Cable connector assembly with improved printed circuit board module

• US 9,774,146 B2
• Filed: 10/16/2015
• Issued: 09/26/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 10/16/2014
• 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: Cheng, Wei-Wei, Fan, Xiao, Chen, Jun, Wu, Jerry
• Primary Examiner(s): PATEL, HARSHAD C
• Application Number:
  US14/884,782
• Publication Number:
  US 20160111829A1
• Time in Patent Office: 711 Days
• Field of Search: 43962022, 43962024, 43962025, 43962006, 43962015, 43962021, 439352, 439 761
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 12/53 connecting to cables except for flat or ribbon cables
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/4361 Insertion of locking piece perpendicular to direction of contact insertion
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/665 with built-in electronic circuit H01R13/70, H01R13/719 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 24/28 Coupling parts carrying pins, blades or analogous contacts and secured only to wire or cable
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 24/60 Contacts spaced along planar side wall transverse to longitudinal axis of engagement
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 4/70 Insulation of connections end caps H01R4/22

Abstract

A cable connector assembly (100) comprises an insulative housing having a receiving space (18) extending along a front-to-back direction, and a printed circuit board module (2) received in the receiving space of the insulative housing. The printed circuit board module defines a protruded ridge (24) offset to one side thereof, the protruded ridge extending along a vertical direction, and a groove (185) is defined in the receiving space for accommodating the protruded ridge.

Claims

1. An electrical connector assembly comprising:

an insulative housing defining a partition to form therein a front receiving space and a rear receiving space separated by said partition in a front-to-back direction;

vertically aligned two grooves are formed in a rear shoulder section of the partition;

a printed circuit board (PCB) module extending through the partition and including a PCB disposed in the front receiving space, and

an insulator secured on the PCB; and

the insulator includes a rear main section and two front step sections formed on two opposite surfaces of the PCB module in a vertical direction perpendicular to said front-to-back direction;

a protrusion formed on each of the front step section of the insulator;

wherein said protrusions are received within the respective grooves when the PCB module is correctly inserted through the partition forwardly along the front-to-back direction;

while no groove is formed in the rear shoulder section of the partition to receive the protrusion when the PCB module is incorrectly inserted into the forwardly along the front-to-back direction in a widthwise flip upside down manner so as to prevent misorientation of the PCB module during assembling.