Electrical connector having similarly shaped contacts inserted in different directions
AssigneeHon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
InventorDE-JIN CHEN
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Abstract
An electrical connector is mated with a counter connector in an inserting direction. The electrical connector includes an insulative housing and two rows of contacts inserted into the insulative housing in two opposite directions parallel to the inserting direction. The insulative housing defines two rows of receiving passageways arranged in a height direction perpendicular to the inserting direction. Each contact received in the receiving passageway defines a base portion, a pair of retaining portions extending from the base portion, a pair of elastic arms extending from the pair of retaining portions and a soldering portion extending from the base portion. All the contacts have a same shape expect lengths of the soldering portions.
Claims18
An electrical connector mated with a counter connector in an inserting direction, comprising:
- an insulative housing defining two rows of receiving passageways arranged in a height direction perpendicular to the inserting direction;
- two rows of contacts inserted into the receiving passageways in two opposite directions parallel to the inserting direction, each contact defining a base portion, a pair of retaining portions extending from the base portion, a pair of elastic arms extending from the pair of retaining portions and a soldering portion extending from the base portion;
- wherein all the contacts have a same shape expect lengths of the soldering portions.
An electrical connector comprising:
- an insulative housing defining a front face for mating with a counter connector and a rear face opposite to the front face, a plurality of receiving passageways arranged in two rows running through the front face and the rear face;
- two rows of contacts inserted in the receiving passageways, each contact defining a base portion, a pair of retaining portion forming a first open therebetween at one end thereof, a pair of elastic arms slant to each other to form a second open at opposite end thereof and a soldering portion extending from said one end thereof;
- wherein one row of said two rows of contacts are disposed in condition that the soldering portions are along the front face and the first opens are in the vicinity of the front face and the second opens are face to the rear face while the other row of said two rows of contacts are disposed in condition that the soldering portions are along the rear face and the first open are near to the rear face and the second opens are face to the front face.
An electrical connector for mounting to a printed circuit board and for mating with a complementary connector having protruding terminals thereof, comprising:
- an insulative housing defining upper and lower rows of passageways arranged in a transverse direction and each extending therethrough in a front-to-back direction, perpendicular to said transverse direction, between opposite front and rear faces of the housing wherein through the front face the protruding terminals of the complementary connector are allowed to extend into the corresponding passageways;
- a plurality of upper row contacts and a plurality of lower row contacts disposed in the corresponding upper and lower rows of the passageways, respectively, each of said upper row contacts including an upper horizontal section securely received in the corresponding passageway in the upper row and an upper mounting section extending from the upper horizontal section and further downwardly and exposed around the rear face,
- each of said lower row contacts including an lower horizontal section securely received in the corresponding passageway in the lower row and a lower mounting section extending from the lower horizontal section and further downwardly and exposed around the front face, wherein
- the upper horizontal sections and the lower horizontal sections are essentially dimension and configured to be similar to each other but arranged in an mirror image with each other, while the upper mounting sections are longer than the lower mounting sections in a vertical direction perpendicular to said front-to-back direction and said transverse direction.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.