Electrical connector

• US 9,160,098 B1
• Filed: 06/20/2014
• Issued: 10/13/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 06/20/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Cheng UEI Precision Industry Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Cheng UEI Precision Industry Company Limited
• Inventors: Lai, Ming Chun, Liao, Ten Fan
• Primary Examiner(s): Riyami, Abdullah
• Assistant Examiner(s): NGUYEN, THANG H
• Application Number:
  US14/311,240
• Time in Patent Office: 480 Days
• Field of Search: 439/660, 439/607.35, 439/607.4, 439/537
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/5202 Sealing means between parts of housing or between housing part and a wall, e.g. sealing rings
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/6275 Latching arms not integral with the housing H01R13/6276, H01R13/6277, H01R13/6278 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/6581 Shield structure
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 24/60 Contacts spaced along planar side wall transverse to longitudinal axis of engagement

Abstract

An electrical connector includes an insulating housing, a plurality of electrical terminals integrated in the insulating housing, a shielding shell, an external housing and a water-proof assembly. The shielding shell is worn around the insulating housing and has a bottom plate opened with a pair of through slots. The external housing is molded outside the insulating housing and the shielding shell, and has a bottom wall defined with a pair of through holes which are corresponding to the through slots. The water-proof assembly is embedded in the bottom of the external housing and has a pair of elastic arms elastically project upward through the through holes of the external housing and the through slots of the shielding shell.

Claims

1. An electrical connector, comprising:

an insulating housing having a base portion, a front of the base portion extending frontward to form a tongue board having a smaller dimension than the base portion, a top face of the tongue board being concaved downward and extended rearward to form a plurality of upper terminal grooves, a bottom face of the tongue board being concaved upward and extended rearward to form a plurality of lower terminal grooves, the upper terminal grooves and the lower terminal grooves further penetrating downward through a bottom face of the base portion of the insulating housing;

a plurality of electrical terminals including a plurality of upper terminals and a plurality of lower terminals, the upper terminals and the lower terminals being respectively held in the upper terminal grooves and the lower terminal grooves of the insulating housing;

a shielding shell enclosing the insulating housing, the shielding shell having a top plate, a bottom plate and two side plates which corporately define a receiving chamber for receiving the insulating housing and the electrical terminals therein, a front of the bottom plate of the shielding shell being opened with a pair of through slots, the through slots penetrating through top and bottom faces of the bottom plate;

an external housing molded outside the insulating housing and the shielding shell, the external housing having a top wall, a bottom wall, a rear wall and two side walls which corporately define a receiving space for receiving the insulating housing and the shielding shell therein, a front of a bottom face of the bottom wall of the external housing being concaved upward to form a holding cavity, a top face of the holding cavity being further concaved upward to form a pair of through holes corresponding to the through slots of the shielding shell; and

a water-proof assembly held in the bottom wall of the external housing, the water-proof assembly including a buckling element, a holding element and a locking element, the buckling element being molded around a bottom part of the holding element, the locking element being molded in the holding element and having a pair of elastic arms projecting above the holding element, the water-proof assembly being held in the holding cavity of the external housing and the elastic arms of the locking element elastically projecting into the receiving chamber through the through holes of the external housing and the through slots of the shielding shell.

2. The electrical connector as claimed in claim 1, wherein the locking element of the water-proof assembly has a lying-U shaped fastening portion, an inside of the bend of the fastening portion protrudes rearward, then is arcuately bent upward and further extends slantwise forward to form the elastic arms of which the distal ends are bent downward, the fastening portion of the locking element is molded in the holding element.

3. The electrical connector as claimed in claim 2, wherein the holding element of the water-proof assembly has a holding substrate, a substantial center of a bottom face of the holding substrate protrudes downward to form a blocking portion, the buckling element of the water-proof assembly has a buckling board, a center of the buckling board is opened with a buckling window corresponding to the blocking portion of the holding element, the fastening portion of the locking element is molded in the holding substrate of the holding element, the blocking portion of the holding element is buckled in the buckling window of the buckling element.

4. The electrical connector as claimed in claim 3, wherein fronts of two opposite outsides of the bottom wall of the external housing are concaved inward to form a pair of buckling grooves, inner sidewalls of the buckling grooves protrude outward to form a pair of buckling blocks, two lateral edges of the buckling board of the buckling element of the water-proof assembly protrude upward to form a pair of buckling strips, each of the buckling strips is opened with a fastening hole corresponding to the buckling block of the external housing, the buckling strips of the buckling element are buckled in the buckling grooves of the external housing and the buckling blocks of the external housing are buckled in the fastening holes of the buckling element.

5. The electrical connector as claimed in claim 3, wherein a rear of a top face of the holding substrate of the holding element is concaved downward to form a pair of passageways, the elastic arms of the locking element are partially received in the passageways of the holding element and the free ends of the elastic arms project above the holding substrate of the holding element.

6. The electrical connector as claimed in claim 1, wherein a rear edge of the bottom plate of the shielding shell is concaved frontward to form a gap, a rear of the bottom wall of the external housing is opened with an opening corresponding to the gap of the shielding shell, a bottom part of the base portion of the insulating housing is buckled in the gap of the shielding shell and the opening of the external housing.

7. The electrical connector as claimed in claim 1, wherein two opposite sides of the base portion of the insulating housing protrude outward to form a pair of buckling lumps at the rear thereof, rear edges of the side plates of the shielding shell are concaved frontward to form a pair of buckling slots, the buckling lumps of the insulating housing are buckled in the buckling slots of the shielding shell.

8. The electrical connector as claimed in claim 1, wherein rears of the side walls of the external housing oppositely protrude outward to form a pair of fixing wings, back faces of the fixing wings are concaved frontward to form a pair of fixing slots of which each middle further vertically penetrates through the corresponding fixing wing, the electrical connector further includes a pair of nuts, the nuts are fixed in the fixing slots of the external housing.