Patent ID: 7134886

Claim:
A connector for an electric or electronic device, comprising: a housing for mounting on the device, the housing having a base wall with opposite front and rear ends, first and second arrays of press-in holes extending through the base wall from the front end to the rear end, the first array being substantially parallel to the second array at the front and rear ends of the base wall, front ends of the press-in holes of the first array being aligned respectively with front ends of the press-in holes of the second array in directions normal to the planes defined by the first and second arrays of the press-in holes, rear ends of the press-in holes of the first array being offset respectively from rear ends of the press-in holes of the second array in directions normal to the planes defined by the first and second arrays; and a plurality of terminal fittings mountable substantially side by side along a width direction at first and second stages in the housing corresponding to the first and second arrays of press-in holes, each terminal fitting having opposite front and rear ends, a terminal connecting portion substantially at the front end of the terminal fitting and projecting forward of the base wall for connection with a mating terminal, and a device connecting portion substantially at the rear end of the terminal fitting, the device connecting portion being bent substantially toward the device at a location rearward of the housing, the device connecting portions being narrower than the terminal connecting portions, the terminal connecting portion of each of said terminal fittings being substantially aligned along a height direction with the terminal connecting portion of at least one of said terminal fittings in another of the stages to define a substantially vertical array, the device connecting portions of the terminal fittings in each of said vertical arrays being offset alone the width direction, wherein adjacent terminal fittings in each of the vertical arrays having their device connecting portions offset to opposite widthwise sides with respect to longitudinal axes of the terminal connecting portions, a mounting portion defined on the device connecting portion and disposed at the rear end of each of the terminal fittings, the device connecting portions lying substantially in a common plane and being substantially equally spaced from one another at substantially equal distances from the base wall of the housing.