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US 7,063,568 B2Granted
Low profile electrical connector
AssigneeHon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd.
InventorDavid (Tso-Chin) Ko
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Abstract
An electrical connector (1) includes an insulative housing (10) defining a first and a second mating ports (140, 125) at opposite sides thereof, a number of contacts (20) received in the insulative housing and each having a first contact portion (22) exposed into the first mating port and a second contact portion (25) exposed into the second mating port, and a shield member (30) attached to the insulative housing.
Claims1
An electrical connector assembly comprising:
- an elongated insulative housing defining a mating face with opposite top and bottom faces by two vertical sides thereof, a mating opening being formed in said mating face and defining a mating direction thereof;
- a one-piece metallic shell including spaced opposite top and bottom walls at least partially covering said top and bottom faces, respectively;
- a pair of connection portions located on said mating face by two sides of said mating opening;
- and
- a pair of side plates respectively extending from the corresponding connection portions;
- wherein
- each of said side plates defines a locking structure thereon,
- wherein said shell forms two opposite end portions at two opposite lengthwise ends thereof, said end portions protectively covering the corresponding side plates in a lengthwise direction, respectively;
- wherein a passage is formed between each of said end portions and the corresponding side plate so as to receive therein a guiding post and a moveable latch of a complementary connector;
- wherein said latch defines thereon another locking structure latchably engageable with said locking structure.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.