Flippable electrical connector

• US 9,843,148 B2
• Filed: 03/24/2015
• Issued: 12/12/2017
• 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, Su, Wei-Hao, Yeh, Cheng-Chi, Zhang, Yuan, Sedio, Stephen, Van der Steen, Hendrikus P. G.
• Primary Examiner(s): Harvey, James
• Assistant Examiner(s): Jimenez, Oscar C
• Application Number:
  US14/667,632
• Publication Number:
  US 20150200504A1
• Time in Patent Office: 994 Days
• Field of Search: 43960755
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 12/58 terminals for insertion into holes
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 12/724 containing contact members forming a right angle
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/642 by position or shape of contact members
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/6581 Shield structure
• 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: 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 receptacle connector includes a housing defining a base and a mating tongue forwardly extending therefrom, a first row of contacts disposed in the housing with contacting sections and surface mount type tail sections for mounting on a PCB, a second row of contacts disposed in the housing with contacting sections and through hole type tail sections for mounting in the PCB; a metallic shield including a capsular segment surrounding the mating tongue to define a mating cavity and a rear wall covering a rear face of the base to surrounding the surface mount type tail sections and a lower bracket attached to the metallic shielding. The lower bracket is located upon a bottom side of the shield and includes a bottom wall, two sidewalls and a rear wall commonly surrounding the through hole type tail sections.

Claims

1. A receptacle connector for being mounted in a notch defined on a printed circuit board (PCB), comprising:

an insulative housing defining a base and a mating tongue forwardly extending therefrom;

a first row of contacts disposed in the housing with contacting sections exposed upon a first surface of the mating tongue and surface mount type tail sections for mounting on the PCB;

a second row of contacts disposed in the housing with contacting sections exposed upon a second surface of the mating tongue and through hole type tail sections for mounting in the PCB;

a metallic shield comprising a capsular segment surrounding the mating tongue to define a mating cavity and a rear wall covering a rear face of the base to surrounding the surface mount type tail sections of the first row of contacts; and

a metallic lower bracket attached to the metallic shielding;

wherein

the lower bracket located upon a bottom side of the shield and comprises a bottom wall, two sidewalls and a rear wall commonly surrounding the through hole type tail sections of the second row of contacts.

2. The receptacle connector as claimed in claim 1, wherein each sidewall of the lower bracket comprises a front sidewall and a rear sidewall separated from each other, the front sidewalls of the sidewalls are soldered to the capsular segment of the shield.

3. The receptacle connector as claimed in claim 2, wherein the rear sidewalls and rear wall of the lower bracket define soldering pads for being soldered to the PCB.

4. The receptacle connector as claimed in claim 3, wherein the rear wall of the lower bracket bend from the bottom wall and is aligned with the rear sidewalls of the lower bracket.

5. The receptacle connector as claimed in claim 1, wherein the lower bracket is formed by drawing.

6. The receptacle connector as claimed in claim 1, comprising an upper bracket located upon a top side of the shield, wherein the upper bracket comprises a pair of mounting legs for being inserted into the PCB.

7. The receptacle connector as claimed in claim 6, wherein the upper bracket includes a pair of block like raised portions to cover two opposite lateral sides of the housing which is originally exposed via gaps of an extending plate of the shield.

8. The receptacle connector as claimed in claim 1, further including a metallic shielding plate embedded within the mating tongue, wherein said shielding plate includes a pair of rigid locking notches in two opposite lateral sides for locking to a pair of latches of a complementary plug connector.

9. A receptacle connector assembly comprising:

an insulative housing including a front capsular portion from which a mating tongue forwardly extends along a front-to-back direction, and a rear horizontal portion unitarily extends rearwardly along said front-to-back direction, wherein a pair of opposite gaps are formed between the capsular portion and the horizontal portion in a transverse direction perpendicular to said front-to-back direction so as to forwardly expose a pair of corresponding corner portions of said horizontal portion;

a plurality of contacts disposed in the housing with contacting sections exposed upon the mating tongue;

a metallic shielding plate embedded within the mating tongue with a pair of rigid locking notches in two lateral sides for locking with a pair of latches of a complementary plug connector;

a metallic shielding assembly including a metallic shield and a metallic bracket, said metallic shield forming a front capsular part and a rear covering part, the front capsular part enclosing the capsular portion and the mating tongue of the housing to form a mating cavity, and the rear covering part covering the horizontal portion of the housing, the bracket fastened upon the shield;

wherein said metallic shielding assembly includes a pair of segment structures on two opposite ends in said transverse direction to shield the pair of corresponding gaps in both the front-to-back direction and the transverse direction.

10. The receptacle connector assembly as claimed in claim 9, wherein the segment structures are formed unitarily on said bracket.

11. The receptacle connector assembly as claimed in claim 9, wherein said segment structure includes a first part extending along the front-to-back direction to shield the gap in the transverse direction, and a second part extending from the first part in the transverse direction to shield the gap in the front-to-back direction.

12. The receptacle connector assembly as claimed in claim 9, wherein in the metallic shield, said front capsular part and the rear covering part are unitarily formed with each other.

13. The receptacle connector assembly as claimed in claim 9, wherein said bracket unitarily forms mounting legs for mounting to a printed circuit board on which tails of the contacts are mounted.

14. The receptacle connector assembly as claimed in claim 13, wherein said rear covering part includes mounting legs for mounting to said printed circuit board.

15. The receptacle connector assembly as claimed in claim 9, wherein the rear horizontal portion is higher than the front capsular portion so as to allow the front capsular portion enclosed within the front capsular part of the shield to be located within a notch of a printed circuit board and the rear horizontal portion enclosed in the rear covering part to be located upon the printed circuit board with corresponding tails of the contacts under said rear horizontal portion for mounting to the printed circuit board.