Abstract: An electrical connector assembly includes an insulative housing, a plurality of contacts retained to the housing, a metallic frame/fastener surrounding the housing, a retainer/clip positioned upon the housing and retaining a CPU thereon. The metallic frame includes four positioning posts at four corners, and the retainer includes a frame part to form a receiving space for receiving the CPU therein, and further includes four metallic retaining supports embedded within four corners of the retainer corresponding to the four positioning posts so as to allow the four positioning posts to extending therethrough in the vertical direction.

Abstract: An electrical connector assembly includes a plug connector and a receptacle connector. A plug connector includes an insulative plug housing and a plurality of blade type male contacts retained in the plug housing. Each of the blade type male contacts includes a contacting section composed of two opposite primary mating planes and two opposite side locking planes. Correspondingly, a receptacle connector includes an insulative receptacle housing and a plurality of clip type female contacts retained in the receptacle housing. Each of the clip type female contacts includes a pair of contacting portions sandwiching the two opposite primary mating planes of the corresponding blade type male contact therebetween in a first horizontal direction. A metallic blade type locking piece retained in the receptacle housing, includes a pair of locking arms sandwiching the two opposite side locking planes therebetween in a second horizontal direction perpendicular to the first horizontal direction.

Abstract: An electrical connector for connecting an electronic package to a printed circuit board, includes an insulative housing with a plurality of passageways therein, and a plurality of contacts are retained in the corresponding passageways, respectively. Each contact has a main body and opposite upper and lower contacting arms extending therefrom in a symmetrical manner in the vertical direction. Each of the upper contacting arm and the lower contacting arm has a pair of spring beams spaced from each other. Each beam includes an extension section directly extending from and coplanar with the main body, an oblique section extending from the extension section and a contacting section extending from the oblique section. The distance between the oblique sections of the pair of beams is essentially same with that of the extension sections thereof, while larger than that of the contacting sections thereof.

Abstract: An electrical card connector includes an insulative housing defining a receiving space with a plurality of contacts retained therein with constant pitch thereof. The housing includes a base and a plurality of tongues extending from the base into the receiving space. The contact includes a contact arm extending forwardly into the receiving space, and a soldering leg extending rearwardly out of the base. The tongue includes a plurality of partition bars with corresponding cavities therebetween. The contacts include a plurality of differentia pairs and grounding contacts alternately arranged with each other. The partition bars are located between the neighboring grounding contacts and differential pairs while no partition bar is located within each differential pair.

Abstract: A fastening mechanism for retaining a heat sink upon the CPU includes a fastening seat surrounding the connector, and a pair of fastening clips. The fastening seat includes four alignment posts at four corners, and the pair of fastening clips are attached at two corresponding diagonal corners. Each fastening clip includes a mounting section secured to the corresponding post, a latching section for temporarily holding the heat sink, and a resilient arm for upwardly urging the heat sink. Each alignment post is equipped with a screw nut and a coil spring so as to reinforce the downward pressing forces against the heat sink for assuring reliable connection between the CPU and the contacts of the electrical connector for better electrical transmission and intimate contact between the CPU and the heat sink for efficient heat dissipation.

Abstract: An electrical connector includes an outer conductor and an inner conductor coaxially arranged with each other with an insulator therebetween. The outer conductor includes a base and a plurality of arc protrusions formed on a rear face of the base and coaxially sharing the same circle center. The protrusions are optimally located around a peripheral region of the circle defined by the cross-section of the cylindrical contour. A metallic box includes a top wall, opposite front and rear walls and opposite two side walls. The front wall forms a plurality of arc holes coaxially arranged with regard to a common center so as to snugly receive the corresponding arc protrusions of the outer conductor, respectively.

Abstract: An electrical connector includes an insulative housing defining a space. A connection module is received within the space. The connection module includes a pair of contact modules commonly sandwiching a grounding module therebetween in the transverse direction. Each contact module includes a plurality of contacts integrally formed within the corresponding insulative wafer via insert-molding. The grounding module includes a grounding plate embedded within an insulative wafer. The grounding plate forms a plurality of fingers respectively electrically and mechanically connecting to the corresponding grounding contacts of the contact modules. The wafer forms a plurality of transverse grooves to receive corresponding grounding bars each having a plurality of inward parts respectively mechanically and electrically connecting to the grounding plate, and a plurality of outward parts respectively mechanically and electrically connecting to the grounding contacts of the contact modules.

Abstract: An electrical connector includes an insulative housing having a first insulator integrally formed with the contacts via an insert-molding process, and a second insulator, i.e., the cover, overmolded upon the first insulator wherein an internal cavity is formed within the housing and between the first insulator and the second insulator in the transverse direction, through which a sliding block presses the first insulator in position in the transverse direction during overmolding the second insulator.

Abstract: An electrical connector includes a contact module essentially composed of a plurality of contacts integrally formed within an insulator via an insert-molding process. The insulator includes a base, tongue extending forwardly from the base, and a mounting port extending rearwardly from the base. The contact includes a front contacting section exposed upon the tongue, a rear soldering tail exposed outside of the base and a middle retaining section therebetween. A groove is formed between the base and the mounting port to expose middle sections of the contacts. An insulative housing is over molded upon the contact module for not only forming an exterior structure of the connector but also filling the groove for enhancing sealing between the contacts and the insulator.

Abstract: An electrical connector includes an insulative housing and two rows of contacts retained in the housing, and a metallic shielding plate assembled in the housing and located between the two rows of contacts wherein the shielding plate includes a pair of spring fingers extending from the front edge into the mating cavity in front of the shielding plate, and a plurality of notches located around the pair of spring fingers and equipped with barbed structures extending into the notches so as to grasp the corresponding ribs of the housing so as to stabilize the whole shielding plate in the housing.

