Connector with a housing with a plurality of pin holes and connection pins extending from the housing

• US 7,959,462 B2
• Filed: 08/13/2010
• Issued: 06/14/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 09/08/2009
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Kim, In-beom, Yoon, Kyung-jin
• Primary Examiner(s): Prasad; Chandrika
• Application Number:
  US12/855,966
• Publication Number:
  US 20110059627A1
• Time in Patent Office: 305 Days
• Field of Search: 439/541.5, 439/660, 439/552, 439/79, 439/581, 439/540
• US Class Current: 439/541.5
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 12/724 containing contact members forming a right angle
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 12/727 Coupling devices presenting arrays of contacts

Abstract

A connector is provided which includes a housing having a plurality of pinholes which are connectable to a signal cable and through which a plurality of electrical signals are transmitted or received, and a plurality of connection pins extending from the housing where a first end of each connection pin is electrically connected to at least one of the plurality of pinholes, and a second end of each connection pin is mountable on a printed circuit board (PCB), wherein the total number of the plurality of connection pins is less than the total number of the plurality of pinholes.

Claims

1. A connector comprising:

a housing comprising a plurality of pinholes which are connectable to a signal cable and through which a plurality of electrical signals are transmitted or received; and

a plurality of connection pins extending from the housing wherein a first end of each connection pin is electrically connected to at least one of the plurality of pinholes, and a second end of each connection pin is mountable on a printed circuit board (PCB),

wherein a total number of the plurality of connection pins is less than a total number of the plurality of pinholes.

2. The connector as claimed in claim 1, wherein one of the plurality of connection pins is electrically connected to all pinholes corresponding to a ground among the plurality of pinholes.

3. The connector as claimed in claim 2, wherein the housing comprises a metal shell which encloses the plurality of pinholes and is electrically connected to the pinholes corresponding to the ground.

4. The connector as claimed in claim 1, wherein the plurality of connection pins are bent at a substantial right angle.

5. The connector as claimed in claim 1, wherein the plurality of pinholes are arranged in three rows in a longitudinal direction of the housing, and the plurality of connection pins are arranged in two rows in the longitudinal direction of the housing.

6. The connector as claimed in claim 1, wherein the total number of the plurality of pinholes is 15, and the total number of the plurality of connection pins is 10.

7. The connector as claimed in claim 1, wherein the plurality of pinholes and the plurality of connection pins are arranged such that a signal cable is insertable into the connector, while the signal cable is positioned in parallel with the PCB.

8. The connector as claimed in claim 1, wherein the connector is a D-SUB connector.

9. A connector comprising:

a housing comprising a plurality of pinholes which are connectable to a signal cable; and

a plurality of connection pins extending from the housing wherein a first end of each connection pin is electrically connected to at least one of the plurality of pinholes, and a second end of each connection pin is mountable on a printed circuit board,

wherein the first end of at least one of the plurality of connection pins is electrically connected to more than one of the plurality of pinholes.

10. The connector according to claim 9, wherein a total number of the plurality of connection pins is less than a total number of the plurality of pinholes.

11. The connector according to claim 9, wherein the at least one of the plurality of connection pins that is electrically connected to more than one of the plurality of pinholes is electrically connected to all pinholes corresponding to a ground among the plurality of pinholes.

12. The connector according to claim 11, wherein the housing comprises a metal shell which encloses the plurality of pinholes and is electrically connected to the pinholes corresponding to the ground.

13. The connector according to claim 9, wherein the plurality of connection pins are bent at a substantial right angle.

14. The connector according to claim 9, wherein the plurality of pinholes are arranged in three rows in a longitudinal direction of the housing, and the plurality of connection pins are arranged in two rows in the longitudinal direction of the housing.

15. The connector according to claim 9, wherein the total number of the plurality of pinholes is 15, and the total number of the plurality of connection pins is 10.

16. The connector according to claim 9, wherein the plurality of pinholes and the plurality of connection pins are arranged such that a signal cable is insertable into the connector, while the signal cable is positioned in parallel with the PCB.

17. The connector according to claim 9, wherein the connector is a D-SUB connector.