Patent ID: 7789678

Claim:
A multipolar connector comprising: a plurality of contacts assembled at prescribed spacings in a longitudinal direction of a laterally long body of the connector, each of the contacts is provided in an intermediate portion thereof with a meandering curved part in an almost inverted U shape being arranged to be elastically deformed when the each contact contacts a counterpart contact of a counterpart connector; and a ground member extending in the longitudinal direction of the body and passing through almost center parts of inner areas of the respective meandering curved parts of the plurality of the contacts, wherein the ground member in its entirety is of rectangular shape in cross-sectional view taken perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the body, wherein the meandering curved part in each contact includes three rectilinear parts linked at almost right angles, the three rectilinear parts defining said inner area, and when each contact contacts said counterpart contact and the meandering curved part is thereby elastically deformed, the ground member is located at a position almost equally distant from the three rectilinear parts, and wherein the ground member is a conductive plate body of rectangular shape in cross-sectional view and has a first face, a second face opposite the first face, and a third face perpendicular to the first and second faces, in each of the contacts, the three rectilinear parts of the meandering curved part include a first rectilinear part, a second rectilinear part, and a third rectilinear part linked to the first and second rectilinear parts at right angles, and when the each contact contacts said counterpart contact and the meandering curved part is thereby elastically deformed, a distance between the first rectilinear part and the first face, a distance between the second rectilinear part and the second face, and a distance between the third rectilinear part and the third face is almost the same.