Patent ID: 6375478
Filing Date: 2002-04-23
Classification: H01R

Abstract:
A connector comprising:a plurality of contacts formed to have nearly L-shaped forms; a housing in which one end of each of said plurality of contacts is inserted along a contact inserting direction and is fixed such that the other end of said contact is held along a direction orthogonal to said contact inserting direction; and a locator having a plurality of slits in which the other ends of said plurality of contacts are inserted, wherein said locator is mounted on a surface of said housing on which said plurality of contacts are fixed, from a direction orthogonal to said contact inserting direction, wherein said locator has a plurality of through-holes corresponding to said plurality of slits such that the other ends of said plurality of contacts penetrate said plurality of through-holes, wherein each of said plurality of contacts has a wide portion at the other end, and wherein said locator comprises a narrowing protrusion in each of said through-holes, each said narrowing protrusion having a tapered face that laterally deflects said wide portion as said plurality of contacts penetrate said through-holes and each said protrusion having a recessed face opposite said tapered face into which said wide portion is seated after said wide portion has penetrated beyond said tapered face.