Patent ID: 7648386

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