Electrical connector and electrical device assembled with the same therein
AssigneeFoxconn Interconnect Technology Limited
InventorsChih-Pi Cheng, Ming-Lun Szu
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Abstract
An electrical connector includes an insulative housing, a number of terminals retained in the insulative housing and a shell surrounding around the insulative housing. The insulative housing includes a base and a mating tongue extending forwardly therefrom. The mating tongue includes two opposite mating faces and two opposite side faces. The shell includes a holding portion and a mating portion. The mating portion of the shell includes two short-walls facing to the two side faces of the mating tongue and at most a long-wall facing to one of the mating faces of the mating tongue so that at least one of the mating faces of the mating tongue could be exposed to exterior in a vertical direction.
Claims19
An electrical connector for receiving a complementary plug connector therein, comprising:
- an insulative housing comprising a base and a mating tongue extending forwardly from the base in a front-to-back direction, the mating tongue comprising two opposite mating faces in a vertical direction perpendicular to said front-to-back direction, and two side faces connecting therebetween in a transverse direction perpendicular to both said front-to-back direction and said transverse direction;
- a plurality of terminals retained in the insulative housing, each of the terminals comprising a contacting section exposed on the mating face and a tail extending out of the base;
- and
- a metallic shell forming a receiving space surrounding the insulative housing, the shell comprising a holding portion retained to the base and a mating portion extending along said front-to-rear direction;
- wherein
- the mating portion of the shell comprises two short-walls facing to the two side faces of the mating tongue in the transverse direction, and at least one of the mating faces of the mating tongue is exposed to exterior in said vertical direction without any long-wall of said shell linked between said two short-walls in the transverse direction for shielding in the vertical direction so as to minimize a dimension of said mating portion in the vertical direction.
An electrical device comprising:
- a case comprising a mating space forwardly communicating with an exterior along a front-to-back direction;
- a printed circuit board located in the case and behind the mating space in said front-to-back direction;
- and
- an electrical connector mounted on the printed circuit board including:
- an insulative housing comprising a base and a mating tongue extending forwardly from the base, the mating tongue comprising two opposite mating faces in a vertical direction perpendicular to said front-to-back direction, and two side faces connecting therebetween in a transverse direction perpendicular to both said front-to-back direction and said vertical direction;
- a plurality of terminals retained in the insulative housing, each of the terminals comprising a contacting section exposed on the mating face;
- and
- a shell forming a receiving space surrounding the insulative housing and comprising a holding portion retained to the base behind a front face of said base so as to expose substantially the whole mating tongue;
- wherein
- the mating tongue is inserted into and directly received and exposed in the mating space, and the holding portion forms a pair of mounting taps mounted to the case.
An electrical connector for receiving a complementary plug connector, comprising:
- a terminal module including an insulative housing and a plurality of terminals retained therein, said housing including a base portion with a mating tongue extending forwardly from the base portion in a front-to-back direction, the mating tongue defining two opposite mating faces in a vertical direction perpendicular to said front-to-back direction, and two opposite side faces linked between the two opposite mating faces in the vertical direction and spaced from each other in a transverse direction perpendicular to both said front-to-back direction and said vertical direction;
- a metallic shell formed by molding and having different thicknesses at different positions;
- wherein
- said shell includes a pair of short walls located outside of the corresponding side faces, respectively, in the transverse direction, and at most a long wall linked between the pair of short walls and facing one corresponding mating face of said mating tongue in the vertical direction so as to expose the other mating face in the vertical direction for minimizing, along the vertical direction, a vertical dimension of a mating portion which is formed between said pair of short walls and encloses the mating tongue.
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