Electrical connector with an improved ground plane
AssigneesFoxconn (Kunshan) Computer Connector Co., Ltd., Foxconn Interconnect Technology Limited
InventorSHUO-HSIU HSU
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Abstract
An electrical connector includes: an insulating housing having an upper face and a lower face; a ground plane insert-molded in the insulating housing and substantially parallel to the upper and lower face; plural signal terminals; plural upper ground terminals; and plural lower ground terminals; wherein the insulating housing has plural upper passages opening upwards through the upper face and plural lower passages opening downwards through the lower face, the upper terminals are inserted in the upper passages from the upper face and connected with the ground plane, and the lower ground terminals are inserted in the lower passages from the lower face and connected with the ground plane.
Claims18
An electrical connector comprising:
- an insulating housing having an upper face and a lower face;
- a ground plane insert-molded in the insulating housing and substantially parallel to the upper face;
- a plurality of signal terminals;
- a plurality of upper ground terminals;
- and
- a plurality of lower ground terminals;
- wherein the insulating housing has a plurality of upper passages opening upwards through the upper face and a plurality of lower passages opening downwards through the lower face, the upper terminals are inserted in the upper passages from the upper face and connected with the ground plane, and the lower ground terminals are inserted in the lower passages from the lower face and connected with the ground plane.
An electrical connector comprising:
- an insulating housing having an upper face and a lower face;
- a ground plane located in the insulating housing and substantially parallel to the upper face;
- two signal terminals defining a pair of differential signal terminals;
- a plurality of upper ground terminals;
- and
- a plurality of lower ground terminals;
- wherein the upper grounding terminals are connected with the ground plane and the lower terminals are connected with the ground plane.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.