Flippable electrical connector

• US 9,496,653 B2
• Filed: 04/24/2015
• Issued: 11/15/2016
• 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, Chen, Chao-Chieh, Yang, Chun-Chieh, Hsiao, Hsueh-Lung, Zhang, Yuan, Su, Wei-Hao, Sedio, Stephen, Chen, Ming-Ching
• Primary Examiner(s): Vu, Hien
• Application Number:
  US14/695,065
• Publication Number:
  US 20150229077A1
• Time in Patent Office: 571 Days
• Field of Search: 439/660
• US Class Current: 1/1
• 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 13/6582 with resilient means for engaging mating connector
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/6585 Shielding material individually surrounding or interposed between mutually spaced contacts
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/6658 on printed circuit board H01R13/6666 - H01R13/6691 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 2107/00 Four or more poles
• 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: 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 an insulative housing with a mating tongue, a plurality of contacts having front contacting sections exposed upon two opposite surfaces of the mating tongue and rear tail sections extending downwardly outside of the housing for mounting to a printed circuit board. A metallic shield encloses said housing and forms a capsular mating cavity with said mating tongue extending forwardly therein. A metallic shielding plate includes a front horizontal section embedded with the mating tongue to isolate the contacting sections of the contacts which are located on two different opposite surfaces, and a rear vertical section extending downwardly from a rear edge of the front horizontal section to isolate the tail sections of the contacts which are arranged in two rows with said rear vertical section therebewteen.

Claims

1. A receptacle connector for use with a plug, comprising:

an insulative housing defining a base with a mating tongue forwardly extending therefrom in a front-to-back direction;

a plurality of contacts disposed in the housing with contacting sections exposed from the mating tongue and categorized with signal contacts, power contacts and grounding contacts;

a metallic shield enclosing the housing to define a capsular mating cavity in which said mating tongue is disposed and a metallic bracket positioned on the metallic shield; and

a metallic shielding plate embedded within said mating tongue;

wherein the shielding plates defines a pair of lateral edge sections configured to be adapted to be locked with a latch of the plug;

wherein the shielding plate is assembled with the mating tongue via an insert molding process while the contacts are configured to be forwardly assembled to corresponding passageways in the housing, and a tip of each of said contacts is inwardly tilted toward the shielding plate and protectively with a corresponding recession in the mating tongue;

wherein the tip of each of said contacts is further covered by a protection flange formed on the mating tongue;

wherein said contacts are arranged in two rows, and rear tails of the contacts in one row are laterally offset from corresponding front contacting sections and split into two groups while those of the contacts in the other row are aligned with the corresponding contacting sections in the front-to-back direction so as to have the tails of the contacts in said two rows are arranged in a staggered manner;

wherein the metallic shielding plate further unitarily forms a pair of contacting regions spaced therefrom in a parallel relation; and

a pairs of spring arms located on two lateral sides thereof and

wherein the metallic bracket defines tabs to retain on the metallic shield.

2. The receptacle connector as claimed in claim 1, wherein the shield further includes a rear wall with two ears latched to two opposite sides of the shield.

3. The receptacle connector as claimed in claim 1, wherein the tails of the contacts in one row and those of the contacts in the other row extend in opposite directions.

4. A receptacle connector for use with a plug, comprising:

an insulative housing defining a base with a mating tongue forwardly extending therefrom in a front-to-back direction;

two rows of contacts disposed in the housing with contacting sections exposed upon the mating tongue and tails extending from the insulative housing;

a metallic shielding plate embedded within the insulative housing and defining a pair of lateral side edge sections configured to be adapted to be locked with a latch of the plug;

wherein the metallic shielding plate comprises a first shielding portion disposed in the mating tongue and between the contacting sections of the two rows of contacts, and a second shielding portion between the tails of the two rows of contacts;

the pair of lateral side edge sections is defined on the first shielding portion;

wherein the shielding plate further unitarily forms a pair of contacting regions spaced therefrom in a parallel relation;

wherein the shielding plate further unitarily forms a pair of spring arms located on two lateral sides thereof and running across corresponding recesses defined in the base of housing to mechanically housing to mechanically and electrically connect to a shield surrounding the insulating housing;

wherein the receptacle connector further comprising a metallic shield surrounding the insulating housing and a metallic bracket positioned on the metallic shield, wherein the metallic shield defines a plurality of spring tangs at a first sidewall thereof and a plurality of dimples at a second sidewall opposite to the first sidewall for holding the plug, connector, the bracket is attached to the first sidewall of the shield to cover the spring tangs and seal the metallic shield; and

wherein the metallic bracket defines tabs to retain on the metallic shield.

5. The receptacle connector as claimed in claim 4, wherein each of the spring arms slantwise extends rearwards.

6. The receptacle connector as claimed in claim 4, wherein rear tails of the contacts in one row are laterally offset from corresponding front contacting sections and split into two groups while those of the contacts in the other row are aligned with the corresponding contacting sections in the front-to-back direction so as to have the tails of the contacts in said two rows are arranged in a staggered manner.

7. The receptacle connector as claimed in claim 4, wherein the tails of the contacts in one row and those of the contacts in the other row extend in opposite directions.

8. The receptacle connector as claimed in claim 4, further comprising a metallic shield surrounding the insulating housing, wherein the shield further includes a rear wall with two ears latched to two opposite sides of the shield.

9. The receptacle connector as claimed in claim 4, further comprising a metallic shield surrounding the insulating housing, wherein the shield further includes a rear wall with a surface mounting type tail bending forwards.