Electrical connector

• US 8,353,722 B1
• Filed: 11/11/2011
• Issued: 01/15/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 11/11/2011
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Cheng UEI Precision Industry Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Cheng UEI Precision Industry Company Limited
• Inventors: Lan, Rong-Qin, Xu, Li-Jun, Lin, Ming-Han
• Primary Examiner(s): NGUYEN, KHIEM M
• Application Number:
  US13/294,182
• Time in Patent Office: 431 Days
• Field of Search: 43960735-6074, 439/607.54, 439/607.55
• US Class Current: 439/607.55
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/6581 Shield structure
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 25/006 the coupling part being secured to apparatus or structure, e.g. duplex wall receptacle

Abstract

An electrical connector includes an insulating housing having a front surface concaved rearward to define a receiving chamber with a tongue board therein. Electrical terminals are disposed in the tongue board and elastically stretch into the receiving chamber. A frame-shaped holding shell is mounted in the receiving chamber. A shielding cover adapted for being connected to ground and punched from a metal board has a base board with a window being opened therein and a plurality of contact strips being formed and apart arranged to periphery edges of the base board. The base board is covered onto the front surface of the insulating housing with the window being communicated with the receiving chamber. The contact strips stretch freely outside the insulating housing. A shielding shell is put around the insulating housing and electrically connected with the shielding cover.

Claims

1. An electrical connector, comprising:

an insulating housing having a front surface concaved rearward to define at least one receiving chamber with a tongue board being protruded forward in a substantial middle of the receiving chamber, a bottom side of the tongue board defining a plurality of terminal fillisters each longitudinally penetrating rearward through the insulating housing;

a plurality of electrical terminals each having a fastening arm fastened in a rear of the terminal fillister of the insulating housing, a contact arm extending forward from a front end of the fastening arm to be received in the terminal fillister with a free end thereof arching downward to elastically stretch into the receiving chamber, and a soldering tail extending downward from a rear end of the fastening arm to be located behind the insulating housing;

at least one holding shell of a frame shape mounted in the receiving chamber of the insulating housing and abutting against periphery inner sides of the receiving chamber, with the tongue board stretching in the holding shell and being apart from periphery plates of the holding shell;

a shielding cover adapted for being connected to ground and punched from a metal board, the shielding cover having a base board with at least one window being opened therein and a plurality of contact strips being formed and apart arranged to periphery edges of the base board, the base board being covered onto the front surface of the insulating housing with the window being communicated with an opened front end of the receiving chamber, the contact strips stretching freely outside the insulating housing; and

a shielding shell put around the insulating housing and electrically connected with the shielding cover.

2. The electrical connector as claimed in claim 1, wherein the contact strips of the shielding cover freely extend slantwise upward from a top edge and two side edges of the base board respectively.

3. The electrical connector as claimed in claim 1, wherein a top edge and a bottom edge of the base board of the shielding cover protrude rearward to form a plurality of locking slices of which each has a locking hole opened in a middle thereof, a plurality of locking blocks is apart protruded on a top side and a bottom side of the insulating housing and buckled in the locking holes of the locking slices to secure the shielding cover to the insulating housing.

4. The electrical connector as claimed in claim 1, wherein front edges of the periphery plates of the holding shell are bent outward to wrap up front end edges of the receiving chamber of the insulating housing.

5. The electrical connector as claimed in claim 1, wherein the periphery plates of the holding shell are punched towards the tongue board to form a plurality of elastic slices of which each has one end connected with the periphery plate and the other end freely arched towards the tongue board to be acted as a holding portion for holding an external mating connector in the receiving chamber.

6. The electrical connector as claimed in claim 1, further comprising a plurality of fortified plates, a plurality of inserting slots being opened from rear to front in a rear of the insulating housing and each having a front end further spread to the tongue board, the fortified plates being inserted forward in the inserting slots to strengthen the tongue board.