A connector includes a first connector portion in which projections project from a surface of a base plate, and a second connector portion formed of a fitting plate in which fitting holes corresponding to the projections are formed, at least either the projections or the fitting holes having elasticity, when the projections of the first connector portion are fitted in the fitting holes of the second connector portion as catching the first contact portion and the second contact portion with the first and second contact portions facing and being overlapped on each other, the first contact portion and the second contact portion being elastically pressed against each other and contacted to each other to establish electrical connection therebetween in a space between a lateral surface of the projections and an inner surface of the fitting holes.

A flexible connecting structure comprises a first circuit board and a second circuit board. The second circuit board is configured on a bottom of the first circuit hoard. A plurality of first signal traces configured longitudinally on the first circuit board. A plurality of second signal traces configured longitudinally on the second circuit board. A first end of the first circuit board and a first end of the second circuit board is fixed with each other through a plurality of metal balls, and a second end of the second circuit board floats, deflectable up and down.

A flat flexible cable assembly comprises a flat flexible cable including a plurality of conductors embedded within an insulation material, and a seal directly bonded to an exterior of the flat flexible cable continuously about its perimeter.

A connection device for connecting a multicore branch line to a flat cable has a connection device housing that allows the flat cable to pass through, and penetration contacts for contacting the flat cable without stripping of the insulation. The penetration contacts are situated in the connection device housing. The connection device also has an electrical disconnection point between the branch line and the flat cable, and at least one seal in the area of at least one opening of the connection device housing for protection from penetration of dust and/or water. The connection device housing is made, at least partially, of plastic, and on its outer side or inner side is coated with a diffusion barrier layer, wherein the diffusion barrier layer includes one or more layers, one of which is a metallic layer.

Provided herein are systems and apparatus for reducing vibration interaction between hard drives. In one implementation, a flexible mount electrical connection comprises a mating connector configured to physically couple with a hard drive connector and a plurality of electrical pins having a connector portion positioned within the mating connector configured to electrically couple with hard drive connector pins positioned within the hard drive connector. Each electrical pin has an extended portion extending away from the mating connector. The extended portion has an attachment portion configured to electrically couple the respective electrical pin to a printed circuit board, and the extended portion has a shape formed therein configured to reduce transmission of vibrations in the connector portion along each axis of a three-dimensional space to the attachment portion.

An electronic device includes a housing and a connector disposed in the housing. The connector includes a case forming an outer surface of the connector and having an opening formed in at least a portion of the outer surface and a printed circuit board disposed in the case and including a first layer where a plurality of first pins are disposed, a second layer where a plurality of second pins are disposed, and a ground layer disposed between the first layer and the second layer and disposed to maintain a substantially constant distance from the first layer and the second layer. The plurality of first pins includes at least one first ground pin. The plurality of second pins includes at least one second ground pin. The first ground pin and the second ground pin are configured to be connected through at least one via.

A pressure adaptive contact structure for a flexible circuit board is disclosed, in which the flexible circuit board is provided with a weakening portion or a partly surrounding weakening portion between a plurality of first contact pads so that contact surfaces of the plurality of first contact pads are respectively contactable with corresponding ones of contact points to generate contact pressing forces applied to the contact points in a manner that the contact pressing forces are adaptively adjustable by the weakening portion to accommodate height differences between adjacent ones of the first contact pads to prevent the first contact pads from being stretched and pulled with respect to each other.

A first wiring plate is a flexible wiring plate to be directly connected to a display panel, and includes a first connector. The first connector is directly connected to a second connector included in a second wiring plate to be directly connected to the display panel.

Examples are disclosed that relate to flexible electrical interconnects in electronic devices. One example provides a device including a flexible substrate, a conductive trace disposed on the flexible substrate, an electronic component mounted to the flexible substrate, a liquid metal interconnect bridging between a pad on the component and the trace on the flexible substrate, and an encapsulant covering the interconnect.

The present invention provides a flexible flat cable. The flexible flat cable including: a first flexible flat cable and a second flexible flat cable, wherein: an end of the first flexible flat cable is connected with a first terminal; an another end of the first flexible flat cable is provided with a plurality of first pads; an end of the second flexible flat cable is connected with a second terminal; an another end of the second flexible flat cable is provided with a plurality of second pads connected with the plurality of first pads in one-to-one correspondence. The flexible flat cable according to the exemplary embodiments of the present invention can improve versatility, reusability and repairability of the flexible flat cable.