Prestressed shielding plates for electrical connectors
AssigneeThe Whitaker Corporation
InventorsLucas Soes, Petrus R. M. van Dijk
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Abstract
Module terminals comprising a column of right angle contacts are assembled to a housing module for receiving post header terminals at one end and inserted into complimentary holes of a printed circuit board on the other end. Interposed between adjacent terminal modules are shielding members that serve to limit crosstalk between adjacent rows of contacts. The shielding members are attached to over-moulded insulative webs of the terminal module and are resiliently biased thereagainst so that they ensure good contact of an integral grounding pin with one of the right angle contacts of the terminal module and also to ensure a flush fit of the grounding shield against the terminal module.
Claims20
An electrical connector assembly comprising an insulating housing and assembled thereto a plurality of terminal modules and electrically conductive shields inserted between adjacent terminal modules, each terminal module having a plurality of contacts including a mating contact portion, a conductor connecting portion and an intermediate portion therebetween, the connector assembly characterized in that the terminal module has an insulative web that encapsulates some or all of the intermediate portion;
- and the electrically conductive shield has a mounting member that is engageable with a complementary mounting member of the terminal module, the shield being prestressed such that when the mounting member and the complementary mounting member are engaged, the shield is held resiliently against the terminal module due to elastic deformation of the shield.
An electrical connector assembly comprising:
- a plurality of adjacently disposed terminal modules, where each module includes
- a plurality of contacts having a mating contact portion, a conductor connecting portion and an intermediate portion therebetween, and
- an insulative web encapsulating at least a portion of the intermediate portion, the insulative web including a complementary mounting member;
- and
- a shield member having a mounting member resiliently extending from a base at a first angle, where the mounting member is received by the complementary mounting member of the web, such that when the shield member is fully seated the base is biased against the web by the resiliency of the mounting member, where the mounting member is now disposed relative the base at a second angle that is different than the first angle.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.