Electrical connector with a handling portion with a cover
AssigneeHon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd.
InventorsYun-Song Sun, Chien-Hsun Huang
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Abstract
An electrical connector includes a housing, a plurality of contacts received in the housing, a shielding and a handling portion. The housing includes a mating portion and a connecting portion. The shielding includes a first upper cover and a second down cover respectively assembled on the housing from up to down and from down to up. The upper cover and the down cover respectively includes a pair of extending arm to combine to form a fastening portion located on the two sides of the shielding. The handling portion is fixed on the fastening portion and includes a connecting element, and a cover over mode on the connecting element, a pair of fastening arms inserted into the fastening portion of the shielding. The cover is apart from the housing.
Claims13
An electrical connector, comprising:
- a housing comprising a mating portion and a connecting portion;
- a plurality of contacts received in the housing;
- a shielding comprising a first upper cover and a second down cover respectively assembled on the housing from up to down and from down to up, the upper cover and the down cover respectively comprising a pair of extending arms to combine to form a fastening portion located on the two sides of the shielding;
- and
- a handling portion fixed on the fastening portion and comprising a connecting element, and a cover over molded on the connecting element, a pair of fastening arms inserted into the fastening portion of the shielding;
- wherein
- said cover of the handling portion is apart from the housing, said cover of the handling portion is made from insulation material and over molded on the handling portion, the cover of the handling portion has a cutout facing to the housing and formed on one side thereof.
An electrical connector for mating with a complementary connector, comprising:
- an insulative housing defining front and rear long sides along a longitudinal direction and right and left short side along a transverse direction perpendicular to said longitudinal direction;
- a mating region formed on the front long side;
- a securing region formed around the rear long side;
- and
- an essentially U-shaped handling portion having a connecting element which is pivotally fixed to the securing region between opposite front locking position and rear pulling position and includes opposite side arms essentially extending respectively along said left and right short sides, the connection element further including a elongated bar linked between the opposite arms;
- the handling portion further including an insulative cover piece being discrete from while attached on the elongated bar and having a widened dimension in said transverse direction larger than a cross-sectional dimension of the elongated bar;
- wherein
- said cover piece is dimensioned large enough to provide sufficient holding area for easy manual operation and also small enough not to interfere with the complementary connector when mated with the complementary connector which is essentially located between the elongated bar and the housing in said transverse direction under condition that said handling portion is located at the front locking position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.