Dongguan Luxshare Technologies Co., Ltd

Chuanqi Gong

RongZhe Guo

Xiaogang Liu

Kun Liu

Tao Song

Ming Li

Hongji Chen

Shengyu Wu

Xiaoping Wu

Kunlin Yao

An electrical connector includes a base, a number of first conductive terminals and a number of second conductive terminals. The base includes a mounting surface. Each first conductive terminal includes a first elastic arm. Each second conductive terminal includes a second elastic arm. The first elastic arm and the second elastic arm include a first abutting portion and a second abutting portion, respectively, for abutting against a circuit board. The present disclosure also discloses a connector assembly having the electrical connector. Compared with the prior art, the present disclosure reduces a space occupied by the first elastic arm and the second elastic arm by setting extension directions of the first elastic arm and the second elastic arm to be opposite. As a result, it is beneficial to miniaturization of the electrical connector and the connector assembly.

Electric connector and connector assembly with less space occupation

An electrical connector includes an insulating body and a number of conductive terminals. The insulating body includes a mating slot. Each conductive terminal includes an elastic mating portion protruding into the mating slot and an end portion extending from the elastic mating portion. The insulating body is provided with a number of limiting blocks for limiting the conductive terminals and a terminal limiting slot located between two adjacent limiting blocks. At least one limiting block includes a limiting protrusion protruding into the terminal limiting slot for limiting a side surface of the end portion of the conductive terminal. The insulating body also includes a relief slot in communication with the terminal limiting slot. When the conductive terminal needs to be deformed, the end portion of the conductive terminal can move unimpeded in the relief slot.

Electrical connector body with a relief slot in communication with a terminal limiting slot

An adapter connector includes a terminal assembly, a first adapter housing and a second adapter housing. The terminal assembly includes a first terminal clamping portion at a first end and a second terminal clamping portion at a second end. The terminal assembly includes a first terminal module including a first insulating block, a number of first adapter terminals, a first metal shield provided on a first side of the first insulating block, a second metal shield provided on a second side of the first insulating block, and a first conductive plate. The first adapter terminals include a number of first ground terminals. The first metal shield is in contact with one side of the first grounding terminals, and the first conductive plate is in contact with another side of the first ground terminal.

Adapter connector with improved shielding effect

A shielding shell used to at least partially surround signal terminals includes a first side wall, a second side wall and a third side wall. The second side wall connects the first side wall and the third side wall. The first side wall and the third side wall are disposed face to face. An end of at least one of the first side wall, the second side wall and the third side wall includes a deflection portion bent inwardly. The deflection portion is used to guide insertion of the shielding shell into a mating connector. As a result, a better shielding effect on the signal terminals can be provided. Besides, it is easy to guide insertion of the shielding shell into the mating connector.

Shielding shell

A terminal module includes a number of conductive terminals and an insulating frame. The conductive terminal includes a contact portion, a connection portion and a transition portion connected to the contact portion. The conductive terminals include differential signal terminals, a first ground terminal and a second ground terminal. The contact portions of the differential signal terminals and the connection portions of the differential signal terminals are provided separately. As a result, the structure of the contact portions and the connection portions are simplified for easy manufacturing. The disclosure also discloses a backplane connector having the terminal module.

Terminal module and backplane connector having the terminal module

A backplane connector includes a housing, a number of terminal modules assembled to the housing, and a mounting block. The housing includes a base, a first side wall and a second side wall. Each terminal module includes a first signal terminal and a second signal terminal. The first signal terminal has a first mounting foot, and the second signal terminal has a second mounting foot. The housing includes a receiving groove at a bottom end of the base. The mounting block is received in the receiving groove. The mounting block is made of electroplated plastic. The mounting block has an opening for the first mounting foot and the second mounting foot to extend through. As a result, the backplane connector has a better shielding effect.

Backplane connector with improved mounting block

An adapter connector includes a terminal assembly, a first adapter housing and a second adapter housing. The terminal assembly includes a first terminal clamping portion at a first end and a second terminal clamping portion at a second end. The first adapter housing includes a number of first receiving grooves for receiving the first terminal clamping portion. The second adapter housing includes a number of second receiving grooves for receiving the second terminal clamping portion. The terminal assembly is provided with a first lock assembly locked with the first adapter housing and a second lock assembly locked with the second adapter housing. This arrangement facilitates the assembly of the adapter connector.

