Foxconn Interconnect Technology Limited

Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.

Foxconn (kunshan) Computer Connector Co., Ltd.

Chih-Kai Yang

Chih-Pi Cheng

Terrance F Little

Shuo-Hsiu Hsu

Cheng-Chi Yeh

Ke-Hao Chen

Hsiu-Yuan Hsu

An-Jen Yang

Ming-Lun Szu

Chih-Hsien Chou

Andrew David Gattuso

Shan-Yong Cheng

Chao-Chieh Chen

A connector assembly for mounting a chip module to a printed circuit board (PCB) includes: a seating mechanism including a socket connector, a metallic seat frame, and a metallic load plate; a back plate; and plural fasteners extending through the seating mechanism, the PCB, and the back plate to fasten the seating mechanism and the back plate on two opposite sides of the PCB, wherein the back plate has a curved inner region and a flat outer region and the fasteners extend through the flat outer region of the back plate.

Electrical connector assembly including a back plate having a curved inner region and a flat outer region

A plug connector includes an insulative housing with mating slot, contacts disposed in the housing by two sides of the mating slot, and a pair of side arms located by two opposite ends of the mating slot in a horizontal transverse direction. a receptacle connector includes an insulative housing defining a horizontal mating tongue; contacts disposed in the housing with contacting sections exposed upon two opposite surfaces of the mating tongue; and a monolithic horizontal metallic shielding plate disposed and extending substantially fully the mating tongue. The shielding plate defines side protruding edge sections exposed outside of corresponding side edges of the mating tongue and a notch structure on each side protruding edge section, the pair of side arms each defines a hook structure to engagement with the notch structure.

Plug connector insertable in two orientations and having a metallic shield plate with arms with hook structures

A receptacle includes an insulating housing including a base and a mating tongue, upper contacts and lower contacts, a metallic shell and a shielding plate. The contacts include plate contacting sections exposed upon the mating tongue. The shielding plate is disposed in the mating tongue and the base and isolated from the upper and lower contacts. The metallic shell is retained on the base and surrounding the mating tongue to define a mating port which is inserted with a plug connector in either of two insertion orientations. The front sides of the shielding plate is exposed to the front side of the mating tongue and the lateral sides of the shielding plates is exposed to the corresponding lateral sides of the mating tongue for protection under an improper angular mating of the plug connector.

Flippable electrical connector

An electrical connector includes a terminal module unit with contacts and grounding plates thereof. The terminal module includes an insulative base and an insulative mating tongue forwardly extending therefrom. The mating tongue forms opposite mating surfaces. The contacts includes the contacting sections on the mating surfaces and the connecting legs. The mating tongue includes a root section adjacent to the base. The grounding plates unit covers the root section in an embedded manner. The grounding plate includes a planar body exposed upon the mating surface, and a pair of fixing side arms extending from two opposite ends of the planar body and equipped with corresponding latching hooks to secure to the semi-finished root section before the final insert-molding process is applied.

Electrical connector with grounding plate retained therein

An electrical connector includes an insulative housing defining a forwardly extending mating tongue, a plurality of contacts with contacting sections exposed upon the mating tongue and a metallic shield enclosing the insulative housing to define a mating cavity. A metallic shielding plate is embedded within the mating tongue and forms a pair of locking notches in two opposite lateral sides. The mating tongue further includes in two opposite lateral sides a pair of recesses aligned with and intimately located inside of the pair of locking notches, respectively, in the transverse direction. The housing and the corresponding contacts commonly form the terminal module which is composed of an upper terminal module, a lower terminal module commonly sandwiching a shielding plate module therebetween in the vertical direction. The metallic shield optionally defines a clip structure by folding an extension on a rear lower edge thereof.

An electrical connector assembly includes a receptacle connector and a flippable pug connector for connecting with a cable. The receptacle connector includes a terminal module assembly defining a mating tongue loading with two rows of contacts on opposing surface of the mating tongue and a metallic shell retained on the terminal module assembly and enclosing the mating tongue, thereby defining a mating cavity between the metallic shell and the mating tongue. The plug connector includes an insulating housing defining a center slot with side walls and two rows of contacts on the side walls and a metallic shell attached to an outer periphery of the insulating housing. The mating cavity of the receptacle connector is configured to be symmetrical to a horizontal center line without orientation limits so as to allow the plug connector to be mated in two opposite orientations, and the center slot receives the mating tongue.

Electrical connector having a receptacle with a shielding plate and a mating plug with metallic side arms

An electrical connector for electrically connecting an IC package to a substrate, includes an insulating housing (), a stiffener () located on one side of the insulating housing () and a load plate () assembled to the stiffener () and being rotated between an opened position and a closed position, the stiffener () includes a first end () and an extending portion () extending upwardly and then horizontally in a direction far away from the insulating housing () from the first end (), the extending portion () includes a receiving hole (), the load plate () includes a body portion () and a hook () extending from on end of the body portion (), the hook () is assembled to the receiving hole () and interlocks with the extending portion () to position the load plate () on the stiffener ().

Electrical connector having an improved stiffener

A carrier assembly () comprises an IC package () and a carrier () for positioning the IC package (), the IC package () includes a body portion (), a die portion () extending upwardly from the body portion () and a ear portion () extending from the die portion (), the ear portion () and the body portion () defines a space (), the carrier () includes a first side (), a second side () opposite to the first side (), a position portion () extending from the first side () and a fixing portion () extending from the second side () positioned in the space () of the IC package () to position the IC package () on the carrier ().

Carrier and carrier assembly used thereof for positioning IC package

A holding device for an electrical connector, includes a frame with an opening defined on a center thereof. A first locking portion is disposed on the frame and extends into the opening. A second locking portion has a main body with an elastic arm. The main body defines a fixed end fixed to the frame and an active end rotating around the fixed end. The second locking portion has an open position that the active end can move freely and a closed position that the active end locks to the frame while the elastic arm extends into the opening.

Holding device used for electrical connector

A contact includes an upper contact having a planar main board with a plurality of blocks, a lower contact, and a spring. The lower contact includes a first spring arm and a second spring arm which are positioned at opposite sides of the main board of the upper contact. Only the second spring arm defines a recess to receive corresponding block of the upper contact. The spring is fitted over a predetermined area between the upper and the lower contact.

Contact for electric connector and method of making the same

An electrical connector contact comprises an upper and lower contact pins and a spring device disposed between the upper and lower contact pins. The upper contact pin includes a main portion, two pair of stopping portions respectively projecting from two sides of the main portion, and two guiding slots each formed between two stopping portions located at a same side of the main portion. The lower contact pin has a pair of elastic arms directly made from lacerating and bending a metallic plate and received in the guiding slots, a pair of clamping portions clamping the main portion, and two hooks abutting against the stopping portions to prevent the upper and lower contact pins separating from each other.

Contact terminal for test socket

An IC socket includes a driving member, a socket body mounted below the driving member and a latch member assembled to the base. The driving member is operated between an upper position and a lower position, and drives the latch member to shift between a closed position and an opened position. The base is assembled with a detachable latch hinge, to which the latch member is pivotally attached. The latch hinge can be easily replaced with another proper one according to a thickness of the IC package to the received in the IC socket.

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Chih-Kai Yang