Abstract: An electrical connector includes a housing having a base portion and a tongue portion, two rows of terminals having signal terminals and ground terminals, a grounding member, and a metal shell. The grounding member is formed by bending a metal plate to have two long plates with fingers in contact with corresponding ground terminals. The base body defines a mating face and an outer face. A positioning groove is formed between a first side plate and the outer wall face. The metal shell is provided with an inner plate of which the lower edge is cut into a specific shape to form a locking edge. The metal shell has an inner shell and an outer shell.

Abstract: An electrical connector includes: an insulative base having a top surface, a bottom surface, and plural holes extending through the top surface and the bottom surface; a group of contacts mounted to corresponding holes, each contact having an upper contacting arm and a side portion; and a standoff secured to the side portion.

Abstract: An electrical connector includes: an insulative housing having a front tongue with opposite first and second surfaces; first and second rows of contacts molded with the insulative housing and having respective contacting portions exposed to the first surface of the front tongue, each row of contacts including two outermost ground contacts; and a middle grounding member molded with the insulative housing and disposed between the first row of contacts and the second row of contacts; wherein each of the two outermost ground contacts in the first row has an extending portion abutting against a first surface of the middle grounding member; and each of the two outermost ground contacts in the second row has an extending portion abutting against an opposite second surface of the middle grounding member.

Abstract: A radio frequency switch connector includes: a metal case; an insulator defining an inserting hole and received in the metal case; an elastic terminal retained to the insulator and having a first soldering portion; and a fixed terminal retained in the insulator and having a second soldering portion, wherein the first soldering portion and the second soldering portion are aligned with each other in a first direction so as to define an imaginary center line in the first direction, the base of the outer case is asymmetrical at two sides of the imaginary center line so as to shift a weight of the radio frequency switch connector.

Abstract: A receptacle assembly includes: a receptacle connector for mounting to a printed circuit board; a holder mounted atop the receptacle connector; and a cage enclosing the receptacle connector and the holder, the cage having a main cage body and a cage top detachably secured to a rear portion of the main cage body.

Abstract: An electrical connector includes: an insulating housing having a front housing having a front top wall and a pair of front side walls and a rear housing cooperating with the front housing; and plural terminal modules accommodated in the insulating housing, each of the terminal modules including an insulating body and plural conductive terminals held in the insulating body, wherein the rear housing includes a rear top wall and a pair of rear side walls extending downward from the rear top wall, and the rear top wall and the pair of rear side walls surround the terminal module in three directions.

Abstract: A board connector includes a first housing including a base and two sidewalls and defining a receiving space, a plurality of first terminals and a first metallic shell including a first main portion and two extending portions extending from the first main portion and fitting covering outsides of the sidewalls. Each extending portion defines a locking hole. A cable connector includes a second housing, a plurality of second terminals and a second metallic shell comprising a second main portion covering a top of the second insulating housing and a pair of locking arms extending from the second main portion in the lateral direction. Each sidewall is sandwiched between the locking arm and an outside of the second housing and each locking arm is retained in the locking hole during the cable connector is engaged with the board connector.

Abstract: A cable assembly includes: a cable module including plural cables, a ground bar electrically connected to the cables, signal contacts electrically connected to the cables, and a shielding sheet shielding the signal contacts; a housing holding the cable module; and a pair of side plates coupled to the ground bar and the shielding sheet.

Abstract: An electrical connector for mounting on an external circuit board includes: an insulating body; a terminal module assembled on the insulating body and including a plurality of mating terminals, an insulating carrier with an accommodating cavity, plural intermediate terminals fixed on one side of the insulating carrier and electrically connected to the mating terminals, plural pin terminals fixed on the other side of the insulating carrier, and a magnetic module accommodated in the accommodating cavity and electrically connected to the intermediate terminals and the pin terminals, wherein the insulating carrier is a two-piece housing, the intermediate terminals are held in one housing piece, and the pin terminals are held in the other housing piece.

