Mobile phone connector and the art of assembly of contacts and a housing

Abstract

An electrical connector comprises a plurality of contacts, an insulative housing and a shell. The insulative housing comprises a first receptacle portion and a second receptacle portion respectively defining first and second receiving passageways therethrough. A plurality of positioning apertures is defined in a top wall of the housing in communication with corresponding receiving passageways. The contacts are insert molded into the housing so that the dimension of the pitch distance between neighboring contacts is small, thus decreasing the dimension of the connector. The contacts include signal contacts and DC power contacts respectively received in the first and the second receiving passageways of the first and the second receptacle portions. All contacts are identical, each having a vertical section received in a mating portion of a corresponding receiving passageway and extending upwardly into the corresponding positioning aperture, and a horizontal section received in the receiving passage and having a solder tail exposed out of the housing. The shell encloses the housing and has a locking aperture on a bottom plate thereof under each positioning slot of the housing. The contacts are fixed in the housing through the positioning apertures in manufacturing.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.