Abstract: A modular jack (100) has a housing (1) and a plurality of terminals (5) received in the housing. The housing includes a main body (4), an insert module (2), and a presser (3). The main body defines a cavity (40), a pair of grooves (41), and a pair of slots (42). The insert module has a pair of lead sections (21) slidably received in the grooves and a pair of guide sections (20). The presser has a pair of channels (30) slidably receiving the guide sections of the insert module and a pair of latches (33) reliably engaging with the slots of the main body. The presser further has a pair of blocks (31) abutting against bottom edges of the guide sections.

Abstract: An electrical connector (1) is provided for electrically mating with a mating connector (9) defining a receiving recess (95). The electrical connector includes a casing (2) and a theftproof member (8) movably disposed on the casing. The theftproof member has a latch portion (821). The theftproof member is movable between an unlocked position where the latch portion is disengaged from the receiving recess of the mating connector and a locked position where the latch portion latches into the receiving recess of the mating connector.

Abstract: An electrical connector (1) has an insulative base (10), a shielding member (12) and a plurality of terminals (13) received in the insulative base. The insulative base includes a base plate (101) and a mating board (102) extending upward from the base plate and a pair of side portions (106) formed at lateral sides of the base plate. The base plate has a plurality of fixing members (105) and wedges (104). Each side portion defines a cavity therein and forms a flange on an inner wall thereof. The shielding member has a chamber (120) for accommodating the base plate and the mating board. The shielding member also has a pair of mating holes (123) and mating recesses (122) for mating with correspondingly wedges and fixing member of the base plate. The shielding member has a pair of lateral sides respectively received in corresponding cavities with bottom edges thereof abutting against corresponding flanges.

Abstract: An electrical connector (1) is provided for electrically mating with a mating connector (9) defining a receiving recess (95). The electrical connector includes a casing (2) and a theftproof member (8) movably disposed on the casing. The theftproof member has a latch portion (821). The theftproof member is movable between an unlocked position where the latch portion is disengaged from the receiving recess of the mating connector and a locked position where the latch portion latches into the receiving recess of the mating connector.

Abstract: A plug connector (1) includes a housing (4), an audio plug (2) retained to the housing and a number of terminals (6) received in the housing. The housing has a base (41). A spacer (44) extends rearwardly from a rear face (411) of the base and having a projection (443). The audio plug includes a first and a second contacts (22, 23) insulated by an insulator (25) and each having a contact portion (220, 230), an extension portion (221, 231) extending from the contact portion and a rear portion (222, 232) extending from the extension portion. A part of the rear portion of the first contact is exposed on one side of the insulator and a part of the rear portion of the second contact is exposed on another side opposite to the first side.

Abstract: A cable connector comprises a housing and a number of terminals received in the housing. The housing has a mating surface and a mounting surface opposite to the mating surface. The housing defines one or more rows of receiving holes extending through the mating surface and the mounting surface for receiving the terminals. A cross-section of the receiving hole presents a slanted rectangle section plus a pair of recessing sections on opposite long sides of the slanted rectangle section. Each recessing section defines a vertical peripheral wall. The terminal comprises a gradually twisted contact portion at one end thereof, a straight extending portion connected with the contact portion, and a securing portion at the other end thereof correspondingly twisted in a similar way as the contact portion. The straight extending portion has a width comparable to a horizontal distance between the peripheral walls of the recessing sections of the receiving hole.

Abstract: An electronic card connector includes an insulative housing fixed in a casing of an electronic card with an outer face thereof exposed through an opening defined in the casing. The housing defines a slot for receiving a mating connector and retains a plurality of contact elements therein for electrically engaging with the mating connector. A pair of deflectable arms extend into the slot. Each arm resiliently supports a barb for engaging with and retaining the mating connector in the slot. A third arm is formed on a bottom side of the slot and supports a tab for engaging with the mating connector. A shielding member is positioned on and attached to the housing with two J-shaped end sections of the shielding member fit over two end blocks of the housing. The shielding member has two inclined resilient arms engaging with a flange of the casing thereby retaining and electrically grounding the connector.

Abstract: An electrical connector comprises an insulative housing, a plurality of terminals received in the housing, a one-piece conductive shell, and an over-molded casing portion. The plurality of terminals are secured within a plurality of receiving channels defined in the insulative housing. the terminals are of two designs, produced on two different carrier stripes. Both terminal designs include a mating portion at one end and a mounting portion at an opposite end. The designs differ in that the soldering portion is level with the mating portion in one design, and is at an elevation above the mating portion in the second design. Also, the soldering portions are laterally offset in opposite directions relative to the plane of the mating portions. Terminals of the two designs are assembled into the connector in an alternating pattern, creating larger distance between adjacent mounting portions.

