US 8,944,829 B2Granted

Connector

AssigneeMolex Incorporated

InventorYi-Tse Ho

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Abstract

A connector includes a housing, a plurality of first terminals, a plurality of second terminals and a terminal positioning seat. The housing has an upright base and a tongue plate. Each first terminal has a first fixed portion, a first extension portion and a first tail portion. Each second terminal has a second fixed portion, a second extension portion and a second tail portion. The first and second extension portions are bent and extend laterally, and are arranged as two rows in a front-rear direction behind an upright portion of the housing. The terminal positioning seat is assembled with the base of the housing, and has a base portion and an assembly portion extending upwardly from the base portion. The assembly portion has a partition plate, and the partition plate is positioned between the first extension portions and the second extension portions.

Claims20

Dependent claims

An electrical connector, comprising:

a housing having a base and a tongue plate, the base having an upright portion, and the upright portion having a front end face and a rear end face opposite to the front end face, the tongue plate vertically extending forwardly from the front end face of the upright portion and having a first plate surface and a second plate surface at opposite two sides;
a plurality of first terminals each having a first fixed portion, a first extension portion and a first tail portion, the first fixed portions being fixed to the housing, being adjacent to the first plate surface and being arranged from top to bottom;
the first extension portion of each first terminal being bent and extending laterally from a rear end of the first fixed portion, and the first tail portion extending from a distal end of the first extension portion;
the first extension portions being arranged at the rear end face of the upright portion, and the first tail portions being arranged side by side along a left-right direction;
a plurality of second terminals each having a second fixed portion, a second extension portion and a second tail portion, the second fixed portions being fixed to the housing, being adjacent to the second plate surface and being arranged from top to bottom;
the second extension portion of each second terminal being bent and extending laterally from a rear end of the second fixed portion, and the second tail portion extending from a distal end of the second extension portion;
the second extension portions being arranged behind the first extension portions, and the second tail portions being arranged side by side along the right-left direction;
and
a terminal positioning seat assembled with the base of the housing and having a base portion and an assembly portion extending upwardly from the base portion, the assembly portion having a partition plate, the partition plate being positioned between the first extension portions and the second extension portions.

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An electrical connector assembly, comprising at least two electrical connectors connected side by side, each electrical connector comprising:

a housing having a base and a tongue plate, the base having an upright portion, and the upright portion having a front end face and a rear end face opposite to the front end face, the tongue plate vertically extending forwardly from the front end face of the upright portion and having a first plate surface and a second plate surface at opposite two sides;
a plurality of first terminals each having a first fixed portion, a first extension portion and a first tail portion, the first fixed portions being fixed to the housing, being adjacent to the first plate surface and being arranged from top to bottom;
the first extension portion of each first terminal being bent and extending laterally from a rear end of the first fixed portion, and the first tail portion extending from a distal end of the first extension portion;
the first extension portions being arranged at the rear end face of the upright portion, and the first tail portions being arranged side by side along a left-right direction;
a plurality of second terminals each having a second fixed portion, a second extension portion and a second tail portion, the second fixed portions being fixed to the housing, being adjacent to the second plate surface and being arranged from top to bottom;
the second extension portion of each second terminal being bent and extending laterally from a rear end of the second fixed portion, and the second tail portion extending from a distal end of the second extension portion;
the second extension portions being arranged behind the first extension portions, and the second tail portions being arranged side by side along the right-left direction;
and
a terminal positioning seat assembled with the base of the housing and having a base portion and an assembly portion extending upwardly from the base portion, the assembly portion having a partition plate, the partition plate being positioned between the first extension portions and the second extension portions;
the terminal positioning seats of the two adjacent electrical connectors being integrally connected together.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 13/868,730Filed 23 Apr 2013
Priority: TW 101207745 U25 Apr 2012
Published: US 2013/0323978 A15 Dec 2013
Granted: 3 Feb 2015
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification6 codes

H01R 13/04
Contact members: pins or blades for co-operation with sockets
H01R 12/00
Structural associations of a plurality of mutually-insulated electrical connecting elements, specially adapted
H01R 12/724
Coupling devices mounted on the edge of the printed circuits: containing contact members forming a right angle
H01R 24/60
Two-part coupling devices, or either of their cooperating parts, characterised by their overall structure: contacts spaced along planar side wall…