Electrical connector having an insulative outer cover and a bracket insert-molded with the outer cover
AssigneeFoxconn Interconnect Technology Limited
InventorsJUN ZHAO, TAO YAO, CAI-YUN ZHANG
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Abstract
An electrical connector includes: a contact module including an insulative housing and an upper and lower rows of contacts, the insulative housing having a base and a tongue; a shielding shell enclosing the contact module and having a pair of soldering legs; an insulative outer cover enclosing the shielding shell; and a pair of brackets insert-molded with the outer cover; wherein each of the pair of brackets is locked to the insulative housing to prevent a corresponding soldering leg from moving outwardly.
Claims19
An electrical connector comprising:
- a contact module including an insulative housing and an upper and lower rows of contacts, the insulative housing having a base and a tongue;
- a shielding shell enclosing the contact module and having a pair of soldering legs;
- an insulative outer cover enclosing the shielding shell;
- and
- a pair of brackets insert-molded with the outer cover;
- wherein
- each of the pair of brackets is locked to the insulative housing to prevent a corresponding soldering leg from moving outwardly.
An electrical connector comprising:
- a contact module including an insulative housing and an upper and lower rows of contacts embedded within the insulative housing, the insulative housing having a base and a tongue forwardly extending from the base along a front-to-back direction;
- a metallic shielding shell enclosing the contact module and having a pair of soldering legs;
- an insulative outer cover enclosing the shielding shell;
- and
- a pair of metallic brackets insert-molded with the insulative outer cover;
- wherein
- the insulative outer cover forms an inner step structure and the housing forms a corresponding ridge to compliantly abut against the step structure so as to prevent forward contamination of a sealing member which is applied upon a rear side of the contact module and disposed in the insulative outer cover.
An electrical connector comprising:
- a contact module including an insulative housing and an upper and lower rows of contacts embedded within the insulative housing, the insulative housing having a base and a tongue forwardly extending from the base along a front-to-back direction;
- a metallic shielding shell enclosing the contact module and having a pair of soldering legs;
- an insulative outer cover enclosing the shielding shell;
- and
- a pair of metallic brackets insert-molded with the insulative outer cover;
- wherein
- the contact module rearwardly extends beyond a rear end of the insulative outer cover where a sealing member is applied to cover a rearward face of the contact module.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.