Patent ID: 8708725
Filing Date: 2014-04-29
Classification: H01R

Abstract:
1. An electrical connector having an observable discriminative area, said electrical connector comprising: a housing made of an insulator to be mounted on an outer surface of a main circuit board and provided with an opening through which a flat circuit device is inserted into the housing, a plurality of conductive contacts provided to be arranged in the housing and positioned to correspond respectively to connecting terminals provided on the flat circuit device when the flat circuit device is inserted in the housing through the opening provided thereon, and an actuator provided to be rotatable in regard to the housing for taking a first station and a second station selectively to engage with the conductive contacts for causing each of the conductive contacts to come into press-contact with one of the connecting terminals corresponding thereto when the flat circuit device is inserted in the housing through the opening provided thereon and the actuator is shifted from the first station to the second station and for causing each of the conductive contacts to get out of press-contact with the corresponding one of the connecting terminals when the flat circuit device has been inserted in the housing and the actuator is shifted from the second station to the first station, the actuator being provided with an outside portion which faces upward on the outer surface of the main circuit board on which the housing is mounted when the actuator takes the first station and is constituted with a central flat portion and a pair of slant portions opposite to each other with the central flat portion positioned between the slant portions, wherein the actuator has a particular outer portion thereof which faces upward on the outer surface of the main circuit board on which the housing is mounted when the actuator takes one of the first and second stations and faces toward a direction in parallel with the outer surface of the main circuit board on which the housing is mounted when the actuator takes the other of the first and second stations, and wherein a discriminative area presenting one of a color and an ornamental pattern different from that on other areas on the actuator and the housing is provided on the particular outer portion of the actuator.