Electrical connector featured usb/esata interfaces
AssigneeHon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
InventorsCHIH-NAN LIN, HUNG-CHI YU, KUO-CHUN HSU, JUI-KUANG CHUNG
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Abstract
An electrical connector includes a housing and a set of first terminals for eSATA and a set of second terminals for USB. The housing defines a mating cavity with a front opening and a mating tongue in the mating cavity, the mating tongue defines a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface. Each of the first terminals includes a first contacting section disposed on the first mating face, a second contacting section bending from the first contacting section to be in the second mating face and a leg portion. Each of the second contacts includes a contacting section disposed on the second mating face and a leg portion.
Claims10
An electrical connector, comprising:
- a housing defining a mating cavity with a front opening and a mating tongue in the mating cavity, the mating tongue defining a first surface and seconds surface opposite to the first face;
- a set of first terminals for eSATA signal transmission, each of the first terminals defining a first contacting section disposed on the first mating face, a second contacting section bending from the first contacting section to be in the second mating face and a leg portion;
- and
- a set of second terminals for USB signal transmission, each of the second contacts defining a contacting section disposed on the second mating face and a leg portion;
An electrical connector for use with both first plug and second plug, comprising:
- an insulative housing defining a base with a mating tongue extending forwardly therefrom, said mating tongue defining opposite first and second surfaces thereon;
- a plurality of first contacts disposed in the housing with first side contacting sections on the first surface and second side contacting sections on the second surface;
- a plurality of second contacts disposed in the housing with contacting portions on the second surface behind the second contacting section;
- wherein
- the housing defines a mating port enclosing said mating tongue with sufficient dimensions and proper configurations thereof in a vertical direction for allowing not only the second plug to be inserted into the mating port in one orientation for electrically and mechanically connecting to the corresponding contacting portions, but also the first plug to be inserted into the mating port with two opposite orientations for respectively electrically and mechanically connecting to the corresponding first side contacting sections and second side contacting sections.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.