Patent ID: 7488219

Claim:
An onboard connector adapted to be mounted on one an upper face of a circuit board so that the onboard connector is electrically connected to through-hole lands extending through from the upper face to a lower face of the circuit board, the onboard connector comprising: a plurality of terminals, each of which having: a first electrical contact portion formed at one end portion thereof for electrically connecting a mating connector; and a second electrical contact portion formed at the other end portion thereof for being press-fitted into the corresponding through-hole land to electrically contact an inner peripheral surface of the through-hole land, the second electrical contact portion being plated; and a connector housing including a plurality of terminal receiving chambers which are open to a lower face of the connector housing, wherein the terminals are received in the connector housing so that the second electrical contact portions project from the lower surface of the connector housing through openings of the respective terminal receiving chambers; and wherein an opening peripheral surface of each terminal receiving chamber which defines the opening to the lower face of the connector housing forms a plating shaving-receiving portion for receiving plating shavings which are shaved from the plating on the second electrical contact portion by the through-hole land when the second electrical contact portion is press-fifted into the through-hole land.