Abstract: An electrical connector assembly includes: a printed circuit board; an electrical connector seated upon the printed circuit board; an electronic package coupled to the electrical connector; a frame structure affixed to the printed circuit board; a metallic securing seat affixed to the frame structure and having plural securing posts; a heat sink positioned upon the electronic package and having plural through holes aligned with the securing posts; plural fasteners each extending through a corresponding through hole to engage a corresponding securing post and plural springs each compressed between an associated fastener and the heat sink; and a retention member mounted to a corresponding securing post for engaging the heat sink, wherein the retention member has a mounting part and a latching part pivoted to the mounting part.

Abstract: An electrical connector assembly includes an upper connector unit and a lower connector unit in a vertical direction. Each 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 a plurality contacts essentially composed of a plurality of differential-pair signal contacts and a plurality of grounding contacts alternately arranged with each other in a the transverse direction wherein the differential-pair signal contacts are stamped and formed from sheet metal and successively integrally formed with a plurality of insulative transverse bars via insert-molding while the grounding contacts are directly blanked from sheet metal and associated with corresponding shielding plates assembled to the insulative transverse bar.

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. The contacts include a plurality of differential pair signal contacts and a plurality of grounding contacts alternately arranged with each other along a transverse direction. Each plastic tie bar includes an insulative primary part integrally formed with all contacts via a first insert-molding process, and a conductive secondary part integrally formed with the primary part and the grounding contacts via a second insert-molding process after the first insert-molding process.

Abstract: A chip retaining structure adapted for fixing a chip module in a chip socket includes a seat frame, a load plate and two retaining groups. The load plate is assembled on the seat frame and pivotable relative to one side of the seat frame. The load plate defines at least two through holes. Each through hole has a flange protruding inwardly adjacent to an upper face of the load plate. Each retaining groups comprises a bolt, a nut, and a collar. The bolt includes a nut portion, a first cylinder portion, a second cylinder portion, and a threaded portion. The nut is retained in the seat frame and screwed with the threaded portion. The collar is sleeved on the second cylinder portion and defines a flange portion. The bolt is limited in an up and down direction by the nut portion and the flange portion of the collar.

Abstract: An electrical connector includes: an insulative housing having a base and a rear platform; an outer cover enclosing the insulative housing to define a front chamber and a rear chamber; plural contacts secured to the insulative housing, exposed to the front chamber, and extending through the rear chamber; and a sealing member formed in the rear chamber to seal an interface between the insulative housing and the outer cover, wherein the rear platform has a peripheral face spaced a gap from the outer cover and the peripheral face has a roughened surface.

Abstract: An electrical connector for mounting on an external circuit board includes: an insulating body having an upper receiving space and a lower receiving space; a terminal module assembled on the insulating body and including plural pin terminals, each pin terminal having a pin for mounting on the external circuit board, wherein the terminal module is capable of being modified to support 1G or 2.5G or 5G or 10G or 25G or 40G signal transmission while keeping arrangement pattern of the pins unchanged in order to be mounted on the same external circuit board.

Abstract: A card edge connector includes: an insulating housing including two opposite side walls, a card slot defined between the two side walls and opening forward, and plural passageways on the side wall; a row of terminals received in corresponding passageways respectively and categorized with first terminals and second terminals, two adjacent first terminals being paired to be a pair of differential terminals and the second terminals being non-differential terminals, each of the row of terminals including a retaining portion, an elastic portion extending forward and a leg portion extending rearward from the elastic portion; and plural insulators retained in the insulating housing, wherein the first terminal and the second terminal are similarly shaped, each pair of differential terminals is retained in the insulator, and each of the second terminals is directly retained in the passageway.

Abstract: A contactless connector includes: a circuit board; a light emitter arranged on the circuit board and capable of converting electrical signals into optical signals; a light emitter control chip arranged on the circuit board for controlling the operation of the light emitter; and a light-transmitting member at least partially covering the circuit board, the light emitter, and the light emitter control chip.

Abstract: A cable includes: plural cable sets each including a pair of core wires, a shielding layer covering the pair of core wires, and an outer layer covering the shielding layer; and plural fixing wires cross-braided outside the cable sets to keep the cable sets in a row position along a lateral direction.

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: An electrical connector includes: a contact module including an insulative housing and plural contacts; an insulative outer cover enclosing the contact module; and a sealing member mounted to a front portion of the insulative outer cover, wherein the sealing member has an integral part extending through the front portion of the insulative outer cover.