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US 8,052,454 B2Granted
Electrical connector with improved feature for securing solder ball thereon
AssigneeHon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd.
InventorIgor Polnyi
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Abstract
An electrical connector includes an insulative housing with a number of passageways, a number of electrical contacts received in the passageways and a number of solder balls disposed on the electrical contacts respectively. The electrical contact or together with the insulative housing form a retention feature for pre-setting the solder balls thereon.
Claims15
An electrical connector comprising:
- an insulative housing with a plurality of passageways extending therethrough;
- and
- a plurality of electrical contacts retained in the passageways and each comprising a plate portion interfering with the insulative housing, a pair of upper arms extending upwardly from the plate portion and a pair of lower arms extending downwardly from the plate portion;
- wherein
- the upper and lower arms are twisted so as to make free ends thereof run out of a vertical plane defined by the plate portion;
- and wherein the pair of upper arms is twisted to opposite directions with respect to each other and the pair of lower arms is twisted to a same direction with respect to each other.
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An electrical connector comprising:
- an insulative housing with a plurality of passageways extending therethrough;
- and
- a plurality of electrical contacts retained in the passageways and each comprising a plate portion interfering with the insulative housing and defining a vertical plane, a mating portion extending upwardly from the plate portion and a pair of lower arms extending downwardly from the plate portion and twisted from said vertical plane;
- wherein
- each of the lower arms has an outer edge and an inner edge and the outer edge and inner edge of the each lower arm are located at opposite sides of the vertical plane.
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An electrical connector comprising:
- an insulative housing with a plurality of passageways extending therethrough;
- and
- a plurality of electrical contacts retained in the passageways and each comprising a plate portion interfering with the insulative housing, a pair of upper arms extending upwardly from the plate portion and a pair of lower arms extending downwardly from the plate portion;
- wherein
- each of the upper and lower arms are twisted along a corresponding extending axis so as to make free end portion thereof run out of a vertical plane defined by the plate portion and terminate at another vertical plane.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.