Electrical connector with a spacer for retaining contacts thereon

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-8932085-B2
Application number	US-201313958528-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 2, 2013
Priority date	Aug 3, 2012
Publication date	Jan 13, 2015
Grant date	Jan 13, 2015

Abstract

An electrical connector includes an insulative housing a front opening cavity a front-to-back direction, a plurality of contacts retained in the insulative housing and a spacer attached to the insulative housing. Each of the contacts incudes a contacting portion exposed in the cavity, a soldering portion protruding from the insulative housing and a bridge portion connecting with the contacting portion and the soldering portion. A first row of the solder portions of the contacts extend rearward and a second row of soldering portions of the contacts extend forwards. The spacer has a horizontal section under the insulative housing and a vertical section at back of the insulative housing to press against the bridge portions of the second contacts.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An electrical connector comprising:
an insulative housing defining a front opening cavity, a mating front extending forwards in the cavity and a mounting face;
a row of first contacts, the first contacts comprising contacting portions disposed on top face of the mating tongue, soldering portions disposed on a rear side of a mounting face along a front to rear direction and bridge portions connecting with the contacting portions and the soldering portions,…

Assignees

• Hon Hai Prec Ind Co Ltd

Inventors

• Fang Ai-Hong
• Li Hua
• Jin huo-xing

Classifications

• H01R13/405 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H01R12/724 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic