Foxconn Interconnect Technology Limited

Jin-Guo Qiu

Jun Zhao

Wei Wen

Gang Hu

Yang-Yang Yu

Shao-Cong Zhou

Yong-Qi Wang

Tien-Chieh Su

Guo-Dong Gu

An electrical connector includes: a contact module including an insulative housing and an upper and lower rows of contacts arranged in the insulative housing, the insulative housing having a base and a tongue, the upper row of contacts and the lower row of contacts being exposed to two opposite surfaces of the tongue, respectively, each contact having a contacting portion, a tail, and an intermediate portion between the contacting portion and the tail; and a shielding shell enclosing the insulative housing, the shielding shell including a rear plate proximate to the contact tails; wherein the rear plate has a recessed face opposing the contact tails to increase a distance between the rear plate and the contact tails.

Electrical connector having a shielding shell with a recessed plate to distance from contact tails

An electrical connector includes: a contact module comprising an insulative housing having a base portion and a tongue portion, and a number of conductive terminals affixed to the insulative housing and each comprising a contacting portion exposed to a surface of the tongue portion, a soldering portion and a connecting portion connecting the contacting portion and the soldering portion; and a metal shell comprising a pair of locking grooves depressed forwardly from a rear surface thereof; wherein the insulative housing comprises a pair of mounting portions located at two lateral sides of a rear end thereof, the mounting portions are stuck in the locking grooves when the contact module is assembled to the metal shell along a rear-to-front direction, and a lower portion of each mounting portion is resisted against the rear surface of the metal shell.

Electrical connector having interlocked shell and housing portions and stacked grounding terminals

An electrical connector includes: an insulative housing having a base portion and a tongue portion; plural contacts affixed to the insulative housing and exposed to the tongue portion; an outer cover enclosing the insulative housing, the outer cover having plural peripheral grooves () open at a front face thereof; and a sealing element having plural protrusions () secured to the plural grooves.

Electrical connector having metallic outer cover equipped with transversely linked mounting ears and sealing element secured upon front end region

An electronic card connector, defining an insertion direction, an ejection direction, and a transverse direction perpendicular to the insertion direction, includes an insulative housing and a number of terminals retained in the insulative housing. The terminals include a row of first contacts disposed along the insertion direction. Each first contact has a first affixed portion and a first contacting portion located at a peak therein. Each of the first contacts extends along the transverse direction. The first contacting portions of the neighboring first contacts are located offset along the insertion direction. The first contacting portions and associated first affixed portions of the first contacts are distanced differently in the transverse direction.

Electronic card connector assembly having improved terminals to avoid scuffing

An electrical connector includes an insulative housing, a number of conductive terminals affixed to the insulative housing, a shielding shell enclosing the insulative housing; and a sealer. The insulative housing includes a base portion and a tongue portion extending forwardly from the base portion. Each conductive terminal includes a contacting portion exposed to the tongue portion. The shielding shell includes a number of locking grooves penetrating rearward and a number of tubers and each sandwiched between two locking grooves. The sealer seals a rear end of the shielding shell. The sealer includes a number of tubers corresponded with the locking grooves of the shielding shell and a number of locking grooves receiving the tubers of the shielding shell.

Electrical connector

An electrical connector includes: a terminal module comprising an insulative housing having a base portion and a tongue portion, an upper and a lower rows of conductive terminals, and a metallic shielding plate clamped between the two rows of conductive terminals; each row of conductive terminals including plural grounding terminals located on both sides of the tongue portion, and plural power terminals located on the inside of the grounding terminals; each conductive terminal having a contacting section, a tail section, and a retaining section; wherein an upper power terminal and a corresponding lower power terminal are an integral block structure and extending along a thickness direction of the tongue portion in the tongue portion, a thickness of the contacting section of each power terminal is at least twice the thickness of the contacting section of each grounding terminal.

Electrical connector having improved conductive terminals

An electrical connector includes: an insulative housing having a base and a frontal tongue, the base having a front face; an upper and lower rows of contacts mounted in the insulative housing and exposed respectively to two opposite sides of the tongue; a shielding shell enclosing the insulative housing and having a protruding wall () abutting the front face of the insulative housing base; and a fixing plate () received inside the shielding shell and welded to the protruding wall.

Electrical connector having a shielding shell with mounting device and a fixing plate welded to the shielding shell internally

An electrical connector includes: an insulative housing including a base portion and a tongue portion; and an upper and lower rows of conductive terminals retained to the insulative housing, each row of conductive terminals including a pair of grounding terminals at two ends thereof, each conductive terminal having a contacting section exposed to a surface of the tongue portion, a tail section extending out of the base portion, and a retaining section between the contacting section and the tail section; wherein each grounding terminal has a latch extending sidewardly to expose to a side of the tongue portion.

Electrical connector having grounding terminals serving a latching function

An electrical connector includes: an housing including a base portion and a tongue portion; and an upper and lower rows of conductive terminals retained to the housing, each row of conductive terminals including a pair of grounding terminals at two outer ends thereof and a power terminal immediately inwardly of one of the pair of grounding terminals, each conductive terminal having a contacting section exposed to a surface of the tongue portion, a tail section extending out of the base portion, and a retaining section between the contacting section and the tail section; the power terminal has a widened section extending from the contacting section thereof toward an adjacent grounding terminal and embedded in the tongue portion; a thickness of the widened section is less than a thickness of the contacting section; a bottom surface of the widened section is lower than a bottom surface of associated contacting section.

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