Electrical connector receptacle with combined first and second contacts

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9634409-B2
Application number	US-201615176695-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 8, 2016
Priority date	Jun 10, 2015
Publication date	Apr 25, 2017
Grant date	Apr 25, 2017

Abstract

An electrical receptacle connector includes a metallic shell, an insulated housing, a plurality of first receptacle terminals, and a plurality of second receptacle terminals. The insulated housing received in the metallic shell is assembled with the first receptacle terminals and the second receptacle terminals. The tail portion of the power terminal of the second receptacle terminals is adjacent to and combined with the tail portion of the power terminal of the first receptacle terminals. The tail portion of the ground terminal of the second receptacle terminals is adjacent to and combined with the tail portion of the ground terminal of the first receptacle terminals. The combined tail portions can be inserted into the same soldering hole of a circuit board. Therefore, the cost and time for the soldering procedure of the connector manufacturing can be reduced.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An electrical receptacle connector, comprising:
a metallic shell, comprising a shell body and a receptacle cavity defined in the shell body;
an insulated housing received in the receptacle cavity of the metallic shell, wherein the insulated housing comprises a base portion and a tongue portion extending from one of two sides of the base portion, the tongue portion has a first surface and a second surface, and the first surface is opposite to the second surface;
a plurality of first receptacle terminals comprising a plurality of first signal terminals, at least one power terminal, and at least one ground terminal, wherein each of the first receptacle terminals is held in the insulated housing and disposed at the first surface, wherein each of the first receptacle terminals comprises a flat contact portion, a body portion, and a tail portion, wherein the body portion is held in the base portion and disposed at the first surface of the tongue portion, the flat contact portion is extending forward from the body portion in the rear-to-front direction and partly exposed upon the first surface of the tongue portion, the tail portion is extending backward from the body portion in the front-to-rear direction and extending out of the base portion, and wherein the tail portion of the power terminal is substantially perpendicularly extending from the body portion and extending out of the base portion, and the tail portion of the ground terminal is substantially perpendicularly extending from the body portion and extending out of the base portion; and
a plurality of second receptacle terminals comprising a plurality of second signal terminals, at least one power terminal, and at least one ground terminal, wherein each of the second receptacle terminals is held in the insulated housing and disposed at the second surface, wherein each of the second receptacle terminals comprises a flat contact portion, a body portion, and a tail portion, wherein the body portion is held in the base portion and disposed at the second surface of the tongue portion, the flat contact portion is extending forward from the body portion in the rear-to-front direction and partly exposed upon the second surface of the tongue portion, the tail portion is extending backward from the body portion in the front-to-rear direction and extending out of the base portion, wherein the tail portion of the power terminal is substantially perpendicularly extending from the body portion and extending out of the base portion, and the tail portion of the power terminal of the second receptacle terminals is adjacent to and combined with the tail portion of the power terminal of the first receptacle terminals, and wherein the tail portion of the ground terminal is substantially perpendicularly extending from the body portion and extending out of the base portion, and the tail portion of the ground terminal of the second receptacle terminals is adjacent to and combined with the tail portion of the ground terminal of the first receptacle terminals.

2. The electrical receptacle connector according to claim 1 , wherein one surface of the tail portion of the power terminal of the second receptacle terminals is in contact with one surface of the tail portion of the power terminal of the first receptacle terminals.

3. The electrical receptacle connector according to claim 1 , wherein one surface of the tail portion of the ground terminal of the second receptacle terminals is in contact with one surface of the tail portion of the ground terminal of the first receptacle terminals.

4. The electrical receptacle connector according to claim 1 , wherein one surface of the tail portion of the power terminal of the second receptacle terminals is spaced from one surface of the tail portion of the power terminal of the first receptacle terminals by a gap.

5. The electrical receptacle connector according to claim 1 , wherein one surface of the tail portion of the ground terminal of the second receptacle terminals is spaced from one surface of the tail portion of the ground terminal of the first receptacle terminals by a gap.

6. The electrical receptacle connector according to claim 1 , further comprising a circuit board, wherein the circuit board comprises a plurality of first soldering holes and a plurality of second soldering holes, except the tail portion of the power terminal and the tail portion of the ground terminal of the first receptacle terminals and except the tail portion of the power terminal and the tail portion of the ground terminal of the second receptacle terminals, rest of the tail portions of the first receptacle terminals and the tail portions of the second receptacle terminals are inserted into the first soldering holes, and the tail portion of the power terminal and the tail portion of the ground terminal of the first receptacle terminals and the tail portion of the power terminal and the tail portion of the ground terminal of the second receptacle terminals are inserted into the second soldering holes.

7. The electrical receptacle connector according to claim 6 , wherein the diameter of each of the first soldering holes is less than the diameter of each of the second soldering holes.

8. The electrical receptacle connector according to claim 1 , further comprising a grounding plate at the insulated housing, wherein the grounding plate comprises a plate body and a plurality of legs, the plate body is between the flat contact portions of the first receptacle terminals and the flat contact portions of the second receptacle terminals, the legs are extending outward from two sides of the plate body and extending out of the insulated housing.

9. The electrical receptacle connector according to claim 8 , wherein each of the legs of the grounding plate is adjacent to and combined with at least one of the tail portion of the power terminal of the first receptacle terminals and the tail portion of the power terminal of the second receptacle terminals.

10. The electrical receptacle connector according to claim 8 , wherein each of the legs of the grounding plate is adjacent to and combined with at least one of the tail portion of the ground terminal of the first receptacle terminals and the tail portion of the ground terminal of the second receptacle terminals.

11. The electrical receptacle connector according to claim 1 , wherein the first receptacle terminals and the second receptacle terminals have 180 degree symmetrical design with respect to a central point of the receptacle cavity as the symmetrical center.

12. The electrical receptacle connector according to claim 1 , wherein the position of the flat contact portions of the first receptacle terminals corresponds to the position of the flat contact portions of the second receptacle terminals.

13. An electrical receptacle connector, comprising:
a metallic shell, comprising a shell body and a receptacle cavity defined in the shell body;
an insulated housing received in the receptacle cavity of the metallic shell, wherein the insulated housing comprises a base portion and a tongue portion extending from one of two sides of the base portion, the tongue portion has a first surface and a second surface, and the first surface is opposite to the second surface;
a plurality of first receptacle terminals comprising a plurality of first signal terminals, at least one power terminal, and at least one ground terminal, wherein each of the first receptacle terminals is held in the insulated housing and disposed at the first surface, wherein each of the first receptacle terminals comprises a flat contact portion, a body portion, and a tail portion, wherein the body portion is h

Assignees

• Advanced Connectek Inc

Inventors

• Tsai Yu-Lun
• Hou Pin-Yuan
• Liao Chung-Fu
• Kao Ya-Fen
• Chen long-fei
• Chuang Chien-Tsung

Classifications

• H01R13/6581

  Shield structure · CPC title

• H01R12/58

  terminals for insertion into holes · CPC title

• H01R12/716 Primary

  Coupling device provided on the PCB · CPC title

• H01R13/6587

  for mounting on PCBs · CPC title

• H01R43/0235

  for applying solder (H01R43/0228 takes precedence) · CPC title