RECEPTACLE CONNECTOR

• US 20090130915A1
• Filed: 11/19/2007
• Published: 05/21/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 11/19/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Cheng UEI Precision Industry Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Cheng UEI Precision Industry Company Limited
• Inventors: Shen, Lili, Zhang, Hong-tu
• Granted Patent: US 7,540,769 B1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 439/691
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/74 Means for mounting coupling parts in openings of a panel

Abstract

A receptacle connector includes an insulating body, a plurality of terminals and a housing. The insulating body defines a plurality of cavities for receiving the terminals. The housing defines a receiving space for receiving the insulating body and a locking space for fixing a plug connector. Two opposite sides of a top wall of the housing respectively extend sideward to form a pair of wings. The wing defines a locking aperture passing through a top and a bottom thereof. The middle of the top wall protrudes upward to form a locking lump. The middle of the rear of the top wall protrudes upward to form a connecting section adjacent to the rear of the locking lump. The locking aperture, the locking lump and the connecting section respectively buckle with corresponding structures of a fixing device.

Claims

1. A receptacle connector, comprising:

an insulating body, defining a plurality of cavities;

a plurality of terminals, received in the corresponding cavities of the insulating body; and

a housing, having a top wall, a bottom wall and two sidewalls, a baffle disposed between the sidewalls, the top wall, the bottom wall, and the sidewalls and defining a receiving space for receiving the insulating body and a locking space for fixing a plug connector, two opposite sides of the top wall respectively extending sideward to form a pair of wings, the wing defining a locking aperture passing through a top and a bottom thereof, the middle of the top wall protruding upward to form a locking lump, the middle of the rear of the top wall protruding upward to form a connecting section adjacent to the rear of the locking lump.

2. The receptacle connector as claimed in claim 1, wherein a top of the locking lump of the housing defines a plurality of locking holes.

3. The receptacle connector as claimed in claim 1, wherein two opposite sides of the insulating body respectively longitudinally define a pair of parallel beams, two side surfaces of the receiving space of the housing respectively define a pair of channels communicating with the receiving space and corresponding to the beams of the insulating body.

4. The receptacle connector as claimed in claim 3, wherein the bottom of the insulating body protrudes downward to form a fixing block, the bottom wall of the housing defines a fixing groove communicating with the receiving space, the fixing block buckles into the fixing groove.

5. The receptacle connector as claimed in claim 1, wherein the locking lump of the housing is a crescent shape, surrounded by a first arc surface at the rear and a second arc surface shorter than the first arc surface at the front.