Electrical connector with improved grounding terminals
AssigneesFoxconn (Kunshan) Computer Connector Co., Ltd., Foxconn Interconnect Technology Limited
InventorsMing-Yue Chen, Ming-Lun Szu
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Abstract
An electrical connector includes: an insulating housing and a metal plate retained in a slot defined on the insulating housing. The metal plate includes plural terminals connecting with each other in a transverse direction, each of the terminals having a shielding part defining an upper face and a lower face and an upper elastic arm and lower elastic arm slantwise extending from a first end to a second end of the shielding part, wherein each of the upper elastic arm and the lower elastic arm defines a free end bending toward each other and slides along an end face of the second end of the shielding part when the upper elastic arm and lower elastic arm are pressed towards each other.
Claims17
An electrical connector comprising:
- an insulating housing;
- plural rows of signal terminals disposed in the insulating housing;
- and
- plural rows of grounding terminals disposed in the insulating housing and between every two adjacent rows of signal terminals, each of the grounding terminals comprising a main part retained in the insulating housing and an upper elastic arm and a lower elastic arm, the upper elastic arm having an upper contacting portion and an upper end folded downward from the upper contacting portion, the lower elastic arm having a lower contacting portion and a lower end folded upwards from the lower contacting portion;
- wherein
- the main part defines a first end, a second end opposite to the first end, an upper face, and a lower face, the second end defines an end face facing an adjacent grounding terminal, the upper elastic arm extends from the upper face at the first end toward the second end, the lower elastic arm extends from the lower face at the first end toward the second end, and the upper end and the lower end touch the end face when the upper and lower elastic arms are pressed toward each other.
An electrical connector comprising:
- an insulating housing;
- and
- a plurality of first terminals disposed in the insulating housing, each first terminal comprising a main part extending in an upright direction and a transverse direction and defining a first end and a second end in the transverse direction, an upper elastic arm slanting from an upper face of the main part from the first end to the second end, the upper elastic arm defining an upper contacting portion and an upper end extending downward from the upper contacting portion;
- wherein the second end defines an end face, the upper end protrudes toward the end face and comes to contact with the end face when the upper elastic arm is pressed downward;
- wherein the plurality of the first terminals are arranged in a row in the transverse direction and connected with each other by a transverse connecting part, and the transverse connecting part extends from the end face of the second end and connects with the first end of an adjacent first terminal.
An electrical connector comprising:
- an insulating housing;
- and
- a metal plate retained in a slot defined on the insulating housing, the metal plate comprising a plurality of first terminals connecting with each other in a transverse direction, each of the first terminals comprising a shielding part defining an upper face and a lower face, and an upper elastic arm and lower elastic arm slantwise extending from a first end to a second end of the shielding part;
- wherein each of the upper elastic arm and the lower elastic arm defines a free end bending toward each other and slides along an end face of the second end of the shielding part when the upper elastic arm and lower elastic arm are pressed towards each other.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.