Electrical connector
AssigneeHon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd.
InventorsZiQiang Zhu, Guohua Zhang, Wenke He, Yulong Mao, Bo Liu
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Abstract
An electrical connector (1) includes an insulative housing (10), a plurality of conductive contacts (20) being received in the insulative housing and a metal shield (30) enclosing the housing. The insulative housing includes a base portion (11) and a tongue portion (12) forwardly extending from the base portion. The tongue portion defines a plurality of channels (13) in a bottom surface thereof. The base portion defines a pair of notches (14) adjacent to the channels. The conductive contacts includes four first conductive contacts (21) being received in the channels and dual second conductive contacts (22) being received in the notches.
Claims12
An electrical connector comprising:
- an insulative housing including a base with a tongue portion extending forwardly from an upper portion of said base, a receiving space formed between the tongue portion and a lower portion of said base;
- a plurality of passageways disposed in the tongue portion;
- a plurality of first contacts received in the corresponding passageways, respectively, with contacting portions extending downwardly beyond a bottom face of the tongue portion into the receiving space for mechanically and electrically downwardly engaging corresponding terminals to a complementary connector, and
- at least one second contact located at a lower portion of the base with a contacting section extending forwardly into the receiving space;
- wherein
- said at least one second contact is independent from any of said first contacts disregarding whether the complementary connector is mated with the connector or not, and said contacting section is configured to be deflectable while being efficiently engaged, without any risks of being offset, with a corresponding independent terminal of the complementary connector for independent electrical transmission.
An electrical connector comprising:
- an insulative housing including a base with a tongue portion extending forwardly from an upper portion of said base, a receiving space formed between the tongue and a lower portion of said base;
- a plurality of passageways disposed in the tongue portion;
- a plurality of first contacts received in the corresponding passageways, respectively, with contacting portions extending downwardly beyond a bottom face of the tongue portion into the receiving space for mechanically and electrically downwardly engaging corresponding terminals to a complementary connector;
- and
- at least one second contact located at a lower portion of the base with a contacting section extending forwardly through a notch of the base and into the receiving space;
- wherein
- said housing defines structures to allow both the first contacts and said at least one second contact to be assembled to the housing in a forward direction from a rear portion of the base without interference.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.