Electrical connector with additional shielding

• US 10,446,986 B2
• Filed: 12/20/2018
• Issued: 10/15/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 12/20/2017
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Foxconn Computer Connector Company Limited (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.), Foxconn Interconnect Technology Limited (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Foxconn Computer Connector Company Limited (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Zhong, Wei, Zhu, Jian-Kuang
• Primary Examiner(s): Hammond, Briggitte R.
• Application Number:
  US16/228,659
• Publication Number:
  US 20190190210A1
• Time in Patent Office: 299 Days
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/405 Securing in non-demountable manner, e.g. moulding, riveting
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/6582 with resilient means for engaging mating connector
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/6585 Shielding material individually surrounding or interposed between mutually spaced contacts
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/6593 the shield being composed of different pieces
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/6596 the conductive member being a metal grounding panel
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 43/02 for soldered or welded connections
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 43/24 Assembling by moulding on contact members

Abstract

A electrical connector includes an insulative elongated housing and first and second metallic shells covering the housing. The housing includes a top surface, a bottom surface, two sides surfaces and a middle surface between the top surface and the bottom surface so as to form a step structure thereof. The primary shell covers the top surface, the bottom surface and two side surfaces, and the secondary shell covers the middle surface and the rear surface which is roughly joined with the middle surface, and further the primary shell on the bottom surface in an overlapped manner so as to avoid any electrical leaking along the front-to-back direction between the primary shell and the secondary shell.

Claims

1. An electrical connector comprising:

a contact module including a plurality contacts retained in an insulator;

an insulative elongated housing, in which the contact module is received, extending along a longitudinal direction to define opposite top and bottom surfaces in a vertical direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction, a pair of side surfaces along the longitudinal direction, and opposite front and rear surfaces in a front-to-back direction perpendicular to both the longitudinal direction and the vertical direction, said housing further defining a horizontal rear middle surface between the top surface and the bottom surface in the vertical direction and a vertical rearward surface roughly joined with the middle surface and rearwardly facing in the front-to-back direction;

a metallic shielding unit including;

a one piece primary shell being of a frame structure and forming a top wall covering the top surface, a lower wall covering a bottom surface, a pair of side walls covering the pair of side surfaces; and

a one piece Z-shaped secondary shell forming a vertical first section covering the rearward surface, a horizontal second section extending from an upper edge of the first section to cover the middle surface, and further an addition section extending from a lower edge of the first section to be located below and welded to the lower wall so as to prevent any EMI (Electro-Magnetic Interference) leakage, in the front-to-back direction, between the primary shell and the secondary shell around a corner between the bottom surface and the rearward surface of the housing.

2. The electrical connector as claimed in claim 1, wherein the lower wall forms a plurality of outwardly extending spring tangs, and the additional section forms a plurality of cutouts to allow said spring tangs to protrude outwardly therethrough.

3. The electrical connector as claimed in claim 1, further including a plurality of conductive grounding members assembled upon the housing with connecting sections deflectably mechanically and electrically contact the primary shell in the vertical direction.

4. The electrical connector as claimed in claim 3, wherein said connecting sections are further sandwiched between the housing and the insulator of the contact module in the front-to-back direction.

5. The electrical connector as claimed in claim 3, wherein the lower wall is sandwiched between the additional section of the secondary shell and the connecting section of the grounding member.

6. An electrical connector comprising:

a contact module including a plurality contacts retained in an insulator;

an insulative elongated housing, in which the contact module is received, extending along a longitudinal direction to define opposite top and bottom surfaces in a vertical direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction, a pair of side surfaces along the longitudinal direction, and opposite front and rear surfaces in a front-to-back direction perpendicular to both the longitudinal direction and the vertical direction, said housing further defining a horizontal rear middle surface between the top surface and the bottom surface in the vertical direction and a vertical rearward surface roughly joined with the middle surface and rearwardly facing in the front-to-back direction;

a metallic shielding unit including;

a primary shell being of a frame structure and forming a top wall covering the top surface, a lower wall covering a bottom surface, a pair of side walls covering the pair of side surfaces;

a secondary shell forming a vertical first section covering the rearward surface, a horizontal second section extending from an upper edge of the first section to cover the middle surface;

wherein

said shielding unit further includes an additional section at least partially overlapped with the lower wall of the primary shell in the vertical direction, and welding is applied to at least two of said primary shell, said secondary shell and the additional sections so as to prevent any EMI (Electro-Magnetic Interference) leakage, in the front-to-back direction, between the primary shell and the secondary shell around a corner between the bottom surface and the rearward surface of the housing.

7. The electrical connector as claimed in claim 6, wherein said additional section unitarily extends from a bottom edge of the first section of the secondary shell.

8. The electrical connector as claimed in claim 7, wherein the additional section of the secondary shell is located under the lower wall of the primary shell with the welding applied therebetween.

9. The electrical connector as claimed in claim 7, wherein the housing forms a recess in the bottom surface to receive the additional section of the secondary shell.

10. The electrical connector as claimed in claim 9, wherein said additional section is sandwiched between the bottom surface of the housing and the lower wall of the primary shell.

11. The electrical connector as claimed in claim 10, wherein said primary shell further includes another additional section extending upwardly from a rear edge of the lower wall to be located behind and forwardly butting against the first section of the secondary shell in the front-to-back direction.

12. The electrical connector as claimed in claim 11, wherein the additional section of the secondary shell and the additional section of the primary shell are offset from each other in the longitudinal direction.

13. The electrical connector as claimed in claim 11, wherein the additional section of the primary shell is welded to the first section of the secondary shell.

14. The electrical connector as claimed in claim 6, wherein said additional section belongs to an L-shaped addition piece discrete from both the primary shell and the secondary shell and having said additional section welded under the lower wall of the primary shell and another additional section unitarily extending from a rear edge of said addition section to be located behind and welded upon the first section of the secondary shell.

15. An electrical connector comprising:

a contact module including a plurality contacts retained in an insulator;

an insulative elongated housing, in which the contact module is received, extending along a longitudinal direction to define opposite top and bottom surfaces in a vertical direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction, a pair of side surfaces along the longitudinal direction, and opposite front and rear surfaces in a front-to-back direction perpendicular to both the longitudinal direction and the vertical direction, said housing further defining a horizontal rear middle surface between the top surface and the bottom surface in the vertical direction and a vertical rearward surface roughly joined with the middle surface and rearwardly facing in the front-to-back direction;

a metallic shielding unit including;

a primary shell being of a frame structure and forming a top wall covering the top surface, a lower wall covering a bottom surface, a pair of side walls covering the pair of side surfaces; and

a secondary shell forming a vertical first section covering the rearward surface, a horizontal second section extending from an upper edge of the first section to cover the middle surface;

wherein

the vertical first section of the secondary shell unitarily extends from a rear edge of the lower wall of the primary shell so as to prevent any EMI (Electro-Magnetic Interference) leakage, in the front-to-back direction, between the primary shell and the secondary shell around a corner between the bottom surface and the rearward surface of the housing.