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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 13, 2022
Filed:
Sep. 15, 2020
Method of assembling contacts into housing via respective contact carriers discrete from one another
Foxconn (Kunshan) Computer Connector Co., Ltd., Kunshan, CN;
Foxconn Interconnect Technology Limited, Grand Cayman, KY;
Tzu-Yao Hwang, New Taipei, TW;
Han-Hung Huang, New Taipei, TW;
Shan-Yong Cheng, New Taipei, TW;
Ming-Lun Szu, New Taipei, TW;
FOXCONN (KUNSHAN) COMPUTER CONNECTOR CO., LTD., Kunshan, CN;
FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED, Grand Cayman, KY;
Abstract
A method of making an electrical connector includes steps of providing an insulative housing with a plurality of passageways; providing a plurality of contacts associated with corresponding carriers unitarily formed thereon, respectively; providing an external fixture discrete from the carriers; retaining the carriers on the external fixture; downwardly moving the external fixture to insert the contacts into the corresponding passageways to reach their final positions in the vertical direction, simultaneously; and removing the carriers from the corresponding contacts, respectively.