Abstract: A cable connector with improved grounding arrangement for electrically connecting to a shielded cable comprises a dielectric housing receiving a number of contacts therein, a shielding mechanism consisting of a first shell and a second shell, a module including a circuit board, and a dielectric shell enclosing the cable connector. The housing forms a frame comprising a pair of step-like shoulders and a pair of diagonal faces. The first and second shells form a pair of first and second grounding tabs, respectively, for engaging with the corresponding shoulders of the housing. The first grounding tabs overlap on the corresponding second grounding tabs thereby forming a grounding path through grounding wires of the cable terminated to the cable connector, the second shell, the first shell and a shield of a mating connector therethrough. The first shell also has a pair of positioning tabs extending from middle portions of edges of upper and lower surfaces thereof.

Abstract: An electrical connector of the present invention comprises an insulative housing, a plurality of contacts received in the housing, a unitary shell enclosing the housing and the contacts therein and an insulative cover partially enclosing the shell. The housing includes a body portion and a tongue portion protruding beyond a first face of the body portion. The unitary shell includes a first shielding portion and a second shielding portion connected together via a strip and three tabs formed therebetween. The first and the second shielding portions are bent from a single flat piece of metal to form a rectangular frame having two opposite edges thereof engaging with each other to enclose the body portion and the tongue portion of the housing, respectively.

Abstract: A shielded cable assembly includes a housing having a front face, a rear face and a number of passageways defined through the faces, a number of contacts received in the passageways, a grounding shield, a nose shield, a cable having several wires therein, a circuit trace board forming a number of conductive pads thereon for soldering ends of the contacts and wires thereto, an upper shell, and a lower shell. One edge of the circuit trace board is received in the rear face of the housing. A pair of tabs upwardly extends from opposite ends of an outer edge of the grounding shield. The housing further includes a top face, a bottom face, and two sidefaces. A pair of niches is disposed between the housing and the nose shield for receiving the tabs of the grounding shield. The tabs securely abut against the nose shield to discharge accumulated charges thereby ensuing proper signal transmission.

Abstract: A cable connector subassembly mainly comprises an insulative housing, a number of data terminals and a terminating system for high speed cables including a number of signal terminals, a dielectric spacer and a conductive grounding plate. The grounding plate is of a two-layer configuration and has an upper and a lower plate connected at a forward end, a rear end of the grounding plate having arms adapted to hold cables and be in contact with metallic shields of the cables. The grounding plate is firmly held in the spacer, which in turn engages with the insulative housing. The spacer has passageways for the signal terminals extending through. The signal terminals have latch structures at approximately a middle section thereof for interferentially engaging with the spacer and the housing, respectively. A forward shroud fits over a front end of the housing, and the connector subassembly and the forward shroud are enclosed by a pair of shielding shells and a pair of covers.

Abstract: A cable connector having a system for high-speed signal transmission comprises an insulative housing, a plurality of data transmission terminals, and the system for high-speeding signal transmission. The system for high-speed signal transmission comprises a plurality of high-speed signal terminals, a grounding plate, an insulative spacer, and a ferrule. The insulative spacer has a front face and a rear face and defines an elongate slot extending therethrough, a pair of grooves being defined in the front face and being in communication with the slot, and a plurality of passageways being defined on opposite sides of the slot for receiving the signal terminals. The grounding plate defines a pair of teeth laterally projecting from opposite side edges thereof so that as the grounding plate is extended through the slot of the insulative spacer, the teeth fit into the grooves of the space. The ferrule clamps a plurality of metallic braids of connected coaxial cables to the grounding plate.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a multiple conductor cable connector comprising a front insulative housing, a rear insulative housing, a number of contacts each comprising a piercing section and a connecting section, a pair of latching components and a shell comprising a base plate, a shielding section and a pair of latching arms. The front housing comprises a base board and a mating section forwardly projecting from the base board for mating with a mating connector. The rear insulative housing has a chamber for partially receiving the latching arms of the shell thereof. Several positioning holes are defined in the latching arms for latching with corresponding positioning members.

Abstract: A USB connector comprises an insulative housing, a plurality of terminals, a top cover and a front shell. The front shell includes a bottom wall, a pair of side walls upwardly extending from opposite edges of the bottom wall, and a pair of half top walls inwardly extending from edges of the side walls and defining a seam therebetween. The front shell has an exposed insertion end for facilitating insertion of the housing to be inserted thereinto. A strain relief portion extends from a bottom wall of the front shell proximate the insertion end. A carrier is connected to the strain relief portion. In an automatic assembly process, the housing is inserted into the front shell through the insertion end.

Abstract: An electrical connector includes an insulative housing having a central section defining a plurality of passageways each receiving a contact element therein and two end blocks. A latching member made of metal by means of stamping and pressing has a U-shaped structure fit over each of the end blocks. The latching member has a latching arm extending from the U-shaped structure for engaging with a mating connector. The latching member also has a second arm extending from the U-shaped structure for engaging with and retaining a circuit board. The second arm has a convex portion confronting a face of the end block and defining a gap therebetween for receiving the circuit board whereby the convex portion engages with a surface thereof. Alternatively, the second arm may extend through and engage with a hole defined in the circuit board for retaining the circuit board in the connector.