Molex Corporation

Venkatesan Manickam

Yi-Chen Chou

An electrical connector is provided that includes an insulative body, an upper terminal module, and a lower terminal module. The upper terminal module and the lower terminal module are provided to the insulative body. The upper terminal module includes a plurality of upper terminals and an upper insulative frame, the plurality of upper terminals include multiple upper signal terminals and at least one upper ground terminal. Each upper terminal has an upper vertical segment, an upper horizontal segment and an upper bending segment connected between the upper vertical segment and the upper horizontal segment, the upper vertical segment has a first upper held portion and an upper soldering portion, the upper horizontal segment has a second upper held portion and an upper cantilevered arm portion. The upper insulative frame has a first embedding portion which embeds the first upper held portion and a second embedding portion which embeds the second upper held portion.

Electrical connector

A card edge connector comprises an insulative housing and at least one terminal module. The insulative housing has an elongated shape and is formed with a card edge slot and a terminal retention base mounting groove communicating with the card edge slot. The terminal module comprises a terminal retention base mounted in the terminal retention base mounting groove and at least one row of conductive terminals which are fixed to the terminal retention base side by side, the plurality of the conductive terminals comprises ground terminals, each conductive terminal has a fixed portion fixed to the terminal retainer and an elastic arm portion extending from the fixed portion into the card edge slot. The terminal module further comprises a common grounding shield, the common grounding shield comprises a sheet provided on the terminal retainer and a plurality of grounding elastic arms extending from the sheet.

Card edge connector

A card edge connector comprises an body, a plurality of terminals received into the body, and at least one card-ejecting member installed on the body. The body comprises a base portion having an insertion slot and an installation portion disposed on at least one end of the base portion. The card-ejecting member comprises a pivotable main body disposed on the installation portion, an ejecting portion disposed on the lower end of the main body and opposing the bottom of the insertion slot, and a metal reinforcing member; the metal reinforcing member is disposed on the ejecting portion of the card-ejecting member.

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Singapore, Singapore

Venkatesan Manickam