Abstract: An electrical connector includes an insulative housing extending in a horizontal direction, a plurality of conductive terminals retained in the insulative housing, a metallic stiffener surrounding the insulative housing, a load plate pivotally mounted upon the metallic stiffener and moveable between an open position and a closed position, and a carrier frame used for retaining and receiving a central processing unit (CPU) and carrying the CPU to the insulative housing. After retaining the CPU, the carrier frame is mounted on the insulative housing along a vertical direction perpendicular to the horizontal direction. The load plate is rotated to the closed position to fix the CPU on the insulative housing.

Abstract: A vehicle control method applied to a smart car key includes receiving a connection request sent by a mobile terminal, establishing a communication connection with the mobile terminal in response to the connection request, receiving identity information and authorization request information sent by the mobile terminal, determining whether the identity information is correct, and in response that the identity information is correct, sending pairing information to the mobile terminal in response to the authorization request information and sending the identity information to a vehicle to be controlled. The mobile terminal controls the vehicle through the pairing information and the identity information to perform at least one operation.

Abstract: An electrical connector includes: an insulating body; and a first row of terminals and a second row of terminals housed in the insulating body, each terminal in the first row of terminals having a tail portion, a contact portion, and a body portion, the first row of terminals including a signal terminal pair having a pair of signal terminals and a ground terminal arranged on one side of the signal terminal pair, wherein a first center distance between the contact portions of the signal terminal pair is different from a second center distance between the contact portion of the ground terminal and the contact portion of an adjacent signal terminal.

Abstract: A card edge connector includes an insulative housing and two rows of terminals. The insulative housing includes two side walls. The terminals include signal terminals and grounding terminals each having a retaining portion, a contact portion, and a soldering portion. Two adjacent terminals in each row constitutes a terminal pair. The soldering portions of each terminal pair are aligned with each other in a longitudinal direction and the soldering portions of an adjacent terminal pair are deviate from each other in the longitudinal direction so that the soldering portions of the two rows of the terminals are arranged in four rows. The terminal pairs include three types of arrangement and in each arrangement the soldering portions of the ground terminals are placed next to the soldering portions of the signal terminals in the closest way in order to reduce interference during transmission.

Abstract: An electrical connector assembly includes: a bracket; and at least one transmission assembly mounted to the bracket and including an internal printed circuit board (PCB), a board-mount connector connected to a first row of conductive pads disposed at a bottom end portion of the PCB, and a plug-in connector connected to a second row of conductive pads disposed at a front end portion of the PCB, wherein the PCB has a third row of conductive pads disposed at a rear end portion thereof.

Abstract: An electrical connector includes: an insulative housing having an island and a receiving channel; plural contacts secured to the insulative housing and exposed to the receiving channel; and a pair of holding members secured to two opposite ends of the insulative housing and exposed to the receiving channel, each holding member having a first part and a second and third parts at two opposite ends of the first part, wherein the second part of each holding member has a bottom plate, a reinforcing tab extending upwardly from the bottom plate, and a resilient arm extending upwardly from the bottom plate and located proximal to associated third part than the reinforcing tab.

Abstract: An electrical connector includes an insulative housing defining a mating surface and a mating slot recessed from the mating surface and extending in a longitudinal direction, plural conductive terminals arranged on the insulative housing, and a pair of reinforcing members. The insulative housing comprises two side walls extending along the longitudinal direction and two end walls connecting with the side walls. The conductive terminal comprises a contact portion protruding into the mating slot and a soldering portion extending out of the insulative housing. Each of the end walls defines a groove penetrating the mating surface and communicating with the mating slot and an exterior in the longitudinal direction. Each reinforcing member comprises an end wall portion and a fixing portion retained in the insulative housing. The end wall portion is accommodated in a corresponding groove to complete a corresponding end wall of the insulative housing.

Abstract: An electrical connector includes an insulative housing defining a mating slot, an inner metallic shield covering the insulative housing, and an outer metallic shield enclosing the insulative housing. The insulative housing includes a first wall, a second wall and two side walls. The inner metallic shield includes a main plate attached to the first wall and two side portions attached to the two side walls. The outer metallic shield includes a main plate located on the outer side of the main plate and two plates attached to the side portions respectively. The insulative housing is provided with grooves on the second walls. The plate is provided with a hook portion fixed in the groove. The two side portions engage the two plates.

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: A cable includes: a pair of core wires; a shielding layer covering the pair of core wires; an insulating outer layer covering the shielding layer; a ground wire between the pair of core wires and the shielding layer; and a filler wire between the pair of core wires and the shielding layer, and the filler wire is arranged symmetrically with the ground wire.

Abstract: An electrical connector includes: an insulative housing having a slot; plural contacts secured in the insulative housing and exposed to the slot; and a metallic shell mounted to the insulative housing and having a top plate, a bottom plate, and a connecting part connected to the top plate at an upper end thereof and connected to the bottom plate at a lower end thereof, wherein the top plate has a pair of actuating arms and the connecting part has a pair of locking arms, and the top plate is movable about the upper end of the connecting part to actuate the pair of locking arms by the pair of actuating arms.

Abstract: A method of making an electrical connector which includes an insulative housing having a tongue with an upper and lower surfaces, a plurality of contacts having respective contacting portions exposed to the upper and lower surfaces of the tongue and having two outermost upper or lower contacts, and a shielding member situated between the upper and lower surfaces of the tongue and overlapping the two outermost upper or lower contacts along a vertical direction perpendicular to the upper and lower surfaces of the tongue is characterized by the steps of: forming the plurality of contacts from a first carrier; forming the shielding member from a second carrier to have the two discrete shielding plates; stacking the first carrier and the second carrier; and molding the plurality of contacts and the two discrete shielding plates with an insulator in one shot.

Abstract: A connector assembly for mounting a chip module to a printed circuit board (PCB) includes: a seating mechanism including a socket connector, a metallic seat frame, and a metallic load plate; a back plate; and plural fasteners extending through the seating mechanism, the PCB, and the back plate to fasten the seating mechanism and the back plate on two opposite sides of the PCB, wherein the back plate has a curved inner region and a flat outer region and the fasteners extend through the flat outer region of the back plate.

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: An electrical connector is essentially composed of a pair of half housings opposite to each other in a longitudinal direction to commonly form a receiving cavity for receiving a CPU. Each half housing is equipped with a plurality of contacts with corresponding contacting sections upwardly extending into the receiving cavity for mating with the CPU. A single pick-up cap includes a plate with a plurality of claws adapted to be engaged within locking recesses in exterior sides of the half housings, a plurality of positioning blocks adapted to extend into the receiving cavity so as to cooperate with the claws to sandwich the periphery wall of the housing therebetween in the longitudinal direction for securing the half housings to the pick-up cap. Therefore, both the pair of half housings may be grasped by the single pick-up cap for mounting and soldering to PCB at the same time.

Abstract: A card edge connector includes: an elongated insulative housing comprising two longitudinal walls, a center slot defined between the longitudinal walls, and plural terminal receiving passageways arranged along the longitudinal walls; and plural terminals fixed in the terminal receiving passageways, wherein each of the longitudinal walls defines a first recessed portion extending along a longitudinal direction and plural second recessed portions extending upwardly from the first recessed portion at an outer surface thereof, the second recessed portions are arranged at intervals along the longitudinal direction, the first recessed portion goes through a bottom face of the longitudinal wall, and the second recessed portions does not go through a top of the longitudinal wall.

Abstract: An electrical connector including: an insulative housing defining plural passageways and plural contacts disposed in corresponding passageways, the contact having a base extending in a first vertical plane and a resilient contacting arm upwardly and obliquely extending from an upper end of the base, the resilient contacting arm having a bulged contacting section at a free end thereof, a retaining section sidewardly linked to one side edge of the base to retain the contact within the passageway, and a supporting section sidewardly linked to another side edge of the base with an upwardly and obliquely curved abutting section at an upper end thereof, wherein the abutting section is adapted to be outwardly deflected when the contacting arm is downwardly deflected to sidewardly press the abutting section.

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 electrical connector includes an insulating body and first through eighth terminals sequentially arranged in a lateral direction in the insulating body, wherein the first and second terminals, the third and sixth terminals, the fourth and fifth terminals, and the seventh and eighth terminals are respectively used to transmit a pair of differential signals, each terminal including: a mating portion for mating to a mating connector; a tail portion opposite to the mating portion; and a connecting portion connected therebetween, the connecting portions of the third terminal to the fifth terminal are all provided with a coupling portion; wherein the coupling portions of the third through fifth terminals are in three different planes, respectively, and the coupling portion of the fifth terminal and the coupling portion of the third terminal at least partially overlap in a longitudinal direction perpendicular to the lateral direction.

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.