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US 2014/0154923 A1Published application
Electrical connector and method of manufacture
AssigneeChant Sincere Co., Ltd.
InventorsMing Hui YEN, CHIH HSUAN CHIA
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Abstract
An electrical connector, including a shell, a housing and a plurality of metal terminals, configures a chamber that several ribs allocate the chamber with terminal recesses, a ramped portion being formed at the bottom of chamber, the terminals pass through terminal recesses in which the terminals are assembled amid housing, among the sections of the terminals, a contact section forming a engagement in front of the ramped portion of chamber.
Claims10
A method for manufacturing an electrical connector comprises the steps of:
- (a) providing a plurality of first terminals and a plurality of second terminals and leaving the rest, by stamping one single metal material, which a contact end, a rear portion and a body portion configure the first terminals, and which a body portion configures the second terminals and extends one end horizontally, wherein said plurality of second terminals crosses with said plurality of first terminals in a transverse direction;
- (b) configuring an elastic curve-shape of the contact end, and a neck, a taper and an engagement in sequence in the section between said contact end and said body portion, and configuring both of the terminals being toward the same direction with an up and down arrangement, so as an unfinished metal part be provided;
- (c) placing the unfinished metal part on a hole of a plastic-injecting die reversely, wherein a fender tool and a resisting tool ascend from the bottom, deviating said engagement;
- and a shaping tool descends from the top to keep near to said fender tool;
- (d) ejecting the plastic to form said insulative housing which includes a tongue extended along a back-to-front direction and a base portion located behind said tongue, and which configures a hollow chamber in the center of its body, hereunder the area between said tongue and said base portion, wherein the chamber is equally divided into several independent slots by a plurality of ribs, wherein
- a plurality of first terminals is configured on the insulative housing and passes through the slots, said rear portion is held by the base portion of the insulative housing, said contact end and said body portion are exposed out of the base portion, and locate in the slot, a preserved space is formed by the leant neck and said engagement and under said taper, said engagement extends further into the bottom of slots, wherein
- a plurality of second terminals is configured on the insulative housing, said body portion is held by the base portion and ribs of the insulative housing, one end of second terminal extends out of the base portion, the other end passes through the rib and extends to be disposed above of the tongue, and
- which configures said ramping portions in the bottom of slots that ascends the ramping portion to the base portion, located between the shaping tool and the fender tool;
- (e) replacing tools, descending said fender tool and said resisting tool from the bottom, ascending said shaping tool from the top, and returning the engagement and contacting with the ramping portions once again, so as a semi-product be provided;
- (f) assembling the semi-product with a shell, so the electrical connector is finished thereof.
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An electrical connector, comprising:
- an insulative housing, a plurality of first terminals, a plurality of second terminals and a shell,
- the insulative housing is engaging with the shell and further includes a tongue extended along a back-to-front direction and a base portion located behind the tongue, the insulative housing configures a hollow chamber in the center of its body, hereunder the area between the tongue and the base portion, the chamber is equally divided into several independent slots by a plurality of ribs, which configures ramping portions in the bottom of slots that ascends the ramping portion to the base portion;
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- a plurality of first terminals is configured on the insulative housing and passes through the slots, wherein each first terminal has an elastic curve-shape contact end, a rear portion and a body portion connecting two, the rear portion is held by the base portion of the insulative housing;
- the contact end and the body portion are exposed out of the base portion, and locate in the slot, in the section between the contact end and the body portion, a neck, a taper and an engagement are configured in sequence, a preserved space is formed by the leant neck and engagement and under the taper, the engagement extends further into the bottom of slots and remains contacting with the ramping portions;
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- A plurality of second terminals is configured on the insulative housing and crosses with the plurality of first terminals in a transverse direction, both of the terminals are toward the same direction with an up and down arrangement, a body portion is held by the base portion and ribs of the insulative housing, One end of second terminal extends out of the base portion;
- the other end passes through the rib and extends to be disposed above of the tongue.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.