Electrical connector

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9728866-B2
Application number	US-201615265084-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 14, 2016
Priority date	Sep 15, 2015
Publication date	Aug 8, 2017
Grant date	Aug 8, 2017

Abstract

An electrical connector comprises a plurality of terminal blocks arranged along a transverse direction. The terminal block includes a vertical insulative plate, a pair of first terminals, and a pair of second terminals. The first terminal includes a first deflectable contacting arm and a first connecting foot. The second terminal includes a second deflectable contacting arm and a second connecting foot. The first deflectable contacting arm and the second deflectable contacting arm are arranged one by one along the transverse direction. The first deflectable contacting arms of the pair of first terminals bend in a face to face style to form an inserting space in the vertical direction. The second deflectable contacting arms of the pair of second terminals bend in a face to face style to form the inserting space in the vertical direction.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An electrical connector comprising:
a plurality of terminal blocks arranged along a transverse direction, the terminal block having a vertical insulative plate extending along a vertical direction perpendicular to the transverse direction;
a pair of first terminals fixed in the vertical insulative plate, each first terminal having a first deflectable contacting arm extending beyond a front face of the vertical insulative plate and a first connecting foot; and
a pair of second terminals fixed in the vertical insulative plate, each second terminal having a second deflectable contacting arm extending beyond the front face of the vertical insulative plate and a second connecting foot; wherein
the first deflectable contacting arms and the second deflectable contacting arms are arranged one by one along the transverse direction, the first deflectable contacting arms of the pair of first terminals bend in a face to face style to form an inserting space in the vertical direction, the second deflectable contacting arms of the pair of second terminals bend in a face to face style to form the inserting space in the vertical direction.

2. The electrical connector as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the first terminal has a first fixing portion connecting with the first deflectable contacting arm and the first connecting foot, the first fixing portion is fixed in the vertical insulative plate, the second terminal has a second fixing portion connecting with the second deflectable contacting arm and the second connecting foot, the second fixing portion is fixed in the vertical insulative plate.

3. The electrical connector as claimed in claim 2 , wherein the first connecting foot has a first connecting portion extending from the first fixing portion and a second connecting portion bending from the first connecting portion, the second connecting foot has a third connecting portion extending from the second fixing portion and a fourth connecting portion bending from the third connecting portion, the first connecting portion and the third connecting portion extend along two opposite directions, the second connecting portion and the fourth connecting portion are aligned along the vertical direction.

4. The electrical connector as claimed in claim 3 , wherein the first connecting portions of the pair of the first terminals extend parallel to each other.

5. The electrical connector as claimed in claim 4 , wherein the third connecting portions of the pair of the second terminals extend in a same direction, each of the second connecting portion and the fourth connecting portion provides a wire welding area.

6. The electrical connector as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the vertical insulative plate has two lateral faces connecting a front face and a rear face, and one of the lateral faces is attached with a shielding plate.

7. The electrical connector as claimed in claim 6 , wherein the vertical insulative plate has a sag with a fixing hole at one of the lateral faces, and the shielding plate has a fixing slice mounted into the fixing hole.

8. The electrical connector as claimed in claim 1 , further comprising a plurality of cables, each of the cables has two core wires, each of the terminal blocks has two cables, the first terminal and the second terminal disposed at one side of the inserting space are connected with two core wires of the cable, respectively.

9. An electrical connector comprising:
a terminal block including a first terminal and a second terminal retained in a same insulator and linked to a same differential pair cable with two core wires thereof,
the first terminal including a first fixing section retained in the insulator, a first deflectable contacting arm extending forwardly from the first fixing section, and a first connecting section extending rearwardly from the first fixing section;
the second terminal including a second fixing section retained in the insulator, a second deflectable contacting section extending forwardly form the second fixing section, and a second connecting section extending rearwardly from the second fixing section;
the first fixing section being spaced from the second fixing section in a vertical direction while the first deflectable contacting arm being side by side arranged with the second deflectable contacting arm along a transverse direction perpendicular to said vertical direction; and
the first connecting section defining a first soldering region soldered to one of said two core wires, the second connecting section defining a second soldering region soldered to the other of said two core wires; wherein
said first soldering region and said second soldering region are spaced from each other in the vertical direction while being close to each other in the transverse direction so as to allow the corresponding two core wires of the differential pair cable to extend essentially in a vertical plane rather than in an oblique plane or a horizontal plane.

10. The electrical connector as claimed in claim 9 , wherein each of said first connecting section and said second connection section defines an L-shaped structure.

11. The electrical connector as claimed in claim 10 , wherein the L-shaped structure of the first connecting section is symmetrical with regard to that of the second connecting section in both the vertical direction and the transverse direction.

12. The electrical connector as claimed in claim 9 , further including another first terminal and another second terminal retained in the same insulator in an aligned and symmetrical manner with regard to the corresponding first terminal and second terminal in the vertical direction.

13. The electrical connector as claimed in claim 12 , wherein said first terminal and said another first terminal are located between said second terminal and said another second terminal in the vertical direction in a side view.

14. The electrical connector as claimed in claim 13 , wherein a first receiving space is formed between said first terminal and said another first terminal in the vertical direction, and a second space is formed between said second terminal and said another second terminal in the vertical direction, said first receiving space being dimensioned similar to said second receiving space in the vertical direction.

15. The electrical connector as claimed in claim 14 , wherein said another first terminal and said another second terminal are linked with two corresponding core wires of another differential pair cable.

16. The electrical connector as claimed in claim 15 , wherein there are more than two terminal blocks are side by side stacked with one another along the transverse direction so as to have the corresponding first receiving spaces and second receiving spaces of said terminal blocks to commonly form a card edge receiving space in said transverse direction.

Assignees

• Foxconn Interconnect Technology Ltd

Inventors

• Liao Fang-Jwu

Classifications

• H01R9/2491

  Terminal blocks structurally associated with plugs or sockets · CPC title

• H01R9/223 Primary

  Insulating enclosures for terminals (for switches H01H9/0264) · CPC title

• H01R12/721 Primary

  cooperating directly with the edge of the rigid printed circuits · CPC title

• H01R13/6585

  Shielding material individually surrounding or interposed between mutually spaced contacts · CPC title

• H01R13/518

  for holding or embracing several coupling parts, e.g. frames · CPC title