An electrical device includes a flat electrical conductor defining an aperture and an electrically conductive rivet with a body having a layer of a solder composition disposed on a first side and a tubular shaft extending from a second side of the body opposite the first side. A free end of the tubular shaft is flared such that the free end has a diameter larger than a diameter of the aperture.

A wiring substrate is connected to a backplane, and includes: a first connector that is mounted on one surface of the wiring substrate and is connected to the backplane; an opening portion that is formed in the one surface on a side opposite to a side connected to the backplane of the first connector, and through which a cable having one end connected to the first connector is passed; an integrated circuit that is mounted on the one surface on a side opposite to a side on which the first connector is present relative to the opening portion; and a second connector that is mounted on the other surface on a side opposite to the one surface in the vicinity of the integrated circuit on the side opposite to the side on which the first connector is present relative to the opening portion, is connected to the integrated circuit via a through hole penetrating the wiring substrate, and is connected to the other end of the cable.

A connecting method includes: arranging the connection terminal such that a rear surface of a base portion in a flat plate shape of the connection terminal comes into contact with a front surface of the flexible substrate; with a rising portion of the connection terminal extending from the rear surface side of the base portion toward the base portion and a tip end bending portion of the connection terminal extending from a tip end of the rising portion in a direction inclined with respect to the rising portion, displacing the rising portion toward the base portion so that the tip end bending portion protrudes from a front surface of the base portion; and holding a part of the flexible substrate between a pressing portion formed at the rising portion and a pressed portion formed at the base portion, whereby the conductive portion of the flexible substrate is electrically connected to at least one of the pressing portion and the pressed portion.

A connector includes a first insulator having a through-hole for contact, a contact held by the first insulator and having a projecting portion inserted into the through-hole for contact, and a receiving member disposed on a side of a second surface of the first insulator and surrounding the projecting portion of the contact, the flexible conductor being disposed along the second surface of the first insulator, the contact including an extending portion formed on another end of the projecting portion and disposed on the side of the second surface of the first insulator to extend outside of the through-hole for contact along the second surface, a part of the flexible conductor being held between the extending portion of the contact and the receiving member to contact the extending portion, whereby the contact is electrically connected to the flexible conductor.

A connector for a flat flexible cable includes a cable housing and a contact having an elastic portion. The cable housing includes a first housing having a termination passage extending through the first housing and a second housing mated with the first housing. A flat conductor exposed in a window extending through an insulation material of the flat flexible cable is held between the first housing and the second housing. The elastic portion extends through the termination passage and elastically bears against the flat conductor to electrically connect the contact to the flat conductor.

An electrical cable (1000) including a plurality of substantially parallel insulated conductors (100) is described. Each insulated conductor (100) includes an electrically conductive inner conductor (200) co-extensive and covered with an insulating layer (300). At least a portion of a periphery of each insulated conductor (100) may be encompassed by a substantially co-extensive electrically conductive shield (400). For each insulated conductor (100), portions of the insulating layer (300) are removed from the top side (1200) of the cable (1000) to expose a portion of the inner conductor (200) of the insulated conductor (100). The insulated conductor (100) is adapted to mate with an electrically conductive mating conductor (500) at the exposed portion (210) of the inner conductor (200).

An adaptor includes a substrate, a first housing, and a flat cable. The substrate comprises a terminal hole. The first housing includes a first insertion hole and a second insertion hole. The substrate is inserted into the first insertion hole. The flat cable includes a plurality of conductors. Each of the conductors includes a conductor terminal. The flat cable passes through the second insertion hole. The conductor terminal is connected to the terminal hole. A direction in which the substrate is inserted into the first insertion hole is perpendicular to a direction in which the flat cable passes through the second insertion hole.

A method of forming an electrical cable assembly includes providing a multiconductor flat cable comprising wires arranged in a coplanar fashion with each other and encased within a planar dielectric structure, cutting a slot in the planar dielectric structure intermediate the wires, thereby forming wing features in the dielectric structure extending from the wires, removing portions of the dielectric structure from ends of the wires, wherein portions of wing features remain, attaching the exposed wires to terminals, wherein the terminals define prongs, and attaching the portions of the wing features to by inserting the prongs within holes defined in the portions of the wing features, thereby retaining the wires to the terminals.

The present invention discloses an electrical connector and an electrical connector assembly. The electrical connector includes a circuit board, a connection port, and an insulating member. The circuit board has a conductive region, located on a surface of the circuit board. The connection port is arranged on the surface of the circuit board, and the connection port is electrically connected to the circuit board. The insulating member is arranged on the circuit board, and surrounds an outer periphery of the connection port. The insulating member includes a metal layer, arranged on an outer surface of the insulating member.

This application relates to a chip-to-module cable assembly, includes a first joint, a second joint and a first flexible PCB cable, the flexible PCB cable, including flexible material parts located on upper and lower layers and a connection portion located on a middle layer, wherein the connection portion comprises two rigid material portions respectively located at end portions of the flexible material parts on the upper and lower layers and a hollow portion between the two rigid material portions, the flexible material parts each comprises at least one conducting wire, one end of each of the at least one conducting wire is connected to a first interface terminal of the first joint, and another end of the conducting wire is connected to a second interface terminal of a second joint.