Electrical connector with improved tongue
AssigneeFoxconn Interconnect Technology Limited
InventorsCHUN-MING YU, HAO ZHOU, BING-BO HU, KE-HAO CHEN
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Abstract
A receptacle connector for mating with the plug connector, includes an insulative housing and two rows of terminals. The housing includes a main body and a mating tongue forwardly extending from the main body and forming two opposite mating surfaces. Each of the terminals includes a front mating section and a rear mounting section. The mating tongue forms a plurality of passageways to receive the mating sections of the corresponding terminals therein, respectively. The housing further forms a plurality of holes communicatively behind the some passageways in the vertical direction for increase the impedance of the corresponding terminal on the mating sections, respectively.
Claims20
An electrical connector comprising:
- an insulative housing including a main body and a mating tongue forwardly extending from the main body in a front-to-back direction and defining opposite mating surfaces thereon in a vertical direction perpendicular to said front-to-back direction;
- a plurality of contacts disposed in the housing, each of said contacts defining a front mating section and a rear mounting section, said contacts including grounding contacts, power contacts and differential pairs for signals;
- and
- a plurality of passageways formed in each of the mating surfaces to receive the corresponding contacts;
- the passageways receiving the differential pairs therein, each equipped with a hole communicatively located behind the mating section of the corresponding contact in the vertical direction to raise impedance of the mating section.
The electrical connector comprising:
- a terminal module enclosed within a metallic shield and including:
- a tongue module sandwiched between opposite upper terminal module and lower terminal module in a vertical direction, the tongue module defining a metallic shielding plate embedded within an insulative tongue, the upper terminal module including a plurality of upper contacts insert-molded within an insulative upper body, and the lower terminal module including a plurality of lower contacts insert-molded within an insulative lower body;
- a plurality of ribs each extending along a front-to-back direction perpendicular to said vertical direction, located on opposite mating surfaces of the insulative tongue to form corresponding passageways therebetween in a transverse direction perpendicular to said vertical direction and said front-to-back direction,
- each of said passageways to receive a mating section of a corresponding contact belonging to differential pairs, and
- each of the passageways receiving the corresponding contacts belong to the differential pairs, is equipped with a hole communicatively located behind the mating section of the corresponding contact in the vertical direction.
An electrical connector comprising:
- an insulative mating tongue defining opposite two mating surfaces in a vertical direction;
- a plurality of ribs formed on the mating surface and extending along a front-to-back direction perpendicular to said vertical direction;
- a plurality of passageways alternately formed between the ribs in a transverse direction perpendicular to both said vertical direction and said front-to-back direction;
- a plurality of contacts with corresponding mating sections received within the corresponding passageways, respectively;
- a plurality of holes formed in the mating tongue and communicatively located behind some of said mating sections, respectively, in the vertical direction;
- wherein
- the holes extend rearward beyond the ribs in the front-to-back direction.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.