Electrical connector with contact modules and method for making the same

A method for making an electrical connector, comprising the steps of:

• providing an insulative housing;
• providing a plurality of electrical contacts each comprising a first connect portion and a second connect portion;
• arranging the first connect portions of the electrical contacts in a plurality of rows,
• insert molding a plurality of first inserts to each row of the first connect portions and fanning a plurality of sub-contact modules;
• arranging the second connect portions of two sub-contact modules in one row;
• insert mokling a second insert to each row of the second connect portions to from a contact module;
• and
• assembling the contact module to the insulative housing.

An electrical connector comprising:

• an insulative honing defining a mating port;
• a plurality of contacts disposed in the housing, each of the said contacts including a mating section extending forwardly into the mating port in a first direction, and a fixed section extending rearwardly in a second direction oblique to said first direction, with a soldering tail at an end for mounting to a printed circuit board;
• wherein
• the fixed sections of said contacts define a first deflection line, at middle portions therepf so as to deflect laterally a rear region of the fixed sections in an oblique direction with regard to a front region of the fixed sections, and a second deflection line at a joined end with the soldering tails to deflect outwardly the solder tails away from the rear region of the fixed sections, the second deflection line being perpendicular to both the rear region of the fixed sections and the solder tails while being oblique to the first deflection line.

An electrical connector for mounting to a printed circuit hoard, comprising:

• a housing defining a mating face with a mating port therein;
• a plurality of contacts disposed in the housing and arranged in at least one row along a row direction, each of said contacts having a front mating portion extending in the mating port along .a front-to-back direction further perpendicular to said front-to-back direction, a rear portion being essentially deflected relative to the front mating portion in the row direction and extending essentially in an oblique direction oblique to both said front-to-back direction and said row direction, and a mounting tail at a rear end of the rear portion for mounting to a printed circuit board, lengths of said contacts being reduced with one another along said row direction so as to have said mounting tails arranged in a plane oblique to said front-to-back direction;
• wherein
• said connector defines a mounting face for mourning to said printed circuit board, and said rear portions of the contacts are essentially perpendicular to said mounting face under a condition that the mating face is essentially oblique to the mounting face rather than parallel thereto.