Patent ID: 7491088
Filing Date: 2009-02-17
Classification: H01R

Abstract:
1. A connector adapted to be detachably fitted with a flexible printed circuit board, including a required number of contacts each having at least one contact portion adapted to contact said flexible printed circuit board, and a housing holding and fixing said contacts therein and having an insertion opening through which said flexible printed circuit board is inserted into said housing, wherein said connector further comprises at least one locking member mounted on said housing and having an engaging portion which engages an anchoring portion provided in said flexible printed circuit board to prevent said flexible printed circuit board from being removed from said housing, wherein said connector further comprises a slider which functions to urge said contacts against said flexible printed circuit board after said flexible printed circuit board has been inserted into said housing, with a view to obtaining a zero-insertion force structure in which no force is applied onto the flexible printed circuit board when it is being inserted into the insertion opening of said housing, and wherein when said contacts are urged against said circuit board by said slider, said engaging portion of said locking member is brought into engagement with said anchoring portion of said flexible printed circuit board.