Receptacle connector connected to a printed circuit board
AssigneeHon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
InventorsJing-Jie Guo, Wen-Zhang Lin
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Abstract
A receptacle connector (100) includes an insulative housing (1), a number of contacts (2) retained in the insulative housing, a metal shield (3) covering the insulative housing, a metal plate (4) assembled to the metal shield along a vertical direction perpendicular to the mating direction, and an insulative cover (5) fully molded over the metal shield and partly molded over the metal plate. The metal plate defines a pair of closed slits (412) behind a rear face of the insulative housing. The insulative cover terminates at the closed slits in a mating direction along which a mating plug connector is inserted.
Claims18
A receptacle connector, comprising:
- an insulative housing;
- a plurality of contacts retained in the insulative housing;
- a metal shield covering the insulative housing;
- a metal plate assembled to the metal shield along a vertical direction perpendicular to the mating direction, the metal plate comprising a main portion and a pair of board-locking portions extending laterally and rearwardly from the main portion for being soldered with a printed circuit board, the metal plate defining a pair of closed slits behind a rear face of the insulative housing;
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- an insulative cover fully molded over the metal shield and partly molded over the metal plate, terminating at the closed slits in a mating direction along which a mating plug connector is inserted.
A receptacle connector assembly comprising:
- an insulative housing defining a mating tongue;
- a plurality of contacts disposed in the housing via an insert molding process;
- a metal shield enclosing the housing to form a mating port in which said mating tongue is exposed;
- a metal plate having a top plate preassembled to a top wall of the metal shield and a pair of board-locking portions respectively located on two opposite sides of the top plate for mounting to a printed circuit board;
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- an outer insulator enclosing said metal shield and said metal plate while exposing the board-locking portions by two lateral sides in a transverse direction;
- wherein said metal plate extends rearwardly beyond a rear face of the outer insulator with a recess to upwardly expose tails of the contacts which extend rearwardly beyond the rear face.
A receptacle connector assembly comprising:
- an insulative housing defining a mating tongue;
- a plurality of contacts disposed in the housing via an insert molding process;
- a metal shield enclosing the housing to form a mating port in which said mating tongue is exposed;
- a metal plate having a top plate preassembled to a top wall of the metal shield and a pair of board-locking portions respectively located on two opposite sides of the top plate for mounting to a printed circuit board;
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- an outer insulator enclosing said metal shield and said metal plate while exposing the board-locking portions by two lateral sides in a transverse direction;
- wherein the metal plate includes at least one slit in which a rear face of the outer insulator is terminated.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.