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US 11,056,837 B2Granted
Electrical connector equipped with three metal plates joined together
AssigneesFoxconn (Kunshan) Computer Connector Co., Ltd., Foxconn Interconnect Technology Limited
InventorsXiao-Xiang Wu, Yin-Chao Xu, Jian-Kuang Zhu
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Abstract
An electrical connector includes an insulative housing, a plurality of contacts assembled in the housing, opposite metal top and bottom shells attached upon opposite top face and bottom face of the housing, and a metallic shielding plate inserted into the housing and between two rows of contacts. The top shell, the bottom shell and the shielding plate have corresponding ears secured together in an intimately sandwiched manner.
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An electrical connector comprising:
- an insulative housing defining a mating cavity forwardly communicating with an exterior in a front-to-back direction;
- two rows of contacts retained in the housing, each of the contacts including a front contacting section extending into the mating cavity, and a rear connecting section exposed on a rear side of the housing;
- a metallic shielding plate assembled to the housing and located between the two rows of the contacts in a vertical direction perpendicular to the front-to-back direction;
- and opposite metallic top shell and bottom shell discrete from each other and attached upon opposite top wall and bottom wall of the housing;
- wherein the top shell, the bottom shell and the shielding plate are secured to one another around the rear side of the housing in an intimate manner with the shielding plate intimately sandwiched between the top shell and the bottom shell.
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An electrical connector comprising:
- an insulative housing defining a mating cavity forwardly communicating with an exterior in a front-to-back direction;
- two rows of contacts retained in the housing, each of the contacts including a front contacting section extending into the mating cavity, and a rear connecting section exposed on a rear side of the housing;
- a metallic shielding plate assembled to the housing and located between the two rows of the contacts in a vertical direction perpendicular to the front-to-back direction;
- and opposite metallic top shell and bottom shell discrete from each other and attached upon opposite top wall and bottom wall of the housing;
- two rows of wires extending rearward around the rear side of the housing, each of the wires including an inner conductor soldered to the connecting section of the corresponding contact, a metallic braiding surrounding the inner conductor;
- a metallic grounding bar extending along the longitudinal direction and mechanically and electrically connected to the braiding layers of the wires in a same row;
- and one of the top shell and the bottom shell forms a plurality of abutment tabs to mechanically and electrically connect to the grounding bar.
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An electrical connector comprising:
- an insulative housing defining a mating cavity forwardly communicating with an exterior in a front-to-back direction;
- two rows of contacts retained in the housing, each of the contacts including a front contacting section extending into the mating cavity, and a rear connecting section exposed on a rear side of the housing;
- a metallic shielding plate assembled to the housing and located between the two rows of the contacts in a vertical direction perpendicular to the front-to-back direction;
- and opposite metallic top shell and bottom shell discrete from each other and attached upon opposite top wall and bottom wall of the housing;
- wherein the top shell includes a plate covering the top wall of the housing, a pair of holding sections to receive a pair of magnets therein at two opposite longitudinal ends thereof, and a pair of top flat ears located at the two opposite longitudinal ends and behind the pair of holding sections in the front-to-back direction to be securely fixed to the shielding plate.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.