Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.

Foxconn Interconnect Technology Limited

Foxconn (kunshan) Computer Connector Co., Ltd.

Fuyu Electronical Technology (huaian) Co.

Kuo-Chun Hsu

Terrance F Little

Jian-Kuang Zhu

Chang-Hsien Tung

An-Jen Yang

Chien-Ping Kao

Bin Peng

Hung-Chi Yu

Min-Han Lin

Hsueh-Lung Hsiao

Chih-Nan Lin

Ting-Ting Yin

Wei Zhong

Chun-Sheng Li

Hung-Yang Yeh

Wei-Hung Hsu

Teng-Fei Zhang

Duong Phan

Ming-Chuan Wu

Jun Fang

Cheng-Jun Zou

Yu-Hsu Chen

Yu-Jia Deng

Chien-Jen Ting

Tod M Harlan

Stephen Sedio

Yu-Hua Mao

Wei-Chung Lin

Tzu-Ching Tsai

Richard Lee Malehorn, Ii

Kuo-Lung Lin

Xiao-Hu Yin

Jui-Kuang Chung

Hui-Wen Yang

Ta-Lung Liu

Zhong-Bao Wu

Chih-Pi Cheng

Qing-Man Zhu

Wen-Jun Tang

Chun-Ming Yu

Zhen-Hua Wang

Jian-Jun Zhu

Richard Scott Kline

Zhi-Jian Chen

Yin-Chao Xu

Guang-Lei Xu

Po-Fu Chen

Ti-Li Wei

Li-Shing Hou

Tzu-Fan Kuo

Jun Lin

Kai-Li Wang

Feng-Lan Liu

Zu-Sheng Wang

Ting-Yen Chuang

Yue-Chao Zhao

Chin-Chu Tsai

I-Ting Chiang

Shun-Ying Yuan

Ming-xiang Chen

A card edge connector includes: an insulating housing defining a card slot opening forwards through a front face thereof; plural terminals retained in the insulating housing and including contacting portions extending into the card slot and soldering portions exposed upon a bottom face of the housing; and a metal shell at least partially covering the insulating housing, wherein the metal shell including a flat plate and a pair of side plates bending downwards from the flat plate, and the flat plate is at least partially embedded in the insulating housing and located proximate to a top face.

Card edge connector with an improved metal shell

An electrical connector assembly includes a plug connector and a receptacle connector, the receptacle connector including: a receptacle housing defining a mating surface and plural passageways; and at least two receptacle power terminals and at least one receptacle signal terminal received in corresponding passageways, wherein the receptacle signal terminal is composed of two independent blanking pieces, each blanking piece comprises two elastic arms each having a contacting portion, the two blanking pieces are arranged crosswise and located in a same passageway, and the contacting portions intersect in an X shape along an inserting direction perpendicular to the mating surface, and wherein one of the two blanking pieces has a first extending portion extending opposite to the elastic arms, the other of the two blanking pieces has two second extending portions spaced with a gap, and the first extending portion goes across the gap and is sandwiched by the two second extending portions.

Electrical connector assembly with improved terminals

An electrical connector includes an insulative front housing, an insulative rear housing and a plurality of contacts. The front housing forms a mating cavity. The contact includes a contacting section extending into the mating cavity, a retaining section retained to the front housing, and a connecting section connected with the wire. The rear housing includes a front receiving space and a rear receiving space communicating with each other. The rear portion of the front housing is assembled into the front receiving space of the rear housing to have the connecting sections of the contacts exposed in the front receiving space. The rear receiving space receives the corresponding wires therein with corresponding opening to allow the wires to extend therethrough.

Cable connector equipped with different rear cases for different directional cable extension

A plug connector includes an insulative plug housing with a plurality of plug contacts retained thereto. The plug housing forms a plug mating portion with a mating surface thereon. The plug contacts include front blade contacting sections extending beyond the mating surface and are arranged along the first direction with one another. Viewed along the first direction, the mating surface is curved with a bulged middle section. The receptacle connector includes a receptacle housing with a plurality of receptacle contacts retained thereto. The receptacle housing forms therein a mating cavity in which a receptacle mating portion extends along the mating direction wherein the receptacle mating portion forms a mating face behind which the receptacle contacts are located. During mating, the plug mating portion is snugly received within the mating cavity with the mating surface of the plug connector is spaced from the mating face of the receptacle connector.

Electrical connector assembly including plug and receptacle mating portions having spaced front mating surfaces

An electrical connector assembly includes a first connector and a second connector mateable with each other wherein each of the first connector and the second connector has an insulative housing essentially composed of a bottom wall, a side wall and a pair of end walls wherein all the bottom wall and the side wall are rectangular while the end walls are right triangular. The first connector and he second connector are coupled with each other in a complementary manner with the corresponding hypotenuses of the right triangles confronting each other. A sealing member of a frame structure is located at an interface between the coupled edges of the housings in an oblique manner.

