ELECTRICAL CONNECTOR

• US 20100167594A1
• Filed: 02/02/2009
• Published: 07/01/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 12/26/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Dragonstate Technology Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Dragonstate Technology Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: LEE, Kuo-Chi, LIN, Chin-Huang
• Granted Patent: US 8,079,874 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 439/660
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/62 Means for facilitating engagement or disengagement of coupling parts or for holding them in engagement

Abstract

An electrical connector includes a positioning member; an insulated main body enclosing the positioning member from above and a plurality of terminals. Each terminal has a contact section embedded within a tongue plate of the insulated main body and an inclined section embedded partially within the positioning member via an insert-molding process. When the inclined section is further bent relative to the contact section, the uniform spacing and alignment among the terminals is maintained precisely due to the insert-molding process of the terminals in the insulated main body and the positioning member.

Claims

1. An electrical connector comprising:

a positioning member;

an insulated main body including

a base portion having a front end face and a rear end face opposite to said front end face, and

a tongue plate projecting frontward from said front end face of said base portion along an assembling direction; and

a plurality of terminals, each having a contact section embedded in said tongue plate via an insert-molding process and an inclined section extending from one end of said contact section along an oblique direction inclined with respect to said assembling direction, wherein said inclined section having at least one strip embedded within said positioning member via the insert-molding process.

2. The electrical connector according to claim 1, wherein said contact section of each of said terminals has a contact surface exposed from said tongue plate.

3. The electrical connector according to claim 1, wherein said contact section and said inclined section of each of said terminals cooperatively define a blunt angle at an adjoining position thereof.

4. The electrical connector according to claim 1, wherein each of said terminals further has a mounting section extending from one end of said inclined section.

5. The electrical connector according to claim 4, wherein said inclined section and said mounting section of each of said terminals cooperatively define a blunt angle at an adjoining position thereof.

6. The electrical connector according to claim 1, wherein said terminals include a plurality of first terminals and a plurality of second terminals, each being disposed between adjacent two of said first terminals, said inclined sections of said second terminals cooperatively defining a basic plane along said oblique direction, said inclined section of said first terminals projecting upward from said basic plane.

7. The electrical connector according to claim 6, wherein said inclined sections of said second terminals are bent to a first predetermined side so as to define said basic plane, said inclined section of said first terminals being bent to a second predetermined side opposite to said first predetermined side so as to project upward from said basic plane.

8. The electrical connector according to claim 1, further comprising a module casing enclosing said main body from above and a shield shell enclosing said module casing from above.