Abstract: An electrical data connector includes a socket having a socket body that defines a plug connector cavity and electrically conductive shields within the cavity. A plug connector has a plug body telescopically slid into the plug connector cavity. The plug body has an insert cavity and adjacent spring openings, each of the spring openings aligning with a respective one of the shields. A cable head has an insert module telescopically slid into the insert cavity. The cable head includes an electrically conductive fixation element that is fixed to the insert module and fixed to a cable. The fixation element includes integral spring elements that extend generally radially outwardly from the insert module and are each configured to extend through respective spring openings into contact with respective shields.

Abstract: A connector with a metal shell having an anti-displacement structure. The connector comprises an insulating base, a plurality of metal terminals and a metal shell. A side arm of the metal shell has a first upper fixing part, a first lower fixing part and a first positioning part. The first upper fixing part abuts an upper surface of the insulating base, and the first lower fixing part abuts a lower surface of the insulating base. The first positioning part is combined with a second positioning part on a side face of the insulating base. In this way, the insulating base is restrained from moving upward, downward, leftward or rightward relative to the metal shell, thereby effectively improving the assembly stability of the connector.

Abstract: An electrical connector for the insertion of a mating connector. The electrical connector includes an insulating body having a base and a tongue extending forward from the base, multiple terminals fixed in the base and extending to the tongue, and a metal shell. The metal shell has two first walls along the upper side and the lower side, two second walls along the left side and the right side, and a limiting surface connected to the first walls and the second walls. When the mating connector is inserted in an insertion space, a first distance exists between each first wall and a shielding shell, a second distance exists between each second wall and the shielding shell, a third distance exists between each limiting surface and the shielding shell, and the third distance is less than the first distance and the second distance.

Abstract: A connector includes a holding member, a contact, a shell and a ground member. The holding member is made of insulator defining a connection space. The contact has a contact point. The contact is held by the holding member. The contact point is located inside the connection space. The ground member is electrically connected to the shell. The ground member has a base portion, a ground spring portion and a ground contact point portion. The base portion is located between the holding member and the shell. The base portion is provided with a regulated portion sandwiched between the shell and the holding member. The ground spring portion extends from the base portion. The ground contact point portion is supported by the ground spring portion and protrudes into the connection space. In the front-rear direction, a position of the ground spring portion does not overlap with a position of the contact.

Abstract: An electrical connector adapted for mounting on a printed circuit board, includes an insulating housing including a rear base and a front mating tongue, a plurality of contacts retained in the insulating housing and including contacting sections arranged on the mating tongue and mounting tails out of the insulating housing a shielding retained on the insulating housing and including a front mating port section thereby defining a mating cavity between the mating port section and the mating tongue and a metallic bracket attached on the shielding. The bracket defines a pair first supporting legs adjacent to the mating port sections which has no supporting leg split therefrom.

Abstract: A high speed communication jack including a housing including a port for accepting a plug, the port including a plurality of pins each connected to a corresponding signal line in the plug and a shielding case surrounding the housing. A flexible circuit board between the shielding case and the housing having a substrate, a plurality of vias extending through the substrate with each via being configured to accommodate a pin on the housing, a plurality of traces on a first side of the substrate, with each trace extending from a corresponding one of the plurality of vias, and a shielding plane on a second side of the substrate opposite the first side of the substrate.

Abstract: A high definition multimedia interface (HDMI) connector includes a HDMI socket (1b) and at least one pair positioning legs (2b). The HDMI socket (1b) has a shielding frame (11b). Each of the positioning legs (2b) is connected to the HDMI socket (1b) and exposed to the shielding frame (11b). The distance between the positioning legs (2b) is complied with the Display Port specification Thus, the HDMI socket (1b) has the positioning legs (2b) complied with the Display Port specification such that the HDMI socket (1b) can be insertedly disposed on the PCB (100b) having the Display Port connection to enhance assembling convenience.

Abstract: An electrical connector includes an insulative housing, a number of contacts retained in the insulative housing and a cover shielding the insulative housing. The insulative housing includes a top wall, a pair of side walls and a plug-receiving cavity formed thereby. Each contact includes a resilient contacting portion extending into the plug-receiving cavity. The cover includes a top plate covering the top wall and a pair of side plates respectively covering the pair of side walls. Each side plate includes an engaging arm extending inwardly therefrom. The insulative housing defines a pair of cutouts formed at boundaries of the top wall and the pair of side walls. The pair of engaging arms extend into the plug-receiving cavity through the pair of cutouts, respectively.

