Molex Corporation

Ser-Kiat Toh

Michael R Kamarauskas

Yueh-Ting Chiang

Kimiyasu Makino

Hidehiro Matsushita

Kai Murakami

Chui Ngor Wong

Hoon-Chan Goh

Hien-Hwee Tan

Shantha Kumar Sambhandam Palani

Daw-Wei Lee

Fook Onn Chong

Han-Lin Goh

Pei-Chun Wu

An electrical connector and assembly are provided. The electrical connector includes an insulative base and terminal columns. Each terminal column includes ground terminals and differential signal terminal pairs, the terminal columns are spaced apart from each other. Each ground terminal has a body portion and three elastic contact portions. Each signal terminal of each differential signal terminal pair has a body portion and an elastic contact portion. In two adjacent terminal columns, orthographic projections of the two elastic contact portions of each differential signal terminal pair are positioned within a range defined by a width of the elastic contact portions of the corresponding ground terminal, and an orthographic projection of the elastic contact portion positioned in a middle of each around terminal in the second direction is positioned within a range defined by a width of the two elastic contact portions of the corresponding differential signal terminal pair.

Electrical connector and electrical connector assembly

A receptacle connector includes a receptacle housing and a plurality of receptacle terminals. The receptacle housing has a bottom surface, a top surface and a plurality of terminal grooves that each includes a first side wall portion, a second side wall portion and a top wall portion, and the top wall portion and the second side wall portion help define an insertion opening portion. Each receptacle terminal has a fixed segment which is fixed to the receptacle housing, an elastic segment which extends obliquely and upwardly from a top end of the fixed segment, then is folded back and extends obliquely and upwardly toward the top wall portion and a tail segment which extends toward the second side wall portion. The elastic segment has a contact portion which is positioned below the insertion opening portion and a guiding surface which is positioned below the insertion opening portion.

Electrical connection device

The present disclosure provides a connector that comprises a housing and wafers. The housing comprises a top wall and a bottom wall separated from each other in a mounting direction. The wafers are mated to the housing in a mating direction and supported by the housing. A first wafer is configured to be limited in the mounting direction. A second wafer is configured to be limited in the mating direction. A possible benefit from a match between a limiting block of the first wafer and a limiting groove of the housing and a match between the limiting block of the first wafer and a limiting opening of the housing is that the first wafer is less easy to move between the top wall and the bottom wall of the housing along the mounting direction and can be more firmly supported by the housing.

Connector

A connector includes a shield that supports a housing. The housing includes a tongue that extends in a mating region defined by the shield. The tongue includes grooves (which may be on both sides of the shield) that support a plurality of terminals. The grooves each include a retention feature that secures the terminal in the groove while allowing a mating terminal to engage the terminals in the grooves without first engage the tongue.

Connector with terminal retention

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Ser-Kiat Toh