Molex Corporation

Yueh-Ting Chiang

Yih-Ping Chua

John C Laurx

Ting-Chang Tseng

Yao-Ting Wang

Jerry D Kachlic

Kimiyasu Makino

Ser-Kiat Toh

Hidehiro Matsushita

Kai Murakami

Hoon-Chan Goh

Xing-Qiang He

Jonathan Ah-Fat Kee Mew

Lin Tong

Hien-Hwee Tan

Pei-Chun Wu

Chih-Sheng Yu

An electrical connector and assembly are provided. The electrical connector includes an insulative base and terminal columns. Each terminal column includes ground terminals and differential signal terminal pairs, the terminal columns are spaced apart from each other. Each ground terminal has a body portion and three elastic contact portions. Each signal terminal of each differential signal terminal pair has a body portion and an elastic contact portion. In two adjacent terminal columns, orthographic projections of the two elastic contact portions of each differential signal terminal pair are positioned within a range defined by a width of the elastic contact portions of the corresponding ground terminal, and an orthographic projection of the elastic contact portion positioned in a middle of each around terminal in the second direction is positioned within a range defined by a width of the two elastic contact portions of the corresponding differential signal terminal pair.

Electrical connector and electrical connector assembly

A terminal and a receptacle connector are provided. The terminal comprises a soldering segment, an upright arm and a bending arm. The soldering segment has a first end portion and the upright arm extends upwardly from the first end portion. The bending arm bends back and obliquely extends upwardly close to the upright arm and includes an upper bending segment and a contact segment extends upwardly from the upper bending segment. A shoulder portion is formed at each of at least one side edge of two side edges of each of at least one of the upright arm and the bending arm, the two side edges are connected with the soldering segment, the shoulder portion protrudes relative to a corresponding side edge of the soldering segment.

Terminal and receptacle connector

An electrical connector assembly can include a plug connector mountable to a planar substrate and a receptacle connector configured to receive a plurality of cables and that can mate with the plug connector. The plug connector may include a first inline terminal row and a second inline terminal row exposed on a mounting face to conductively contact the planar substrate. The receptacle connector can include a plurality of terminals having termination ends aligned in common wafer plane that can be conductively terminated with the plurality of cables. The plug connector and the electrical connector are configured to establish electrical channels from the termination ends coplanar with the common wafer plan to the first and second inline terminal rows.

Connector assembly

The present disclosure provides a connector assembly. The connector assembly includes a wire-end connector. The wire-end connector includes a wafer, a shield plate and a twin-ax cable. The wafer includes a frame and a terminal group. The terminal group is supported by the frame. The terminal group includes a signal terminal pair and a ground plate. The ground plate includes a ground terminal on both sides of the signal terminal pair. The shield plate is electrically connected to the ground plate. The shield plate includes an opening that penetrates the shield plate. The twin-ax cable includes a pair of conductors and a ground portion. The pair of conductors extend into the opening of the shield plate and are electrically connected to the signal terminal pair. The ground portion electrically connects at least one of the shield plate and the ground plate.

The present disclosure provides a connector assembly. The connector assembly includes a wire-end connector. The wire-end connector includes a wire-end connector, a shield plate and a twin-ax cable. The wafer includes a frame and a terminal group. The terminal group is configured to be supported in the frame. The terminal group includes a signal terminal pair and a ground plate. The ground plate is configured to provide a ground terminal on each of both sides of the signal terminal pair. The shield plate is configured to be connected to the ground plate. The shield plate includes an opening penetrating the shield plate. The twin-ax cable includes a pair of conductors and a ground portion. The pair of conductors extend through the opening of the shield plate and connect the signal terminal pair. The ground portion electrically connects at least one of the shield plate and the ground plate.

An electrical connector comprises an insulative housing, a plurality of terminals and a plurality of wires. The plurality of terminals are fixed to the insulative housing, each terminal has a fixed portion fixed to the insulative housing and a contact portion and a soldering portion which are respectively connected to the fixed portion, the soldering portion of each terminal of at least a part of the plurality of terminals is formed with a bending section, and an inner surface of the bending section defines a filling space for filling a solder. A plurality of wires are respectively soldered to the soldering portions of the plurality of terminals and make the solder filled in each filling space.

Electrical connector

The present disclosure relates to an electrical connection apparatus provided on a substrate, comprising a base, a flexible circuit board, two connectors, and a fixing member. The flexible circuit board has a mating portion with a plurality of soldering pads; a mounting portion with a plurality of conductive blocks; and a plurality of conductive traces connecting the plurality of pads and the plurality of conductive blocks. The two connectors each have an insulative housing and a terminal. Each terminal has a soldering portion connected to the soldering pad. The substrate has a plurality of soldering pads connecting the conductive blocks. The fixing member fixes the base to the substrate. The present disclosure utilizes a ground layer of the flexible circuit board to reduce a signal crosstalk between the conductive traces, and utilizes the conductive blocks to connect the flexible circuit board and the substrate to improve coplanarity.

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Taipei, Taiwan

Yueh-Ting Chiang