Flippable electrical connector

• US 9,502,841 B2
• Filed: 05/23/2016
• Issued: 11/22/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 07/19/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Foxconn Interconnect Technology Limited (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Foxconn Interconnect Technology Limited (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Little, Terrance F., Cheng, Chih-Pi, Zhang, Yuan, Yang, Chun-Chieh, Hwang, Tzu-Yao
• Primary Examiner(s): NGUYEN, PHUONG CHI THI
• Application Number:
  US15/161,307
• Publication Number:
  US 20160268745A1
• Time in Patent Office: 183 Days
• Field of Search: 439/660, 439/626, 439/374, 439/377, 439/79, 439/733
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 12/53 connecting to cables except for flat or ribbon cables
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 12/724 containing contact members forming a right angle
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/405 Securing in non-demountable manner, e.g. moulding, riveting
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/6273 comprising two latching arms
• 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 13/6474 by variation of conductive properties, e.g. by dimension variations
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/6582 with resilient means for engaging mating connector
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/6583 with separate conductive resilient members between mating shield members
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 2107/00 Four or more poles
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 24/30 with additional earth or shield contacts
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 24/60 Contacts spaced along planar side wall transverse to longitudinal axis of engagement
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 4/023 between cables or wires and terminals
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 1/117 Pads along the edge of rigid circuit boards, e.g. for pluggable connectors
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 1/184 Components including terminals inserted in holes through the printed circuit board and connected to printed contacts on the walls of the holes or at the edges thereof or protruding over or into the holes
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 2201/09063 Holes or slots in insulating substrate not used for electrical connections
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 2201/10189 Non-printed connector

Abstract

A plug for provision of power includes a housing forming a receiving cavity with two opposite sites in a vertical direction which is compatible with a standard plug connector with twelve contacts on each site and a first and second rows of contacts on the sides while in diagonally symmetrical manner. Each contact includes a contacting section, and a connecting section for directly connecting to a corresponding wire. Each row of contacts is categorized with a pair of power contacts, a pair of grounding contacts and a specific contact without any high speed differential pair. Two pair of power contacts of both two rows are electrically connected together either via direct mechanical connection via vertical extensions or via indirect electrical connection via the latch which has a pair of side arms extending into the receiving cavity at two opposite transverse ends.

Claims

1. A plug connector comprising:

an insulative housing forming a receiving cavity with two opposite sides in a vertical direction which is compatible with a standard plug connector with twelve contacts on each side;

an upper terminal module and a lower terminal module assembled and retained in the insulative housing, the upper terminal module including an upper insulator with a plurality of upper contacts and the lower terminal module including a lower insulator with a plurality of lower contacts, the upper and lower contacts comprising front contacting sections extending from the corresponding insulators and into the receiving cavity and tail sections embedded in rear flat portions of corresponding insulators;

a metallic latch including two opposite latching arms extending into the receiving cavity at two opposite transverse sides thereof in a transverse direction perpendicular to the vertical direction; and

a cable comprising a plurality of wires;

wherein the rear flat portions of the upper and lower insulator are disposed behind the insulative housing, the tail sections of the upper and lower contacts are exposed on a top surface of the rear flat portions of the upper insulator and a lower surface of rear flat portions of the lower insulator to be directly solder to the corresponding wires of the cable;

wherein each of the upper and lower contacts is categorized with a pair of grounding contacts at two opposite transverse ends, a pair of power contacts between the pair of grounding contacts, and a specific contact without any high speed differential pair.

2. The plug connector as claimed in claim 1, wherein the tail sections of the upper and lower contacts are spanned transversely and outwardly to increase a corresponding width of each tail section and to enlarge the distance between the tail sections of the neighboring contacts.

3. The plug connector as claimed in claim 2, wherein one of the upper and lower contacts further comprises one lower speed differential pair contacts.

4. The plug connector as claimed in claim 1, wherein the upper and lower insulators comprises a retaining hole and a retaining post fitly engaged with each other to assembled the upper and lower terminal module together, on front portions of the insulators.

5. The plug connector as claimed in claim 4, wherein the front portions of the upper and lower insulators are retained in insulative housing.

6. The plug connector as claimed in claim 5, further including a metallic shell, wherein the metallic shell includes a front capsular section fitly enclosing the insulative housing and a rear enlarged section thereof.

7. A plug connector comprising:

an insulative housing forming a receiving cavity with two opposite sides in a vertical direction which is compatible with a standard plug connector with twelve contacts on each side;

two rows of contacts disposed on the two opposite sides, each of the contacts including a front contacting section extending into the receiving cavity and a rear connecting section;

a metallic latch including two opposite latching arms extending into the receiving cavity at two opposite transverse sides thereof in a transverse direction perpendicular to the vertical direction; and

an insulative spacer located behind the insulating housing; and

wherein the insulative spacer comprising a front section retained with the insulating housing and a rear flat portion behind the insulative housing, the rear flat portion defines a top surface and a lower surface, the connecting sections of the two rows of contacts embedded in the rear flat portion and expose to the upper and lower surface of the rear flat portion to be directly soldered to wires of a cable;

wherein each row of contacts is categorized with a pair of grounding contacts at two opposite transverse ends, a pair of power contacts between the pair of grounding contacts, and a specific contact without any high speed differential pair.

8. The plug connector as claimed in claim 7, wherein the pair of grounding contacts in the first row are electrically connected to the pair of grounding contacts in the second row via either vertical extensions in said vertical direction to directly mechanically and electrically connect thereto or indirectly electrically connect thereto via the metallic latch.

9. The plug connector as claimed in claim 8, wherein the contacts sections of power contacts and grounding contacts from said two rows of contacts are aligned with each other one by one;

the connecting sections of the contacts in the first row are categorized with a pair of intimately side by side connecting sections of the grounding contact in the first row and that derived from the second row, and a pair of intimately side by side connecting sections of the power contact in the first row and that derived from the second row to commonly sandwich a connecting section of the CC contact derived from the second row in a transverse direction.

10. The plug connector as claimed in claim 7, further including a metallic shell enclosing the insulative housing.

11. A plug connector comprising:

an insulative housing forming a receiving cavity with two opposite sites in a vertical direction;

two rows of contacts disposed on said two opposite sides in equal intervals While in diagonally symmetrical manner, each of said contacts including a front contacting section for mating with a terminal of a complementary receptacle connector, and a rear connecting section;

wherein

the rear connecting sections are mounted to a printed circuit board instead of a corresponding wire;

wherein the insulative housing includes a pair of wings each with a through hole therein;

further including a metallic shell enclosing the housing, wherein the metallic shell includes a capsular section surrounding the receiving cavity, and a pair of side arms covering the corresponding wings, respectively, each with a corresponding through aperture in alignment with the corresponding through hole.