Electrical connector having inclined shell with side-by-side legs
AssigneeFoxconn Interconnect Technology Limited
InventorsTeng-Fei Zhang, Jian-Kuang Zhu, Kuo-Chun Hsu
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Abstract
An electrical connector includes an insulative housing, a number of terminals received in the insulative housing, an inner shell and an outer shell. The insulative housing includes a base portion and a mating portion extending from the base portion in a mating direction. The base portion includes a mounting face inclined to the mating direction. The inner shell covers the insulative housing. The inner shell includes a number of first mounting legs, and the outer shell includes a number of second mounting legs. The second mounting legs and the first mounting legs are arranged in a side-by-side way.
Claims20
An electrical connector used to mounted onto a PCB, comprising:
- an insulative housing including a base portion and a mating portion extending from the base portion in a mating direction, the base portion having a mounting face inclined to the mating direction;
- a plurality of terminals received in the insulative housing;
- an inner shell covering the insulative housing and having a plurality of first mounting legs;
- and
- an outer shell having a plurality of second mounting legs;
- wherein
- the second mounting legs and the first mounting legs are arranged in a side-by-side way.
An electrical connector assembly comprising:
- a printed circuit board;
- an electrical connector mounted upon the printed circuit board in an oblique manner, said electrical connector defining a mating direction oblique to the printed circuit board so as to have an imaginary plane defined by a top face of the connector intersect with another imaginary plane defined by the printed circuit board at an imaginary intersecting point;
- an insulative housing associated with a plurality of terminals therein;
- a metallic inner shell enclosing the housing and including an inner main portion with at least one inner mounting leg deflected with regard to the inner main portion and extending downwardly therefrom into the printed circuit board in a vertical direction;
- and
- a metallic outer shell enclosing the inner shell and including an outer main portion with at least one outer mounting leg deflected with regard to the outer main portion and extending downwardly therefrom into the printed circuit board in the vertical direction;
- wherein
- said inner mounting leg and said outer mounting leg are intimately side-by-side arranged with each other along either a thickness direction or a width direction of the inner mounting leg and the outer mounting leg, said thickness direction and said width direction being perpendicular to each other and both perpendicular to the vertical direction.
An electrical connector adapted for mounting to a printed circuit board and equipped with a mating direction oblique to the printed circuit board, comprising:
- an insulative housing associated with a plurality of terminals therein;
- a metallic inner shell enclosing the housing and including an inner main portion with at least one inner mounting leg deflected with regard to the inner main portion and extending downwardly therefrom into the printed circuit board in a vertical direction;
- and
- a metallic outer shell enclosing the inner shell and including an outer main portion with at least one outer mounting leg deflected with regard to the outer main portion and extending downwardly therefrom into the printed circuit board in the vertical direction;
- wherein
- said inner mounting leg and said outer mounting leg are intimately side-by-side arranged with each other along either a thickness direction or a width direction of the inner mounting leg and the outer mounting leg, said thickness direction being perpendicular to each other and both perpendicular to the vertical direction.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.