Patent ID: 7140896

Claim:
A connector detachably fitted with a connecting object such as a flexible printed circuit board, including a required number of contacts having a contact portion adapted to contact said connecting object, a housing holding and fixing said contacts and having a fitting opening into which said connecting object is inserted, and a pivoting member for urging said contacts, wherein said contacts each comprises a first piece having the contact portion at one end adapted to contact said connecting object, a pressure receiving portion at the other end adapted to be urged by said pivoting member, and a projection inwardly extending from the front end of said pressure receiving portion; a second piece having a fulcrum portion at one end and a connection portion at the other end adapted to be connected to a substrate; and a connecting portion for connecting said first piece and said fulcrum portion; and said contact portion, said connecting portion, said fulcrum portion and said connection portion are arranged substantially in the form of a crank, wherein said housing comprises a ceiling portion covering said contact portions of said contacts, and an upper wall covering said pressure receiving portions of the contacts and provided contiguous to said ceiling portion, wherein said pivoting member comprises an actuating portion for pivotally moving said pivoting member, urging portions provided continuously in its longitudinal direction, anchoring holes independently from one another for receiving said pressure receiving portions of the contacts and adapted to engage said projections, and a cover portion for covering vertical surfaces of tail portions of said contacts, and said pivoting member is so mounted on said housing that the urging portions are pivotally moved between the connection portions and the pressure receiving portions of the contacts, and wherein when the contacts have been connected to said connecting object by pivotally moving said pivoting member, the tail portions of said contacts are covered by said cover portion of the pivoting member.