Electrical connector having a middle shielding plate and an outer shielding shell with grounding legs held in place by the shielding plate
AssigneesFuyu Electronical Technology (Huaian) Co., Foxconn Interconnect Technology Limited
InventorsJun Zhao, Cai-Yun Zhang
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Abstract
An electrical connector includes: an insulative housing having a base and a tongue; an upper and a lower rows of contacts secured to the insulative housing and exposed, respectively, to an upper and a lower faces of the tongue; a shielding plate arranged between the upper row of contacts and the lower row of contacts; and a shielding shell enclosing the insulative housing, wherein the shielding plate has a pair of side hooks exposed to an outside of the insulative housing, and the shielding shell has a pair of grounding legs kept in position by the pair of side hooks of the shielding plate.
Claims19
An electrical connector comprising:
- an insulative housing having a base and a tongue;
- an upper and a lower rows of contacts secured to the insulative housing and exposed, respectively, to an upper and a lower faces of the tongue;
- a shielding plate arranged between the upper row of contacts and the lower row of contacts;
- and
- a shielding shell enclosing the insulative housing, wherein
- the shielding plate has a pair of side hooks exposed to an outside of the insulative housing,
- the shielding shell has a pair of grounding legs kept in position by the pair of side hooks of the shielding plate,
- the pair of grounding legs extend rearward from a pair of side walls of the shielding shell, and
- the shielding plate is constructed of two pieces each having a corresponding one of the pair of side hooks, each hook having an outer arm located at an outer face of a corresponding grounding leg to prevent an outward movement of the grounding leg relative to the hook.
An electrical connector comprising:
- an insulative housing having a base and a tongue extending forwardly from the base in a front-to-back direction;
- an upper and a lower rows of contacts secured to the insulative housing and exposed, respectively, to an upper and a lower faces of the tongue;
- a metallic shielding plate arranged between the upper row of contacts and the lower row of contacts in a vertical direction perpendicular to said front-to-back direction;
- and
- a metallic shielding shell enclosing the insulative housing, wherein
- a pair of grounding legs unitarily extend respectively from rear ends of two side walls of the shielding shell rearwardly in the front-to-back direction and outwardly in a transverse direction perpendicular to both the front-to-back direction and the vertical direction, and a pair of side hooks unitarily extend from a rear end of the shielding plate to be interengaged with the pair of corresponding grounding legs, respectively, for restricting outward movement of the corresponding grounding legs in the transverse direction.
An electrical connector assembly comprising:
- a printed circuit board including a pair of holes;
- an electrical connector comprising:
- an insulative housing having a base and a tongue extending forwardly from the base in a front-to-back direction;
- an upper and a lower rows of contacts secured to the insulative housing and exposed, respectively, to an upper and a lower faces of the tongue;
- a metallic shielding plate arranged between the upper row of contacts and the lower row of contacts in a vertical direction perpendicular to said front-to-back direction;
- and
- a metallic shielding shell enclosing the insulative housing, wherein
- a pair of grounding legs are received within the corresponding holes of the printed circuit board and unitarily extending respectively from rear ends of two side walls of the shielding shell rearwardly in the front-to-back direction and outwardly in a transverse direction perpendicular to both the front-to-back direction and the vertical direction, and a pair of side hooks unitarily extend from a rear end of the shielding plate to be interengaged with the pair of corresponding grounding legs, respectively, for restricting outward movement of the corresponding grounding legs in the transverse direction.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.