ELECTRICAL CONNECTOR

• US 20170346239A1
• Filed: 08/17/2017
• Published: 11/30/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 02/21/2014
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Lotes Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Lotes Company Limited
• Inventors: Ju, Ted, Feng, Wu, Zeng, Ya Jun, He, Nan Fang, Fan, Jun, Hu, Jin Ke, Zhou, Guo Sheng, Lin, Chin Chi
• Application Number:
  US15/679,439
• Publication Number:
  US 20170346239A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 12/724 containing contact members forming a right angle
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/6581 Shield structure
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/6583 with separate conductive resilient members between mating shield members
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/6585 Shielding material individually surrounding or interposed between mutually spaced contacts
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/6591 Specific features or arrangements of connection of shield to conductive members
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/6594 the shield being mounted on a PCB and connected to conductive members
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 2107/00 Four or more poles
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 24/60 Contacts spaced along planar side wall transverse to longitudinal axis of engagement

Abstract

An electrical connector includes an insulation body. Multiple terminals are arranged in the insulation body in two rows. Each terminal in the lower row has a first retaining portion, a first extending portion bending downward from the first retaining portion, and a first contact portion extending forward from the first retaining portion. A second extending portion is connected to the first extending portion. A middle grounding plate is disposed in the insulation body, having a body portion and a plate portion. The body portion has a first section connected to the plate portion and located above and parallel to the second extending portion, and a second section extending forward from the first section. The plate portion is located at and parallel to the first extending portion. A distance between the first section and the second extending portion is greater than that between the plate portion and the first extending portion.

Claims

1. An electrical connector, comprising:

an insulation body;

a plurality of terminals, arranged in the insulation body in an upper row and a lower row, each of the terminals in the lower row having a first retaining portion, a first extending portion bending downward from a rear side of the first retaining portion, and a first contact portion extending forward from the first retaining portion, wherein the first retaining portion comprises a second extending portion connected to the first extending portion; and

a middle grounding plate, disposed in the insulation body and located between the terminals in the upper low and the lower row, wherein the middle grounding plate has a body portion and a plate portion bending downward from a rear side of the body portion, the body portion has a first section connected to the plate portion and a second section extending forward from the first section, the first section is located above the second extending portion and is parallel to the second extending portion, the plate portion is located at a rear side of the first extending portion and is parallel to the first extending portion, and a distance between the first section and the second extending portion is greater than a distance between the plate portion and the first extending portion.

2. The electrical connector according to claim 1, wherein the plate portion is perpendicular to the body portion.

3. The electrical connector according to claim 1, wherein the insulation body comprises a base and a tongue located at a front end of the base, the first contact portion is exposed from a lower surface of the tongue, the first retaining portion stretches across the base and the tongue, the first extending portion and the first section are respectively located in the base, and the second section is located in the tongue.

4. The electrical connector according to claim 3, wherein the first contact portion is parallel to the second section, and a distance between the first contact portion and the second section is shorter than the distance between the first section and the second extending portion.

5. The electrical connector according to claim 3, wherein the first retaining portion has a third extending portion connected to the first contact portion, and the third extending portion is located in the tongue.

6. The electrical connector according to claim 5, wherein the third extending portion is parallel to the second section, and a distance between the third extending portion and the second section is equal to a distance between the first contact portion and the second section.

7. The electrical connector according to claim 5, wherein the first retaining portion comprises a fourth extending portion connecting to the second extending portion and the third extending portion, and the fourth extending portion is located in the base.

8. The electrical connector according to claim 7, wherein the fourth extending portion is gradually close to the first section from rear to front.

9. The electrical connector according to claim 8, wherein a length of a projection of the fourth extending portion in a front-rear direction is shorter than a length of a projection of the first extending portion in the front-rear direction.

10. The electrical connector according to claim 8, wherein a length of a projection of the fourth extending portion in a vertical direction is shorter than a length of the second extending portion.

11. The electrical connector according to claim 7, wherein the insulation body shields a lower grounding plate, and the lower grounding plate has a first shielding portion located on the lower surface of the tongue, a second shielding portion located on a bottom surface of the base, and a third shielding portion connected to the first shielding portion and the second shielding portion.

12. The electrical connector according to claim 11, wherein the fourth extending portion is gradually away from the second shielding portion from rear to front.

13. The electrical connector according to claim 12, wherein the second shielding portion is parallel to the second extending portion, the first shielding portion is parallel to the third extending portion, and a distance between the second shielding portion and the second extending portion is greater than a distance between the first shielding portion and the third extending portion.

14. The electrical connector according to claim 11, wherein the second shielding portion is located in front of the first extending portion.

15. The electrical connector according to claim 3, wherein each of the terminals in the upper row has a second retaining portion, a second contact portion extending forward from the second retaining portion, and a fifth extending portion bending downward from a rear end of the second retaining portion, the second contact portion is exposed from an upper surface of the tongue, the second retaining portion stretches across the base and the tongue, and the fifth extending portion is located in the base.

16. The electrical connector according to claim 15, wherein the fifth extending portion is located at a rear side of the plate portion and is parallel to the plate portion.

17. The electrical connector according to claim 16, wherein a distance between the fifth extending portion and the plate portion is equal to the distance between the first extending portion and the plate portion.

18. The electrical connector according to claim 15, wherein a lower end of the fifth extending portion horizontally extends backward to form a first soldering portion, and a projection of a lower end edge of the plate portion in a front-rear direction is higher than a projection of the first soldering portion in the front-rear direction.

19. The electrical connector according to claim 3, wherein the first extending portion protrudes downward beyond a bottom surface of the base, and the first extending portion connects to a second soldering portion.

20. The electrical connector according to claim 3, wherein the first extending portion and the second extending portion are connected through an arc-shaped bending portion.