Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.

Chen-Xi Wang

Zi-Qiang Zhu

Hong-Qiang Han

Lun-Song Hu

Zhang-Lan Xue

Jerry Wu

An electrical connector adapted for at least two different mating connectors, comprises an insulative housing and a plurality of contacts retained on the housing. The insulative housing has a base and a tongue forwardly extending from the base. Each contact has a retaining portion retained in the base, a contact portion extending to the tongue from one end of the retaining portion, and at least one soldering portion extending out of the insulative housing from another end of the retaining portion. The contacts comprise two pairs of outer contacts at two sides thereof and at least one middle contact between said two pairs of outer contacts to connect with one contact of one mating connector or two contacts of another mating connector.

Electrical connector adapted for plural different mating connectors

An electrical connector () includes an insulative housing (), a set of contacts () retained in the insulative housing and a metal shell () covering the insulative housing. The insulative housing includes a base () and a tongue plate () protruding upwardly. The contacts have contacting portions () arranged in one row, retaining portions () extending from lower ends of the contacting portions and retained in the base, and tail portions () bending forwardly from lower ends of the retaining portions for being mounted directly onto a surface of the printed circuit board. The metal shell includes a front wall (), a back wall () opposite to the front wall, and a pair of side walls () connecting the front and back walls. The front wall has a depressed wall () depressed backwardly and forming a hollow space for the tail portions () forwardly extending into.

Vertical electrical connector

An electrical connector () for being mounted onto a printed circuit board () includes an insulative housing (), a plurality of contacts () retained in the insulative housing and a metal shell () covering the insulative housing. The insulative housing includes a base () and a tongue plate () protruding from the base. The contacts have contacting portions () retained in the tongue plate and arranged in one row along a transverse direction, and tail portions () arranged in two rows along a front-to-back direction for being mounted onto the printed circuit board. The contacts consist of a first type of a plurality of grounding contacts () and a second type of a plurality of pairs of differential contacts () under condition that each two adjacent pairs of differential contacts have at least one grounding contact located therebetween. At the tail portions, each pair of differential contacts include a first tail portion () arranged in one of the two rows and a second tail portion () arranged in the other row.

Electrical connector with improved contacts arrangement

Electrical connector

An electrical connector () includes an insulative housing (), a number of contacts () retained in the insulative housing (), and a metal shell () covering the insulative housing (). The insulative housing () has a base () and a tongue () extending forwardly from the base (). The metal shell () has a top wall (), a bottom walls (), and a pair of side walls (). The top wall (), bottom wall () and side walls () define a receiving space () therebetween. The bottom wall () has two first walls () extending opposed to each other from a lower end of the side walls (), two oblique second walls () extending inwardly and upwardly from two first walls (), and a third wall () connecting two second walls () together. The third wall () is higher than the second walls () along an up to down direction.

Electrical connector having a curved metal shell for anti-mismating

An audio jack () includes an insulative housing () defining an insertion opening (), and a plurality of contacts () retained in the insulative housing (); each contact () has a contact portion () extending into the insertion opening () and a tail portion () for connecting with a circuit board; at least a contact () comprises a mating section () for contacting with a corresponding audio plug () and a transmission section () separated with the mating section () for connecting with the circuit board which the mating section () does not connect; at least a contact portion () is arranged on the mating section () to electrically connect with the transmission section () when the audio plug () is fully inserted into the insertion opening ().

Audio jack having a contact with two sections separated with each other

An electrical connector () includes an insulative housing (), a set of contacts () retained in the insulative housing and arranged in one row, and a metal shell () covering the insulative housing. The contacts () consist of a first type of grounding contacts (G) and a second type of a set of pairs of differential contacts (). The metal shell has a receiving space () for receiving a matchable plug.

An electrical connector () includes an insulative housing and a plurality of contacts () retained in the insulative housing. The insulative housing includes a number of receiving slots () and a number of retaining slots () communicating with each other along a front-to-back direction. Each contact () has a securing portion () engaging with the retaining slot (), a contact portion () extending forwardly into the receiving slot () from the securing portion (), and a tail portion () extending out of the insulative housing from the securing portion (). The retaining slot () defines a first inclined face () at an inner wall thereof. The securing portion () has a second inclined face () corresponding to the first inclined face () and abutting against the first inclined face ().

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Kunshan, China

Chen-Xi Wang