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AssigneeFramatome Connectors International
InventorsNadia Otto, Marc Fret, Hubert Booghmans, Werner Panis
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A shielded connector comprises a housing of insulating material accommodating a plurality of contact elements, and a shielding plate comprising a front half and a back half. The front half has a plurality of contact portions and the back half has contact ends for connection to a printed circuit board. The housing is provided with at least one channel at a front end thereof, this at least one channel being open at its back end and closed at its front end for receiving the front end of the shielding plate. The shielding plate is provided with a bend near its front end for cooperation with back end of the channel. The connector is mounted on a printed circuit board and then the shielding plate is mounted on the printed circuit board by first inserting the front end of the lower shielding plate into the at least one channel until the contact ends are at least substantially aligned with the through holes of the printed circuit board and thereafter inserting the contact ends into the through holes of the printed circuit board.
A method for mounting a connector on a printed circuit board, comprising:
A shielded connector and shielding plate, the connector comprising a housing of insulating material accommodating a plurality of contact elements the housing having a front end and a back end, and shielding plate comprising a front half and a back half, the front halt having a plurality of contact portions and the back half having contact ends for connection to a printed circuit board, wherein the housing is provided with at least one channel at a front end thereof, the at least one channel being open at a back end and closed at a front end for receiving a front end of the shielding plate, and further in that the shielding plate is provided with a bend near the front end adapted to cooperate with a back end of the channel, wherein the bend is located such that the contact ends will be aligned with through holes of the printed circuit board when the bend is located at the back end of the channel, the connector further comprising an intermediate portion between the front half and the back half adapted to flatten when a force is exerted on the back half, and a transition portion between the front half and the intermediate portion and between the back half and the intermediate portion, each transition portion including at least one opening adapted to allow each transition portion to deform during flattening of the intermediate portion and allow the contact ends to be inserted into the through holes and the front end of the shielding plate to move further in the at least one channel toward the front end of the channel.
A shielded connector, comprising a housing of insulating material accommodating a plurality of contact elements, the housing having a front end and a back end, wherein the housing is provided with at least one channel at a front end thereof, said at least one channel being open at a back end and of each channel closed at a front end of each channel for receiving a front end of a shielding plate, the shielding plate further comprising a front end and a back end and an intermediate portion therebetween and a transition area between each of the front end and intermediate portion and the back end and intermediate portion, each transition area including an opening adapted to allow each transition area to deform when a force is exerted on the back end of the shielding plate and wherein the intermediate portion is flattened to allow the positioning of the contact elements into through holes of a printed circuit board and allowing the front end of the shielding plate to move towards the front end of the channel and the contact elements to align with the through holes.
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