Electrical connector assembly having ground member
AssigneeHon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd.
InventorsLeonard K. Espenshade, Kevin E. Walker
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Abstract
An electrical connector assembly (1) includes an insulative main housing (2), a stacked Universal Serial Bus (USB) connector (4) having a shell, a daughter printed circuit board (PCB) (7) carrying a plurality of signal conditioning components (71) and a ground member (5). The main housing defines a cavity (22) for receiving the USB connector. The ground member comprises a body portion (51) and a retention portion (53). The body portion electrically connects with the shell of the USB connector. The retention portion is mounted to the daughter PCB.
Claims13
An electrical connector assembly comprising:
- an insulative main housing comprising a front wall and a rear wall, the main housing defining a cavity extending from the front wall to the rear wall;
- a shielded connector received in the cavity of the main housing and comprising a metallic shell;
- a daughter printed circuit board (PCB) assembled to the main housing and forming a connection pad;
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- a ground member comprising a body portion electrically connecting with the shell of the shielded connector and a retention portion extending from the body portion to electrically connect with the daughter PCB, the retention portion comprising a retention tail, the retention tail electrically connecting the connection pad of the daughter PCB to establish electrical connection between the ground member and the daughter PCB.
A ground system of an electrical connector comprising:
- a metallic shell;
- a daughter PCB extending in a first direction;
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- a ground member comprising a body portion electrically connecting with the metallic shell and a retention portion electrically connecting with the daughter PCB, the body portion extending in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, the retention portion extending in a third direction opposite to the second direction.
A daughter printed circuit board assembly for use with an electrical connector having upper and lower cavities thereof, comprising:
- a vertical daughter printed circuit board;
- a horizontally extending compensation printed circuit board perpendicular to the daughter printed circuit board;
- a plurality of juxtaposed terminals mounted on the compensation printed circuit board;
- a magnetic module mechanically and electrically connected to both the compensation printed circuit board and the daughter printed circuit board, respectively;
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- a grounding member dimensioned similar to the compensation printed circuit board and located under the compensation printed circuit board in a parallel relation.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.