Patent ID: 9281584
Filing Date: 2016-03-08
CPC Classification: H01R

Claim Text:
1. A connector that includes a housing having contact accommodation spaces, and contacts accommodated in the contact accommodation spaces, respectively, said connector being adapted to electrically connect a first object to be connected and a second object to be connected, wherein: each contact has a contact portion that is brought into contact with the first object to be connected, a connection portion that is brought into contact with the second object to be connected, and an elastic deformation portion that integrally connects the contact portion and the connection portion; the elastic deformation portion comprises: a direction in which, when connecting the first object to be connected and the second object to be connected, the contact portion is urged by the first object to be connected and is brought into contact with the first object to be connected, is defined as a connection direction; the first spring portion includes: the first spring portion and the second spring portion are arranged on an imaginary straight line parallel to the connection direction, the imaginary straight line extending through the contact portion; the integral connection portion is displaced from the imaginary straight line in an orthogonal direction which is orthogonal to the connection direction; the second spring portion includes: the integral connection portion includes: the first bent portion, the second bent portion, the fourth bent portion, and the sixth bent portion are positioned away from the imaginary straight line by an equal distance in the orthogonal direction.