Patent ID: 7387528
Filing Date: 2008-06-17
Classification: H01R

Abstract:
1. A flexible printed circuit board connector for connecting a flexible printed circuit board, the flexible printed circuit board connector comprising: a housing having a base plate, a bottom plate extending forward from the bottom of the base plate and two sidewalls extending forward from two opposite sides of the base plate, which define a board-insertion space for the flexible printed circuit board to be inserted therein, two guiding grooves being defined in inner sides of the two sidewalls, two insertion holes being defined in the two sidewalls and communicating with the respective guiding grooves; a plurality of terminals disposed in the housing for electrically connecting the flexible printed circuit board; a sliding cover having two cam shafts at two opposite sides thereof, the sliding cover being mounted on the housing by sliding the two cam shafts in the guiding grooves and for pressing on the flexible printed circuit board, each of the two cam shafts having a circular cross section with a humped portion having an utmost protrudent point; and a pair of support nails each having a protruding portion, each support nail being inserted in the corresponding insertion hole with the protruding portion extending into the corresponding guiding groove to form a pivotal hole between inner surfaces of the corresponding guiding groove and the protruding portion; wherein the cam shafts are enclosed and rotatably supported in the respective pivotal holes, the utmost protrudent point of each cam shaft contacts and brushes past an inner surface of the corresponding pivotal hole with interference when the sliding cover is flipped from an up position to a down position, and the utmost protrudent point moves away from the inner surface of the corresponding pivotal hole when the sliding cover is in the up or down position.