Abstract: An electrical connector (10) includes plural pairs of mating terminals (24), plural pairs of foot terminals (26), and a number of circuit board component units. The circuit board component unit includes an upper inner circuit board (141), a lower inner circuit board (142), and a number of electronic components mounted onto the upper and lower inner circuit board (141,142). The electronic components include a number of transformers (15), each transformer (15) including a drum type core (161), a primary winding wire (171), and a secondary winding wire (172) wound around the drum type core (161). The primary winding wire (171) of one transformer (15) and the primary winding wire (171) of an adjacent transformer (15) or the secondary winding wire (172) of the one transformer (15) and the secondary winding wire (172) of the adjacent transformer (15) are disposed adjacent to each other to prevent electric discharge.

Abstract: An RJ45 communication jack has a housing with a top, bottom, front, and back. A foil is immediately adhered to and partially covers the housing. A top or bottom of the housing is covered by a first portion and a second portion of the foil wherein the first portion and the second portion are separated by a nonconductive gap. The gap extends from the front of the housing to the rear of the housing.

Abstract: A high speed communication jack including a housing including a port for accepting a plug, the port including a plurality of pins each connected to a corresponding signal line in the plug and a shielding case surrounding the housing. A flexible circuit board between the shielding case and the housing having a substrate, a plurality of vias extending through the substrate with each via being configured to accommodate a pin on the housing, a plurality of traces on a first side of the substrate, with each trace extending from a corresponding one of the plurality of vias, and a shielding plane on a second side of the substrate opposite the first side of the substrate.

Abstract: [Problem] To provide an electrical connector that suppresses cross-talk. [Resolution Means] An electrical connector includes a main body 14 and a cover 16, with the main body 14 and the cover 16 demarcating a space housing a cable 3; the main body 14 includes an upper housing 20, a lower housing 22, a wiring substrate 28 arranged between the upper housing 20 and the lower housing 22, and a shield member 30 arranged interposing the upper housing 20 and the lower housing 22; and the wiring substrate 28 includes a contact 24 for electrically connecting to the cable 3, a connection terminal 26 for electrically connecting to a mating connector, and connecting conductor wiring L for electrically connecting the contact 24 and the connection terminal 26.

Abstract: An outlet that includes first and second substrates, and a plurality of electrical contacts. The first substrate includes an electrical circuit adjacent to and spaced apart from a first ground plane. Each of the electrical contacts is connected to the circuit. The second substrate includes a second ground plane electrically connected to the first ground plane. The circuit is spaced apart from the second ground plane. The electrical contacts are positioned adjacent to the first and second substrates. Together the first and second ground planes may form a localized, electrically floating, isolated ground plane. The outlet may be connected to a cable and/or configured to be mounted to a panel for use with a rack. The outlet may be implemented as a Category 7A and/or Next Generation type outlet having an overall height that allows two rows of twenty-four like outlets to be mounted within one rack unit (“1RU”).

Abstract: This application describes a jack for improving crosstalk attenuation. The jack has a housing, a foil at least partially surrounding the housing, a printed circuit board, and at least one pair of insulation displacement contacts and vias. Each pair of insulation contacts and vias are associated with a differential signal. A conductive trace stub is routed on the printed circuit board near the edge of the board proximate to the foil in order to at least partially balance the coupling from one of the insulation displacement contacts and vias of a pair to the foil with the other insulation displacement contact and via of the pair by electrically connecting the trace stub to the via that is further from the foil.

Abstract: A modular connector includes a housing, a first circuit board, a first pin set, a second pin set and a second circuit board. The housing includes a first hole and a second hole. The first pin set is extended into the first hole and electrically connected to the first circuit board. The second pin set is extended into the second hole and electrically connected to the second circuit board. The second circuit board is perpendicularly connected to the first circuit board.

Abstract: This application describes a jack for improving crosstalk attenuation. The jack has a housing, a foil at least partially surrounding the housing, wherein the foil is made up of a first section separated and conductively isolated from a second section by a gap or made up of a first metalized section separated and conductively isolated from a second metalized section by a non-metalized section whereby common mode noise caused by the capacitive coupling between foils of a series of adjacent jacks is reduced.

