US 10,855,016 B2Granted

Terminal set and electrical connector

AssigneeLotes Co., Ltd

InventorYong Jun Dai

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Abstract

A terminal set and an electrical connector are provided. The terminal set includes a first terminal and a second terminal. The first terminal has a first base, a first elastic portion extending upward from the first base, and a first contact portion extending backward from the first elastic portion. The second terminal has a second base, a second elastic portion extending upward from the second base, and a second contact portion extending backward from the second elastic portion. The second elastic portion is located in front of the first elastic portion and overlaps with the first elastic portion in a front-rear direction, and the second contact portion does not overlapped with the first elastic portion in an vertical direction, thereby enhancing the density of the terminal set, and increasing contact points of the terminal set in contact with a mating component in a limited space.

Claims16

Dependent claims

A terminal set, configured to be electrically connected to a mating component, comprising:

a first terminal, having a first base, a plurality of first elastic portions extending upward from the first base and arranged in a row in a left-right direction, and a first contact portion extending backward from the first elastic portions;
and
a second terminal formed separately from the first terminal, wherein the first terminal and the second terminal are electrically connected to each other, the second terminal has a second base located in front of the first base, a plurality of second elastic portions extending upward from the second base and arranged in a row in the left-right direction, a second contact portion extending backward from the second elastic portions and located in front of the first contact portion, and the first contact portion and the second contact portion are configured to upward abut the mating component;
wherein the second contact portion is located between two adjacent ones of the first elastic portions in a vertical direction;
and the second elastic portions shield at least a portion of the corresponding first elastic portions backward in a front-rear direction.

2 more elements

An electrical connector, comprising:

an insulating body;
a rear terminal, accommodated in the insulating body, wherein the rear terminal has a rear base, at least one rear elastic portion extending upward from the rear base, and a rear contact portion extending backward from the rear elastic portion;
and
a front terminal, accommodated in the insulating body and separately formed from the rear terminal, wherein the front terminal has a front base located in front of the rear base, at least one front elastic portion extending upward from the front base, and a front contact portion extending backward from the front elastic portion and located in front of the rear contact portion, and the front contact portion and the rear contact portion are configured to upward abut a mating component;
wherein the front elastic portion and the rear elastic portion are provided to be at least partially overlapped in a front-rear direction, and the front contact portion does not overlap with the rear elastic portion in a vertical direction.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 16/745,630Filed 17 Jan 2020
Priority: CN 2019 1 01050731 Feb 2019
Published: US 2020/0251843 A16 Aug 2020
Granted: 1 Dec 2020
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification9 codes

H01R 12/7076
Coupling devices: for connection between PCB and component, e.g. display
H01R 13/24
Contacts for co-operating by abutting: resilient; resiliently-mounted
H01R 12/714
Co-operating with the surface of the printed circuit or with a coupling device exclusively provided on the surface of the printed circuit: with…
H01R 13/2442
Resilient; resiliently-mounted: with a single cantilevered beam