 | LATCH, LATCH-MOUNTABLE CONNECTOR HOUSING, AND LATCH-MOUNTABLE CONNECTOR - A metal-latch-mountable connector housing | 04-30-2009 |
20090036001 | FEMALE TERMINAL WITH GUIDING PIECE - The female terminal with guiding piece according to the present invention comprises a tubular body and a connecting part. Two vertical walls of the body are provided respectively with spring pieces cut and raised therefrom and formed to have an end on the rear side in the depth direction serving as a fixed end and an end on the front side serving as a free end and the free end coming closer to the vertical wall opposing to said vertical wall. The two vertical walls are provided respectively with guiding pieces at the front ends in the depth direction thereof, said guiding pieces being provided by plate pieces bent inward from the vertical walls into the body to cover spaces between the front ends in the depth direction of said vertical walls and the top ends of the spring pieces. | 02-05-2009 |
20080305669 | Card connector - A card connector has: a connector housing which is formed therein so as to be enclosed on three sides by an opposed pair of first and second frames and a third frame that links the end portions of the first and second frames and an open-close cover. The open-close cover has a sensing member that senses the installation status of the card, and a cover locking mechanism that latches onto either the first or the second frame and locks the open-close cover in the closed state. The rear of the open-close cover is rotatably pivoted on the first and second frames. The card's installation status is sensed by closing the open-close cover and positioning the sensing member at the rear end portion of the card; and the open-close cover is retracted, being thereby locked in the closed state via the cover locking mechanism. | 12-11-2008 |
20080293275 | CONNECTOR AND ELECTRICAL CONNECTION DEVICE - A connector | 11-27-2008 |
20080207063 | Electric connector and connection structure for electric connector - An electric connector to be attached to a plate-like connection member having an edge portion, a plurality of insertion convex portions formed sideways at the edge portion, and a conductive portion formed on at least one of the front surface and the back surface of each insertion convex portion includes an insulating housing and a contact forming member made of a metal and held in the housing. The contact forming member includes a box-like portion having four walls and a connection member connecting contact extended from at least one of the walls of the box-like portion. The four walls define an insertion concave portion into which the insertion convex portion corresponding thereto is inserted along a predetermined insertion direction. The connection member connecting contact includes a contact portion that makes contact with the conductive portion of the corresponding insertion convex portion inserted into the insertion concave portion. | 08-28-2008 |
20080207009 | FEMALE TERMINAL FOR CONNECTOR, CONNECTOR, AND ELECTRICAL CONNECTION DEVICE - A female terminal for connector is electrically connected to a pin, and the pin is electrically connected to a squib to ignite an airbag. The female terminal for connector includes a tubular external wall part and a spring part contacting the pin. A tip portion of the spring part is capable of swinging so as to deflect from a main body portion. The external wall part is formed into a shape having two curved portions disposed to face one another in a swinging direction so as to be outward convex in a radial cross section, and two joining portions to linearly joint ends of the two curved portions together, and the external wall part is formed such that an outside diameter in the swinging direction of the spring part is made larger than an outside diameter in a direction perpendicular to the swinging direction. | 08-28-2008 |