Patent ID: 7581973
Filing Date: 2009-09-01
Classification: H01R

Abstract:
1. A connector detachably fitting with a connecting object, including a required number of contacts each having a contact portion adapted to contact said connecting object, a housing holding and fixing said contacts therein and having a fining opening for inserting said connecting object thereinto, and a pivoting member having a cam portion which urges said contacts, wherein said contacts each have at one end said contact portion adapted to contact said connecting object and at the other end a pressure receiving portion adapted to be urged by said cam portion of said pivoting member, and wherein said pivoting member is pivotally mounted on said housing so as to urge the pressure receiving portions of said contacts upon pivotal movement of said pivoting member, wherein said cam of the pivoting member is shaped to have a plurality of elliptical cross-sections that are stepwisely shifted so that the contacts pressed by the cam are divided into plural groups to decrease the pivotal power.