Patent ID: 8651888
Filing Date: 2014-02-18
Classification: H01R

Abstract:
1. An electrical connector comprising: a housing made of insulator to be mounted on a solid circuit board and provided thereon with an opening through which a flat circuit device is inserted into the housing, a plurality of conductive contacts arranged on the housing to be electrically connected respectively with circuit terminals provided on the solid circuit board and positioned to correspond respectively to connecting terminals provided on the flat circuit device inserted in the housing through the opening provided thereon, and a holding member formed in a body on the housing to have a movable arm portion which extends from an inside surface portion of the housing to be provided thereon with an engaging portion operative to engage with the flat circuit device inserted in the housing so as to hold the same and a releasing portion protruding from the movable arm portion through an aperture provided on the housing toward the outside of the housing and is operative to move the engaging portion from the flat circuit device so that the flat circuit device is released from holding by the engaging portion when the releasing portion is manipulated to be shifted in position, wherein the housing is provided on an inside thereof with an engaging plane with which a top end portion of the flat circuit device inserted in the housing to be held by the engaging portion of the holding member comes into contact, and the engaging plane and a plane defined by a side face of the releasing portion facing to the engaging portion are co-planar.