Electrical connector

• US 8,460,008 B1
• Filed: 02/21/2012
• Issued: 06/11/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 02/21/2012
• 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): GUSHI, ROSS N
• Application Number:
  US13/401,596
• Time in Patent Office: 476 Days
• Field of Search: 439 38- 40, 439/700
• US Class Current: 439/39
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 12/716 Coupling device provided on the PCB
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/2421 using coil springs
• 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, a plurality of probe pins assembled in the insulating housing, a magnetic block, a metal shell and a piece of mylar. The insulating housing has a base and a tongue extending frontward from a front of the base. The magnetic block is of a unitary block and has an inserting hole penetrating longitudinally therethrough and matching with the tongue. The metal shell is assembled rearward through the tongue to enclose the base, and the magnetic block sheathes the tongue in the inserting hole and abuts against the metal shell. A front end of the tongue further stretches beyond a front surface of the magnetic block. The mylar is sticked on the front surface of the magnetic block and defines a positioning window for positioning the front end of the tongue therein.

Claims

1. An electrical connector, comprising:

an insulating housing having a base of substantially rectangular shape, a front of the base extending frontward to form a tongue, the insulating housing defining a plurality of inserting grooves longitudinally penetrating through the base and the tongue;

a plurality of probe pins inserted forward in the inserting grooves of the insulating housing respectively;

a metal shell assembled rearward through the tongue to enclose the base;

a magnetic block of a unitary block having an inserting hole penetrating longitudinally through the magnetic block and matching with the tongue of the insulating housing, the magnetic block sheathing the tongue in the inserting hole and abutting against the metal shell, a front end of the tongue further stretching beyond a front surface of the magnetic block; and

a piece of mylar having the same shape as that of the magnetic block from a front view, the mylar being sticked on the front surface of the magnetic block and defining a positioning window positioning the front end of the tongue therein to make the front end of the tongue abreast with a front side of the mylar.

2. The electrical connector as claimed in claim 1, wherein the metal shell has a front plate with an inserting window opened therein and matched with the tongue, the tongue passes through the inserting window to make the front plate abut against the front of the base, top and bottom edges of the front plate protrude rearward to form a pair of resisting plates clamping the base therebetween, two opposite side edges of the front plate extend rearward to form a pair of side plates attached on two opposite side faces of the base.

3. The electrical connector as claimed in claim 2, wherein a top and a bottom of the base respectively define a fastening fillister, a bottom sidewall of the fastening fillister opened in the top of the base is concaved downward to define two receiving fillisters each penetrating longitudinally through the base, the resisting plate connected with the top edge of the front plate slantwise extend rearward to form two touching slices passing through the corresponding receiving fillisters to stretch behind the base, the resisting plates are fastened in the fastening fillisters respectively and each is punched outward to form two elastic slices.

4. The electrical connector as claimed in claim 2, wherein the two opposite side faces of the base protrude outward to form a buckle block respectively, each of the side plates defines a buckle hole buckling the buckle block therein.

5. The electrical connector as claimed in claim 2, wherein a periphery outer side of the tongue protrudes outward to form a plurality of fastening ribs spaced from one another and each extending longitudinally to connect the front of the base, a plurality of fastening gaps is apart opened in a periphery inner edge of the inserting window of the front plate and snaps the corresponding fastening ribs therein, the fastening ribs further interfere with a periphery inner sidewall of the inserting hole to secure the magnetic block around the tongue.

6. The electrical connector as claimed in claim 1, wherein the magnetic block and the mylar are of substantially elliptic shape from the front view.