Electrical connector
AssigneeHon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd.
InventorsTimothy B. Billman, Eric D. Juntwait
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Abstract
An electrical connector (1) mounted on a daughter backplane circuit board is used to mate with a complementary connector (2) mounted on the primary backplane circuit board. The connector (1) includes a top housing (11) and a bottom housing (12) and inner circuit boards (3) installed therebetween. Rows of paired signal contacts (5) and grounding plates (4) are arranged in an alternating sequence within the bottom housing (12) to engage with the inner circuit boards (3). Two projections (37) extend out of edges of every inner circuit board (3) so that the inner circuit board (3) can be positioned after the projections (37) are inserted into corresponding holes (15, 19) formed respectively in the top and bottom housing (11, 12) when the connector (1) is assembled.
Claims9
An electrical connector comprising:
- a connector housing assembly being seated on a printed circuit board and having a mating face to mate with a complementary connector mounted on another printed circuit board, at least two separable and attachable parts forming the housing assembly;
- a plurality of inner circuit boards being received in the housing assembly and having traces thereon to transmit signals, a fixture mechanism being formed on each inner circuit board;
- wherein
- said fixture mechanism of every inner circuit board is engaged with one of the housing parts along a direction same as the assembling direction of the housing parts when the inner circuit boards are disposed inside the connector housing assembly so that said fixture mechanism functions holding the inner circuit board in position inside the connector housing assembly along a direction perpendicular to the mating face when the connector is mated with the complementary connector, wherein said fixture mechanism of every inner circuit board is two projections extending respectively from one of the top and bottom edges of the inner circuit board.
An electrical connector comprising:
- a connector housing having at least first and second separable housing parts and each housing part including electrical conductors installed therein, the conductors received in the first housing part being separably engaged with the conductors received in the second housing part;
- wherein
- the first housing part and the second housing part are assembled together to define a common mating face so that one kind of the conductors installed in the first and second housing parts is exposed on the mating face to mate with a complementary connector for further signal transmission.
A connector assembly comprising:
- a header connector having a housing with a mating face and a plurality of conductors received therein;
- a receptacle connector having a matable housing adapted to mate with the header connector, a plurality of inner circuit boards being received the matable housing and each inner circuit board having a mating edge used to mate with the conductors of the header connector for signal transmission;
- wherein
- the matable housing has at least two parts and both of the them define commonly a mating face where the matable housing is mated with the header connector.
An electrical connector comprising:
- upper and lower housings stacked together,
- the upper housing defining along a front-to-back direction a plurality of first partitions with slots each formed between every adjacent two first partitions thereof,
- the lower housing defining along the front-to-back direction a plurality of second partitions with grooves each formed between every adjacent two second partitions thereof,
- the slots aligned with the corresponding grooves, respectively, in a vertical direction;
- upper portions and lower portions of a plurality of printed circuit boards received in the corresponding slots and grooves, respectively;
- first projection/hole mechanism being applied to said lower housing and the lower portions of the printed circuit boards to initially have the printed circuit boards assembled to the lower housing in a downward vertical direction and prevent the printed circuit boards from moving in the front-to-back direction relative to the lower housing;
- and
- second projection/hole mechanism applied to said upper housing and the upper portions of the printed circuit boards to successively have the upper housing assembled to the printed circuit boards in the same downward vertical direction and prevent the printed circuit boards from moving in the front-to-back direction relative to the upper housing, when said upper housing is assembled to the lower housing with the printed circuit boards sandwiched therebetween.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.