Advanced-connectek Inc.

Mao-Sheng Chen

Pin-Yuan Hou

Yu-Lun Tsai

Ya-Fen Kao

Chung-Fu Liao

Ming-Yung Chang

Min-Lung Chien

Wen-Hsien Tsai

Wen-Yu Wang

Ta-Teh Meng

Yang-Yang Zhou

Cheng-Che Tsai

Long-Fei Chen

Hsu-Fen Wang

Kuo-Ching Lee

Chih-Kang Chen

Chia-Cheng He

Cheng-Feng Yu

Tzu Hao Li

Chia Cheng He

Ling-Tai Liu

An electrical plug connector includes a metallic shell, an insulated member, plug terminals, and grounding members. The insulated member is in the metallic shell. The plug terminals are held in the insulated member. The grounding members and the insulated member are molded as a one-piece member, thereby reducing the production steps as well as reducing production of defect products. Moreover, the first curved contact portion extends toward the metallic shell and effectively contacts the metallic shell, and the second curved contact portion extends toward the ground terminal and effectively contacts the ground terminal.

Electrical plug connector with grounding members having integrated first and second curved contact portions for effective ground connections

An electrical connector assembly including an electrical connector and a circuit board is provided. The electrical connector has a metallic plate and a plurality of terminals. The metallic plate separates the terminals into two different areas. The metallic plate has a first lateral surface. The circuit board is assembled to the electrical connector. The circuit board has a plurality of pads, a second lateral surface, and top and bottom surfaces opposite to each other. The pads are disposed on the top and bottom surfaces respectively. The second lateral surface is boarded between the top and bottom surfaces. The circuit board further includes at least one grounding circuit exposed from the second lateral surface and facing toward the first lateral surface. The metallic plate is electrically conducted to the grounding circuit by the first lateral surface when the circuit board is assembled to the electrical connector.

Electrical connector assembly and electrical connector

An electrical plug connector includes a metallic shell, an insulated housing, a power terminal group, and a signal terminal group received in the metallic shell. Each terminal of the power terminal group includes a first contact portion, a second contact portion, and a positioning plate that are formed as a clamp structure. The first contact portion extends from an upper portion of the positioning plate and is above the insertion cavity of the insulated housing. The second contact portion extends from a lower portion of the positioning plate and is below the insertion cavity of the insulated housing. Each terminal of the signal terminal group is side-by-side arranged with the corresponding terminal of the power terminal group. A cross-sectional area of each terminal of the signal terminal group is less than a cross-sectional area of the corresponding terminal of the power terminal group.

Electrical plug connector

A flexible circuit board including at least two electrical conducting layers, at least two non-electrical conducting layers, and at least one adhesion layer is provided. The non-electrical conducting layers are disposed between the electrical conducting layers. The non-electrical conducting layers are adhered together via the adhesion layer. A sum of thickness of the non-electrical conducting layers is greater than 4 mil, and there is no electrical conducting layer sandwiched between the at least two non-electrical conducting layers.

Flexible circuit board

A circuit board structure including a dielectric substrate having a plurality of vias, a first conductor layer, a second conductor layer, an insulating layer, and a third conductor layer. The first and the second conductor layers are disposed at opposite surfaces of the dielectric substrate. The first conductor layer forms a plurality of traces including at least one high-speed differential pair and a plurality of ground traces, wherein the vias are located on the ground traces. The electric insulated layer is disposed on the dielectric substrate and covers the first conductor layer, and the third conductor layer is disposed on the insulating layer.

Circuit board structure

An electrical plug connector includes a first terminal module, a second terminal module, and a metallic contact member. The first terminal module and the second terminal module are received in a metallic shell. The metallic contact member is between the first terminal module and the second terminal module. The metallic contact member separates the first terminal module from the second terminal module. Moreover, two ends of the metallic contact member are respectively in contact with the ground terminals of the first plug terminals or in contact with the ground terminals of the second plug terminals.

An electrical receptacle connector includes a shielding shell, an insulating body and a plurality of terminals. The shielding shell has a front opening, a bottom opening and an electrical connecting portion. The electrical connecting portion is located between the front opening and the bottom opening. The insulating body is disposed inside the shielding shell and has a tongue. The tongue is exposed to the front opening. The terminals are disposed at the insulating body. Each of the terminals has a contact segment and a soldering segment. The contact segment is located on the tongue, and the soldering segment is extended from the insulating body, exposed to the bottom opening and arranged in double rows.

Receptacle electrical connector

An electrical plug connector includes a plug insulated housing, first plug terminals, and second plug terminals. The plug insulated housing includes a bottom wall, a first side wall, a second side wall, and two end walls connected to the first side wall and the second side wall to enclose an insertion cavity. First plug-terminal assembling portions are on the first side wall. Second plug-terminal assembling portions are on the second side wall. The first plug-terminal assembling portions correspond to the second plug-terminal assembling portions in a one-to-one manner. The first plug terminals include one or more pair of first plug signal terminals. The second plug terminals include one or more pair of second plug signal terminals. The pair of the first plug signal terminals is shifted relative to the pair of the second plug signal terminals along a transversal direction.

