Foxconn Interconnect Technology Limited

Yuan Zhang

Terrance F Little

Chih-Pi Cheng

An-Jen Yang

Stephen Sedio

Wei-Hao Su

Cheng-Chi Yeh

Chun-Chieh Yang

De-Cheng Zou

Tzu-Yao Hwang

Hendrikus P G Van Der Steen

Jim Xin Zhao

Jie Zheng

Ming-Lun Szu

Ke-Hao Chen

Ming-Ching Chen

Chih-Hsien Chou

Paul Chen

Yuan-Chieh Lin

Hsueh-Lung Hsiao

Chao-Chieh Chen

Chien-Ping Kao

Kamyar Khorrami

Yu Zhang

Chi-Tung Kuan

A receptacle connector assembly includes an outer housing and a terminal module. The terminals module includes an insulator having a base and a mating tongue extending from the base and equipped with a plurality of contacts. The contacts include front contacting sections exposed upon the mating tongue and tail sections extending out of the base. The outer housing is of an insulative molding part or a metallic die cast, the terminal module is assembled in the outer housing, and thus a mating cavity is directly defined between the mating tongue and the outer housing.

Flippable electrical connector

A plug connector includes: a metallic enclosure enclosing a printed circuit board; a heat sink member exposed to an exterior surface of the metallic enclosure; and a set of electronic components assembled upon the printed circuit board, wherein the heat sink member is to dissipate heat from at least one of the set of electronic components, and the heat sink member is detachably attached upon the metallic enclosure.

Plug connecetor with a metallic enclosure having heat sink member thereon

A receptacle connector assembly includes an outer housing and a terminal module. The terminals module includes an insulator having a base and a mating tongue extending from the base and equipped with a plurality of contacts and a shielding plate. The contacts include front contacting sections exposed upon the mating tongue and tail sections extending out of the base. The shielding plate is embedded within the mating tongue and includes a pair of rigid notches in two opposite lateral sides for locking to a pair of corresponding latches of a complementary plug connector. The outer housing is of an insulative molding part or a metallic die cast, the terminal module is assembled in the outer housing, and thus a mating cavity is directly defined between the mating tongue and the outer housing.

An electrical cable connector assembly comprises a receptacle connector mated with a plug/cable connector. The receptacle connector mounted upon an external printed circuit board and includes an insulative housing forming a mating cavity, and a terminal module assembly received within the housing with contacting sections exposed in the mating cavity. The cable connector includes an internal printed circuit board with a contact module fixed at a front end region and a cable having a plurality of wires fixed at a rear end region in a multilevel manner. A die-casting cover encloses the internal printed circuit board with heat dissipation fin structure on an exterior surface.

Electrical connector assembly and system using the same

An electrical cable connector includes a case forming a front receiving cavity, and a rear receiving cavity. An upward room is formed in an upper face of the case. A latch is pivotally mounted in the room with an upward locking hook at a front end thereof in an up-and-down moveable manner. An actuator is engaged with the latch to actuate the latch to be unlatched from the locking hole in the cage via a rearward pulling. An engagement between the latch and the actuator is performed by a latch slot in the latch and a T-shaped lug on the underside of the actuator moving along the latch slot. A curve structure is formed on the latch along a front-to-back direction so as to have the latch to be pivoted during rearward pulling the actuator, thus having the upward locking hook downward moved for unlatching.

Electrical connector assemblies with releasable latching device

A plug connector includes a metallic enclosure with a heat sink member exposed on an exterior surface to enclose a printed circuit board; a set of electronic components assembled upon the printed circuit board; a thermal pad sandwiched between the set of electronic components and the metallic enclosure to dissipate heat from the electronic component to the metallic enclosure and eventually to the air via the heat sink member; wherein a center of said heat sink member is essentially aligned with a center of said set of electronic components or a center of the thermal pad for efficient dissipation of heat.

A receptacle connector includes an insulative housing defining a base and a mating tongue extending from the base with a widen and thicken step structure formed around a root of the mating tongue near to the base, two rows of plate contacts disposed in the insulative housing with contacting sections exposed upon the mating tongue and in front of the step structure and categorized with signal contacts, power contacts and grounding contacts, and a metallic shielding plate disposed within a middle level of the mating tongue and occupying most portions of said mating tongue. The shielding plate defines a pair of immoveable and un-deflectable lateral edge sections in front of the step structure, each lateral edge section is configured to be adapted to be locked with a latch of a plug connector in a transverse direction.

