US 7,320,619 B2
Fixing member and mounting structure
Shinji Takahashi, Aichi-ken (Japan); Yoshiaki Kato, Aichi-ken (Japan); Harehide Sasaki, Aichi-ken (Japan); Katsumasa Matsuoka, Aichi-ken (Japan); Masato Minakata, Toyota (Japan); and Hiroshi Kobayashi, Toyota (Japan)
Assigned to Kabushiki Kaisha Tokai- Rika-Denki-Seisakusho, Aichi-ken (Japan)
Filed on Jan. 12, 2007, as Appl. No. 11/623,037.
Claims priority of application No. 2006-013922 (JP), filed on Jan. 23, 2006.
Prior Publication US 2007/0173114 A1, Jul. 26, 2007
Int. Cl. H01R 13/66 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 439—567 9 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A fixing member that can be mounted to a fixed member that is fixed to a printed circuit board and that is used for fixing the fixed member to the printed circuit board, the fixing member comprising:
a male connector portion that is inserted into an insertion opening formed in the printed circuit board;
two arm portions provided at the male connector portion;
a lug portion provided at respective tip end portions of the arm portions that engages with an opening edge of the insertion opening; and
lug-guiding portions extending out from the tip end portion of the lug portion of each of the two arm portions, that guide the lug portion through the insertion opening when the lug-guiding portions come into contact with the opening edge and are further pressed,
wherein the lug-guiding portions are non-coplanar so as not to interfere with each other when the lug-guiding portions come in contact with the opening edge and guide the lug portions to the insertion opening.