AN ELECTRICAL CONNECTOR FOR FLAT CABLES

摘要

The invention provides a socket-type connector for connecting a flat cable and a circuit board and the connector has a very simple structure and is free from the problem of corrosion in the metal-made parts in addition to the high reliability of the connection. The connector is formed of an insulating base plate with a plurality of parallel slots for receiving each one of the exposed ends of the cable wires and an anisotropically conductive rubbery sheet bonded on one surface of the base plate, the sheet coming into contact with the ends of the cable wires put into the slots while the terminals of a circuit boards are contacted with the other surface of the anisotropically conductive sheet to establish unidirectional electric connection between them on the opposite sides of the sheet. The flat cable placed on the base plate with the cable wires in the slots is fixed at the position with a cover member having spike pins piercing the flat cable and thrusted into the base plate.