Patent ID: 7004766
Filing Date: 2006-02-28
Classification: H01R,H05K

Abstract:
1. A tine plate that is to be mounted on an electric connector, wherein the electric connector comprises a plurality of contacts, each of which includes at one end a contact leg that is to be inserted into an insertion hole that penetrates through a thickness of a printed circuit board and includes at an other end a contacting part that is to contact a contact of a counterpart connector, and the electric connector further comprises an insulative housing in which the contacts are arranged so that the contact legs thereof extend substantially parallel to each other, said tine plate comprising: a plate of insulating material that has a longitudinal direction in which a largest dimension thereof extends, and a transverse direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction, wherein the tine plate has a plurality of through holes, which holes penetrate through a thickness of the tine plate and into which holes the contact legs of the contacts are to be inserted, and wherein at least some of the through holes at respective ends of the tine plate in the longitudinal direction respectively have an elongated hole shape of which a largest value of an inside dimension thereof in the longitudinal direction of the tine plate is greater than a largest value of an inside dimension thereof in the transverse direction of the tine plate, wherein the elongated hole shape is a distorted circle shape that is elongated in the longitudinal direction of the tine plate, or an ellipse having a major axis extending in the longitudinal direction of the tine plate, and wherein the through holes are all respectively independent individual holes that are not interconnected with one another and that are configured and arranged so that each one of the holes receives no more than one of the contact legs therein.