Electrical connector assembly and method of making same
AssigneesFoxconn (Kunshan) Computer Connector Co., Ltd., Foxconn Interconnect Technology Limited
InventorsCHUN-HSIUNG HSU, YI-MIN HSU
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Abstract
An electrical connector assembly includes: an insulative housing forming a front mating slot and a rear receiving space; a contact module received in the insulative housing and including an upper part and a lower part stacked with each other, each of the upper part and the lower part including a differential pair contact module having an insulator and a plurality of differential pair contact fixed in the insulator, each of the differential pair contact having a mating portion and a tail portion opposite to the mating portion; and a sideband contact module comprising sideband contacts, wherein the differential pair contacts and the sideband contacts are fixed to the insulator in different ways.
Claims20
An electrical connector assembly comprising:
- an insulative housing forming a front mating slot and a rear receiving space;
- a contact module received in the insulative housing and including an upper part and a lower part stacked with each other, each of the upper part and the lower part comprising a differential pair contact module having an insulator and a plurality of differential pair contact fixed in the insulator, each of the differential pair contact having a mating portion and a tail portion opposite to the mating portion;
- and
- a sideband contact module comprising sideband contacts;
- wherein
- the differential pair contacts and the sideband contacts are fixed to the insulator in different ways.
A method of making an electrical connector assembly, comprising the steps of:
- providing an insulative housing having a front mating slot and a rear receiving space;
- providing differential pair contacts;
- molding an insulator with the differential pair contacts to form a differential pair contact module;
- providing a sideband contact and assembling the sideband contact in the insulator to form an upper part;
- providing a lower part corresponding to the upper part;
- stacking the upper part and the lower part in a vertical direction to form a contact module;
- and
- assembling the contact module into the insulative housing to form the electrical connector assembly.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.