Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.

Sung Liu Hsu

Haw-Chan Tan

Gordon Lok

Joel Jyh-Haur Yeh

Chun Chu Wang

Chang-Hua Yin

Adaptor

An electrical connector includes an insulative housing (10) comprising a support frame and a mating body wherein the front side of the supporting frame (11) and an end of the mating body commonly form a mating face (14). A plurality of contacts (20) are disposed in the mating body wherein one end (22) of the contact (20) is connected to the PC board on which the connector is mounted. A shield (30) is attached to the mating face (14) for preventing electromagnetic interference. A boardlock (40) includes a supporting portion (41) and a leg portion (43) wherein the leg portion (43) is mounted to the PC board and the supporting portion (41) is disposed in the housing (10) whereby the supporting portion (41) can be electrically interconnected with the shield (30).

Connector and associated boardlock

An adapter (10) includes a pair of male/female connectors (12, 14) solderably positioned on two ends of a PC board (16). A pair of identical metal shells (20) are adapted to be engaged with each other with their grounding tangs (38) extending at two ends thereof, respectively, for conductive engagement with the metal shieldings (60, 80) of such pair of connectors (12, 14). The metal shells (20) also defines a space for protectively enclosing the PC board (16) therein. A pair of identical plastic covers (40) are fixedly aligned and attached to each other commonly enclosing such pair of metal shells (20) therein. The metal shells (20) are restrained between the pair of connectors (12, 14), and fixedly aligned with the corresponding covers (40), respectively. The connectors (12, 14) are aligned with and confinably received within the covers (40). Two interconnection ports of such pair of connectors (12, 14) are respectively exposed to the exterior at opposite ends of the adapters (10).

Adapter and mechanism thereof

A bracket (10) includes a pair of side stands (12) spaced away from but interconnected with each other by respectively a supporting bar (14) formed on the front upper portions (17) thereof for supportably mounting a connector (22) thereon and/or a spacer bar (16) formed on the rear lower portions (19) thereof for aligning contact tails (30) of the connector (22). Each side stand (12) includes its own boardlock (48) for directly mounting the bracket (10) onto the mother board (100). An L-shaped partition bar (42) is connected between the supporting bar (14) and the spacer bar (16) for separating the space under the supporting bar (14) to smaller ones for accommodating plural less sized connectors (66) or components therein.

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Taipei Hsien, Taiwan

Sung Liu Hsu