Patent ID: 7364460

Claim:
A fixing member that can be mounted to a fixed member that is fixed to a printed circuit board and that is used for fixing the fixed member to the printed circuit board, the fixing member comprising: a mounting member main body fixed to the fixed member; arm-shaped male connector portions having a length greater than a thickness of said printed circuit board and having at tip ends thereof lug portions that are engaged with an opening edge of an insertion opening in the printed circuit board when said male connector portions are inserted completely through the insertion opening; and contact portions extending across and beside said male connector portions that contact with a soldering land formed at the printed circuit board and are joined to the soldering land by soldering when the lug portions are engaged with the opening edge, wherein the contact portions are formed at the mounting portion main body and the male connector portions extend from the mounting portion main body or from the contact portions, such that solder bonds are formed between the contact portions and said soldering land and said male connector portions when said fixing member is soldered to said printed circuit board; and wherein the contact portions are extended at one end of the mounting member main body and the male connector portions are extended at another end of the mounting member main body opposite to the one end and the mounting member main body is folded so that the male connector portions are located between the contact portions.