3m Innovative Properties Company

J.s.t.mfg. Co.,ltd.

3m Innovation Properties Company

Mea Technologies Pte. Ltd.

Mea Technologies Pte. Tld.

Chin Hua Lim

Saujit Bandhu

YunLong Qiao

Kok Hoe Lee

Rao L Vittapalli

Yew Meng Wu

Vincent Tan

Terry Lee Smith

Alexander Barr

Barry J Koch

Akira Nagamine

Lee Yin Chuang

Mun Yew Mak

Wee Ling Liang

Akira 112-779 Yoshihazama Iwasaki-Cho Nagamine

In a specific embodiment, a connectoris disclosed. The connectorcomprises an insulative housingdefining a rear openingfor receiving a plurality of electrical wiresand a front openingand a circuit boarddisposed in the housingand comprising a mating sectionfor mating with a corresponding mating section of a mating connector. The mating sectionprotrudes outwardly from the front openingand terminates at a front edgedisposed between opposing side edgesof the mating section. The connectorfurther comprises opposing side armsextending forwardly from opposing lateral sidesof the front openingalong, adjacent and beyond corresponding side edgesof the mating sectionwith a maximum separation between each side edgeand the corresponding side armbeing sufficiently small so that when the connectormates with a mating connector, no portion of the mating connector can be inserted between the side edgeand the corresponding side arm. Other exemplary embodiments are also disclosed.

Shielded connector assembly

An electrical contact includes a longitudinal first body portion, a longitudinal second body portion, a terminal portion, and a contact portion. The longitudinal first body portion has a terminal end, a first transition end opposite the terminal end, and a major surface generally lying in a first plane. The longitudinal second body portion has a contact end, a second transition end opposite the contact end, and a major surface generally lying in a second plane intersecting the first plane. The contact end is distal to the first transition end. The terminal portion extends from the first body portion at the terminal end. The contact portion extends from the second body portion at the contact end.

Electrical contact and connector

A connector assembly includes first and second connectors. Each connector includes a plurality of terminals Athrough An, n is an integer &#x2265;2, sequentially arranged in a row. The connector assembly also includes a flat cable that includes a plurality of electrical conductors electrically connecting the terminals of the first and second connectors. For each i from 1 to n, terminal Ai of the first connector is electrically connected, via a different electrical conductor of the cable, to the terminal Ai of the second connector. The cable includes a bend greater than about 150&#xb0; around at least two fold lines that extend across the entire width of the cable. Each of the first and second connectors is configured to mate with the same mating connector, such that when each of the first and second connectors mates with the same mating connector in a same plan view, the An terminals are both either on a left or a right side of the Aterminals.

Connector assembly with folded flat cable

Electrical connectors are described. More particularly, electrical connectors including a plurality of contacts are described. Both connector plugs and sockets are described. Electrical connectors that are suitable for mounting on a printed circuit board and electrical connectors that include a printed circuit board are described.

Elongated electrical connector for mounting on a printed circuit board

Connector

The present invention relates to cable-to-board connectors for fine pitch, high speed connector assemblies. The exemplary connector assembly includes an insulative housing, a plurality of first contacts disposed in the housing wherein at least a portion of the contacts are adapted to terminate at a conductive trace on a printed circuit board and a first cable comprising a plurality of first wires. Each of the first contacts has a first mating portion for making electrical contact with a corresponding contact of a mating connector; and a first terminal portion extending along a housing bottom wherein the first terminal portion is adapted to terminate at a conductive trace on a printed circuit board. In the exemplary cable assembly, each first wire of the first cable is terminated at the first terminal portion of a different first contact.

Cable-to-board connector

The present invention relates to a hybrid connector. The connector comprises an insulating housing having parallel rows of first and second terminals disposed in the housing. Each first and second terminal includes a terminal portion configured to make contact with an electrically conductive trace of a circuit board; and a mating portion configured to contact a terminal of a mating connector, the mating portions of the first terminals parallel to and facing the mating portions of the second terminals. The housing defines a cavity formed therein between the mating portions of the first and second terminals, wherein the cavity defining a cavity opening at an external surface of the housing for receiving light therefrom. An optical relay portion is disposed in the cavity, wherein the optical relay portion comprises at least one of an optical transceiver, an optical lens and an optical waveguide.

Hybrid cable-to-board connector

An electrical connector is disclosed that includes an insulative housing having a mating face at one end, a rear face at another end, a mating slot at the mating face for receiving a complementary connector, a first set of contacts mounted in a first set of channels incorporated at a top of the insulative housing and a second set of contacts mounted in a second set of channels incorporated at a bottom of the insulative housing, and a shielding device located between the first set of contacts and the second set of contacts.

Method, system and devices for interconnecting a plurality of devices

Electrical connector having a base with an inverted T-shaped channel

An electrical connector () is disclosed. In a described embodiment, the electrical connector () comprises first and second terminal pairs () configured to electrically couple to a same device, each terminal pair () comprising terminals (), with the terminals () in the first terminal pair () having different first and second electrical lengths and the terminals () in the second terminal pair () having different third and fourth electrical lengths, wherein a sum of the first and third electrical lengths is substantially the same as a sum of the second and fourth electrical lengths.

Electrical connector

A device for securing a first electrical connector to a second electrical connector, comprising a bracket body; and at least one engaging portion extending from the bracket body to the second electrical connector and coupling to a portion of the second electrical connector. Also provided is a method of securing one electrical connector to another electrical connector and an interconnect system comprising a first connector, a second connector, a third connector, and an engaging device.

Electrical engagement apparatus, system and method

A card connector is used to connect a memory card, such as CF card or CFast card. The card connector includes a housing; a connecting section for receiving a mating section of the memory card; and a pair of guide sections located on opposite lateral sides of the connecting section to guide the memory card, so that the mating section of the memory card can be connected in a mating engagement with the connecting section of the card connector. A tab is further received within each guide section. The tab has a base section, a pair of elastic sections extending from the sides of the base section, and a grounding section below the base section, wherein each of the two elastic sections protrudes from at least one slot provided in the inner side of each guide section respectively and the grounding section protrudes from a hole provided in the bottom of each guide section. The tabs can provide maximum lifting retention and shear forces due to the memory card insertion and extraction. The elastic sections of the tabs can provide balanced support along the sides of the card and the grounding sections of the tabs can provide electrostatic discharge (ESD) grounding.

In one embodiment of the present invention, there is provided an electrical connector comprising an insulative housing having a longitudinal base with a first side and a second side. Extending from the base at the first side is a tongue portion having a first tongue section and a second tongue section, both sections having a first face and a second face. A plurality of passageways are defined on the first faces of both sections. Each of the passageways has a recess located at one end and a plurality of conductive contacts are received in the passageways. Each contact comprises a mating section, a mounting section and a retainer section bridging the mating section to the mounting section whereby the mating section of the contact is free to flex into the recess. In another embodiment of the present invention, there is provided an electrical connector having a socket extending from the base at the second side.

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Chin Hua Lim