Patent ID: 7344417
Filing Date: 2008-03-18
Classification: H01R

Abstract:
1. A DIP connector comprising a housing being provided with a receiving chamber being concaved from one end in a height direction thereof and into which a counterpart member being to be fitted, and a contact being fitted in a storing concaved part being provided in the housing and concaved from the receiving chamber; and said storing concaved part being bounded and formed by a bottom wall being located on a side opposite, in the height direction, to an opening of the receiving chamber in the housing, a first wall being provided on one side in a width direction being perpendicular to the height direction, a second wall being provided on the other side in the width direction, and third walls being provided on both sides in a depth direction being perpendicular to both the height direction and the width direction; said housing being provided with a support wall rising from said bottom wall in the height direction and dividing said storing concaved part into a first concaved part on the first wall side and a second concaved part on the second wall side; and said contact comprising a bent part straddling on said support wall and one end, in the width direction, of said bent part being to be fitted, as a fitted-in part, in the first concaved part, an intermediate part extending in the width direction from the other end in the width direction of the bent part and being to be stored in the second concaved part, a spring piece rising from the intermediate part in the height direction and being provided with a contact point for contacting a contact of the counterpart member at a position being near the top end thereof and facing the bent part, and a lead being provided on the fitted-in part of the bent part or on the intermediate part, penetrating the bottom wall of the housing and extending in the height direction.