Electrical connector having mating interface configured by composite tongue member
AssigneeHon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
InventorsChang-Hsien Tung, Kuo-Chun Hsu
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Abstract
An electrical connector includes an insulative housing defining a receiving cavity thereof, a tongue member retained to the receiving cavity, and a shell surrounding the housing. The tongue member includes first and second tongue modules interlocked with each other, the first tongue module retains a plurality of first contacts thereof and the second tongue module retains a plurality of second contacts thereof. The first tongue module defines a retaining slot at a front portion thereof and a blocking plate surrounding the retaining slot, the second tongue module defines at least one retaining portion received in the retaining slot and supported by the blocking plate.
Claims20
An electrical connector, comprising:
- an insulative housing and a shell surrounding the housing to define a receiving cavity;
- a tongue member retained to the receiving cavity, and configured by first and second tongue modules interlocked with each other, the first tongue module embedded with a plurality of first contacts thereof and the second tongue module embedded with a plurality of second contacts thereof;
- wherein the first tongue module defines a first main body portion having a first mating wall and a first front wall connecting with the first mating wall, the plurality of first contacts define corresponding first contacting portions exposed upon the first mating wall, the second module defines a second main body portion having a second mating wall and a second front wall connecting with the second mating wall, the plurality of second contacts define corresponding second contacting portions exposed upon the second mating wall;
- wherein the second front wall of the second tongue module is completely behind the first front wall of the first tongue module and abuts against a rear face of the first front wall, and thereby the first front wall functions as a confrontation wall for a mating connecting.
An electrical connector comprising:
- a first main body portion defining a top wall, two sidewalls connecting with the top wall, a receiving room defined by the top wall and the sidewalls commonly, and blocking protrusions each extending downwardly from a bottom portion of the sidewall;
- a second main body portion retained in the receiving room, defining blocking portions forwardly sliding over the blocking protrusions and abutted against by the blocking protrusions;
- and
- contacts at least retained in the second main body portion;
- wherein
- the receiving room further extends forwardly to provide a retaining slot surrounded at least by the top wall and a blocking plate facing to the top wall at a front portion of the first main body portion, and the second main body portion defines at least one retaining portion received in the retaining slot and supported by the blocking plate.
An electrical connector comprising:
- an insulative housing defining a receiving cavity with an opening forwardly communicating with an exterior;
- an upper terminal module associated with embedded upper contacts with corresponding contact sections exposed upon an upper mating face thereon and equipped with an upper block behind the upper mating face;
- a lower terminal module associated with embedded lower contacts with corresponding contact portions exposed upon a lower mating face thereon and equipped with a lower block behind the lower mating face;
- said upper terminal module and said lower terminal module being stacked with each other in a vertical direction via confrontation between the a lower face of the upper terminal module and an upper face of the lower terminal module;
- wherein
- front portions of the stacked upper terminal module and lower terminal module commonly extend through the opening to be exposed in front of the housing and expose the corresponding upper mating face and lower mating face under condition that at least one the upper block and the lower block forwardly abuts against the housing for preventing forward movement of the stacked upper terminal module and lower terminal module from forwardly moving.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.