Electronic module with improved latch mechanism
AssigneeHon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
InventorJerry Wu
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Abstract
An electronic module (100) for mating with a complementary connector, comprises: a housing defining a recess area and a printed circuit board (3) disposed in the housing. A slider member (61) is assembled to an exterior surface of the housing and defines a pair of curved arm portions (612) formed on a front section thereof and a connecting portion (613) connected with two front ends of the pair of curved arm portions, and each arm portion defines a protrudent portion (6120) formed on a top surface thereof. A gasket (5) is received into the recess area and engaged with the housing. Whereby movement of the slider by a user along a front to rear direction, the pair of curved arm portions are both straightened to make two protrudent portions moved upwardly.
Claims20
An electronic module for mating with a complementary connector, comprising:
- a housing defining a recess area;
- a printed circuit board disposed in the housing;
- a slider member assembled to an exterior surface of the housing and defining a pair of curved arm portions formed on a front section thereof and a connecting portion connected with two front ends of the pair of curved arm portions, each arm portion defining a protrudent portion formed on a top surface thereof;
- a gasket received into the recess area and engaged with the housing;
- whereby movement of the slider by a user along a front to rear direction, the pair of curved arm portions are both straightened to make two protrudent portions moved upwardly.
An electronic module for engaging with a cage of a complementary connector, comprising:
- a housing having a channel formed on an exterior surface thereof and defining a generally U-shaped slot formed on the channel;
- a printed circuit board disposed in the housing;
- a slider member received into the channel, and defining a body portion and a front actuating portion extending forwardly from the body portion, the front actuating portion received into the U-shaped slot, the front actuating section defining two elastic and curved arm portions;
- and
- a gasket surrounding the housing and engaged with the housing;
- whereby when the slider member is pulled, said two curved arm portions are straightened for deflecting a tab of the cage moving upwardly.
An electrical module for use within a cage having a deflectable locking tab thereof, comprising:
- a housing defining a mating port forwardly communicating with an exterior in a front-to-back direction;
- a locking piece formed on an exterior surface of the housing for locking to the deflectable locking tab of the cage;
- a slider member assembled to the housing and back and forth moveable along the front-to-back direction;
- a flexible piece formed on a front portion of the slider member around the locking piece;
- and
- a front end of said flexible piece being fixed to the housing in an immoveable manner while a rear end is fixed to the slider member in a moveable manner;
- wherein
- the flexible piece is ordinarily in an inward relaxed manner for not outwardly deflecting the locking tab of the cage while via rearward movement of the slider member in the front-to-back direction, the flexible piece is converted to an outward forced manner for outwardly deflecting the locking tab of the cage to release locking between the locking piece and the locking tab of the cage.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.