Board lock with a main plate with a pair of arms penetrating slits from top to bottom of a connector housing and battery connector using the same

摘要

A battery connector mounted on a top surface of a printed circuit board defining a pair of penetrating holes, which has a housing, a plurality of contacts secured to the housing and a board lock fixing the battery connector to the printed circuit board. The housing has a pair of penetrating slits penetrating a top surface and a bottom surface thereof. The board lock is formed as one piece and has a main plate mounted on the top surface of the housing, a pair of holding arms bent downward from opposite ends of the main plate and respectively extending through the penetrating slits of the housing and the penetrating holes of the printed circuit board, and a pair of projections protruding outwardly from each of the holding arms and engaged to the periphery of each of the penetrating holes on a bottom surface of the printed circuit board.