Electrical connector
AssigneesFoxconn (Kunshan) Computer Connector Co., Ltd., Foxconn Interconnect Technology Limited
InventorsDe-Ming Xu, Xiao-Bo Du, Guo-Hua Zhang, Zi-Qiang Zhu
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Abstract
An electrical connector includes an insulative housing and a plurality of contacts retained thereto. Each contact includes a retaining section, a contacting section in front of the retaining section, and a mounting section behind the retaining section. A plurality of independent glue reservoirs are formed on a rear side of the housing via crossing partitions. A tiny passage is formed in an exterior face of the partition to communicate the neighboring glue reservoirs so as to assure the even/same height of the hardened glue blocks in respective glue reservoirs.
Claims8
An electrical connector comprising:
- an insulative housing including in a front-to-back direction a base, a pocket located in front of the base with a receiving cavity therein, and a receive space behind the base;
- a plurality of passageways formed in the base and arranged with one another along a transverse direction, each passageway extending in the front-to-back direction;
- a plurality of contacts assembled within the base, each contact including a retaining section retained in the base, a contacting section forwardly extending from the retaining section into the receiving cavity, and a mounting section located behind the retaining section and exposed outside of the housing with therebetween a connecting section located in the receiving space;
- a plurality of partitions forms on a rear face of the base to form a plurality of glue rooms behind the corresponding passageways;
- a plurality of tiny passages each formed in an exterior face of the partition shared by two neighboring glue rooms;
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- by having the rear face of the base upwardly exposed to an exterior, fluid type glue flows into the corresponding glue rooms and is distributed evenly by the passages to have the hardened glue have the same thickness attached upon the connecting sections of the contacts in the different glue rooms.
A method of making an electrical waterproof connector, comprising steps of:
- providing an insulative housing with a base having opposite front and rear faces thereon and a plurality of passageways extending therethrough in a front-to-back direction wherein each passageway forms a recess around the front face and a plurality of partitions are formed on the rear face to form the corresponding glue rooms wherein each partition forms a tiny passage in an exterior face toward an exterior;
- providing a plurality of straight type contacts each with a step structure thereon;
- rearwardly assembling the contacts into the corresponding passageways to have the step received within the corresponding recess;
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- rotating the housing to have the rear face of the base face upward;
- applying fluid type glue into the corresponding glue rooms in an even manner via assistance of the corresponding passages;
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- rotating the housing back to a normal state wherein the passageways extend in the front-to-back direction.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.