Electrical connector having improved connecting module
AssigneeHon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd.
InventorHong-Bo Zhang
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Abstract
A modular jack assembly (100) for being mounted to a mother board includes an insulative element (10) and an electrical unit (20) mounted to the insulative element. The electrical unit has a housing (21), a terminal module (23) assembled to the housing, a daughter board (27) attached to a side portion of the housing, a LED (Light Emitting Diode) (271) disposed on the daughter board and a connecting module (25) mounted bellow the housing. The connecting module has a base (251) and a mating portion (259) extending from the base, a number of pins (250) assembled to the base, and a number of contacts (257) located to the mating portion and mounted to the mother board. The contacts electrically connect with the LED by electrically connecting to the pins.
Claims15
A modular jack assembly mounted to a mother board, comprising:
- an insulative element;
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- an electrical unit mounted to the insulative element and comprising:
- a housing having a front wall, a top wall and a bottom wall;
- a terminal module assembled to the front wall of the housing and having a plurality of terminals mounted thereto;
- at least one daughter board attached to a side portion of the housing;
- a LED (Light Emitting Diode) disposed on the daughter board;
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- a connecting module mounted to the bottom wall and having a base and a mating portion extending from the base and exposed from the bottom wall of the housing, a plurality of pins assembled to the base and extending through the daughter board for connecting the daughter board to the mother board, and a plurality of contacts located to the mating portion, the contacts are mounted to the mother board for electrically contacting with the pins by a plurality of conductive traces of the mother board formed between the contacts and the pins for electrically connecting the contacts to the LED by a plurality of conductive traces of the daughter board created between the pins and the LED.
A modular jack assembly comprising:
- a vertical bracket defining a vertical plate with a top wall, a front wall and a rear wall respectively located at corresponding top edge, front edge and bottom edge thereof, in a perpendicular manner with regard to the vertical plate, respectively;
- the front wall defining a cutout in alignment with a notch of the vertical plate around the front edge thereof to receive a pair of terminal modules therein;
- a pair of daughter boards seated upon corresponding two opposite edges of the top wall and the bottom wall, respectively;
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- a pair of LEDs mounted upon the corresponding daughter boards, respectively;
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- a connecting module attached to the bottom wall and including a plurality of contacts mounted to a bottom edge region of the corresponding daughter board and electrically connected to the corresponding LED via traces on the corresponding daughter board.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.