High power plug connector

• US 10,084,254 B2
• Filed: 07/06/2017
• Issued: 09/25/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 07/06/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Foxconn Interconnect Technology Limited (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Foxconn Interconnect Technology Limited (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Ge, Ming-Qi
• Primary Examiner(s): Riyami, Abdullah
• Assistant Examiner(s): Alhawamdeh, Nader
• Application Number:
  US15/643,457
• Publication Number:
  US 20180013218A1
• Time in Patent Office: 446 Days
• Field of Search: 439636
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 12/727 Coupling devices presenting arrays of contacts
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/112 forked sockets having two legs
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/2442 with a single cantilevered beam
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 24/60 Contacts spaced along planar side wall transverse to longitudinal axis of engagement

Abstract

An electrical connector includes an insulative housing an insulative housing enclosing two row of conductive terminals. Each of the terminals includes a front contacting section, a front spring section behind the front contacting section, a middle retaining section and a rear tail section along the front-to-back direction. In each row, the terminals include a pair of outer grounding terminals, a pair inner power terminals respectively beside the pair of outer grounding terminals, and a plurality of other terminals between the pair of power terminals in the transverse direction wherein for each of the pair of outer grounding terminals and the pair of inner power terminals, the front contacting section, the middle retaining section and the rear tails section are wider than the front contacting section in the transverse direction.

Claims

1. An electrical plug connector comprising:

an insulative housing including opposite top wall and bottom wall commonly defining a receiving cavity therebetween around a front portion thereof in a vertical direction, said receiving cavity forwardly communicating with an exterior in a front-to-back direction perpendicular to said vertical direction;

a plurality of passageways formed in each of said top wall and said bottom wall and arranged with one another along a transverse direction perpendicular to both said vertical direction and said front-to-back direction, each of said passageways extending along the front-to-back direction;

a plurality of terminals disposed in the corresponding passageways, respectively, said terminals including power terminals, grounding terminals and signal terminals, each of said terminals including a front contacting section, a rear tail section, a middle retaining section in front of the rear tails section, and a spring section linked between the front contacting section and the middle retaining section;

wherein

for the power terminal and the grounding terminal, a width of the front contacting section is smaller than those of the corresponding spring section, retaining section and tail section;

wherein

each of said top wall and said bottom wall has a plurality of dividers each located between the adjacent two passageways with varied widths in the transverse direction when measured along the front-to-back direction, so as to form the varied cross-sections of the corresponding passageways for complying with the corresponding terminal having different widths in the front contacting section and the spring section.

2. The electrical plug connector as claimed in claim 1, wherein the divider forms a diverging configuration in the top view, measure along the front-to-back direction.

3. The electrical plug connector as claimed in claim 1, wherein the divider has a larger height in the vertical direction and smaller thickness in the transverse direction around a rear opening of the corresponding passageway while having a smaller height in the vertical direction and a larger thickness in the transverse direction around the receiving cavity.

4. An electrical plug connector comprising:

an insulative housing including opposite top wall and bottom wall commonly defining a receiving cavity therebetween around a front portion thereof in a vertical direction, said receiving cavity forwardly communicating with an exterior in a front-to-back direction perpendicular to said vertical direction;

a plurality of passageways formed in each of said top wall and said bottom wall and arranged with one another along a transverse direction perpendicular to both said vertical direction and said front-to-back direction, each of said passageways extending along the front-to-back direction;

a plurality of terminals disposed in the corresponding passageways, respectively, said terminals including power terminals, grounding terminals and signal terminals, each of said terminals including a front contacting section, a rear tail section, a middle retaining section in front of the rear tails section, and a spring section linked between the front contacting section and the middle retaining section, the front contacting section of the grounding terminal and that of the neighboring power terminal being spaced from each other with a first distance larger than that between those of the two neighboring signals;

wherein

each of said top wall and said bottom wall has a plurality of dividers each located between the adjacent two passageways, and the divider between the passageways receiving the corresponding neighboring power and grounding terminals defines a larger width than that between the two passageways receiving the corresponding two signal terminals in the transverse direction.

5. The electrical plug connector as claimed in claim 4, wherein widths of the spring section and the retaining section of the power terminal and those of the grounding terminal, are larger than those of the signal terminal.

6. The electrical plug connector as claimed in claim 5, wherein the width of the divider beside the corresponding power terminal and grounding terminal varies in the transverse direction for comply with width change between the spring section and the contacting section of said power terminal and said grounding terminal.

7. An electrical plug connector comprising:

an insulative housing including opposite top wall and bottom wall commonly defining a receiving cavity therebetween around a front portion thereof in a vertical direction, said receiving cavity forwardly communicating with an exterior in a front-to-back direction perpendicular to said vertical direction;

a plurality of passageways respectively formed in each of said top wall and said bottom wall and arranged with one another along a transverse direction perpendicular to both said vertical direction and said front-to-back direction, each of said passageways extending along the front-to-back direction; and

a plurality of first terminals respectively disposed in the corresponding passageways in the top wall, and a plurality of second terminals respectively disposed in the corresponding passageways in the bottom wall;

wherein

the housing defines a front-to-back centerline with regard to a width of the housing measured in the transverse direction;

wherein

the first terminals are asymmetrically arranged with regard to said centerline, and the second terminals are asymmetrically arranged with regard to said centerline too while the first terminals and the second terminals are reversely symmetrical with each other in the vertical direction.

8. The electrical plug connector as claimed in claim 7, wherein the first terminals have different amounts on opposite sides of the centerline.

9. The electrical plug connector as claimed in claim 8, wherein the first terminals have a power terminal and a grounding terminal on one side of the centerline, and another power terminal and another grounding terminal on the other side, said power terminal and said grounding terminal having widths larger than those of said another power terminal and said grounding terminal.

10. The electrical plug connector as claimed in claim 9, wherein the first terminals have three corresponding terminals on one side and four corresponding terminals on the other side of the centerline.

11. The electrical plug connector as claimed in claim 10, wherein the passageways in the top wall have three corresponding passageways on one side and four corresponding passageways on the other side of the centerline to receive the corresponding first terminals, respectively.

12. The electrical plug connector as claimed in claim 11, wherein the passageways receiving said power terminal and said grounding terminal are wider than those receiving said another power terminal and said another grounding terminal.