Method of mounting a connector
AssigneeMolex Incorporated
InventorsScott D. Sommers, Kent E. Regnier, Michael R. Kamarauskas, Emanuel G. Banakis, Galen F. Fromm
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Abstract
A board-mountable connector is provided. The connector includes a shield and an insulative housing with a tongue. Terminals are supported by the housing in two rows and the rows extend from a mating interface to a board mounting interface. The terminals may be mounted to the board via surface mount technology in two rows that are at about 0.4 mm pitch. The two rows of terminals are configured in a signal, signal, ground triangular configuration so as to provide a triangular terminal arrangement that extends from the mating interface to the mounting interface.
Claims6
A method of mounting a connector on a board, comprising:
- providing a connector with a first and second triangular terminal arrangements, each arrangement including a first signal terminal, a second signal terminal and a ground terminal at a mating interface, one of the arrangements including two terminals positioned in a first row of terminals and one of the terminals positioned in a second row of terminals, the first and second row of terminals extending through the connector so that the triangular terminal arrangement is maintained from the mating interface to a mounting interface, the mounting interface including two rows of tails of the terminals, the tails being about 0.2 mm wide;
- positioning the connector on a circuit board;
- and
- reflowing solder so as to attach the two rows of tails to the circuit board via surface mount technology, wherein both of the two rows of tails are attached at a 0.4 mm pitch.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.