Electrical connector assembly

An electrical connector assembly includes a plug connector and a receptacle connector. A plug connector includes an insulative plug housing and a plurality of blade type male contacts retained in the plug housing. Each of the blade type male contacts includes a contacting section composed of two opposite primary mating planes and two opposite side locking planes. Correspondingly, a receptacle connector includes an insulative receptacle housing and a plurality of clip type female contacts retained in the receptacle housing. Each of the clip type female contacts includes a pair of contacting portions sandwiching the two opposite primary mating planes of the corresponding blade type male contact therebetween in a first horizontal direction. A metallic blade type locking piece retained in the receptacle housing, includes a pair of locking arms sandwiching the two opposite side locking planes therebetween in a second horizontal direction perpendicular to the first horizontal direction.

Electrical connector assembly with locking arms and locking planes

An electrical connector assembly includes a receptacle connector and a plug connector mateable with each other. Each of the receptacle connector and the plug connector defines a first mating face and a second mating face perpendicular to each other in response to mating along the front-to-back direction and the vertical direction. Each of the receptacle connector and the plug connector includes a plurality of contacts composed of a plurality of first contacts and a plurality of contact units alternately arranged with each other along the transverse direction perpendicular to both the front-to-back direction and the vertical direction. Each contact unit includes a second contact and a third contact wherein the second contact is closer to the second mating face than the third contact is while the third contact is closer to the first mating face than the second contact is.

Electrical connector assembly with complementary contact unit

An electrical connector includes an insulative housing, a plurality of passageways, a plurality of blade type contacts retained to the retaining grooves in the corresponding passageways, a spacer located in a rear receiving space of the housing with corresponding slits through which tails of the contacts rearwardly extend, and a plurality of wires having the inner conductors soldered upon the tails of the contacts behind the spacer. A waterproof glue plate fills the receiving space of the housing to enclose the exposed inner conductors and the corresponding tails. A plurality of passages are formed in one side of the peripheral wall, through which the wires extend in a vertical direction perpendicular to the horizontal direction along which the contacts extend. The spacer forms a recess to receive a protrusion of the glue plate, and the protrusion is located adjacent to the passages for assuring sealing around said passages.

Electrical cable connector

An electrical connector includes an insulative housing, a plurality of slit type passageways, a plurality of blade type contacts retained with the corresponding slit type passageways, respectively, and a plurality of wires having the inner conductors soldered upon the tails of the contacts behind the rear face of the housing. The rear face forms a plurality of standoffs on which the front ends of the exposed inner conductor abut, respectively. A waterproof glue plate fills the back space of the housing behind the rear face to enclose the exposed inner conductors and the corresponding tails and seal the rear face of the housing.

The electrical connector includes an insulative housing having a columnar section and an annular groove surrounding the columnar section. The column section includes a mating face and a plurality of power contact passageways and a plurality of signal contact passageways extending through the mating face wherein the signal contacts and the power contacts are commonly arranged with a cross configuration area to have the signal contacts located by opposite upper and lower sides of the power contacts. Both the power contacts and the signal contacts of the plug connector are of a blade type while both the power contacts and the signal contacts of the receptacle connector are of a clamp type wherein each signal contact has one clamping structure while each power contact has a pair of clamping structures side by side arranged with each other.

Circular connector

A card edge connector includes an insulative housing and a number of terminals retained in the insulative housing. The insulative housing defines a slot going through a front surface thereof to receive an electrical card. Each terminal includes a contacting portion extending into the slot and a tail extending out of the insulating housing. The insulative housing has a retaining wall above the slot. The card edge connector further includes a nut retained in the retaining wall, and cooperating with an external retaining member to fix the heat dissipation module to the insulative housing. The card edge connector can be adapted to expand the module of the existing electrical card to meet diverse needs of customers.

Card edge connector and assembly thereof

An electrical receptacle connector includes an insulative housing forming a pair of receiving slots, two pairs of contacts are retained in the housing and located by two sides of the corresponding receiving slots, respectively. Each contact has a frame having four sides with a pair of first spring arms extending from two opposite sides toward each other and extending into the receiving slot with the corresponding contact points at different levels. A second spring arm extends from another side into the receiving slot. A deflection direction of the first spring arms is perpendicular to that of the second spring arm, and the first spring arms contact one side of the blade type contact of the plug connector and the second spring arm contacts another side of the blade type contact of the plug connector.

Electrical connector having complementary configurations of opposite contacts

Card edge connector

Receptacle connector and plug connector set

An electrical connector includes an insulative housing defining a mating chamber opening forwardly along a front-to-back direction, a number of contacts retained to the insulative housing, and a shielding plate having a pair of latch arms located at two opposite lateral sides of the mating chamber. Each of the contacts includes a contact portion extending into the mating chamber. The shielding plate includes a pair of retention arms each including an interference protrusion engaged with the insulative housing by interference fit. The interference protrusions are disposed in a face-to-face way to engage with a rear wall of the insulative housing so that the interference protrusions are retained tightly to insulative housing and less likely to damage the insulative housing.

Electrical connector having shielding plate retained tightly thereto

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