Electrical connector

• US 8,277,258 B1
• Filed: 03/11/2011
• Issued: 10/02/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 03/11/2011
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Cheng UEI Precision Industry Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Cheng UEI Precision Industry Company Limited
• Inventors: Huang, Guang-Li, Xu, Li-Jun
• Primary Examiner(s): Paumen, Gary F.
• Application Number:
  US13/046,692
• Publication Number:
  US 20120231655A1
• Time in Patent Office: 571 Days
• Field of Search: 439/660, 439/497
• US Class Current: 439/660
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 31/08 Short-circuiting members for bridging contacts in a counterpart

Abstract

An electrical connector includes an insulating housing, and a plurality of electrical contacts assembled in the insulating housing respectively. At least two of the electrical contacts having the same transmitting action are short connected together in the process of manufacturing the electrical contacts. So the process of utilizing a wire to achieve a short connection between the corresponding electrical contacts, as described in the prior art, is omitted, and it saves a lot of manpower and material resources, and further simplifies the process for achieving the short connection effect.

Claims

1. An electrical connector, comprising:

an insulating housing;

a plurality of electrical contacts of which at least two having the same transmitting action being short connected together in the process of manufacturing the electrical contacts, the electrical contacts being assembled in the insulating housing respectively, each of the electrical contacts having a contact portion and a soldering tail;

a rear cover fastened behind the insulating housing, the soldering tails projecting rearward beyond a rear of the insulating housing, the rear cover defining a plurality of positioning slots of which at least two are connected together for positioning and propping the short-connected soldering tails of the electrical contacts therein.

2. The electrical connector as claimed in claim 1, wherein the at least two electrical contacts having the same transmitting action realize the short connection thereamong by means of making the soldering tails thereof short connected together.

3. The electrical connector as claimed in claim 1, wherein the rear cover has a resisting portion abutting against the rear of the insulating housing and a support portion protruding rearward from a rear of the resisting portion, each of the positioning slots penetrates through the resisting portion and the support portion along a front-to-rear direction, the positioning slots are exposed to two opposite faces of the support portion.

4. The electrical connector as claimed in claim 1, wherein each of the electrical contacts has a contact portion and a soldering tail connected with the contact portion in a step manner by a connecting portion, the at least two electrical contacts having the same transmitting action realize the short connection thereamong by means of making the connecting portions thereof short connected together.

5. An electrical connector, comprising:

an insulating housing; and

a plurality of electrical contacts of which at least two having the same transmitting action being short connected together in the process of manufacturing the electrical contacts, the electrical contacts being assembled in the insulating housing respectively;

wherein the electrical contacts include two top ground contacts and a bottom ground contact which are short connected with one another, a top power-supply contact and a first bottom power-supply contact both capable of achieving a 12V voltage of power supply therethrough which are short connected with each other, a second bottom power-supply contact capable of achieving a 5V voltage of power supply therethrough, and three signal contacts.

6. The electrical connector as claimed in claim 5, wherein each of the electrical contacts has a soldering tail, the top ground contacts are arranged side by side in the insulating housing and spaced from each other, with the soldering tails thereof extending towards each other to be short connected with each other, the soldering tail of one of the top ground contacts has a side edge thereof further extending downward to make the soldering tails of the one top ground contact and the bottom ground contact short connected with each other in a step manner, and the soldering tail of the top power-supply contact has a side edge thereof extending sideward and then bent downward to be short connected with the soldering tail of the first bottom power-supply contact in a step manner.