Electrical connector

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9806444-B1
Application number	US-201715434538-A
Country	US
Kind code	B1
Filing date	Feb 16, 2017
Priority date	Nov 18, 2016
Publication date	Oct 31, 2017
Grant date	Oct 31, 2017

Abstract

An electrical connector includes an insulating body having a bottom plate with receiving slots and multiple terminals received in the receiving slots. Each receiving slot has two opposite first side walls, and a second and third side walls connecting the first side walls. A protruding block protrudes from the second side wall toward the third side wall. Each terminal has a plate portion, an elastic arm and a material connecting portion extending upward from the plate portion, a contact portion at a top end of the elastic arm to urge a chip module, and two clamping portions bending and extending from two opposite sides of the plate portion horizontally. The plate portion and the material connecting portion are limited between the protruding block and the third side wall. Tin balls are fixed between the clamping portions, and soldered to a circuit board. The tin balls are below the protruding block.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An electrical connector for conducting a chip module to a circuit board, comprising:
an insulating body, wherein the insulating body has a bottom plate, a plurality of receiving slots are disposed in the bottom plate, each of the receiving slots has two opposite first side walls, and a second side wall and a third side wall connected with the two first side walls and opposite to each other, a protruding block protrudes from the second side wall toward the third side wall, and the protruding block is separated from the two first side walls and the third side wall;
a plurality of terminals correspondingly received in the receiving slots, wherein each of the terminals has a flat plate portion, an elastic arm and a material connecting portion extending upward from the flat plate portion, a contact portion formed at a top end of the elastic arm to upward and elastically urge against the chip module, and two clamping portions bending and extending from the two opposite sides of the flat plate portion along a horizontal direction, and the flat plate portion and the material connecting portion are limited between the protruding block and the third side wall; and
a plurality of tin balls respectively and correspondingly fixed between the two clamping portions of corresponding one of the terminals, and soldered to the circuit board, wherein the tin balls are positioned below the protruding block and are prevented from moving upward.

2. The electrical connector of claim 1 , wherein each of the protruding blocks extends upward and exposes from an upper surface of the insulating body, and is used for supporting the chip module.

3. The electrical connector of claim 2 , wherein a supporting portion is disposed at a side edge of the bottom plate to support the chip module, and a top surface of the supporting portion is higher than top surfaces of the protruding blocks.

4. The electrical connector of claim 2 , wherein two supporting blocks protruding upward from the two first side walls of each of the receiving slots are positioned at two opposite sides of corresponding one of the protruding blocks, and are used for supporting the chip module.

5. The electrical connector of claim 1 , wherein two adjacent rows of the terminals are staggered, and the elastic arms of a rear row of the two adjacent rows of the terminals extend beyond a part over the material connecting portions of a front row of the two adjacent rows of the terminals.

6. The electrical connector of claim 1 , wherein a stopping block protrudes from the bottom end of each of the receiving slots, a groove is concavely disposed at one side of the stopping block to limit corresponding one of the tin balls, and the other opposite side of the stopping block stops the two clamping portions of corresponding two adjacent terminals.

7. The electrical connector of claim 1 , wherein the flat plate portion comprises a fixing portion for connecting the elastic arm and the material connecting portion, a connecting portion extending downward from the fixing portion, an extending portion extending downward from the connecting portion, and the clamping portions extending from two opposite sides of the extending portion, and wherein a width of the fixing portion, a width of the connecting portion and a width of the extending portion decrease sequentially.

8. The electrical connector of claim 7 , wherein each of the receiving slots is provided with two stopping surfaces, two stopping portions are formed by extending upward from ends of the two clamping portions of corresponding one of the terminals and bending to opposite directions, and are stopped at the two stopping surfaces, and a height of a top end of each of the stopping portions is between an upper edge and a lower edge of the connecting portion.

9. The electrical connector of claim 1 , wherein each of the receiving slots is provided with two stopping surfaces, two stopping portions are formed by extending upward from ends of the two clamping portions of corresponding one of the terminals and bending to opposite directions, and are stopped at two stopping surfaces, each of the two stopping surfaces is higher than the bottom surface of the protruding block.

10. The electrical connector of claim 1 , wherein the elastic arm of each of the terminals comprises a first arm bending from a top end of the flat plate portion and extending to a direction away from a vertical plane where the flat plate portion is positioned, and a second arm which returns, bends and extends from the first arm and is beyond the vertical plane where the flat plate portion is positioned, the first arm and the clamping portions are positioned at the two opposite sides of the vertical plane where the flat plate portion is positioned, and the second arm is connected with the contact portion.

Assignees

• Lotes Co Ltd

Inventors

• Ju Ted

Classifications

• H01R13/2442

  with a single cantilevered beam · CPC title

• H01R12/714

  with contacts abutting directly the printed circuit; Button contacts therefore provided on the printed circuit · CPC title

• H01R12/585 Primary

  Terminals having a press fit or a compliant portion and a shank passing through a hole in the printed circuit board · CPC title

• H01R12/7076

  for connection between PCB and component, e.g. display · CPC title

• H01R12/57 Primary

  surface mounting terminals · CPC title