Electrical connector having a rear sealing member formed in a rear chamber partially occupied by a rib of an insulative housing
AssigneesFoxconn (Kunshan) Computer Connector Co., Ltd., Foxconn Interconnect Technology Limited
InventorsMin-Han Lin, Zhi-Feng Wang
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Abstract
An electrical connector includes: an insulative housing having a rear base and a front tongue; plural contacts extending rearward through the base and exposing to the tongue; an outer cover enclosing the insulative housing to define a rear chamber therebetween; and a sealing member formed in the chamber to seal an interface between the base and the outer cover and an interface between the base and the contacts, wherein the base has a rear face and a rib protruding rearward from the rear face into the rear chamber.
Claims3
An electrical connector comprising:
- an insulative housing having a rear base and a front tongue;
- a plurality of contacts extending rearward through the base and exposing to the tongue;
- an outer cover enclosing the insulative housing to define a rear chamber therebetween;
- and a sealing member formed in the chamber to seal an interface between the base and the outer cover and an interface between the base and the contacts;
- wherein the base has a rear face and a rib protruding rearward from the rear face into the rear chamber;
- wherein each of the plurality of contacts has a tail with an embedded portion and a soldering portion, the embedded portions dividing the chamber into an upper region and a lower region larger in area than the upper region, and the rib is disposed in the lower region;
- wherein the embedded portions of the plurality of contacts span a transverse extent less than a transverse extent of the rib.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.