Patent ID: 7892001
Filing Date: 2011-02-22
Classification: H01R

Abstract:
1. A floating connector comprising: a pair of housings each including a plurality of sets of conductive terminals, and adapted to fit with a counterpart mating connector; a plurality of cables connecting the terminals of one housing to the terminals of the other housing; and a connector holder flexibly coupling the one and the other housing together in a manner so as to be relatively displaceable and wherein each of the terminals includes a contact portion coming into contacting with a counterpart terminal in the mating connector, a connection portion with one end connected to an upper end of the contact portion and to which a wire of the cable is connected, and a rising portion having a lower end connected to the other end of the connection portion and against which a free end of the wire abuts, the terminals of each set being aligned in a widthwise along the housing, said terminal connection portions of the adjacent terminal sets having a height difference formed there between; each connector housing including a plurality of cable support portions formed at positions adjacent to said terminal connection portions and a plurality of concave portions formed on upper surfaces of the cable support portions, aligned in the widthwise along the housing, and accommodating said cables therein each cable further including an exposed free end from which cable insulation is removed and a conductor thereof exposed, said cables being aligned widthwise along the housing, said cables being arranged at vertically different positions, the cable insulation of the said cables being received in the concave portions and positioned widthwise along of the housing, the free ends of said wires brought into abutment against the rising portions and positioned in an axial direction, and said free ends being connected to said terminal connection portions.