Electrical connector with thin conductive film between two rows of contacts
AssigneeFoxconn Interconnect Technology Limited
InventorsJun Zhao, Jing-Jie Guo
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Abstract
The electrical connector includes an insulative housing, a plurality of upper/first contacts and lower/second contacts retained in the housing, a reinforcement piece located between the upper contacts and the lower contacts in the vertical direction, and a metallic shield enclosing the housing. The housing includes a first insulator carrying the first contacts with a first tongue thereof, and a second insulator carrying the second contacts with a second tongue thereof, and the reinforcement piece is located between the first insulator and the second insulator wherein the reinforcement piece includes a relatively thin conductive film or layer located between the first mating tongue and the second mating tongue in the vertical direction.
Claims20
An electrical connector comprising:
- a terminal module assembly enclosing within a metallic shield, said terminal module assembly including:
- a first terminal module with a plurality of first contacts embedded within a first insulator;
- a second terminal module with a plurality of second contacts embedded within a second insulator;
- and
- the first insulator and the second insulator being secured to each other with a metallic reinforcement piece located therebetween in a vertical direction;
- wherein
- said reinforcement piece includes a conductive film and a pair of side arms in a transverse direction perpendicular to said vertical direction, said conductive film is thin and flexible while said side arms are rigid and much thicker than the conductive film.
An electrical connector comprising:
- a terminal module assembly enclosing within a metallic shield, said terminal module assembly including:
- a first terminal module with a plurality of first contacts embedded within a first insulator, the first contacts including a pair of power contacts, a pair of grounding contacts and a pair of differential signal contacts;
- a second terminal module with a plurality of second contacts embedded within a second insulator;
- the first insulator and the second insulator being secured to each other with a metallic reinforcement piece located therebetween in a vertical direction;
- and
- a third insulator applied upon all the first terminal module, the second terminal module and the reinforcement piece to form a terminal module assembly;
- wherein
- said reinforcement piece includes a conductive film aligned with the corresponding power contacts and differential signal contacts in the vertical direction and distanced from the power contacts with a distance around at least 0.20 mm for high current delivery.
A method of making an electrical connector comprising steps of:
- providing a first terminal module with a plurality of first contacts retained in a first insulator via a first stage insert-molding process;
- providing a second terminal module with a plurality of second contacts retained in a second insulator via another first stage insert-molding process;
- providing a metallic reinforcement piece with a conductive film and a pair of side arms by two sides of the conductive film in a transverse direction wherein the conductive film is much more flexible and thinner than the side arms;
- disposing the metallic reinforcement piece between the first terminal module and the second terminal module in a vertical direction perpendicular to said transverse direction.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.