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US 2006/0134993 A1Published application
Plug connector with mating protection
AssigneeMolex Incorporated
InventorsDaniel Dawiedczyk, Jaime Duran, Jay Neer, Cleaver Brinkerhoff
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Abstract
A plug connector is disclosed that has a body portion and a circuit card extending forwardly of a mating face of the connector. The circuit card is protected in place by a protective flanges that extends forwardly from the body portion above the circuit card to protect it from stubbing and to provide a means for aligning the plug connector with a receptacle connector.
Claims16
A plug connector for connecting wires to a mating connector, comprising:
- a connector housing, the connector housing including a forward face;
- a circuit card, the circuit card including a leading edge with contacts for mating with the mating connector and a trailing edge with contacts for termination to a plurality of wires, said circuit card being disposed in said connector housing such that the circuit card leading edge extends from said connector housing forward face, the circuit card trailing edge being disposed within said connector housing;
- a plurality of wires terminated to contacts of said circuit card trailing edge;
- and,
- said connector housing including a first flange extending from said connector housing forward face and spaced apart from said circuit card.
2 more elements
A connector for engaging a mating connector, comprising:
- a housing with a mating face thereon for mating with the opposing connector;
- a mating blade portion projecting forwardly of the mating face, the mating blade portion having a plurality of conductive contacts supported thereon;
- a flange extending forwardly from said mating face and spaced apart from said circuit card.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.