Abstract: A receptacle connector includes an insulative receptacle housing, two rows of receptacle contacts retained to the receptacle housing, a one-piece metallic shell member retained to the receptacle housing and having a circumferential structure continuously surrounding the receptacle housing wherein a shielding/grounding member unitarily extends from the shell member and into an center island of the receptacle housing to separate the two rows of contacts in the transverse direction. A plug connector includes an insulative plug housing, two rows of plug contacts, and a pair of grounding blocks at two ends. During mating, two opposite ends of the shielding/grounding member mechanically and electrically connect to the pair of metallic grounding blocks or locking members, respectively.

Abstract: An electrical connector includes a housing, a plurality of contacts located in each wall of the housing and having grounding contacts and differential-pair contacts, and a grounding bar. The grounding bar includes a pair of lower spring fingers respectively contacting lower regions of the ground contacts in a transverse direction, and a pair of upper spring fingers respectively contacting upper regions of the ground contacts in the transverse direction, an upper transverse bar linked between the pair of upper spring fingers along a longitudinal direction, a lower transverse bar linked between the pair of lower spring fingers along the longitudinal direction, the pair of upper spring fingers extend upwardly from the lower transverse bar and a transverse base having retaining device attached to a lower portion of the housing. The pair of lower spring fingers upwardly extend from the transverse base.

Abstract: An electrical contact includes a planar main body, a supporting arm extending upwardly from an upper edge thereof, and a spring arm extending curvedly and upwardly from a lower edge thereof with a contacting region at a free end region. The spring arm will contact the supporting arm when the spring arm is downwardly pressed by the CPU. A connecting part extends from an upper portion of the main body for connecting to a carrier strip, and includes a first connecting section coplanar with the main body, and a second connecting section perpendicular to the first connecting section wherein the carrier strip is connected to an upper edge of the second connecting section so as to be spaced from the corresponding spring arm and supporting arm, thus avoiding improper coating thereupon when the gold coating is applied to the self-contacting regions of the spring arm and supporting arm.

Abstract: A cable connector assembly includes: an electrical connector including a plug and a metal shell disposed outside the plug and the cable; a cable electrically connected with the electrical connector, the cable including plural core wires, an inner shield layer covering the core wires, a metal braided layer covering outside the inner shield layer, and an outer cover layer; and an inner mold integrally formed on the core wire to fix each core wire at a predetermined position.

Abstract: An electrical connector assembly includes a receptacle connector and a plug connector mateable with each other. Each of the receptacle connector and the plug connector defines a first mating face and a second mating face perpendicular to each other in response to mating along the front-to-back direction and the vertical direction. Each of the receptacle connector and the plug connector includes a plurality of contacts composed of a plurality of first contacts and a plurality of contact units alternately arranged with each other along the transverse direction perpendicular to both the front-to-back direction and the vertical direction. Each contact unit includes a second contact and a third contact wherein the second contact is closer to the second mating face than the third contact is while the third contact is closer to the first mating face than the second contact is.

Abstract: An electrical connector includes an insulative housing having opposite mating port and mounting port. Plural pairs of contacts are retained in the housing. Each pair of contacts has a first contact blade and a second contact blade. Each of the first contact blade and the second contact blade includes a main body, a contacting section extending into the mating port, and a mounting leg of the main body disposed in the mounting port. Each of the main body of the first contact blade and the main body of the second contact blade forms an embossment abutting against each other so as to electrically unify both the first contact blade and the second contact blade without blocking the space therebetween for enhancing heat dissipation thereof.

Abstract: An electrical connector includes an insulative housing, a plurality of contacts assembled in the housing, opposite metal top and bottom shells attached upon opposite top face and bottom face of the housing, and a metallic shielding plate inserted into the housing and between two rows of contacts. The top shell, the bottom shell and the shielding plate have corresponding ears secured together in an intimately sandwiched manner.

Abstract: An electrical connector includes: plural terminal modules stacked laterally, each of the terminal modules including an insulating body, plural pairs of signal terminals held by the insulating body, plural ground terminals held by the insulating body, and a first ground plate and a second ground plate located on opposite sides of the insulating body, wherein: in each terminal module, the ground terminals and the pairs of signal terminals are alternately arranged in a vertical direction, each pair of signal terminals are arranged in a first plane, each ground terminal is arranged in a second plane intersecting the first plane, the first ground plate, the second ground plate, and the ground terminals shield each pair of signal terminals circumferentially.

Abstract: An electrical connector includes: a terminal module including an insulative body and plural first contacts secured to the insulative body, each first contact having a leg and a first terminating portion; plural second contacts each having a second terminating portion coupled to the first terminating portion of a corresponding first contact and a contacting portion extending from the second terminating portion rearwardly toward the leg of the corresponding first contact.

Abstract: An electrical connector with a contact module includes an insulative body, a plurality of contacts retained to the body, and a grounding bar embedded within the body. The contacts include a plurality of differential pair contacts and a plurality of grounding contacts. The ground bar forms a plurality of spring tangs. The body forms a plurality of cavities and the corresponding spring tangs of the grounding bar extend into the corresponding cavities to contact the corresponding grounding contacts. Conductive adhesive is filled within each cavity and solidified to secure all the spring tang, the corresponding grounding contact and the body together. The electrical connector is formed by a pair of contact modules back to back secured to together by an insulative case either by assembling or via an over-molding process. The cavities and the corresponding conductive adhesive of each contact module is hidden from the exterior.