A hybrid plug connector including an insulative housing defining a cavity to receive an optical fiber assembly therein, and a plurality of passageways to receive a plurality of terminals therein. A printed circuit board is located behind the terminals and connected to the terminals. An electrical cable is mounted to a rear portion of the circuit board. The whole optical fiber assembly is received within the housing and is somewhat back and forth moveable along a front-to-back direction for buffering for compliantly coupling with another optical fiber assembly built within the complementary receptacle connector when the plug connector is inserted into the complementary receptacle connector. A lens module is formed on the optical fiber assembly for collimating the light beams from the optical fibers.

Hybrid connector for both electrical and optical transmission

A receptacle connector includes a housing defining a base and a mating tongue forwardly extending therefrom, a first row of contacts disposed in the housing with contacting sections and surface mount type tail sections for mounting on a PCB, a second row of contacts disposed in the housing with contacting sections and through hole type tail sections for mounting in the PCB; a metallic shield including a capsular segment surrounding the mating tongue to define a mating cavity and a rear wall covering a rear face of the base to surrounding the surface mount type tail sections and a lower bracket attached to the metallic shielding. The lower bracket is located upon a bottom side of the shield and includes a bottom wall, two sidewalls and a rear wall commonly surrounding the through hole type tail sections.

A hybrid plug connector including an insulative housing defining a cavity to receive an optical fiber assembly therein, and a plurality of passageways to receive a plurality of terminals therein. A printed circuit board is located behind the terminals and connected to the terminals. An electrical cable is mounted to a rear portion of the circuit board. The whole optical fiber assembly is received within the housing and is somewhat back and forth moveable along a front-to-back direction for buffering for compliantly coupling with another optical fiber assembly built within the complementary receptacle connector when the plug connector is inserted into the complementary receptacle connector. An attachment shows the manufacturing process.

The present invention is to provide a hybrid connector essentially formed with an RJ45 configuration while further equipped with an MPO device wherein the receptacle connector includes an insulative housing defining an RJ45 receiving cavity and a holder assembly located behind the housing. The holder assembly includes a holder and a printed circuit board is assembled upon the holder with a plurality of transformers thereon. A plurality of contacts are retained by and connected to the printed circuit boar with corresponding resilient contacting sections extending forwardly into the receiving cavity. An MPO device is retained in the holder with corresponding optical fibers forwardly directed toward the receiving cavity.

A receptacle connector mounted to the printed circuit board, includes an insulative housing defining a mating tongue and a metallic shell enclosing the housing to form a mating cavity in which said mating tongue forwardly extends. A complementary plug connector includes a shell with a bull-nose tip. A metallic piece is mounted around a root of the mating tongue and equipped with a plurality of spring tangs to contact the relatively rigid bull-nose tip of the shell of the complementary connector for EMI/RFI protection.

A plug for provision of power includes a housing forming a receiving cavity with two opposite sites in a vertical direction which is compatible with a standard plug connector with twelve contacts on each site and a first and second rows of contacts on the sides while in diagonally symmetrical manner. Each contact includes a contacting section, and a connecting section for directly connecting to a corresponding wire. Each row of contacts is categorized with a pair of power contacts, a pair of grounding contacts and a specific contact without any high speed differential pair. Two pair of power contacts of both two rows are electrically connected together either via direct mechanical connection via vertical extensions or via indirect electrical connection via the latch which has a pair of side arms extending into the receiving cavity at two opposite transverse ends.

A receptacle connector includes an insulative housing with a mating tongue, a plurality of contacts having front contacting sections exposed upon two opposite surfaces of the mating tongue and rear tail sections extending downwardly outside of the housing for mounting to a printed circuit board. A metallic shield encloses said housing and forms a capsular mating cavity with said mating tongue extending forwardly therein. A metallic shielding plate includes a front horizontal section embedded with the mating tongue to isolate the contacting sections of the contacts which are located on two different opposite surfaces, and a rear vertical section extending downwardly from a rear edge of the front horizontal section to isolate the tail sections of the contacts which are arranged in two rows with said rear vertical section therebewteen.

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Rowland-Heights, CA, United States of America

Yuan Zhang