Patent ID: 7108543

Claim:
A connector structure attached to a board of an optical pickup unit which operates at the time of reading from or writing to a disk, comprising: a housing which is made of resin and has a substantially U-shaped cross section; a flexible flat cable being inserted through an opening side of the housing; and a junction terminal which has a substantially tuning-fork-shaped cross section and is formed integrally with the housing, the junction terminal including: a contacting inward projection at upper and lower positions of the opening side of the housing, the contacting inward projection being electrically contact with a conductive section of the flexible flat cable; and a terminal extending from an inner part of the housing to be connected with the board of the optical pickup unit, wherein a hollow space is provided in an inner region of the housing inside the contacting inward projection, and wherein a vertical holding member into which an end of the flexible flat cable is inserted is provided at an innermost part of the housing so that the flexible flat cable can be supported at two points by the contacting inward projection and the vertical holding member, and wherein the flexible flat cable has a first side and a second side opposite the first side such that the vertical holding member is in contact with both the first side and the second side of the flexible flat cable.