Abstract: A contact assembly for an electrical connector includes: a lower contact module having an insulator and plural signal and ground contacts carried by the insulator; a lower cap with an integrated lower ground bar in contact with the ground contacts of the lower contact module; an upper contact module having an insulator and plural signal and ground contacts carried by the insulator; a pair of side plates attached to the insulator of the lower contact module, the lower cap, and the insulator of the upper contact module; and an upper cap with an upper ground bar in contact with the ground contacts of the upper contact module, wherein each of the lower ground bar and the upper ground bar has a pair of end portions in contact with the pair of side plates.

Abstract: A contact assembly for an electrical connector includes: a signal contact module including a first insulator and plural pairs of signal contacts insert-molded with the first insulator; a ground contact module including a second insulator and plural ground contacts insert-molded with the second insulator; and a conductive plastic member molded with the plural ground contacts, wherein the first insulator is assembled to the second insulator.

Abstract: A contact assembly for an electrical connector includes: a ground contact module including plural ground contacts defining an engaging section entirely exposed to air and a conductive plastic member mounted to the engaging section and extending through each of the plural ground contacts; plural pairs of signal contacts alternately arranged between the plural ground contacts; and an insulative member mounted to the plural pairs of signal contacts and at least some of the plural ground contacts.

Abstract: A cable connector includes a contact module, wires and grounding bars. The contact module includes a pair of subunits commonly sandwiching a metallic shielding plate. Each subunit includes contacts integrally formed within an insulator, the contacts includes a plurality of differential-pair contacts and grounding contacts alternately arranged with each other. Each contact includes a front contacting section and a rear tail section, the tail sections of the grounding contacts being unified with a transverse bar. Each wire has a pair of inner conductors respectively soldered to the tail sections of the corresponding differential-pair contacts, and an outer braiding layer surrounding the pair of inner conductors and mechanically and electrically connected to the transverse bar. Each grounding bar includes a plurality of rear tabs respectively connected to the braiding layers, and a plurality of front tabs respectively connected to the tail sections of the corresponding grounding contacts.

Abstract: An electrical connector includes: an insulative housing having a tongue and a cavity; two rows of terminals secured to the insulative housing and exposing respectively to two opposite surfaces of the tongue, each row of terminals having plural signal terminals and plural ground terminals, the plural ground terminals being exposed to the cavity; a conductive plastic bridge disposed in the cavity to provide electrical bridging between the plural ground terminals; and a shield plate molded with the conductive plastic bridge and located between the two rows of terminals.

Abstract: An electrical connector includes: an insulative housing having a mating cavity; plural contacts including a row of upper contacts and a row of lower contacts secured in the insulative housing, the row of upper contacts and the row of lower contacts having respective contacting portions exposed to the mating cavity; and a lifter operable relative to the insulative housing to move the row of lower contacts upwardly.

Abstract: A cable connector includes a contact module enclosed within a case. The contact module includes an upper part and a lower part stacked with each other. The upper part includes an upper insulator and plural upper contacts and a metallic upper shield attached upon the upper insulator. The wires include inner conductors connected to differential-pair signal contacts of the plural upper contacts. The upper shield defines a plurality of front spring fingers respectively connected to the corresponding grounding contacts and a plurality of rear spring fingers respectively connected to the braiding layers of the corresponding wires.

Abstract: A connector unit includes a contact module received within an insulative housing. The contact module includes an upper contact unit and a lower contacts unit stacked with each other. Each of the upper contact unit and the lower contact unit includes a front/outer contact part and a rear/inner contact part each including plural contacts integrally formed with plural insulative transverse bars via insert-molding. The contacts include plural differential pair signal contacts and plural grounding contacts alternately arranged with each other along a transverse direction. Plural grounding bars are attached to corresponding transverse bars, respectively, wherein each grounding bar include plural tabs mechanically and electrically connecting to the corresponding grounding contacts. Each grounding bar is equipped with a plastic attachment tie bar to cooperate with a corresponding transverse bar to sandwich the grounding bar therebetween for securement.

Abstract: An angled type connector assembly includes a receptacle connector mounted upon a printed circuit board and having an insulative housing with an oblique opening to receive a plug connector, and a bottom opening through which the mating pads on the printed circuit board is upwardly exposed. The plug connector includes two rows of contacts respectively mechanically and electrically connected to the corresponding two rows of wires. The plug connector forms an oblique mating end or interface relative to an extending direction of the plug, on which the contacting sections of the contacts are exposed to mate with the corresponding mating pads on the printed circuit board.

Abstract: The electrical connector includes a contact module received within an insulative housing. The contact module includes an upper contact unit and a lower contacts unit stacked with each other. Each of the upper contact unit and the lower contact unit includes a front/outer contact part and a rear/inner contact part each including a plurality of side by side arranged contacts integrally formed with a plurality of plastic tie bars at different positions via insert-molding. An insulative front cover and an insulative rear cover are assembled upon the housing wherein the rear cover is forwardly assembled into the housing together with the contact module while the front cover is downwardly assembled upon the housing after the contact module has been assemble into the housing. The front cover is configured to comply with the curved resilient contacting sections of the contacts for lowering the impedance of the contacts thereabouts.

