Electrical connector with improved fastening device
AssigneeHon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd.
InventorsLi-Bin Wang, Chin-Pao Kuo
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Abstract
An electrical connector includes a housing located in the front of the electrical connector, a plurality of contacts received in the housing, a plurality of cables connected to the contacts, and a cover assembled on the housing. The housing further includes a base portion, a mating portion frontward extending from the base portion and defining a mating direction, and a fastening portion rearward extending from the base portion. The fastening portion includes a bottom surface defining an inclined plane, and an angle is formed between the horizontal plane and the inclined plane.
Claims20
An electrical connector, comprising:
- a housing located in a front of the electrical connector;
- a plurality of contacts received in the housing;
- a plurality of wires of a cable connected to the contacts;
- and
- a cover assembled to the housing;
- wherein
- the housing further comprises a base portion, a mating portion frontward extending from the base portion and defining a mating direction, and a fastening portion rearward extending from the base portion, the fastening portion comprises a bottom surface defining an inclined plane via which an angle is formed with regard to a horizontal plane.
An electrical cable connector assembly comprising:
- an insulative housing including a forwardly extending mating portion in a mating direction;
- a plurality of passageways extending from a rear face of the housing into the mating portion in the mating direction;
- a plurality of contacts disposed in the corresponding passageways, respectively, each of said contacts defining a front contacting section exposed in the mating portion, and a rear soldering section extending away from the corresponding passageway in a vertical direction perpendicular to said mating direction and located behind and essentially parallel the rear face;
- a cable including a plurality of wires mechanically and electrically connected to the contacting sections of the corresponding contacts, respectively;
- a first spacer defining a plurality of first groove structures formed behind the rear face and extending in the vertical direction to respectively receive the soldering sections of the corresponding contacts therein;
- a second spacer closely arranged beside the first spacer and defining a plurality of second groove structures formed behind the rear face and extending in the vertical direction to respectively receive the wires therein.
An electrical cable connector assembly comprising:
- an insulative housing defining a forwardly extending mating portion in a mating direction, a base located behind the mating portion and a fastening portion unitarily extend from the base portion and essentially located around an end of the base in a lengthwise direction perpendicular to said mating direction;
- at least a portion of said fastening portion defining a segment with an oblique bottom surface which is offset, with a tiny angle, from an imaginary horizontal plane defined along said lengthwise direction;
- and
- a fastening hole extending through said segment in a vertical direction perpendicular to said imaginary plane while being oblique to said oblique bottom surface;
- wherein
- said fastening hole forms an elliptic configuration at the oblique bottom surface.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.