3m Innovative Properties Company

Rao L Vittapalli

Saujit Bandhu

YunLong Qiao

Kok Hoe Lee

Vincent Tan

Chin Hua Lim

A connector assembly for mounting on and making solderless electrical contact with a printed circuit board includes a plurality of stacked wafer assemblies. Each wafer assembly includes a wafer, a plurality of terminals partially embedded in the wafer where each terminal includes a connecting portion embedded in the wafer, a resiliently compressible mating portion for making solderless contact with a corresponding conductive pad of a PCB and a contact portion. The wafer is molded over the terminals. The wafer assembly also includes a plurality of wires terminated in termination regions at the contact portions of the terminals, and a shield disposed in the recess of the wafer and extending across the wafer. The connector assembly further includes a housing molded over the stacked wafers and the termination regions.

Connector assembly for solderless mounting to a circuit board

In a specific embodiment, a connectoris disclosed. The connectorcomprises an insulative housingdefining a rear openingfor receiving a plurality of electrical wiresand a front openingand a circuit boarddisposed in the housingand comprising a mating sectionfor mating with a corresponding mating section of a mating connector. The mating sectionprotrudes outwardly from the front openingand terminates at a front edgedisposed between opposing side edgesof the mating section. The connectorfurther comprises opposing side armsextending forwardly from opposing lateral sidesof the front openingalong, adjacent and beyond corresponding side edgesof the mating sectionwith a maximum separation between each side edgeand the corresponding side armbeing sufficiently small so that when the connectormates with a mating connector, no portion of the mating connector can be inserted between the side edgeand the corresponding side arm. Other exemplary embodiments are also disclosed.

Shielded connector assembly

An electrical connector includes a unitary base elongated along a longitudinal direction. A first tongue extends forwardly from the base and has a uniform thickness along the longitudinal direction. The first tongue comprises a plurality of spaced apart first contacts. A second tongue extends forwardly from the base and comprises a plurality of spaced apart second contacts. The first and second tongues define a gap therebetween that extends from a front edge of one of the first and second tongues toward the unitary base.

Multifunction connector

A pick and place cap is configured to facilitate picking and placing a connector when the cap is assembled to the connector. The cap includes a top wall having a first engaging feature for engaging a back side of the connector, and opposing side walls each having a second engaging feature for engaging a bottom portion of the connector. The cap is configured to be assembled to and unassembled from the connector along each of two mutually orthogonal directions.

Pick and place cap

A connector assembly includes first and second connectors. Each connector includes a plurality of terminals Athrough An, n is an integer &#x2265;2, sequentially arranged in a row. The connector assembly also includes a flat cable that includes a plurality of electrical conductors electrically connecting the terminals of the first and second connectors. For each i from 1 to n, terminal Ai of the first connector is electrically connected, via a different electrical conductor of the cable, to the terminal Ai of the second connector. The cable includes a bend greater than about 150&#xb0; around at least two fold lines that extend across the entire width of the cable. Each of the first and second connectors is configured to mate with the same mating connector, such that when each of the first and second connectors mates with the same mating connector in a same plan view, the An terminals are both either on a left or a right side of the Aterminals.

Connector assembly with folded flat cable

Electrical connectors are described. More particularly, electrical connectors including a plurality of contacts are described. Both connector plugs and sockets are described. Electrical connectors that are suitable for mounting on a printed circuit board and electrical connectors that include a printed circuit board are described.

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