Backplane connector with one-piece insulative bases
AssigneeAdvanced Connectek Inc.
InventorsKuo-Ching Lee, Ta-Teh Meng, Jian-Li Guan, Fu-Zhi Gong
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Abstract
A backplane connector has a housing, a first insulative base, a second insulative base, multiple first terminals, multiple second terminals and multiple third terminals. Each of the insulative bases is mounted in the housing and is formed into one-piece. The first terminals are mounted on the first insulative base. The second terminals are mounted on the second insulative base. The third terminals are mounted on the insulative bases. The one-piece insulative bases excellently reduce their tolerances and raise the structurally strength of the backplane connector. Therefore, the production rate of the backplane connector increases.
Claims19
A backplane connector comprising:
- a housing having
- an insertion slot defined in the housing;
- and
- a mounting slot defined in the housing opposite to the insertion slot;
- a first insulative base, being longitudinal, formed into one-piece, mounted in the mounting slot of the housing and having multiple inserting slits defined in the first insulative base;
- a second insulative base, being longitudinal, formed into one-piece, mounted in the mounting slot of the housing and having multiple inserting slits defined in the second insulative base;
- multiple first terminals mounted on the first insulative base;
- multiple second terminals mounted on the second insulative base;
- and
- multiple third terminals mounted respectively in the inserting slits of the first insulative base and mounted respectively in the inserting slits of the second insulative base;
- wherein
- each of the first and second insulative bases further has a top surface, a bottom surface, an inside surface, an outside surface and two ends and further has a hooking portion formed on the outside surface adjacent to the bottom surface of each of the first and second insulative bases;
- the inserting slits of each of the first and second insulative bases are defined in the bottom surface of each of the first and second insulative bases;
- and
- each third terminal has two hooks formed on the third terminal and respectively hooking on the hooking portions and each hook has a hooking notch engaged with one of the hooking portions.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.