Electrical connector having a shielding plate thinned regionfor distancing from front bends of differential signal pair

• US 10,109,967 B2
• Filed: 11/28/2017
• Issued: 10/23/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 11/28/2016
• 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: Zhao, Jun
• Primary Examiner(s): Gilman, Alexander
• Application Number:
  US15/824,933
• Publication Number:
  US 20180151992A1
• Time in Patent Office: 329 Days
• Field of Search: 43960723
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/514 composed as a modular blocks or assembly, i.e. composed of co-operating parts provided with contact members or holding contact members between them
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/6273 comprising two latching arms
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/6275 Latching arms not integral with the housing H01R13/6276, H01R13/6277, H01R13/6278 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/652 with earth pin, blade or socket
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/6582 with resilient means for engaging mating connector
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/6586 for separating multiple connector modules
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/6587 for mounting on PCBs
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/6591 Specific features or arrangements of connection of shield to conductive members
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/6597 the conductive member being a contact of the connector
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 2107/00 Four or more poles
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 24/28 Coupling parts carrying pins, blades or analogous contacts and secured only to wire or cable
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 24/60 Contacts spaced along planar side wall transverse to longitudinal axis of engagement
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 1/117 Pads along the edge of rigid circuit boards, e.g. for pluggable connectors
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 1/184 Components including terminals inserted in holes through the printed circuit board and connected to printed contacts on the walls of the holes or at the edges thereof or protruding over or into the holes

Abstract

An electrical connector includes: an insulative housing; an upper and lower rows of contacts secured in the insulative housing, each contact having a front contacting portion; a shielding shell enclosing the insulative housing; and a shielding plate mounted in the insulative housing; wherein each row of contacts include a pair of differential signal contacts, the contacting portion of each of the pair of differential signal contacts having a front bend; the shielding plate spans between and forwardly beyond the front contacting portions of the upper pair of differential signal contacts and the front contacting portions of the lower pair of differential signal contacts, the shielding plate having a front thinned region; and the front bend is bent toward the front thinned region.

Claims

1. An electrical connector comprising:

an insulative housing having a base and a tongue;

an upper and lower rows of contacts secured in the insulative housing and exposed to two opposite surfaces of the tongue, respectively, each contact having a front contacting portion;

a shielding shell enclosing the insulative housing; and

a shielding plate mounted in the insulative housing;

wherein

each row of contacts include a pair of differential signal contacts, the contacting portion of each of the pair of differential signal contacts having a front bend;

the shielding plate spans between and forwardly beyond the front contacting portions of the upper pair of differential signal contacts and the front contacting portions of the lower pair of differential signal contacts, the shielding plate having a front thinned region; and

the front bend is bent toward the front thinned region.

2. The electrical connector as claimed in claim 1, wherein there are a pair of shielding plates separated from each other and two pairs of differential signal contacts in each row of contacts.

3. The electrical connector as claimed in claim 1, wherein the shielding plate is in contact with the shielding shell.

4. The electrical connector as claimed in claim 1, wherein each row of contacts include an outermost ground contact next to the pair of differential signal contacts, the ground contact having at an outer side thereof a hook engaging the shielding plate.

5. The electrical connector as claimed in claim 1, wherein the shielding plate has a side latch exposed to outside.