Electrical connector with expanded housing to form mating cavity with offset EMI springs
AssigneeFoxconn Interconnect Technology Limited
InventorTerrance F. Little
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Abstract
An electrical connector includes an insulative housing having a mating tongue and a supporting tongue both extending forwardly in a front-to-back direction and spaced from each other in a vertical direction perpendicular to said front-to-back direction. A plurality of contacts is disposed in the housing with corresponding contacting sections exposed upon the mating tongue and corresponding tails retained in the housing. A metallic shield encloses the housing and cooperates with the supporting tongue to commonly define a mating cavity in which the mating tongue extends forwardly. The supporting tongue includes a plurality of cutouts in which a plurality of offset spring tangs of the metallic shield extend with corresponding ends extending into the mating cavity.
Claims18
An electrical connector for use with a complementary plug connector, comprising:
- an insulative housing including a mating tongue and a supporting tongue both extending forwardly in a front-to-back direction and spaced from each other in a vertical direction perpendicular to said front-to-back direction;
- a plurality of contacts disposed in the housing with corresponding contacting sections exposed upon the mating tongue and tail sections regulated by the housing;
- a metallic shield enclosing said housing and cooperating with the supporting tongue to commonly circumferentially define a mating cavity, for compliance with a contour of the complementary plug connector, in which said mating tongue forwardly extends;
- and
- a downwardly deflectable spring leaf unitarily formed with and extending forwardly from a main portion of a bottom wall of the shield, and including a lower section unitarily extending forwardly from the main portion at a lower level, a pair of middle sections laterally extending from two opposite lateral sides of the lower section at a middle level, and a pair of upper sections rearwardly extending from the pair of middle sections at an upper level;
- wherein
- the lower section is downwardly moveable above an undersurface of the bottom wall of the shield during mating with said complementary plug connector.
An electrical connector for use with a complementary plug connector, comprising:
- an insulative housing having a mating tongue and a supporting tongue both extending forwardly in a front-to-back direction and spaced from each other in a vertical direction perpendicular to said front-to-back direction;
- a metallic shield enclosing said housing and defining a receiving space to accommodate not only a mating cavity for compliance with a contour of the complementary plug connector but also the supporting tongue which is intimately located by the mating cavity in the vertical direction;
- and
- a forwardly extending three-segment spring leaf unitarily extending from the shield and including a forwardly extending lower section intimately located on an undersurface of an thinner central region of the supporting tongue at a lower level, a middle section extending laterally from the lower section at a middle level, and an upper section extending rearwardly from the middle section;
- wherein the supporting tongue includes a cutout to allow said upper section to extend upwardly into the mating cavity.
An electrical connector for mating with a plug, comprising:
- an insulative housing including a mating tongue and a supporting tongue both extending along a front-to-back direction in a parallel manner while spaced from each other in a vertical direction perpendicular to said front-to-back direction, said supporting tongue defining opposite first and second faces in the vertical direction wherein said first face faces toward the mating tongue;
- a plurality of contacts disposed in the housing with contacting sections exposed upon the mating tongue;
- a metallic shield enclosing both said mating tongue and said supporting tongue and including opposite first and second spring leafs in the vertical direction, said first spring leaf being spaced from the mating tongue in the vertical direction while the second spring leaf having a root region upon the second face, a plug receiving cavity defined by the first spring leaf and said first face of the supporting tongue;
- wherein
- a free region of the second spring leaf is deflectable in said vertical direction with a range which extends beyond the first face for engagement with the plug while not beyond the second face for no interference with an exterior component located adjacent to the second face in the vertical direction.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.