Stacked electrical card connector assembly
AssigneeHon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd.
InventorMing-Lun Kuo
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Abstract
A stacked electrical card connector assembly (1) includes an upper connector (10), a lower connector (20), and a flexible printed circuit (FPC) (30) connecting with both the upper connector (10) and the lower connector (20). The upper connector (10) comprises a metallic upper frame (12) having solder portions (1220). The lower connector (20) has a metallic lower frame (21). The upper frame (12) is stacked on the lower frame (21) with the solder portions (1220) being soldered on a base plate (22) of the lower frame (21).
Claims16
A stacked electrical card connector assembly mounted on a printed circuit board (PCB), comprising:
- an upper connector having a metallic upper frame, the upper frame including a pair of flanges, each flange defining a solder portion thereof, an opening and a plurality of spring arms exposed in the opening;
- a lower connector having an insulative lower header, a metallic lower frame assembled to the lower header, a plurality of signal contacts received in the lower header, and a shield covering the lower header and having a plurality of grounding pins extending from an edge thereof;
- the solder portions of the upper frame being soldered on the lower frame;
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- a transition device having a first contacting and a second contacting portion, the first contacting portion being urged by the spring arms of the upper connector, the second contacting portion being connected with the signal contacts and the grounding pins of the lower connector.
A stacked connector assembly comprising:
- a first card connector and a second card connector stacked with each other, said first card connector defining a plurality of pin type contacts extending along a front-to-back direction for electrically connecting a PCMCIA card accommodated in said first card connector in a front-to-back direction, said second card connector defining a plurality of spring arms deflectable in a vertical direction perpendicular to said front-to-back direction, the spring arms pressing a contacting portion of a transition device for electrically connecting to a SMART CARD accommodated in said second card connector.
An electrical connector assembly comprising:
- a first card connector and a second card connector stacked with each other, said first card connector defining a plurality of pin type contacts for use with a PCMCIA card, said second card connector defining a plurality of spring arms pressing against an FPC for use with a Smart Card wherein said FPC is electrically connected to a printed circuit board on which the connector assembly is mounted.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.