An electrical connector includes an insulating housing, at least one flexible printed circuit board mounted in the insulating housing, at least one location block disposed to a middle of an outer surface of the at least one flexible printed circuit board, at least one elastic structure disposed on an outer surface of the at least one location block, and a shell. The at least one flexible printed circuit board includes an outer ground layer, a signal layer and an inner ground layer. The signal layer has a plurality of traces. Each trace has a main portion, at least one contact portion and a soldering portion. The shell surrounds the insulating housing, the at least one flexible printed circuit board, the at least one location block and the at least one elastic structure.

A terminal to be connected to a front end part of a flexible board including an insulating base film and a conductive path is provided with a terminal body including a sandwiching portion for sandwiching the flexible board and a tubular shell to be disposed outside sandwiching portion. The sandwiching portion includes a conductive contact portion for contacting the conductive path of the flexible board. The shell includes a pressurizing portion for pressing the sandwiching portion toward the flexible board, the pressurizing portion projecting inwardly of the shell. The shell includes a wide portion not formed with the pressurizing portion and a narrow portion narrower inside than the wide portion by being formed with the pressurizing portion. The narrow portion is located outside the sandwiching portion, whereby the conductive contact portion of the sandwiching portion contacts the conductive path.

Discussed are a battery pack including a cell stack structure using a flexible printed circuit board (FPCB), and more specifically, to a battery pack that forms various stack structures by connecting battery cells through an FPCB and stacking the battery cells in a desired stacked state. The battery pack includes at least two or more stacked battery cells; a flexible printed circuit board (FPCB) configured to electrically interconnect the battery cells; and a battery protection circuit configured to protect the battery cells, wherein the FPCB comprises a cell connection part connecting the battery cells in a predetermined connection state.

A connector includes a first insulator, a second insulator and at least one contact, the contact being composed of a first contact member retained by the first insulator and a second contact member retained by the second insulator, the first contact member including a first connection portion and a first communication portion, the second contact member including a second connection portion and a second communication portion, a connection object being sandwiched between the first connection portion and the second connection portion, the first communication portion and the second communication portion being in elastic contact with each other via an elastic piece, and at least one of the first connection portion and the second connection portion coming into contact with a flexible conductor of the connection object, whereby the contact is electrically connected to the flexible conductor of the connection object.

A connector includes a housing having a contact receiving passageway extending through a mating end of the housing in a longitudinal direction and a contact disposed in the contact receiving passageway. The housing has a window extending through a wall of the housing in a direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction. The contact has a mating section disposed at the mating end and a contact section extending from the mating section. An exposed portion of the contact section is exposed to an area exterior of the housing through the window.

Connectors that support high-speed data transfers and have a high signal quality, good reliability, and are readily manufactured. One example can provide a connector receptacle that supports high-speed data transfers and has a high signal quality by employing connector contacts that include multiple structures.

A cable connector includes: a contact (45A, 45B) supported by an insulator (20) having a cable insertion groove (21); a lock member (65) rotatable about a rotation shaft (74), between a lock position where a lock portion (68) of the lock member faces a locked portion (98) of a sheet-like cable (93) inserted in the insulator and an unlock position where the lock portion does not face the locked portion; and a bias portion (80) for biasing the lock member to the lock position, wherein an inner surface of the cable insertion groove includes a reference surface (21a) which is an end surface in a movement direction of the lock portion from the lock position to the unlock position, and a rotation center G of the rotation shaft is located on a side opposite to the movement direction, with respect to the reference surface.

A connector is provided with a plurality of terminal fittings (10), a holding member (20) configured such that the plurality of terminal fittings (10) are arranged in parallel therein, a circuit board (90) to which the plurality of terminal fittings (10) are connected, and a housing (50) for holding the holding member (20). The connector is manufactured by successively performing an arranging step of arranging the plurality of terminal fittings (10) in parallel in the holding member (20), a reflow step of reflow-connecting the plurality of terminal fittings (10) to the circuit board (90) and a holding step of holding the holding member (20) in the housing (50).

An apparatus and system for coupling power. In one embodiment, the apparatus comprises a trunk cable comprising a first conductor, a second conductor, and a third conductor; a first connector, wherein a first terminal of the first connector is conductively coupled to the first conductor; a second connector, wherein a first terminal of the second connector is conductively coupled to the second conductor; and a third connector, wherein a first terminal of the third connector is conductively coupled to the third conductor, and wherein the first, the second, and the third connectors are each adapted to couple to a different DC-AC power converter and an output of the trunk cable comprises three-phase AC power.

In a composite component having a laminate body, a conductive layer and a connector can be joined to one another using an intermediate flexible circuit. Among other things, this flexible circuit places the conductive layer and the connector in electrical communication with one another. Furthermore, during the forming process and because of its thinness, the flexible circuit integrates well with the layers of the laminate body and can accommodates some spatial displacement of the connector and conductive material relative to one another.