Lower profile cable assembly
AssigneeHon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
InventorsDAVID KO, CHANG-MAO LI
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Abstract
A cable assembly includes an insulative housing, a number of contacts retained in the insulative housing and a metal shell covering the housing to form a receiving space with the tongue portion for receiving an electrical plug. The housing has a base portion and a tongue portion extending forwardly from the base portion. The contacts consist of two pairs of differential signal contacts and a pair of grounding contacts between the two pairs of differential signal contacts. Each contact has a contact portion. All contact portions are arranged in a row on one side of the tongue portion.
Claims20
A cable assembly, comprising:
- an insulative housing having a base portion and a tongue portion extending forwardly from the base portion, a cavity defined in a top side of the tongue portion;
- a plurality of terminals received in the insulative housing, the terminals arranged in a row along a transversal direction and consisting of two differential pairs and two grounding terminals between the two differential pairs, each terminal having a contacting portion extending into the cavity in the tongue portion;
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- a cable having plurality of wires electrically connected to the terminals.
A cable assembly comprising:
- an insulative housing defining a base portion and a tongue portion extending forwardly therefrom, a mating port formed on around the tongue portion;
- a plurality of terminal slots extending forwardly in both said base portion and said tongue portion;
- a plurality of terminals forwardly inserted into the corresponding terminal slots, respectively, each of said terminals defining an upper horizontal section within the corresponding terminal slot and a lower horizontal section exposed outside of the corresponding terminal slot;
- an insulative positioning member assembled to the housing in a direction and defining an inner arm extending into the corresponding terminal slots to abut against the upper horizontal sections, and an outer arm abutting against the lower horizontal sections.
An electrical cable connector comprising:
- an insulative housing defining a base portion and a tongue portion extending forwardly therefrom, said tongue portion defines a step structure around a middle region in a front-to-back direction so as to upper platform and a lower platform thereof with a mating cavity formed above the lower platform;
- a metallic shell enclosing said housing and intimately shielding the upper platform while spaced from the lower platform with said mating cavity;
- a plurality of terminal slots extending in both the base portion and the tongue portion;
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- a plurality of terminals disposed in the corresponding terminal slots, respectively, each of said terminals defining a resilient contacting section located on a front portion thereof and extending into the mating cavity in a vertical direction perpendicular to said front-to-back direction;
- wherein
- said mating cavity defining a first transverse dimension around a front opening forwardly communicating with an exterior, and a second transverse dimension around the step structure, said second transverse dimension being smaller than said first transverse dimension.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.