Connector

• US 9,136,636 B2
• Filed: 08/29/2013
• Issued: 09/15/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 08/29/2012
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. (TE Connectivity Limited)
• Original Assignee: Tyco Electronics AMP Korea Ltd. (TE Connectivity Limited), Tyco Electronics Holdings (Bermuda) No. 7 Ltd. (TE Connectivity Limited), Tyco Electronics Japan GK (TE Connectivity Limited), Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. (TE Connectivity Limited)
• Inventors: Zhang, Shihao, Kim, Jung-Hoon, Xu, Xiang, Feng, Huei-Shun, Yao, Wei, Shirai, Hiroshi, Yu, Cheng-Hsuan
• Primary Examiner(s): GUSHI, ROSS N
• Application Number:
  US14/014,090
• Publication Number:
  US 20140065889A1
• Time in Patent Office: 747 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/516 Means for holding or embracing insulating body, e.g. casing , hoods
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 43/24 Assembling by moulding on contact members

Abstract

A connector is provided that includes an insulation body and a plurality of contacts. The insulation includes a plurality of contact receiving grooves arranged in a row and the plurality of contacts are disposed in the plurality of contact receiving grooves. The plurality of contacts include a first group of contacts and a second group of contacts with a first pair of differential signal contacts and a second pair of differential signal contacts disposed at both sides of the first group of contacts, respectively.

Claims

1. A connector, comprising:

an insulation body having a plurality of contact receiving grooves arranged in a row;

a plurality of contacts disposed in the plurality of contact receiving grooves, being over-molded in the insulation body, and having a first group of contacts and a second group of contacts with a first pair of differential signal contacts and a second pair of differential signal contacts disposed at both sides of the first group of contacts, respectively; and

a plurality of bridge portions connecting adjacent contacts of the first group of contacts.

2. The connector according to claim 1, wherein the plurality of contacts are data transmission signal contacts.

3. The connector according to claim 2, further comprising a shield surrounding the insulation body.

4. The connector according to claim 1, wherein the first group of contacts correspond to a Micro USB signal standard.

5. The connector according to claim 4, wherein the second group of contacts correspond to a USB 3.0 signal standard.

6. The connector according to claim 1, wherein the first group of contacts includes a power contact, a third pair of differential signal contacts, a detection contact, and a ground contact.

7. The connector according to claim 1, wherein each of the first group of contacts have a first length that is different from a length of the second group of contacts.

8. The connector according to claim 7, wherein the first length is larger than the length of the second group of contacts.

9. The connector according to claim 1, wherein the insulation body covers a portion of the plurality of contacts connecting to the plurality of bridge portions.

10. The connector according to claim 1, wherein the plurality of bridge portions are exposed through a plurality of openings in the insulation body.

11. The connector according to claim 10, wherein the plurality of bridge portion are removable such that the first group of contacts are electrically isolated from each other.

12. The connector according to claim 11, wherein each contact of the first group of contacts includes a contact portion extending outside the insulation body.

13. The connector according to claim 12, wherein adjacent bridge portions are staggered by a predetermined distance along a length of the plurality of contacts.

14. The connector according to claim 13, wherein each contact portion corresponds along a common plane.

15. The connector according to claim 1, wherein the connector is a receptacle connector being mateable with a mating plug connector having a plurality of mating contacts corresponding to the plurality of contacts.

16. The connector according to claim 15, wherein the plurality of mating contacts include a first group of mating contacts and a second group of mating contacts having a first pair of differential signal mating contacts and a second pair of differential signal mating contacts positioned on opposite sides of the first group of mating contacts, respectively.

17. The connector according to claim 16, wherein the first group of mating contacts have a greater length than a length of the second group of mating contacts.