Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.

Weihua Pan

Ming Zhang

Xuegong Lei

An electrical connector () for mating with a mating connector includes an insulating housing (), a number of electrical contacts () received in the housing (). The housing () has a mating face (), a mounting face (), two opposite side walls () for connecting the mating face and the mounting face, a receiving space () depressed in the mating face is formed between the side walls. A guidance face () is formed on the inner face () of the sidewalls extending from the mating face to the deep-lever of the receiving space, which includes an arc face () and a slant face () tangent to the arc face. Each contact has a contact face () exposed to the receiving space.

Electrical connector with guidance face

An electrical connector assembly ( ) includes a first connector ( ) having a first housing ( ) receiving a plurality of first contacts ( ) therein, and a second connector ( ) having a second housing ( ) receiving a plurality of second contacts ( ) therein. The first housing defines two protruding blocks ( ) thereon and the second housing defines two sunken slots ( ) corresponding to the protruding blocks. When the first connector and the second connector are mated together, the cooperation of the protruding blocks and the sunken slots enhance the mating force between the two connectors. In an alternative embodiment, two protruding blocks are defined on a second housing and two sunken slots are defined on a first housing corresponding to the protruding blocks.

Board-to-board electrical connector assembly

An electrical connector ( ) includes a housing ( ) receiving contacts ( ). The housing includes a central island portion ( ) surrounded by connected sidewalls. The island portion is separated from the sidewalls by a moat-like mating groove. Receiving slots ( ) each including a first channel ( ) and a second channel ( ) are defined in each of opposite sides of the island portion, the first channel being wider than the second channel. Each contact is received in a corresponding receiving slot, and includes a contact portion ( ), a terminal portion ( ) and a medial portion ( ). In manufacturing, each of two series of contacts is connected with a common operation carrier ( ). The terminal portion of each contact has an L-shaped pull portion ( ). Pushing force is applied on the operation carriers. Then pulling force is applied at the pull portions until the terminal portions are completely exposed outside of the housing.

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