Electrical connector

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11539169-B2
Application number	US-202017137397-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 30, 2020
Priority date	Dec 31, 2019
Publication date	Dec 27, 2022
Grant date	Dec 27, 2022

Abstract

An electrical connector includes: plural terminal modules stacked laterally, each of the terminal modules including an insulating body, plural pairs of signal terminals held by the insulating body, plural ground terminals held by the insulating body, and a first ground plate and a second ground plate located on opposite sides of the insulating body, wherein: in each terminal module, the ground terminals and the pairs of signal terminals are alternately arranged in a vertical direction, each pair of signal terminals are arranged in a first plane, each ground terminal is arranged in a second plane intersecting the first plane, the first ground plate, the second ground plate, and the ground terminals shield each pair of signal terminals circumferentially.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An electrical connector comprising:
a plurality of terminal modules stacked laterally, each of the terminal modules including:
an insulating body;
plural pairs of signal terminals held by the insulating body;
a plurality of ground terminals held by the insulating body; and
a first ground plate and a second ground plate located on opposite sides of the insulating body, wherein

in each terminal module, the ground terminals and the pairs of signal terminals are alternately arranged in a vertical direction, each pair of signal terminals are arranged in a first plane, each ground terminal is arranged in a second plane intersecting the first plane, the first ground plate, the second ground plate, and the ground terminals shield each pair of signal terminals circumferentially.

2. The electrical connector as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the first ground plate and the second ground plate of each terminal module are mechanically and electrically connected.

3. The electrical connector as claimed in claim 2 , wherein the first grounding plate is provided with a contact blade, and the second contact plate is provided with a slit mated with the contact blade.

4. The electrical connector as claimed in claim 3 , wherein at least one of the first ground plate and the second ground plate is mechanically and electrically connected to the ground terminal.

5. The electrical connector as claimed in claim 4 , wherein at least one of the first ground plate and the second ground plate includes a mounting hole, and the ground terminal includes a contact piece extending from the insulating body and matching with the mounting hole.

6. The electrical connector as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the insulating body includes a first insulating body holding the signal terminals and a second insulating body holding the ground terminals, a groove is provided between two adjacent ground terminals on one side of the second insulating body, and the first insulating body is assembled and housed in the groove.

7. The electrical connector as claimed in claim 6 , wherein the signal terminal and the first insulating body are integrally formed, and the ground terminal and the second insulating body are integrally formed.

8. The electrical connector as claimed in claim 1 , wherein each of the first ground plate and the second ground plate includes a flat plate portion and a contact portion extending from the flat plate portion, in each terminal module the contact portion of at least one of the first ground plate and the second ground plate is closer than the flat plate portion thereof to the other ground plate so that a distance between the contact portions of adjacent ground plates of two adjacent terminal modules is greater than a distance between the flat plate portions thereof.

9. The electrical connector as claimed in claim 6 , wherein the ground terminal includes a ground mounting end, a ground mating end, and an intermediate region between the ground mating end and the ground mounting end, a width of the ground terminal is greater than a width of the second insulating body to expose the intermediate region of the ground terminal from a corresponding side of the second insulating body.

10. The electrical connector as claimed in claim 1 , wherein each signal terminal includes a mating end, a mounting end, and an intermediate portion between the mounting end and the mating end, the mating end includes a first contact portion, a second contact portion, and a third contact portion, the first contact portion and the second contact portion are arranged along a first direction, and the third contact portion is arranged in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction.

11. The electrical connector as claimed in claim 10 , wherein the third contact portion is arranged in a direction opposite to a mating direction relative to the first contact portion and the second contact portion.

12. The electrical connector as claimed in claim 11 , wherein the first contact portion includes a first contact protrusion, the second contact portion includes a second contact protrusion, and the third contact portion includes a third contact protrusion, the mating end includes a body and a pair of beams extending from the body in the mating direction, the first contact protrusion is located on one of the pair of beams, the second contact protrusion is located on the other of the pair of beams, and the third contact protrusion is located on the body.

13. An electrical connector assembly comprising:
an electrical connector comprising a plurality of first ground sheets arranged laterally; and
a mating connector cooperating with the electrical connector and comprising a plurality of terminal modules laterally arranged, each terminal module including a first ground plate on a first side of the terminal module and a second ground plate on an opposite second side of the terminal module, wherein
the first ground sheet is mechanically and electrically connected to the first ground plate and the second ground plate at adjacent sides of two adjacent terminal modules.

14. The electrical connector assembly as claimed in claim 13 , wherein after the electrical connector and the mating connector are mated with each other, the first ground sheet is located between the first ground plate and the second ground plate on adjacent sides of two adjacent terminal modules.

15. The electrical connector assembly as claimed in claim 14 , wherein the first ground plate includes a first flat portion and a first contact portion extending from the first flat plate portion, the second ground plate includes a second flat portion and a second contact portion extending from the second flat portion, and the first contact portion is closer to the second ground plate than the second contact portion.

16. The electrical connector assembly as claimed in claim 15 , wherein a length of the first contact portion extending in the mating direction is greater than a length of the second contact portion extending in the mating direction.

17. The electrical connector assembly as claimed in claim 16 , wherein the first ground sheet includes a first mating portion, the first mating portion includes a flat portion and a plurality of elastic contact fingers protruding from the flat portion, the flat plate portion is in contact with the second contact portion on adjacent sides of two adjacent terminal modules, the elastic contact fingers are in contact with the first contact portions on adjacent sides of two adjacent terminal modules.

18. The electrical connector assembly as claimed in claim 14 , wherein the terminal module includes an insulating body and plural signal and ground terminals fixed in the insulating body and arranged alternately in a vertical direction, the signal terminals are arranged in a first plane, and each of the ground terminals is located in a respective second plane perpendicular to the first plane.

19. The electrical connector assembly as claimed in claim 18 , further including an insulating housing, a plurality of signal terminals held in the insulating housing, and a plurality of second grounding sheets held in the insulating housing, the first ground sheet and the second ground sheet are perpendicular to each other, the first ground plate and the second ground plate shield the signal terminal from a circumferential direction, the second ground sheet is mechanically and electrically connected to the ground terminals of all terminal modules.

20. The electrical connector assembly as claime

Assignees

• Fu Ding Prec Industrial Zhengzhou Co Ltd
• Foxconn Interconnect Technology Ltd
• Fuding Prec Industry Zhengzhou Co Ltd

Inventors

• Hsiao Shih-Wei
• Hsiao Yu-San
• Chang Yen-Chih
• Liu Meng
• Meng zhan-sheng

Classifications

• H01R13/6586

  for separating multiple connector modules · CPC title

• H01R12/71 Primary

  for rigid printing circuits or like structures · CPC title

• H01R13/6594

  the shield being mounted on a PCB and connected to conductive members · CPC title

• H01R13/6471 Primary

  by special arrangement of ground and signal conductors, e.g. GSGS [Ground-Signal-Ground-Signal] · CPC title

• H01R13/6581

  Shield structure · CPC title