Waterproof electrical connector assembly
AssigneeFoxconn Interconnect Technology Limited
InventorsJing-Jie Guo, Jun Zhao, Cai-Yun Zhang
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Abstract
An electrical connector includes: a terminal module including an upper and lower module parts; a metallic plate positioned between the upper and lower module parts; an insulative base insert molding the upper and lower module parts with the metallic plate; a shielding shell enclosing the upper and lower module parts; and a fastener extending through the upper module part, the metallic plate, and the lower module part and beyond a bottom of the lower module part for mounting to a printed circuit board.
Claims18
An electrical connector comprising:
- a terminal module including:
- an upper and lower module parts;
- a metallic plate positioned between the upper and lower module parts;
- an insulative base insert molding the upper and lower module parts with the metallic plate;
- a shielding shell enclosing the upper and lower module parts;
- and
- a fastener extending through the upper module part, the metallic plate, and the lower module part and beyond a bottom of the lower module part for mounting to a printed circuit board;
- wherein the fastener extends through a first hole of the upper module part, a second hole of the metallic plate, and a third hole of the lower module part, the first hole being offset from the second hole, the second hole being offset from the third hole.
An electrical connector comprising:
- a terminal module including:
- an upper and lower module parts;
- a metallic plate positioned between the upper and lower module parts;
- a fastener extending through the upper module part, the metallic plate, and the lower module part and beyond an undersurface of the lower module part with a distance for mounting to a printed circuit board in a vertical direction;
- and a metallic shielding shell enclosing the terminal module;
- wherein said fastener includes means for securing all the upper module part, the lower module part and the metallic plate therebetween together in said vertical direction;
- wherein said means includes an upper hole in the upper module part having an upward surface to be downwardly pressed by the fastener, and a lower hole in the lower module part having a downward surface to be upwardly pressed by the fastener.
An electrical connector comprising:
- a terminal module including:
- an upper and lower module parts;
- a metallic plate positioned between the upper and lower module parts;
- a fastener extending through the upper module part, the metallic plate, and the lower module part and beyond an undersurface of the lower module part with a distance for mounting to a printed circuit board in a vertical direction;
- and
- a metallic shielding shell enclosing the terminal module;
- wherein
- the fastener is made via an insert-molding process with insulative material thereof, and includes a relatively large head downwardly pressing an upward surface on the upper module part, and a relatively large bottom upwardly abutting against a downward surface on the lower module part so as to not only fasten said upper module part, said lower module part and said metallic plate together as one combination in the vertical direction without a risk of disassembling, but also secure the fastener to said combination of said upper module part, said lower module part and said metallic plate without a risk of withdrawal.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.