Patent ID: 7223110

Claim:
A connector adapted to be detachably fitted with a flexible printed circuit board, including a required number of contacts each having at least one contact portion adapted to contact said flexible printed circuit board, and a housing holding and fixing said contacts therein and having an insertion opening through which said flexible printed circuit board is inserted into said housing, wherein when said flexible printed circuit board has contact portions on both its surfaces, said contacts are of two kinds, and the contacts of one kind are arranged in said housing by inserting thereinto from opposite side of said insertion opening of said housing so that said contact portions of said contacts of the one kind are brought into contact with the contact portions on the one surface of said flexible printed circuit board, and the contacts of the other kind are arranged in said housing by inserting thereinto from the side of said insertion opening of said housing so that said contact portions of said contacts of the other kind are brought into contact with the contact portions on the other surface of said flexible printed circuit board.