Electrical connector
AssigneeHon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd.
InventorsMing Zhang, Hong-Fang Wang, Qiao-Li Chen
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Abstract
An electrical connector comprises a longitudinal insulating housing defining a plurality of grooves and a plurality of contacts received in the groove. Each contact has a contacting arm, a retaining portion retained into the insulating housing and a soldering portion. The contacts comprises a plurality of signal contacts and grounding contacts, at least one signal contacts defining a signal group and at least one grounding contact defining a grounding group, each signal group and each grounding group are alternately arranged.
Claims19
An electrical connector comprising:
- a longitudinal insulating housing defining a plurality of grooves;
- a plurality of contacts received in the grooves, each contact having a contacting arm, a soldering portion and a retaining portion retained into the insulating housing and linking the contacting arm and the soldering portion, the contacts comprising a plurality of signal contacts and grounding contacts, each signal contact and each grounding contact being alternately arranged.
The electrical connector as described in claim 7, wherein the slots are formed on inner side surfaces of the peripheral wall and are corresponding to the grooves, the retaining portion of the contact is retained in the slot, the contacting arm of contact upwardly extends from the retaining portion to be received in the corresponding groove formed on the mating portion, and the soldering portion horizontally and outwardly extend from the retaining portion.
An electrical connector comprising:
- a longitudinal insulating housing defining a plurality of grooves;
- a plurality of contacts received in the grooves, each contact having a contacting arm, a retaining portion retained into the insulating housing and a soldering portion, the contacts comprising a plurality of signal contacts and grounding contacts, at least two signal contacts defining a signal group and at least one grounding contact defining a grounding group, each signal group and each grounding group being alternately arranged, and a distance between a signal group and a adjacent grounding group being larger than a distance of adjacent signal contacts in a same signal group.
An electrical connector assembly comprising:
- a first electrical connector having a first insulating housing with a mating portion surrounded by a first peripheral wall which includes a pair of opposite first longitudinal side wall sections extending in a lengthwise direction, and a plurality of first contacts received in the first insulating housing, said mating portion extending beyond said pair of longitudinal side wall sections in a vertical direction perpendicular to said lengthwise direction, each of said side wall sections defining at least one notch at a top edge with at least one first protrusion (1105) extending from an outer face of the corresponding first side wall section around the notch in a lateral direction perpendicular to both said longitudinal direction and said vertical direction;
- and
- a second electrical connector having a second insulative housing having a second peripheral wall defining a receiving room for receiving the mating portion of the first connector, said second peripheral wall which includes a pair of opposite second longitudinal side wall sections extending in said longwise direction, and a plurality of second contacts, a step formed on an outer surface of each of said second longitudinal side wall sections around a top edge thereof, at least one second protrusion (212) extending in the lateral direction from said outer surface around said top edge of the corresponding side wall section and beyond the corresponding step in the vertical direction;
- wherein
- when said first connector and said second connector are mated with each other, the step formed on the second side wall section is essentially aligned with the top edge of the corresponding first side wall section in the vertical direction, and said at least one second protrusion extends through the notch in the lateral direction, and abuts against said at least one first protrusion in the vertical direction.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.