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US 9,431,753 B2Granted
Connector with convenient installation
AssigneeFoxconn Interconnect Technology Limited
InventorsJerry Wu, Jun Chen, Fan-Bo Meng
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Abstract
A cable end connector includes an insulative body, a number of terminals received in the insulative body, a spacer mounted behind the insulative body, and an insulative housing molded to enclose the inuslative body and the spacer. The spacer includes an intermediate chamfer at a mounting end thereof to prevent interference during mounting of the spacer to the insulative body. A stopping wall is disposed at two opposite sides of the chamfer to prevent molten plastics from flowing into the insulative body during molding the insulative housing.
Claims13
A cable end connector comprising:
- an insulative body;
- a plurality of terminals received in the insulative body;
- a spacer mounted behind the insulative body;
- and
- an insulative housing molded to enclose the insulative body and the spacer;
- wherein
- the spacer comprises an intermediate chamfer at a mounting end thereof to prevent interference during mounting of the spacer to the insulative body, and a stopping wall at two opposite sides of the chamfer to prevent molten plastics from flowing into the insulative body during molding the insulative housing;
- the insulative body comprises a main portion and an extending portion extending from the main portion, the extending portion having a ladder shape;
- the spacer is mounted on the extending portion and comprises a first face, a second face, and a third face spaced parallel to each other, and the terminals comprise a plurality of first terminals soldered on the first face, a plurality of second terminals soldered on the second face, and a plurality of third terminals soldered on the third face, the first face, the second face, and the third face disposed in a ladder;
- the spacer comprises a first spacer and a second spacer, the first face and the second face disposed on the first spacer, and the third face disposed on the second spacer;
- each terminal comprises a contacting portion received in the insulative body, a soldering portion extending out of the insulative body, and a connecting portion connected the contacting portion and the soldering portion;
- and
- a plurality of stopping portions are disposed on the third face of the second spacer, and a receiving slot is formed between every two neighboring stopping portions and receives the soldering portion of the terminal, the stopping portion limiting the soldering portion in the receiving slot to prevent the terminals from moving upwardly and rearwardly.
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An electrical connector comprising:
- an insulative housing defining opposite first and second mating ports in a vertical direction;
- a plurality of first contacts disposed in the housing with front contacting sections exposed in the first mating port and rear tail sections arranged in one row and exposed rearwardly outside of the housing;
- a plurality of second contacts disposed in the housing with front contacting portions exposed in the second mating port and rear tail portions arranged in two rows and exposed rearwardly outside of the housing;
- a first insulative spacer attached to a rear side of the housing and defining one row of passages to receive and expose the corresponding one row of tail section of the first contacts, respectively;
- a second insulative spacer attached to the rear side of the housing and defining two rows of passageways to receive and expose the corresponding two rows of tail portions of the second contacts, respectively;
- wherein
- the first spacer and the second spacer commonly forms a three-step structure to expose said one row of tail sections and said two rows of tail portions in said same vertical direction;
- and
- the first spacer is attached to the housing via a dovetail structure extending along a front-to-back direction perpendicular to said vertical direction while the second spacer is attached to the housing via a post extending along the front-to-back direction.
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An electrical connector comprising:
- an insulative housing defining opposite first and second mating ports in a vertical direction;
- a plurality of first contacts disposed in the housing with front contacting sections exposed in the first mating port and rear tail sections arranged in one row and exposed rearwardly outside of the housing;
- a plurality of second contacts disposed in the housing with front contacting portions exposed in the second mating port and rear tail portions arranged in two rows and exposed rearwardly outside of the housing;
- a spacer device attached to a rear side of the housing to regulate and expose the tail sections and tail portions;
- wherein
- the contacting sections of the first contacts are arranged in one row and the tail sections of the first contacts are arranged in one row while the contacting portions of the second contacts are arranged in three rows and the tail portions of the second contacts are arranged in two rows;
- wherein
- an amount of the one row of tail sections is five and an amount of the two rows of tail portions are three and four wherein said four tail portions are located between said five tail sections and said three tail portions in the vertical direction.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.