# US 8,784,117 B2 · Electrical connector with X-type dual spring contacts for lower profile and lattice shielding therewith > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 8,784,117 B2 - Document ID: US8784117B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 13/551,588 - Filed: 2012-07-17 - Published: 2014-01-23 - Granted: 2014-07-22 - Earliest claimed: 2012-07-17 - Assignees: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd. - Applicants: Alex Lon An; Darrell Lynn Wertz - Inventors: Alex Lon An; Darrell Lynn Wertz - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US8784117B2 ## CPC - H01R 12/52: connecting to other rigid printed circuits or like structures - H01R 13/2457: {consisting of at least two resilient arms contacting the same counterpart} - H01R: ELECTRICALLY-CONDUCTIVE CONNECTIONS; STRUCTURAL ASSOCIATIONS OF A PLURALITY OF MUTUALLY-INSULATED ELECTRICAL CONNECTING ELEMENTS; COUPLING DEVICES; CURRENT COLLECTORS ## Abstract An electrical connector for connecting a package and a mother board includes an insulating sheet defining a top surface confronting with the package and a lower surface confronting with the mother board, and a plurality of contacts. The insulating sheet has a plurality of through holes through the top surface and the lower surface thereof and arranged in a matrix. The plurality of contacts is pressed in the corresponding through holes from the top surface of the insulating sheet. Each contact includes a main plate, a pair of first contacting arms from opposite edges of the main plates for contacting with the package and a pair of second contacting arm from another opposite edges of the main plate for contacting with the board. ## Claims ### Claim 1 An electrical connector for connecting a package and a mother board comprising: an insulating sheet defining a top surface confronting with the package and a lower surface confronting with the mother board, the insulating sheet having a plurality of through holes through the top surface and the lower surface thereof and arranged in a matrix; and a plurality of contacts pressed in the corresponding through holes from the top surface of the insulating sheet, each contact comprising a main plate, a pair of first contacting arms from opposite edges of the main plates for contacting with the package and a pair of second contacting arm from another opposite edges of the main plate for contacting with the board; wherein the through holes are of a cross shape and have four corners, each of the corners defines an abrupt slope at an upper portion thereof and a recessed groove below the an abrupt slope, the main plates are guided to straddle over the abrupt slopes and fall in the recessed grooves from moving toward the top surface. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The electrical connector as claimed in claim 1, wherein the contacts are frictionally fitly in the through holes by the second contacting arms. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The electrical connector as claimed in claim 1, wherein each cross shaped through hole include a pair of shifting recesses receiving the pair of first contacting arms and a pair of through recesses through the lower surface receiving the pair of second contacting arms. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The electrical connector as claimed in claim 1, wherein the electrical connector comprises metal poles and shielding lattices, the insulating sheet defines through apertures among every four through holes loading with the contacts to receive the pole, the shielding lattices lay on the top surface and the lower surface and connect with the poles. ### Claim 5 (depends on 4) The electrical connector as claimed in claim 4, wherein the shielding lattices go obliquely across the first and the second contacting arms. ### Claim 6 An electrical connector comprising: an insulative housing defining a plurality of passageways arranged in matrix with rows and columns defining corresponding row and column directions perpendicular to each other, each of said passageways extending through opposite upper and lower surfaces of the housing; a plurality of contacts disposed in the corresponding passageways, respectively; a lattice shielding applied upon at least one of said upper and lower surfaces of the housing and interwoven with the passageways; wherein said lattice shielding is made of intersected strips extending along different oblique directions oblique to both said row direction and said column direction; a plurality of conductive poles respectively located at corresponding nodes of the intersected strips. ### Claim 7 (depends on 6) The electrical connector as claimed in claim 6, wherein said conductive poles are displayed along both said row directions and said column directions. ### Claim 8 (depends on 6) The electrical connector as claimed in claim 6, wherein said different oblique directions include two diagonal directions of a square configuration. ### Claim 9 (depends on 6) The electrical connector as claimed in claim 6, wherein the conductive poles are arranged with every other nodes along both said different oblique directions. ### Claim 10 (depends on 9) The electrical connector as claimed in claim 9, wherein the nodes without the poles therewith are centers of the corresponding passageways. ### Claim 11 (depends on 6) The electrical connector as claimed in claim 6, wherein each of said contacts defines at least one upper contacting section and at least one lower contacting section respectively exposed upon the upper surface and the lower surface of the housing along the row direction and the column direction, respectively. ### Claim 12 (depends on 11) The electrical connector as claimed in claim 11, wherein in some of said contacts, each defines a cross-like configuration in a top view with a horizontal rectangular main plate located at a mid-level of the housing, a pair of upper contacting arms upwardly extending from two opposite edges of the main plate in the row direction, and another pair of lower contacting arms downwardly extending from the other two opposite edges of the main plate in the column direction. ### Claim 13 (depends on 12) The electrical connector as claimed in claim 12, wherein the main plate is essentially located at a center of the corresponding passageway. ### Claim 14 (depends on 13) The electrical connector as claimed in claim 13, wherein each of said passageways defines a cross-like configuration in the top view. ### Claim 15 (depends on 14) The electrical connector as claimed in claim 14, wherein in each of said passageways, the housing defines a pair of upward supporting planes to support an underside of the main plate around the corresponding opposite two edges, and a pair of recessed grooves with four downward supporting plates to limit an upper face of the main plate so as to retain the contact in position in the corresponding passageway. ### Claim 16 (depends on 15) The electrical connector as claimed in claim 15, wherein the adjacent two cross-like passageways in either the row direction or the column direction have ninety degrees orientation difference in the top view. ### Claim 17 (depends on 12) The electrical connector as claimed in claim 12, wherein in remainder of said contacts, each defines a cross-like configuration in a top view with a horizontal rectangular main plate located at a mid-level of the housing, a pair of upper contacting arms upwardly extending from two opposite edges of the main plate in the column direction, and another pair of lower contacting arms downwardly extending from the other two opposite edges of the main plate in the row direction. ### Claim 18 (depends on 17) The electrical connector as claimed in claim 17, wherein said some of the contacts and said remainder of the contacts are alternately with each other in both the row direction and the column direction. ### Claim 19 An electrical connector comprising: an insulative housing defining a plurality of passageways arranged in matrix with rows and columns defining corresponding row and column directions perpendicular to each other, each of said passageways extending through opposite upper and lower surfaces of the housing; a plurality of contacts disposed in the corresponding passageways, respectively; a lattice shielding applied upon at least one of said upper and lower surfaces of the housing and interwoven with the passageways; wherein said lattice shielding is made of intersected strips extending along different oblique directions oblique to both said row direction and said column direction to form a plurality of surrounding units; wherein each of said contacts defines at least one contact arm extending beyond one of said upper and lower surfaces of the housing, and said contact arm is essentially fully surrounded within one corresponding neighboring surrounding unit in a top view. ### Claim 20 (depends on 19) The electrical connector as claimed in claim 19, wherein each of said contacts further includes another contact arm beyond said one of the upper and lower surfaces of the housing and located in another neighboring surrounding unit and opposite said contact arm in either the row direction or the column direction.