Electrical connector having improved resilient contact so as to realize better retaining effect

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9028279-B2
Application number	US-201314052921-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 14, 2013
Priority date	Oct 12, 2012
Publication date	May 12, 2015
Grant date	May 12, 2015

Abstract

An electrical connector includes an insulative housing, a plurality of first contacts arranged in a side-by-side manner, and a resilient contact retained in the housing. The housing defines a mating face, a blocking face and a mating cavity disposed between the mating face and the blocking face. Each first contact defines a first contacting portion projecting into the mating cavity. The resilient contact defines a blocking piece abutting against the blocking face, a retaining leg extending out of the mating cavity, and latching arms extending into the mating cavity from the blocking piece. The latching arms can be easily released from a mating connector so as to realize a better retaining effect.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An electrical connector, comprising:
an insulative housing defining a mating face, a blocking face behind the mating face, and a mating cavity disposed between the mating face and the blocking face, the mating cavity communicating with an exterior via an insertion hole at a front end thereof;
a plurality of first contacts arranged in the housing in a side-by-side manner, and each first contact defining a first contacting portion projecting into the mating…

Assignees

• Hon Hai Prec Ind Co Ltd

Inventors

• Chen Yu-Hsu
• Hsu Wei-Hung
• Hsu Kuo-Chun

Classifications

• H01R13/6582

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H01R13/6275 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic