Foxconn Interconnect Technology Limited

Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.

Foxconn (kunshan) Computer Connector Co., Ltd.

Terrance F Little

Chih-Pi Cheng

An-Jen Yang

Stephen Sedio

Yuan Zhang

Kuo-Chun Hsu

Tod M Harlan

Wei-Hao Su

Chien-Ping Kao

Jim Xin Zhao

Hsueh-Lung Hsiao

Shuo-Hsiu Hsu

Kevin E Walker

Chun-Yi Chang

Patrick R Casher

Chih-Hsien Chou

Hung-Yang Yeh

Jie Zheng

Ming-Lun Szu

Yuan-Chieh Lin

Chao-Chieh Chen

Chih-Kai Yang

Richard Lee Malehorn, Ii

De-Cheng Zou

Chun-Chieh Yang

Jun-Bin Huang

Gang Paul Chen

Cheng-Chi Yeh

Jia-Yong He

Wei-Hung Hsu

Joe-Fu Chen

Chia-Pin Liu

Haozhe Zi

Duong Phan

Tzu-Yao Hwang

Robert William Brown

Chun-Ming Yu

Chun-Hsiung Hsu

Hendrikus P G Van Der Steen

Kuei-Chung Tsai

Ming-Chuan Wu

Chong Hun Yi

Qi-Sheng Zheng

Ming-Ching Chen

Kuan-Yu Chen

Paul Chen

Brian J Gillespie

Robert Colantuono

Ji-Chao Wang

Kamyar Khorrami

Kai-Gang Yu

Richard L Malehorn

Yu-Hsu Chen

Yi-Guo Qi

Charles E Kreutzberger

Neng Xiao

Ke-Hao Chen

Qing-Man Zhu

Guo-Hua Zhang

Joanne E Shipe

James M Sabo

Chih-Ching Hsu

Pei Tsao

Tzu-Ching Tsai

Jian-Jun Zhu

Richard Scott Kline

Howard Wallace Andrews, Jr

Sheng-Pin Gao

Michael McKee

Ding-Cherng Chen

Aaron Bobuk

Li-Shing Hou

Chih-Hsiang Ho

Hui-Wen Yang

Wei-Kang Liu

Chih-Ping Chung

Ting-Yen Chuang

Wei Nong Chou

Yung-Jyh Ling

I-Ting Chiang

Yu Zhang

Stephen Sedlo

Mick Mulcuck

Chi-Tung Kuan

Ren-Chih Li

Margulis Yan

Robert Guy Ritter

Po-Yuan Lin

Qi Zhou

Ji Li

An electrical connector includes a contact assembly, a cable assembly terminated to the contact assembly, a cover receiving the contact assembly and the cable assembly, a latch disposed at a bottom of the cover for latching to a mating connector, and an un-mating assembly mounted to the cover and including a lift bar, wherein the latch is operable to unlatch from the mating connector in response to an upward movement of the lift bar while moving upward to dislodge the cover from the mating connector.

Electrical connector assembly having a polarizing feature and a latching feature

A cable assembly includes a cable module including a first metallic strip integrally formed with an insulative bar via a first insert-molding process; and a second metallic strip integrally formed with the insulative bar via a second-molding process following the first insert-molding process. The second metallic strip includes plural pairs of contacts originally connected thereto via corresponding linking portions. The insulative bar forms a plurality of openings and the first metallic strip forms a plurality of corresponding punching openings respectively aligned with each other and further aligned with the corresponding linking portions, respectively, in a transverse direction so as to remove the corresponding linking portions after the second insert-molding process.

Cable assembly with insert-molded lead-frame assembly

An electrical connector includes: a contact unit including plural pairs of signal contacts and plural ground contacts between adjacent pairs of signal contacts; a cable including plural wires terminated to the contact unit; a ground bar retaining the cable to the contact unit; and a ground bridge connected at a rear thereof to the ground bar and connected at a front thereof to at least one of the plural ground contacts.

Electrical connector having a ground bar and a ground bridge connected to the ground bar and to a ground contact

A receptacle assembly includes: a receptacle connector for mounting to a printed circuit board; a holder mounted atop the receptacle connector; and a cage enclosing the receptacle connector and the holder, the cage having a main cage body and a cage top detachably secured to a rear portion of the main cage body.

Receptacle assembly with an optical connector holder atop a receptacle connector

A cable assembly includes: a cable module including plural cables, a ground bar electrically connected to the cables, signal contacts electrically connected to the cables, and a shielding sheet shielding the signal contacts; a housing holding the cable module; and a pair of side plates coupled to the ground bar and the shielding sheet.

Cable assembly with shielding and grounding features attached to a pair of side plates

An electrical connector assembly includes an upper connector unit and a lower connector unit in a vertical direction. Each connector unit includes a contact module received within an insulative housing. The contact module includes an upper contact unit and a lower contacts unit stacked with each other. Each of the upper contact unit and the lower contact unit includes a front/outer contact part and a rear/inner contact part each including a plurality contacts essentially composed of a plurality of differential-pair signal contacts and a plurality of grounding contacts alternately arranged with each other in a the transverse direction wherein the differential-pair signal contacts are stamped and formed from sheet metal and successively integrally formed with a plurality of insulative transverse bars via insert-molding while the grounding contacts are directly blanked from sheet metal and associated with corresponding shielding plates assembled to the insulative transverse bar.

Differential signal electrical connector with grounding contacts extending from shielding plates

The electrical connector includes a contact module received within an insulative housing. The contact module includes an upper contact unit and a lower contacts unit stacked with each other. Each of the upper contact unit and the lower contact unit includes a front/outer contact part and a rear/inner contact part each including a plurality of side by side arranged contacts integrally formed with a plurality of plastic tie bars at different positions via insert-molding. The contacts include a plurality of differential pair signal contacts and a plurality of grounding contacts alternately arranged with each other along a transverse direction. Each plastic tie bar includes an insulative primary part integrally formed with all contacts via a first insert-molding process, and a conductive secondary part integrally formed with the primary part and the grounding contacts via a second insert-molding process after the first insert-molding process.

Terminal module and electrical connector with the same

An electrical connector assembly includes a contact module having an upper part and a lower part stacked with each other in the vertical direction. The upper part includes a front/outer upper unit and a rear/inner upper unit. The lower part includes a front/outer lower unit and a rear/inner lower unit. Each unit includes an insulative body and a plurality of contacts integrally formed with the insulative body. The insulative body includes a middle sector and a pair of side sectors. The contacts include the side-band contacts retained in the middle sector, and the differential-pair contacts retained in the side sectors. The tail sections of the side-band contacts are mounted to the printed circuit board. The tail sections of the differential-pair contacts are connected to the wires. Each of the unit further includes a metallic grounding bracket provides spaced two positions mechanically and electrically connected to each corresponding grounding contact.

Electrical connector assembly

A cable connector includes a base and a mating portion extending downwardly from a lower side of the base, and an upper and a lower platform around an upper side of the base. First and second rows of contacts include connecting sections. The connecting sections of the first row are exposed upon the lower platform and the connecting sections of the second row are exposed upon the upper platform. Upper and lower rows of wires are located above the housing. Two grounding brackets are mounted upon the upper and lower platforms. Each bracket includes bulged sections and tails. Inner conductors of the wires are connected to the connecting sections of the differential-pair contacts, the braiding layers of the wires are sandwiched between the bulged sections and the housing in the vertical direction, and the tails are connected to the connecting sections of the grounding contacts.

Low profile electrical cable connector

An electrical connector includes an insulative housing defining a front cavity for receiving andarear cavity, a terminal assembly assembled in the rear cavity, and a ground member. The terminal assembly includes an upper terminal module, a lower terminal module sandwiching a shielding module therebetween.SaidTheupper terminal module includes a pair of upper ground terminals.SaidThelower terminal module includes a plurality of lower ground terminals.SaidTheshielding module includesametallic shielding plate. The ground member is associated with the shielding module to mechanically and electrically connect at least one of the upper ground terminals and the lower ground terminals with the shielding plate.

Electrical receptacle for transmitting high speed signal

A cable connector includes a contact module, wires and grounding bars. The contact module includes a pair of subunits commonly sandwiching a metallic shielding plate. Each subunit includes contacts integrally formed within an insulator, the contacts includes a plurality of differential-pair contacts and grounding contacts alternately arranged with each other. Each contact includes a front contacting section and a rear tail section, the tail sections of the grounding contacts being unified with a transverse bar. Each wire has a pair of inner conductors respectively soldered to the tail sections of the corresponding differential-pair contacts, and an outer braiding layer surrounding the pair of inner conductors and mechanically and electrically connected to the transverse bar. Each grounding bar includes a plurality of rear tabs respectively connected to the braiding layers, and a plurality of front tabs respectively connected to the tail sections of the corresponding grounding contacts.

Electrical connector assembly including matable board connector and cable connector with improved grounding bar

A cable connector includes a contact module enclosed within a case. The contact module includes an upper part and a lower part stacked with each other. The upper part includes an upper insulator and plural upper contacts and a metallic upper shield attached upon the upper insulator. The wires include inner conductors connected to differential-pair signal contacts of the plural upper contacts. The upper shield defines a plurality of front spring fingers respectively connected to the corresponding grounding contacts and a plurality of rear spring fingers respectively connected to the braiding layers of the corresponding wires.

Cable connector with improved metallic shield

A connector unit includes a contact module received within an insulative housing. The contact module includes an upper contact unit and a lower contacts unit stacked with each other. Each of the upper contact unit and the lower contact unit includes a front/outer contact part and a rear/inner contact part each including plural contacts integrally formed with plural insulative transverse bars via insert-molding. The contacts include plural differential pair signal contacts and plural grounding contacts alternately arranged with each other along a transverse direction. Plural grounding bars are attached to corresponding transverse bars, respectively, wherein each grounding bar include plural tabs mechanically and electrically connecting to the corresponding grounding contacts. Each grounding bar is equipped with a plastic attachment tie bar to cooperate with a corresponding transverse bar to sandwich the grounding bar therebetween for securement.

Electrical device

The electrical connector includes a contact module received within an insulative housing. The contact module includes an upper contact unit and a lower contacts unit stacked with each other. Each of the upper contact unit and the lower contact unit includes a front/outer contact part and a rear/inner contact part each including a plurality of side by side arranged contacts integrally formed with a plurality of plastic tie bars at different positions via insert-molding. An insulative front cover and an insulative rear cover are assembled upon the housing wherein the rear cover is forwardly assembled into the housing together with the contact module while the front cover is downwardly assembled upon the housing after the contact module has been assemble into the housing. The front cover is configured to comply with the curved resilient contacting sections of the contacts for lowering the impedance of the contacts thereabouts.

Electrical connector

An angled type connector assembly includes a receptacle connector mounted upon a printed circuit board and having an insulative housing with an oblique opening to receive a plug connector, and a bottom opening through which the mating pads on the printed circuit board is upwardly exposed. The plug connector includes two rows of contacts respectively mechanically and electrically connected to the corresponding two rows of wires. The plug connector forms an oblique mating end or interface relative to an extending direction of the plug, on which the contacting sections of the contacts are exposed to mate with the corresponding mating pads on the printed circuit board.

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Fullerton, CA, United States of America

Terrance F Little