Electrical connector with different contacts sharing a same soldering leg
AssigneeHon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
InventorsZhen-Sheng Wang, Andrew Cheng
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Abstract
An electrical connector includes an insulative housing defining a tongue plate, a first set of contacts disposed upon the tongue plate, a second set of contacts disposed upon the tongue plate, and an inner PCB retained in the housing. The inner PCB defines at least one input connecting portion, at least one output connecting portion electrically connected with the at least one input connecting portion, and a first soldering leg connecting with the at least one output connecting portion. At least one of the first set of contacts connect with the first soldering leg, and at least one of the second set of contacts connect with the at least one input connecting portion to share the first soldering leg for mounting onto the mother PCB.
Claims20
An electrical connector for mounting onto a mother printed circuit board (PCB), comprising:
- an insulative housing defining a base portion and a tongue plate forwardly extending into a mating cavity from the base member in a mating direction, the tongue plate defining opposite first and second mating faces in a vertical direction perpendicular to said mating direction;
- a first set of contacts retained in the housing and each defining a first contacting section disposed upon the first mating face;
- a second set of contacts retained in the housing and each defining a second contacting section disposed upon the second mating face;
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- an inner PCB retained in the housing and defining at least one input connecting portion, at least one output connecting portion electrically connected with the at least one input connecting portion, and a first soldering leg connecting with the at least one output connecting portion;
- wherein at least one contact of the first set of contacts connects with the first soldering leg, and at least one contact of the second set of contacts connects with the at least one input connecting portion so that the at least one contact of the first set of contacts and the at least one contact of the second set of contacts share the first soldering leg for mounting onto the mother PCB.
An electrical connector for mounting onto a mother printed circuit board (PCB), comprising:
- an insulative housing defining a base portion and a tongue plate forwardly extending into a mating cavity from the base member in a mating direction, the tongue plate defining opposite first and second mating faces in a vertical direction perpendicular to said mating direction;
- an eSATA contact set arranged upon the first mating face and comprising two first pairs of differential pairs and a first grounding contact disposed between the two first pairs of differential pairs;
- a second set of contacts arranged upon the second mating face and comprising two second pairs of differential pairs and a fourth grounding contact disposed between the two second pairs of differential pairs;
- a third set of contacts arranged upon the second mating face to cooperate with the second set of contacts for performing a USB 3.0 transmission;
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- an inner PCB retained in the housing and defining input connecting portions, output connecting portions, and first soldering legs electrically connecting to both the input connecting portions and the output connecting portions;
- wherein the two first pairs of differential pairs and the first grounding contact respectively connect with the corresponding output connecting portions, and the two second pairs of differential pairs and the fourth grounding contact respectively connect with the corresponding input connecting portions, so that the two first pairs of differential pairs and the first grounding contact of the eSATA contact set share the first soldering legs with the two second pairs of differential pairs and the fourth grounding contact of the second set for mounting onto the mother PCB.
A combo electrical connector for mounting to an external printed circuit board, comprising:
- an insulative housing defining a commonly mating cavity with a mating tongue extending therein in a plane defined by a front-to-back direction and a transverse direction perpendicular to said front-to-back direction, said mating tongue defining opposite first and second surfaces thereon;
- a plurality of first contact disposed in the housing with first contacting sections exposed upon a first surface;
- a plurality of second contacts disposed in the housing with second contacting sections exposed upon the second surface;
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- an internal printed circuit board associated with the housing;
- wherein
- an amount of said first contacts and the same amount of said second contacts are electrically and mechanically connected to said internal printed circuit board under condition that a plurality of tails with said same amount are electrical and mechanically connected to the internal printed circuit board for mounting to the external printed circuit board for mutually exclusively transmitting said amount of the first contacts and said amount of the second contacts.
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