Adapter electrical connector connecting two circuit board connectors

A backplane connector includes a housing and a number of terminal modules assembled to the housing. The housing includes a base, a first side wall and a second side wall. The base, the first side wall and the second side wall jointly form a receiving space. The terminal module includes a first signal terminal and a second signal terminal. The housing includes a number of insulating protrusions integrally extending from the base. The insulating protrusions extend into the receiving space. The terminal modules are assembled in the insulating protrusions. Compared with the prior art, the insulating protrusions of the present disclosure is integrally formed with the base, thereby improving the structural strength of the housing and improving the durability of the backplane connector.

Backplane connector with improved structure strength

A terminal module includes a number of conductive terminals. The conductive terminals include a first signal terminal and a second signal terminal. A contact portion of the first signal terminal includes a first contact arm, a second contact arm and a first clamping space. The first contact arm includes a first contact end portion and a first contact arm body portion connected with the first contact end portion. The first contact arm body portion includes a first end connected to the first contact end portion and a second end opposite to the first end. From the first end to the second end, a width of the first contact arm body portion gradually increases. As a result, it is beneficial to improve the contact impedance when it is mated with a mating backplane connector. The present disclosure also discloses a backplane connector having the terminal module.

A terminal module includes a number of conductive terminals. The conductive terminal includes a contact portion, a transition portion connected with the contact portion and a connection portion electrically connected with the transition portion. The conductive terminals include differential signal terminals, a first ground terminal and a second ground terminal. The differential signal terminals include a first signal terminal and a second signal terminal. The terminal module further includes a fixing block fixed on the transfer portions of the first signal terminal and the second signal terminal. As a result, a distance between the first signal terminal and the second signal terminal can be controlled by the fixing block for improving the quality of data transmission. The present disclosure also discloses a backplane connector having the terminal module.

A backplane connector assembly includes a first backplane connector and a second backplane connector. The first backplane connector includes a number of first conductive terminals, a first insulating bracket, a first metal shield, a second metal shield and a shielding space. The second backplane connector includes a second terminal module. Each second terminal module includes mating terminals mated with the first conductive terminals and a shielding shell surrounding a periphery of the mating terminals. The shielding shell is received in the shielding space. As a result, the backplane connector assembly of the present disclosure reduces crosstalk and improves the quality of signal transmission.

Backplane connector assembly with improved shielding effect

A backplane connector includes a housing, a number of terminal modules, a metal shielding surrounding portion and a mounting block. The housing includes a base, a receiving groove and a number of insulating protrusions integrally extending from the base. The terminal module includes a first signal terminal and a second signal terminal. The first signal terminal has a first mounting foot. The second signal terminal has a second mounting foot. The metal shield surrounding member includes a first tail portion, a second tail portion and a hollow portion sleeved on the insulating protrusion. The mounting block is received in the receiving groove. As a result, the shielding effect of the backplane connector is improved.

Backplane connector with improved shielding effect

A backplane connector includes a number of wafers and a spacer for assembling the number of wafers together. Each wafer includes an insulating frame. The insulating frame includes a first protrusion. The spacer includes a body portion. The body portion has a number of slots for holding the first protrusions of the wafers. A periphery of each slot is surrounded by the body portion. Compared with the prior art, the spacer of the present disclosure is provided with a number of slots for holding the first protrusions of the wafers. As a result, the wafers can be easily assembled and fixed as a whole.

Backplane connector

A backplane connector includes a housing and a number of terminal modules. Each terminal module includes a number of conductive terminals, a metal shield surrounding member, a first metal shield and a second metal shield. The conductive terminal includes a mating portion and a tail portion. The conductive terminals include a first signal terminal and a second signal terminal. The metal shield surrounding member surrounds the mating portions of the first signal terminal and the second signal terminal. The first metal shield and the second metal shield are in contact with the metal shield surrounding member. As a result, the shielding area is increased and the shielding effect is improved.

A terminal module includes a number of conductive terminals and an insulating frame. Each conductive terminal includes a contact portion. The conductive terminals include a first signal terminal and a second signal terminal. The contact portion of the first signal terminal includes a first contact arm, a second contact arm and a first clamping space. The terminal module includes an insulating block sleeved on the first contact arm and the second contact arm, and a metal shield surrounding member sleeved on the insulating block. The insulating block includes a limiting groove and the metal shield surrounding member includes a limiting protrusion protruding into the limiting groove. As a result, it facilitates to assemble the insulating block and the metal shield surrounding member. The present disclosure also relates to a backplane connector having the terminal module.

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