Electrical connector

• US 8,388,354 B1
• Filed: 12/01/2011
• Issued: 03/05/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 12/01/2011
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Cheng UEI Precision Industry Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Cheng UEI Precision Industry Company Limited
• Inventors: Lin, Jui-Pin, Lai, Ming-Chun
• Primary Examiner(s): Paumen, Gary F.
• Application Number:
  US13/308,712
• Time in Patent Office: 460 Days
• Field of Search: 439/39, 439/38, 439/40
• US Class Current: 439/39
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/24 resilient; resiliently-mounted
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/506 assembled by snap action of the parts
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/6205 Two-part coupling devices held in engagement by a magnet

Abstract

An electrical connector includes an insulating housing having a front wall, a top wall, a bottom wall and two side walls. A rear surface of the front wall extends rearward to form a tongue portion. A receiving space is formed among the front wall, the top wall, the bottom wall and the side walls, wherein the tongue portion is located in the receiving space. A plurality of probe pins is assembled in the insulating housing. A magnetic block has a shape matched with the receiving space and is assembled in the receiving space. A metal plate is placed behind the magnetic block by passing a rear end of the tongue portion therethrough. A metal shell encloses the insulating housing and further electrically resists against a rear side of the metal plate to secure the magnetic block and the metal plate in the insulating housing.

Claims

1. An electrical connector, comprising:

an insulating housing having a front wall, a top wall, a bottom wall and two side walls, a rear surface of the front wall extending rearward to form a tongue portion, a receiving space being formed among the front wall, the top wall, the bottom wall and the side walls with the tongue portion being located in the receiving space, the insulating housing defining a plurality of inserting holes longitudinally penetrating through the front wall and the tongue portion;

a magnetic block having a shape matched with the receiving space of the insulating housing for being assembled in the receiving space;

a plurality of probe pins assembled in the inserting holes of the insulating housing respectively;

a metal plate placed behind the magnetic block by passing a rear end of the tongue portion of the insulating housing through the metal plate; and

a metal shell mounted to the insulating housing to enclose the insulating housing, the magnetic block and the metal plate, the metal shell further electrically resisting against a rear side of the metal plate to secure the magnetic block and the metal plate in the insulating housing.

2. The electrical connector as claimed in claim 1, wherein the tongue portion of the insulating housing is integrated with a substantial middle of an inside surface of one side wall and spaced from the top wall, the bottom wall and the other side wall to make the receiving space show a substantial lying-U shape from a back view, and the magnetic block is a unitary block of a substantial lying-U shape matched with the receiving space.

3. The electrical connector as claimed in claim 1, wherein the metal shell is curved from a metal plate and has a top plate, two side plates and two bottom plates wedged with each other, a plurality of blocking plates is perpendicularly bent inward from rear edges of the top plate, the bottom plates and the side plates to electrically resist against the rear side of the metal plate.

4. The electrical connector as claimed in claim 3, wherein the top wall and the bottom wall each has a shorter length than the side wall, a middle of a rear edge of the top wall protrudes rearward to form a foolproof slice, the top plate of the metal shell defines a foolproof gap at a front edge thereof for restraining the foolproof slice therein.

5. The electrical connector as claimed in claim 3, wherein a pair of buckle holes is opened in the side plates of the metal shell respectively, an outside surface of each side wall of the insulating housing defines a buckle block buckled in the corresponding buckle hole of the metal shell.

6. The electrical connector as claimed in claim 3, wherein rear edges of the bottom plates of the metal shell extend rearward to form a plurality of touching tails inclined upward in the process of extending rearward, with distal ends thereof being bent downward, the touching tails freely stretch behind the metal plate.

7. The electrical connector as claimed in claim 1, wherein an inner sidewall of the inserting hole has a front portion thereof protruded inward to form a ring-shaped blocking wall, and has a rear portion thereof concaved inward to form a circular blocking groove, each of the probe pins includes a plunger, and a barrel made of metal material and having a front end thereof opened freely, the plunger is retractably restrained in the barrel with a front end thereof stretching outside from the opened front end of the barrel, a periphery outside of the barrel protrudes outward to form a ring-shaped blocking portion at a rear end thereof, the rear end of the barrel extends rearward to form a soldering portion, the probe pin is inserted forward in the inserting hole of the insulating housing with the front end of the barrel resisting against a rear of the blocking wall and the blocking portion being positioned in the blocking groove, the plunger retractably stretches forward out of the inserting hole and beyond a front side of the front wall, and the soldering portions project behind the tongue portion.

8. The electrical connector as claimed in claim 7, wherein the periphery outside of the barrel further protrudes outward to form a fastening portion apart from the blocking portion and having a smaller outer diameter than that of the blocking portion, the fastening portion abuts against an inner side of the inserting hole to secure the barrel in the inserting hole.

9. The electrical connector as claimed in claim 1, wherein a fixing hole penetrates through the metal plate and is opened to match with the rear end of the tongue portion of the insulating housing, the metal plate is mounted to the tongue portion and behind the magnetic block by inserting the rear end of the tongue portion into the fixing hole.