Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.

3com Corporation

Joel J Yeh

Yao-Hao Chang

Haw-Chan Tan

Ryan A Kunz

Ryan Yeh

Gary H Stout

Hui-Tze Tsai

An audio jack ( ) includes an insulative housing ( ) and a set of contacts ( ) assembled on the insulative housing. The insulative housing defines a longitudinal hole ( ) therethrough for receiving a mating plug ( ) and having a top wall ( ), a bottom wall ( ), a first sidewall ( ), a second sidewall ( ) and a rear wall ( ). The set of contacts includes a first contact ( ), a second contact ( ), a third contact ( ) and a fourth contact ( ). The fourth contact is secured to the rear wall of the insulative housing for minimizing the profile of the audio jack.

Audio jack having improved arrangement of contacts

An electrical connector ( ) includes an insulating housing ( ) having a head section ( ) and a pair of guiding arms ( ) extending rearwardly from opposite ends of the head section, a number of signal and power contacts ( ) retained in the head section and a conductive shield ( ) enclosing the housing. The conductive shield includes first and second plates ( ) mechanically connected with each other and respectively covering top and bottom surfaces ( ) of the insulating housing. The signal and power contacts have solder tails ( ) extending beyond a rear edge of the first and second plates for electrically connecting to an electronic card. The first and second plates have grounding tails ( ) for electrically connecting to the electronic card.

Shielded electronic card connector

An electronic card connector ( ) for engaging with a circuit card ( ) includes an insulating housing ( ) having a head section ( ) and a pair of guiding arms ( ) extending rearwardly from opposite ends of the head section, and a number of signal contacts ( ) and power contacts ( ) retained in the head section. The head section is step-shaped having a body ( ) and a projection ( ) located above the body. The projection has a rear face ( ) extending rearwardly beyond a rear face ( ) of the body. The signal and power contacts are respectively retained in the body and the projection of the head section for electrically connecting to the circuit card.

Electronic card connector having power contacts

An electrical connector includes a dielectric housing ( ) and a plurality of &OHgr;-shaped conductive terminals ( ) mounted in the dielectric housing. The dielectric housing defined a plurality of passageways ( ) to accommodate the terminals. Each of the &OHgr;-shaped terminals comprises a solder tail ( ), a retention portion ( ) located in front of the tail portion and secured to the housing, a looped spring portion ( ) extending forwardly and upwardly from the retention portion, a horizontal beam ( ) extending forwardly from the looped spring portion, an arcuate portion ( ) extending forwardly and upwards from a front end of the horizontal beam and a contact portion ( ) extending rearwards from a free end of the arcuate portion into a front end portion of a corresponding passageways, said contact portion being adapted for engaging with a terminal of a complementary connector.

Electrical connector with highly compliant terminals

An electrical connector ( ) for interconnecting a first and a second printed circuit boards (PCBs) includes an insulative base ( ) and a first and a second sets of contacts ( ) received in the base. The insulative base defines a plurality of first and second channels ( ). The first and second channels respectively have first and second exposing portions ( ) arranged in two rows. The first and second sets of contacts respectively have first and second contact portions ( ) extending beyond an upper surface ( ) of the base through the first and second exposing portions.

Electrical connector with staggered contacts

Electrical connector

An electrical connector assembly comprises a first and a second housing members ( ) connected together, two sets of identical first terminals ( ) received in the first and second housing members, two sets of second terminals ( ) contacted with the sets of first terminals respectively, a grounding terminal ( ) having a body strip ( ) and a pair of arms ( ), a spacer ( ) assembled to the housing members. The spacer has a base portion ( ) defining an two sets of retaining slots ( ), an elongated slit ( ) in a rear face, and two pairs of insertion holes ( ) in communication with the two sets of retaining slots, respectively. Retaining portions ( ) of the second terminals are retained in the retaining slots of the spacer and the body strip of the grounding terminal is retained in the elongated slit.

Electrical connector assembly

An electrical connector ( ) includes a first electrical connector subassembly ( ), a second electrical connector subassembly ( ), a dielectric holder ( ), a special-purpose printed circuit board ( ), an insulative retainer ( ) and a conductive outer shield ( ). The first and the second electrical connector subassemblies respectively have electrical terminals ( ) and electrical contacts ( ) electrically connecting with the printed circuit board. The dielectric holder retains the second electrical connector subassembly and is assembled to the first electrical connector subassembly and the conductive outer shield. The insulative retainer retains the printed circuit board and is latched with the first electrical connector subassembly, the dielectric holder and the conductive outer shield.

Electrical connector having printed circuit board mounted therein

Vertical SMT-type connector

An electrical connector assembly ( ) includes a D-Sub connector ( ), a triplex audio jack connector ( ), and a board edge connector ( ) all mounted to a sound card ( ), the whole being assembled into a connector housing ( ) having a rear cover ( ) with a shielding plate ( ). The board edge connector is mountable to a motherboard ( ). The result is a sound package including sound card and connectors which takes up less space on the motherboard than separate sound card and connectors. The new connector assembly with internal sound card thus results in greater efficiency.

Connector assembly with internal sound card

A plug connector ( ) includes a top cover ( ), a latch mechanism ( ), a strain relief ( ) securing a cable ( ), a terminal module ( ) have a plurality of terminals ( ) therein, a push button switch ( ), a printed circuit board ( ), and a bottom cover ( ). The top cover has a latch release button ( ). The latch mechanism includes a spring plate ( ) and a latch portion ( ) extending downwardly and outwardly from a front end of the spring plate. When the latch release button is pressed, the spring plate gets pressed, and the latch portion is moved downwardly and released from a mating connector. The plug connector is thus unlatched from the mating connector.

Plug connector with latch mechanism

An I/O connector ( ) has a top cover ( ), a bottom cover ( ), a terminal module ( ), a printed circuit board (PCB, ), a switch ( ), a latch ( ), and a metal plate ( ). The switch is soldered on the PCB while the PCB is soldered to contacts of the terminal module. The latch extends through the terminal module with a pair of pawls ( ) and a pair of push beams ( ) respectively exposed ahead and above the terminal module. The top cover has a latch release button ( ) and a hot button ( ), and a barrier ( ) is disposed therebetween. A pair of latch actuators ( ) downwardly extends from the latch release button to actuate the push beams. A switch actuator ( ) downwardly extends from the hot button to actuate a push pole ( ) of the switch. The metal plate is mounted to the top cover and being extended through by the switch actuator and a pair of push arms ( ) of the latch.

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San Gabrie, CA, United States of America

Joel J Yeh