FLIPPABLE ELECTRICAL CONNECTOR

• US 20150229077A1
• Filed: 04/24/2015
• Published: 08/13/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 07/19/2013
• 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: LITTLE, TERRANCE F., CHENG, CHIH-PI, CHEN, CHAO-CHIEH, HSIAO, HSUEH-LUNG, ZHANG, YUAN, SU, WEI-HAO, SEDIO, STEPHEN, CHEN, MING-CHING, YANG, CHUN-CHIEH
• Granted Patent: US 9,496,653 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 12/724 containing contact members forming a right angle
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/642 by position or shape of contact members
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/6581 Shield structure
• 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 13/6658 on printed circuit board H01R13/6666 - H01R13/6691 take precedence
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 2201/09063 Holes or slots in insulating substrate not used for electrical connections
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 2201/10189 Non-printed connector

Abstract

A receptacle connector includes an insulative housing with a mating tongue, a plurality of contacts having front contacting sections exposed upon two opposite surfaces of the mating tongue and rear tail sections extending downwardly outside of the housing for mounting to a printed circuit board. A metallic shield encloses said housing and forms a capsular mating cavity with said mating tongue extending forwardly therein. A metallic shielding plate includes a front horizontal section embedded with the mating tongue to isolate the contacting sections of the contacts which are located on two different opposite surfaces, and a rear vertical section extending downwardly from a rear edge of the front horizontal section to isolate the tail sections of the contacts which are arranged in two rows with said rear vertical section therebewteen.

Claims

1. A receptacle connector for use with a plug, comprising:

an insulative housing defining base with a mating tongue forwardly extending therefrom in a front-to-back direction;

a plurality of contacts disposed in the housing with contacting sections exposed upon the mating tongue and categorized with signal contacts, power contacts and grounding contacts;

a metallic shield enclosing the housing to define a capsular mating cavity in which said mating tongue is disposed; and

a metallic shielding plate embedded within said mating tongue;

wherein

the shielding plates defines a pair of lateral edge sections configured to be adapted to be locked with a latch of the plug;

wherein

the shielding plate is assembled with the mating tongue via an insert molding process while the contacts are configured to be forwardly assembled to corresponding passageways in the housing, and a tip of each of said contacts is inwardly tilted toward the shielding plate and protectively with a corresponding recession in the mating tongue.

2. The receptacle connector as claimed in claim 1, wherein the tip of each of said contacts is further covered by a protection flange formed on the mating tongue.

3. The receptacle connector as claimed in claim 1, wherein the shield further includes a rear wall with two ears latched to two opposite sides of the shield.

4. The receptacle connector as claimed in claim 1, wherein said contacts are arranged in two rows, and rear tails of the contacts in one row are laterally offset from corresponding front contacting sections and split into two groups while those of the contacts in the other row are aligned with the corresponding contacting sections in the front-to-back direction so as to have the tails of the contacts in said two rows are arranged in a staggered manner.

5. The receptacle connector as claimed in claim 2, wherein the tails of the contacts in one row and those of the contacts in the other row extend in opposite directions.

6. The receptacle connector as claimed in claim 1, wherein the shielding plate further unitarily forms a pair of contacting regions spaced therefrom in a parallel relation, and the tip of each of said contacting regions has a lance secured to the shielding plate for assuring a position of the contacting region during an insert molding process.

7. A receptacle connector for use with a plug, comprising:

an insulative housing defining a base with a mating tongue forwardly extending therefrom in a front-to-back direction;

two rows of contacts disposed in the housing with contacting sections exposed upon the mating tongue and tails extending from the insulative housing;

a metallic shielding plate embedded within the insulative housing and defining a pair of lateral edge sections configured to be adapted to be locked with a latch of the plug;

wherein the shielding plates comprises a first shielding portion disposed in the mating tongue and between the contacting sections of the two rows of contacts, and a second shielding portion between the tails of the two rows of contacts.

8. The receptacle connector as claimed in claim 7, further including a metallic bracket having a front section compliantly secured to a top side of the shield, and rear section compliantly secured to a top side of the housing, wherein the bracket has a joint section linked between the front section and the rear section, and a securing arm located around said joint section and secured to the shield.

9. The receptacle connector as claimed in claim 8, wherein the joint section is curved with deformability thereof in a vertical direction perpendicular to said front-to-back direction.

10. An electrical connector assembly comprising:

a receptacle connector including;

an insulative housing with a mating tongue;

a plurality of contacts disposed in the housing with front contacting sections exposed upon two opposite surfaces of the mating tongue and rear tail sections downwardly extending outside of the housing;

a metallic shield enclosing the housing and forming a capsular mating cavity to receive said mating tongue therein;

a metallic shielding plate embedded within the mating tongue;

a small size printed circuit board defining a plurality micro vias through which tail sections of the contacts extend;

an integrated circuit (IC) mounted upon the small size printed circuit board;

a large size printed circuit board located behind the small size printed circuit board; and

an electrical connector respectively mechanically and electrically connected to said small size printed circuit board and said large size printed circuit board to establish electrical connection therebetween.

11. The electrical connector assembly as claimed in claim 10, wherein said electrical connector forms a slot to receive an edge of the small size printed circuit board.

12. The electrical connector assembly as claimed in claim 11, wherein said receptacle connector and said electrical connector are locate by two opposite ends of the small size printed circuit board in a front-to-back direction.

13. The electrical connector assembly as claimed in claim 10, wherein said small size printed circuit board forms a cutout to receive said receptacle connector therein.

14. The electrical connector assembly as claimed in claim 10, wherein the IC and the large size printed circuit board are essentially located by two opposite surfaces of the large size printed circuit board.

15. The electrical connector as claimed in claim 14, wherein the electrical connector is surface-mounted upon the large size printed circuit board.