Electrical connector assembly
AssigneeFoxconn Interconnect Technology Limited
InventorShuo-Hsiu Hsu
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Abstract
An electrical connector assembly provides an electrical connector mounted upon a main board, a CPU assembled upon connector with an interposer therebetween wherein some conductors on the CPU are electrically connected to the main board or to an external device via the conductive elements on the outer/exposed region of the interposer outside of the connector and a connection device, e.g., the connector set or the cable set, which is linked to those conductive elements on the outer/exposed region, while remaining conductors on the CPU are electrically connected to the main board via the conductive elements on the inner/hidden region of the interpose inside the connector by cooperation with the contacts of the connector.
Claims20
An electrical connector assembly comprising:
- a printed circuit board (PCB);
- an electrical connector mounted upon the PCB and including an insulative housing with a receiving cavity, and a plurality of contacts disposed in the housing, each of said contacts including a resilient contacting section extending into the receiving cavity, and a soldering section mounted to the PCB;
- a central processing unit (CPU) disposed in the receiving cavity;
- and
- an interposer having unitarily a main body received within the receiving cavity and located between the CPU and the connector in a vertical direction, and at least one extension extend from the main body outwardly away from and located outside of the connector;
- wherein
- said contacts are located under the main body.
The electrical connector assembly as claimed in 7, wherein said distance is smaller than a height of the housing of the connector in the vertical direction.
An electrical connector assembly comprising:
- a printed circuit board (PCB);
- an electrical connector mounted upon the PCB in a vertical direction, and including an insulative housing with a receiving cavity therein for receiving a central processing unit (CPU), and a plurality of conductive contacts disposed in the housing, each of said contacts including a resilient contacting section extending into the receiving cavity, and a soldering section secured to the PCB;
- and
- an interposer including a main body received within the receiving cavity and adapted to be located under CPU, and at least one extension extending from the main body in a longitudinal direction and located outside of the housing;
- wherein
- the contacts are electrically and mechanically connected to the main body in the vertical direction while some connection points are formed on the extension.
The electrical connector assembly as claimed 9, wherein a neck is formed between the main body and the extension, and is received within a cutout in a side wall of the housing.
An electrical connector assembly comprising:
- an electrical connector including an insulative housing with a receiving cavity adapted to receive a central processing unit (CPU) therein, and a plurality of contacts disposed in the housing, each of said contacts including a resilient contacting section extending into the receiving cavity, and a soldering section extending out of the housing for mounting to a printed circuit board (PCB) in a vertical direction
- an interposer extending in a rigid horizontal manner and including a main body received in the receiving cavity and mechanically and electrically connected to the contacting sections of the corresponding contacts, and at least one extension extending from said main body in a longitudinal direction perpendicular to said vertical direction and located outside of the housing;
- wherein
- a plurality of connection points are formed on the extension for connecting to an external component.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.