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US 2003/0224634 A1Published application
Electrical connector with a common ground plate
OwnerWan-Tien Cheninventor
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Abstract
An electrical connector has a body and ground plate mounted on the body. The body has a mounting surface that defines several openings to receive signal terminals. The ground plate is mounted on the mounting surface and electrically contacts with each signal terminal, wherein a single ground pin extending from the ground plate is shared by all signal terminals. Therefore, the total amounts of conductive pins of the electrical connector is reduced, and the complexity of mounting process is able to be simplified when the electrical connector is jointed to a circuit board.
Claims5
An electrical connector comprising:
- a body with a mounting surface that is defined with multiple openings, wherein multiple conductive pins are disposed inside the body and extend out from a bottom surface of the body;
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- a ground plate mounted on the mounting surface of the body and defined with multiple through holes to correspond the multiple openings, wherein multiple signal terminals are respectively retained in the multiple through holes to electrically contact with the ground plate, wherein a ground pin integrally extending from the ground plate is parallel to the multiple signal pins that extend out from the body.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.