Board-to-board plug electrical plug connector, board-to-board electrical receptacle connector, and board-to-board electrical connector assembly

An electrical plug connector includes an insulated housing received in a metallic shell, first and second terminal modules respectively above and below the insulated housing, and abutting plates (EMI (Electro-Magnetic Interference) plates). Each abutting plate (EMI plate) is between the metallic shell and the insulated housing. Each abutting plate (EMI plate) includes a main body and elastic arms outwardly extending from the main body. Each elastic arm includes a terminal contact portion and a shell contact portion. The terminal contact portion is extending toward a corresponding recessed hole of the insulated housing and contacts one or more first ground terminal of the first terminal module or one or more second ground terminal of the second terminal module. The shell contact portion contacts an inner surface of the metallic shell. Therefore, the high frequency features of the connector can be optimized effectively and resonant problems of the connector can be improved.

An electrical plug connector includes a plug metal shell, an insulation housing bracket, a plug grounding contact, and a grounding member. The plug metal shell encloses a tongue portion of the insulation housing bracket. The plug grounding contact is held inside the insulation housing bracket. The grounding member is disposed between the plug metal shell and the plug grounding contact and spaced from the first side of the insulation housing bracket. A connecting portion is selectively disposed on the grounding member or on the plug grounding contact. The connecting portion mechanically contacts to the grounding member and the plug grounding contact such that the grounding member is electrically connected to the plug grounding contact.

Electrical plug connector with shielding and grounding features

An electrical plug connector includes an insulated housing, a metallic shell, two terminal sets, and a circuit board. The insulated housing includes a front portion and a rear portion. The front portion extends forwardly from the rear portion, and an inside of the front portion forms a receiving cavity. The metallic shell covers the insulated housing. Each terminal set is composed with a plurality of terminals. Each terminal includes a contact portion, a retaining portion, and a soldering portion. The retaining portion is retained in the insulated housing. The soldering portion extends backwardly from the retaining portion. The soldering portions are arranged as an upper row and a lower row in symmetry, and the soldering portion is of the spring arm type. The circuit board is inserted between the upper row and the lower row of the soldering portions. The upper row and the lower row of the soldering portions clip elastically the circuit board.

An electrical receptacle connector includes a receptacle shell, an insulation housing bracket, a receptacle grounding contact, and a grounding member. The insulation housing bracket is disposed inside the receptacle shell. The receptacle grounding contact is held inside the housing base. The grounding member is disposed on a first side of the insulation housing bracket and located between the insulation housing bracket and the receptacle shell. A connecting structure is selectively disposed on the grounding member or on the receptacle grounding contact. The connecting structure penetrates through the insulation housing bracket and mechanically or physically connects the grounding member and the receptacle grounding contact such that the grounding member is electrically connected to the receptacle grounding contact.

Electrical receptacle connector with shielding and grounding features

An interference-proof electrical plug connector has an insulative housing, two terminal sets, a shielding-grounding plate and a shell. The terminal sets are mounted in the insulative housing and each terminal sets has multiple conductive terminals. Each terminal set has multiple conductive terminals and at least one pair of super-speed signal terminals. Each super-speed signal terminal has a mounting section including a widening tab laterally protruding from the mounting section toward an adjacent super-speed signal terminal to reduce the distance between the super-speed signal terminals of the pair. The shielding-grounding plate is mounted in a rear end of the insulative housing. The widening tabs of each pair of the super-speed signal terminals effectively diminish impedance of the super-speed signal terminal such that input loss and return loss of the super-speed signal terminals are reduced.

Interference-proof electrical plug connector

A receptacle connector includes an insulation housing bracket, a first flat grounding contact and a shielding member. The housing base has a first outer surface, and the first flat grounding contact is combined with the insulation housing bracket. The shielding member includes a shielding body and a first connecting portion. The shielding body is installed inside the insulation housing bracket, and the first flat grounding contact is located between the first outer surface and the shielding member. The first connecting portion protrudes from the shielding body and is securely fixed on the first grounding contact in a laser welding manner, such that the shielding body is electrically connected to the first grounding contact.

Electrical receptacle connector

An electrical receptacle connector includes an insulated housing, plate terminals, and a metallic shell. The insulated housing includes a base portion. The plate terminals are at the insulated housing. The plate terminals include soldering segments exposed out of the bottom of the base portion. The metallic shell encloses four sides of the insulated housing and includes a top cover plate, a rear cover plate, and pins. The top cover plate is located atop the base portion. The rear cover plate is extending downwardly to the rear side of the base portion from the rear side of the top cover plate. The rear cover plate includes a bottom surface and a bent sheet substantially perpendicular to an outer wall of the rear cover plate and extended outward from the outer wall of the rear cover plate, and the pins are extending downwardly from the bottom surface.

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