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US 10,651,585 B2Granted
Electrical connector with contact module assembled thereto by two steps
AssigneesFu Ding Precision Component (Shen Zhen) Co., Ltd., Foxconn Interconnect Technology Limited
InventorsDe-Jin Chen, Xing-Liang Liu
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Abstract
An electrical connector includes an insulative housing and a contact module essentially composed of a plurality of contacts integrally formed within an insulator via an insert-molding process wherein the contact module is assembled to the housing via two steps along different directions perpendicular to each other. The housing forms a plurality of protrusions engaged with the corresponding ribs of contact module in the vertical direction so as to retain the contact module to the housing reliably. All the insulator, the contacts and the housing are arranged in a staggered manner.
Claims20
An electrical connector comprising:
- an insulative housing forming a receiving cavity with an upward surface below the receiving cavity;
- a contact module assembled into the receiving cavity, and including a plurality of contacts integrally formed with an insulator,
- the insulator including a main body extending along a longitudinal direction, and a plurality of partitions located on two sides of the main body, each of said partitions extending along a transverse direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction, said partitions being arranged in a staggered manner, and
- the contacts arranged with one another along the longitudinal direction, secured to the corresponding partitions, respectively, and extending along the transverse direction, each contact includes a center retaining section and a pair of spring arms extending from two sides of the retaining section opposite to each other in the transverse direction with corresponding contacting sections, respectively;
- wherein
- the housing forms a plurality of dividers along two opposite side edge regions in the longitudinal direction, and each divider forms a passageway therein;
- wherein
- in each contact, one corresponding contacting section is received within one corresponding passageway, and the other corresponding contacting section is received in a space between the corresponding two neighboring dividers along the longitudinal direction.
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An electrical connector comprising:
- an insulative housing forming a receiving cavity with an upward surface below the receiving cavity;
- a contact module assembled into the receiving cavity, and including a plurality of contacts integrally formed with an insulator,
- the insulator including a main body extending along a longitudinal direction, and a plurality of partitions located on two sides of the main body, each of said partitions extending along a transverse direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction, said partitions being arranged in a staggered manner, a receiving space defined between every adjacent two partitions;
- and
- the contacts arranged with one another along the longitudinal direction, secured to the corresponding partitions, respectively, and extending along the transverse direction, each contact includes a center retaining section and a pair of spring arms extending from two sides of the retaining section opposite to each other in the transverse direction with corresponding contacting sections, respectively;
- wherein
- two rows of protrusions are formed on an upward surface of the housing in the staggered manner, and each of said protrusion is located in the corresponding receiving space;
- wherein
- the receiving space is larger than the corresponding protrusion in the longitudinal direction so as to allow the insulator to move relative to the housing in the longitudinal direction.
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An electrical connector comprising:
- an insulative housing forming a receiving cavity with an upward surface below the receiving cavity;
- a contact module assembled into the receiving cavity, and including a plurality of contacts integrally formed with an insulator,
- the insulator including a main body extending along a longitudinal direction, and two rows of partitions respectively located on two sides of the main body, each of said partitions extending along a transverse direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction, a receiving space defined between every adjacent two partitions;
- and
- the contacts arranged with one another along the longitudinal direction, secured to the corresponding partitions, respectively, and extending along the transverse direction, each contact includes a center retaining section and a pair of spring arms extending from two sides of the retaining section opposite to each other in the transverse direction with corresponding contacting sections, respectively;
- wherein
- two rows of protrusions are formed on an upward surface of the housing corresponding to said two rows of partitions, and each of said protrusion is located in the corresponding receiving space;
- wherein
- each protrusion forms a downwardly facing engagement recess, and each partition forms a rib;
- wherein
- the receiving space is larger than the corresponding protrusion in the longitudinal direction so as to allow the insulator to move relative to the housing in the longitudinal direction to have the rib engaged within the engagement recess in a vertical direction perpendicular to both the longitudinal direction and the transverse direction.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.