Electrical connector

• US 8,398,439 B1
• Filed: 12/14/2011
• Issued: 03/19/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 12/14/2011
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Proconn Technology Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Proconn Technology Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Wang, Hung-Chi
• Primary Examiner(s): HARVEY, JAMES R
• Application Number:
  US13/326,311
• Time in Patent Office: 461 Days
• Field of Search: 439/660, 439/607.35, 439/607.36, 439/607.4, 439/607.54
• US Class Current: 439/660
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 12/57 surface mounting terminals
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/658 High frequency shielding arrangements, e.g. against EMI [Electro-Magnetic Interference] or EMP [Electro-Magnetic Pulse] coaxial coupling devices specially adapted for high frequency H01R24/40; for flat or ribbon cable connectors H01R12/774; for coaxial cable H01R9/05

Abstract

An electrical connector includes an insulating body having a base portion and a tongue portion extending forward from a front side of the base portion. A top surface of the tongue portion defines a plurality of terminal fillisters each extending along a front-to-rear direction to penetrate through the tongue portion and the base portion. Two inner sides of a front end of each terminal fillister protrude face-to-face to form two holding portions with an interval therebetween gradually narrowing from rear to front. A plurality of terminals each has a contact arm disposed in the terminal fillister. A shielding shell encloses the insulating body to define an inserting space between the shielding shell and the tongue portion. The contact arm has a front end thereof held between the holding portions to avoid curling under the action of inserting a mating connector into the inserting space.

Claims

1. An electrical connector adapted for connecting with a mating connector, comprising:

an insulating body having a base portion and a tongue portion of a horizontal board shape extending forward from a front side of the base portion, a top surface of the tongue portion defining a plurality of terminal fillisters each extending along a front-to-rear direction to penetrate through the tongue portion and the base portion, two inner sides of a front end of each terminal fillister protruding face-to-face to form a pair of holding portions with an interval therebetween gradually narrowing from rear to front;

a plurality of terminals each having a strip-shaped contact arm disposed in the terminal fillister of the insulating body, and a soldering tail extending from a rear end of the contact arm to stretch behind the base portion; and

a shielding shell enclosing the insulating body with the tongue portion located in the shielding shell and being apart from periphery inner sides of the shielding shell to define an inserting space between the shielding shell and the tongue portion, wherein the contact arm of the terminal has a front end thereof held between the holding portions of the terminal fillister to avoid curling under the action of inserting the mating connector into the inserting space of the electrical connector.

2. The electrical connector as claimed in claim 1, wherein a rear of the base portion of the insulating body defines two fastening cavities at two sides thereof, the shielding shell is curved from a metal plate and has a top plate, two side plates extending downward from two opposite side edges of the top plate, and two bottom plates extending towards each other from bottom edges of the side plates to be wedged with each other, rear edges of the side plates bend inward to form a pair of fastening portions buckled in the corresponding fastening cavities of the insulating body.