Abstract: An electrical connector assembly includes a contact module having an upper part and a lower part stacked with each other. The upper part includes a front/outer upper unit and a rear/inner upper unit and the lower part includes a front/outer lower unit and a rear/inner lower unit. Each unit includes an insulative body and a plurality of contacts integrally formed with the insulative body via an insert-molding process. The insulative body includes a middle sector and a pair of side sectors. The contacts include side-band contacts retained in the middle sector and differential-pair contacts retained in the side sectors.

Abstract: An electrical connector assembly includes a contact module having an upper part and a lower part stacked with each other in the vertical direction. The upper part includes a front/outer upper unit and a rear/inner upper unit. The lower part includes a front/outer lower unit and a rear/inner lower unit. Each unit includes an insulative body and a plurality of contacts integrally formed with the insulative body. The insulative body includes a middle sector and a pair of side sectors. The contacts include the side-band contacts retained in the middle sector, and the differential-pair contacts retained in the side sectors. The tail sections of the side-band contacts are mounted to the printed circuit board. The tail sections of the differential-pair contacts are connected to the wires. Each of the unit further includes a metallic grounding bracket provides spaced two positions mechanically and electrically connected to each corresponding grounding contact.

Abstract: A plug connector adapted for connecting corresponding wires includes an insulative body integrally formed with two rows of plug contacts in a lateral direction and a transverse bar. The plug contacts are categorized with differential-pair contacts and grounding contacts alternately arranged with each other in a longitudinal direction. The transverse bar extends along the longitudinal direction perpendicular to the lateral direction and is unitarily linked to rear ends of all the grounding contacts of each row of plug contacts while being isolated from the differential-pair contacts. All the contacts and the transverse bar are stamped from a same sheet metal initially, and the differential-pair contacts are successively disconnected from the transverse bar after the plug contacts are integrally formed with the insulative body.

Abstract: An electrical connector assembly includes: an insulative housing; a contact module received by the insulative housing, the contact module including a first pair of signal contacts, a second pair of signal contacts, and a ground contact between the first pair of signal contacts and the second pair of signal contacts; a first cable having a pair of signal wires terminated to the first pair of signal contacts and a second cable having a pair of signal wires terminated to the second pair of signal contacts; and a unitary ground bar having a first loop wrapping around the first cable, a second loop wrapping around the second cable, and an intermediate portion terminated to the ground contact.

Abstract: An electrical connector assembly includes a receptacle connector disposed in a wearable machine and equipped with one row contacts and a set of magnets, and a cable connector equipped with two rows of contacts and another set of magnets so as to be mated with the receptacle connector in a flippable manner wherein the interface between the receptacle connector and the cable connector is of a stadium configuration, and the set of magnets are located at two opposite halves of the long sides of the stadium configuration in the diagonal direction.

Abstract: A contact assembly for an electrical connector includes: a signal contact module including an insulator and plural pairs of signal contacts insert-molded with the insulator; plural ground contacts each disposed beside a corresponding pair of signal contacts; and a conductive plastic member molded to connect the plurality of ground contacts, wherein each ground contact has a hole and the conductive plastic member enters the holes of the ground contacts.

Abstract: A connector position assurance device (CPA) cooperated with a plug connector to ensure a latch of the plug connector located in a releasing state or a blocked state, includes a base including a downwardly deflectable center arm and a pair of sidewardly deflectable side arms enclosing the center arm in a transverse direction. The bottom surface of the center arm have an engagement protrusion, each side arms have an engagement protrusion which protruding in a transverse direction. The CPA is maintained in a front blocked position or a rear releasing position in the connector to ensure the latch blocked or released.

Abstract: An electrical connector includes a contact assembly, a cable assembly terminated to the contact assembly, a cover receiving the contact assembly and the cable assembly, a latch disposed at a bottom of the cover for latching to a mating connector, and an un-mating assembly mounted to the cover and including a lift bar, wherein the latch is operable to unlatch from the mating connector in response to an upward movement of the lift bar while moving upward to dislodge the cover from the mating connector.

Abstract: An LRA with a magnet assembly sandwiched between a pair of moving masses or support blocks which are further sandwiched between a pair of springs. A stationary elongated shaft extends through both the magnet assembly and the pair of moving masses and the pair of springs with two opposite ends secured to the corresponding end walls of the case in which all the magnet assembly, the pair of moving masses and the springs are disclosed. The moving mass forms a pair of recesses in opposite top and bottom surfaces. The case forms a pair of protrusions on opposite top and bottom walls to respectively received within the corresponding recesses so as to provide the reliable support upon the moving mass in a vertical direction. Each moving mass forms a protrusion to hold the corresponding spring in position.

Abstract: An electrical connector includes an insulative housing defining a front cavity for receiving and a rear cavity, a terminal assembly assembled in the rear cavity, and a ground member. The terminal assembly includes an upper terminal module, a lower terminal module sandwiching a shielding module therebetween. Said The upper terminal module includes a pair of upper ground terminals. Said The lower terminal module includes a plurality of lower ground terminals. Said The shielding module includes a metallic shielding plate. The ground member is associated with the shielding module to mechanically and electrically connect at least one of the upper ground terminals and the lower ground terminals with the shielding plate.