Electrical connector with improved ground piece
AssigneeHon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd.
InventorsKuan-Yu Chen, Chong Yi, Jia-Yong He
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Abstract
An electrical connector includes an insulative housing, a plurality of first and second contacts retained in the insulative housing and a metallic ground. Each first contact comprises a first contact portion and a first mounting portion. Each second contact comprises a second contact portion and a second mounting portion. The first and second mounting portions are respectively arranged in first and second rows. The second contacts comprise a grounding contact. The ground piece comprises an elastic contact beam for abutting against the grounding contact so that the surface of the grounding contact is expanded. As a result, cross-talk occurred between the contacts can be decreased.
Claims20
An electrical connector, comprising:
- an insulative housing;
- a plurality of first and second contacts retained in the insulative housing, each first contact comprising a first contact portion and a first mounting portion, each second contact comprising a second contact portion and a second mounting portion, the first and second mounting portions being respectively arranged in first and second rows, the second contacts comprising a grounding contact;
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- a metallic ground piece located in a third row between the first row and the second row, the ground piece being electrically connected to the grounding contact;
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- a spacer mounted to the insulative housing with the ground piece retained therein in condition that tail portions of the second contacts are regulated in the spacer.
A stacked electrical connector, comprising:
- a top tongue plate portion and a bottom tongue plate portion;
- a plurality of top and bottom group of contacts mounted on the top and bottom plate portions, respectively, the top group of contacts comprising first and second mounting portions, the bottom group of contacts comprising third and fourth mounting portions, the top and bottom group of contacts comprising first and second grounding contacts, respectively;
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- a pair of first and second metallic ground pieces, the first metallic ground piece being located between the first and second mounting portions, and the second metallic ground piece being located between the third and fourth mounting portions, and wherein
- the first and second ground pieces are electrically connected to the first and second grounding contacts, respectively;
- and wherein
- the stacked electrical connector comprises a spacer to fix the first and second ground pieces and the tail portions of the top group of contacts are regulated in the spacer.
An electrical connector comprising:
- an insulative housing defining at least one mating port with a mating tongue extending therein;
- a set of first contacts having resilient contacting portions exposed upon a mating face of said mating tongue;
- a set of second contacts having relatively stiff contacting portions exposed upon the same mating face while offset from said resilient contacting portion in a front-to-back direction;
- a grounding plate extending in a transverse direction of said mating port;
- a middle one of said set of second contacts mechanically and electrically connected to the grounding plate;
- further including a spacer in which tails of the set of the first contact and the set of the second contacts are regulated and said grounding date is held.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.