Cable connector having improved wire spacer
AssigneeFoxconn Interconnect Technology Limited
InventorsJERRY WU, JUN CHEN, FAN-BO MENG
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Abstract
A method associated with the related structures to prepare cable wires of a cable connector, comprising the steps of: extending a first type and a second type of cable wires through a wire spacer having a notch; securing the first and second types of wires to the spacer; bending the extended cable wires of the first type in the spacer notch; operating the extended cable wires of the second type; returning the extended cable wires of the first type; and operating the extended cable wires of both the first type and the second type.
Claims20
A method of preparing cable wires of a cable connector, comprising the steps of:
- extending a first type and a second type of cable wires through a wire spacer having a notch;
- securing the first and second types of wires to the spacer;
- bending the extended cable wires of the first type in the spacer notch;
- operating the extended cable wires of the second type;
- returning the extended cable wires of the first type;
- and
- operating the extended cable wires of both the first type and the second type.
A cable connector assembly comprising:
- an insulative housing defining a front mating port forwardly communicating with an exterior along a front-to-back direction;
- a plurality of contacts disposed in the housing with contacting sections exposed in the mating port and tail sections exposed around a rear side of the housing;
- a cable located behind the housing in said front-to-back direction, and including a plurality of first wires and a plurality of second wires different from each other while being commonly enclosed within an outer jacket of the cable, wherein front sections of said first wires and said second wires are exposed outside of the jacket;
- a wire organizer located between the housing and the jacket of the cable in said front-to-back direction and forming a plurality of through holes and a plurality of positioning grooves essentially side by side arranged along a transverse direction perpendicular to said front-to-back direction;
- wherein
- both said through holes and said positioning grooves are forwardly exposed to an exterior in the front-to-back direction while said positioning grooves are further exposed to the exterior in a vertical direction perpendicular to both said front-to-back direction and said transverse direction;
- wherein
- said through holes receive the corresponding first wires, respectively, and said positioning grooves receive the corresponding second wires, respectively.
A cable connector assembly comprising:
- an insulative housing defining a front mating port forwardly communicating with an exterior along a front-to-back direction;
- a plurality of contacts disposed in the housing with contacting sections exposed in the mating port and tail sections exposed around a rear side of the housing;
- a cable located behind the housing in said front-to-back direction, and including a plurality of first wires and a plurality of second wires different from each other while being commonly enclosed within an outer jacket of the cable, wherein front sections of said first wires and said second wires are exposed outside of the jacket;
- a wire organizer located between the housing and the jacket of the cable in said front-to-back direction and forming a plurality of first through holes and a plurality of second through holes essentially side by side arranged along a transverse direction perpendicular to said front-to-back direction;
- wherein
- both said first through holes and said second through holes are forwardly exposed to an exterior in the front-to-back direction;
- wherein
- front ends of the first through holes are located in front of said second through holes in the front-to-back direction;
- wherein
- said through holes receive the corresponding first wires, respectively, and said positioning grooves receive the corresponding second wires, respectively.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.