Abstract: An electrical connector adapted for at least two different mating connectors, comprises an insulative housing and a plurality of contacts retained on the housing. The insulative housing has a base and a tongue forwardly extending from the base. Each contact has a retaining portion retained in the base, a contact portion extending to the tongue from one end of the retaining portion, and at least one soldering portion extending out of the insulative housing from another end of the retaining portion. The contacts comprise two pairs of outer contacts at two sides thereof and at least one middle contact between said two pairs of outer contacts to connect with one contact of one mating connector or two contacts of another mating connector.

Abstract: A tongue grounding structure is provided for a connector. The connector includes a connector body, at least one circuit board, and a metal shell. The circuit board is received in the connector body. The circuit board includes conductive traces formed thereon. The conductive traces are extended to form a contact point. The metal shell encloses the connector body, and includes at least one clamping section extending therefrom. The clamping section includes a first clamp plate and a second clamp plate. With the above described arrangement, to assemble the connector, the clamping section is set to resiliently clamp the contact point of the circuit board received in the connector body in order to realize electrical connection between a grounding wire and the metal shell.

Abstract: An insulating housing defines an accommodating chamber and a receiving cavity in a bottom thereof. The bottom of the insulating housing defines a plurality of first terminal passages arranged at intervals along a traverse direction thereof and extends longitudinally to penetrate therethrough. The first terminal passages communicate with the accommodating chamber. A plurality of second terminal passages are arranged at intervals along a traverse direction thereof. A terminal module includes a terminal base disposed in the receiving cavity and a plurality of terminals molded together with the terminal base and arranged side by side. Each terminal has a fastening portion. A front end of the fastening portion extends forward to form a connecting portion which is arched upward and rearward to form a substantially oblique U-shaped bending portion. A free end of the bending portion extends along a tangent direction thereof to form a contacting portion.

Abstract: The present invention provides a connector in which countermeasures against external noise and radiation noise are taken, and an information processing apparatus having such a connector, which suppresses both the external noise and radiation noise. The connector is disposed at an opening formed in an outer face of an information processing apparatus such that the connector does not project from the outer face, a shield cable being connected to the connector from the opening. An end face on the side of the opening is made of an insulative material. The connector includes a signal terminal which connects a signal line of the shield cable and a processing circuit of the information processing apparatus with each other and which is provided at a location other than the end face, and a shield conductor which connects a shield of the shield cable and a ground of the information processing apparatus with each other and which is provided at a location other than the end face.

Abstract: A connector jack includes a housing, a receptacle shield, and a brace. The housing is configured for receiving a plug. The receptacle shield defines a receiving space for receiving the housing and exposing a plug receiving chamber of the housing to the outside, and includes two inward projecting prongs. Each prong has a base portion and a free end bent to form a ramped surface projecting inward into the interior of the receptacle. The brace is positioned between the receptacle shield and the housing, and has a main frame and two tabs respectively connected on the two ends of the main frame for abutting the prongs of the receptacle shield.

Abstract: An electrical connector includes an insulating housing having a pair of side-walls, a plurality of terminals retained in the insulating housing and comprising contacting portions and a shielding shell surrounding the housing. Each of the side walls of the housing defines a window portion thereof to communicating with the mating cavity and an exterior. A pair of side walls of the shell covers on the side walls of the insulating housing and each defines a resilient arm extending into the mating cavity through the window portion.

Abstract: A conductive cage (100) for receiving a SFP transceiver includes a cage body (10) having a number of pins (122) extending downwardly and a unitary, rectangular-shaped collar (20) mounted onto the cage body. The unitary, rectangular-shaped collar has a top plate (21), a pair of opposite side plates (23) and a bottom plate (22). The bottom plate has a first bottom plate half (221) including a first engaging portion (24) and a second bottom plate half (222) having a corresponding second engaging portion (25) coupling with the first engaging portion for connecting the first bottom plate half to the second bottom plate half.

Abstract: A conductive cage (100) for receiving a SFP transceiver includes a cage body (10) having a number of pins (122) extending downwardly and a unitary, rectangular-shaped collar (20) mounted onto the cage body. The unitary, rectangular-shaped collar has a top plate (21), a pair of opposite side plates (23) and a bottom plate (22). The bottom plate has a first bottom plate half (221) including a first engaging portion (24) and a second bottom plate half (222) having a corresponding second engaging portion (25) coupling with the first engaging portion for connecting the first bottom plate half to the second bottom plate half.