Abstract: A card edge connector includes an insulative housing defining a card receiving slot extending along a longitudinal direction, a plurality of terminals retained in the housing and by two sides of the card receiving slot in a transverse direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction, and a metallic guiding member retained to the housing at the end of the card receiving slot. The metallic guiding member includes a main body extending in a vertical direction perpendicular to both the longitudinal direction and the transverse direction, and a curved resilient guiding section upwardly extending from a top end of the main body. The housing forms a constraining wall at the end with a step structure so as to allow the guiding section of the guiding member to be freely support upon the step structure to function as a constrained beam during confrontation with the inserted card module.

Abstract: An electrical connector includes an insulative housing retaining a plurality of contacts therein. The contact includes a mating part with a first body and a spring arm extending therefrom for mating a conductive pad of a CPU (Central Processing Unit), and a soldering part with a second body and a solder tail extending therefrom for mounting a solder ball thereon. The spring arm is downwardly pressed by the CPU to contact the soldering part when the CPU is mounted upon the electrical connector The mating part and the soldering part are spaced from each other either without any connection, or alternately linked with each other via a bridge transversely connected therebetween wherein the latter may optionally omit the barbed structure from one of the mating part and the soldering part.

Abstract: The electrical connector includes an insulative housing enclosed within a metallic shell unit and retaining a plurality of contacts therein. The housing includes a base and a tongue extending forwardly from the base. Each contact has a contacting section exposed upon the tongue and a leg located outside the housing. The shell unit includes an inner shell attached to the housing, and an outer shell secured to the inner shell and forming a pair of rear mounting legs. The housing forms a rear fixing block holding the pair of mounting legs in position for alignment with corresponding holes in the printed circuit board to which the legs of the contacts are soldered.

Abstract: An electrical connector includes: an insulative outer cover and a metallic inner shell insert molded with the insulative outer cover, the inner shell having a top wall, a bottom wall, and a pair of side walls; and a terminal module including an insulative housing and an upper and lower rows of contacts arranged in the housing, the insulative housing having a base received by the inner shell and a frontal tongue exposing the upper and lower rows of contacts respectively to two opposite surfaces thereof; wherein the inner shell has a front stop and a rear finger at the top wall respectively engaging a front and rear portions of the base, and the rear finger is situated in a rear chamber of the outer cover.

Abstract: An electrical connector includes: an insulative housing; plural conductive terminals disposed in the insulative housing; and a shield shell covering the insulative housing, wherein the shield shell has a mating frame opening at a front end thereof, the mating frame opening including a top edge, a bottom edge parallel to the top edge, a first side and a second side respectively perpendicular to a left and a right ends of the top edge, a first connecting edge connected between the first side and the bottom edge, and a second connecting edge connected between the second side and the bottom edge, the first connecting edge has a first angle with respect to the bottom edge, the second connecting edge has a second angle with respect to the bottom edge, and the first angle and the second angle are both obtuse angles.

Abstract: A interconnection system includes a panel side kit and a wall-mount kit coupled with each other and secured together via magnetic forces. The wall-mount kit includes a printed circuit board enclosed within a bracket and defining a center region for power transmission and a pair of side regions for high speed transmission. In the side regions, on the coupling side a plurality of wireless transmission units are located while on the back side a plurality of ROSA OE modules are provided to transfer the optical signal from optical fibers to the electronic signal for wireless transmission wherein the optical fibers are linked to a control box via a plurality of TOSA EO modules. The panel side kit includes wireless receiving units that interact with the wireless transmission units, and a plurality of connectors with the body of the display.

Abstract: An electrical connector with an insulative housing, a plurality of contacts retained in the housing, and a metallic shell secured to the housing. The housing includes opposite first wall and second wall and a pair of side walls to generally commonly a mating slot communicating with an exterior via a mating opening. The shell includes opposite first plate and second plate and opposite side plates to commonly form a receiving cavity above the mating opening. The opposite side plates further include a pair of downwardly extending securing sections retained inside of the housing. The opposite side plates further include a pair of oblique transitional sections respectively located at roots of the pair of securing sections and in the receiving cavity and proximate to the mating opening for guiding consideration.

Abstract: An electrical assembly is composed of a receptacle connector and a plug connector adapted to be mated with each other. The plug connector includes an elongated insulative housing forming a receiving space rearwardly recessed from a front mating face thereof with a pair of forwardly extending guiding posts respectively located at two opposite longitudinal ends of said receiving space in the longitudinal direction. A plurality of contacts are disposed in the housing with corresponding contacting sections exposed in the receiving space. A metallic shield is rearwardly assembled upon the housing from a front side of the housing with a pair of bending sections each inserted into the corresponding retaining recess which is terminated behind the front mating face in the front-to-back direction.

Abstract: A method of making an electrical connector which includes an insulative housing having a tongue with two opposite surfaces and plural contacts with contacting portions exposed to the two opposite surfaces of the tongue, characterized by the steps of: forming the plural contacts from a single contact carrier to have one contact thereof with a contacting portion oriented reversely-symmetrically with respect to a contacting portion of another contact thereof; insert-molding the plurality of contacts with an insulator to form the insulative housing while exposing front ends of the contacts; and severing a carrier strip of the contact carrier from the front ends of the contacts while leaving the front ends inwardly of a front end surface of the insulative housing.

Abstract: An electrical contact for connecting a chip module to a print circuit board, the electrical contact comprises a main body, an upper elastic arm and a lower mounting arm extending upwardly from the main body, and a lower elastic arm and a lower mounting arm extending downwardly from the main body. The upper mounting arm is disposed at the downside of the upper elastic arm and forms a space therebetween; the lower mounting arm is disposed at the downside of the lower elastic arm and forms a space therebetween. The upper elastic arm and the lower elastic arm are respectively deformed by the chip module and print circuit board to resist to the upper mounting arm and lower mounting arm, thereby shortening the current path between the chip module and the print circuit board for improving the high frequency performance of an electrical connector.

Abstract: A hermetic electrical adaptor includes an insulative housing and a plurality of contacts retained therein. The housing includes a base having opposite first and second surface in a vertical direction, and a set of first side walls extending from the first surface to form a first mating cavity. Each contact includes a retention section extending through the base, a first extending section located in the first mating cavity and including a first bending section. The set of first side walls forms, adjacent to the first surface, a first recess communicating with the first mating cavity so as to expose a portion of the first extending section in the first recess. A waterproof glue occupies the first recess and a bottom portion of the first mating cavity so as to surround the exposed portions of the first extending sections of the contact for assuring sealing of the adaptor.

Abstract: An electrical connector includes: a contact module including an insulative housing and an upper and lower rows of contacts; a shielding shell enclosing the contact module; an insulative outer cover enclosing the shielding shell; and a pair of brackets secured to the insulative outer cover, each bracket including a mounting portion having a bottom surface and a hole, wherein the mounting portion further has three downward protrusions leveled lower than the bottom surface.

Abstract: A cable connector assembly includes a plug for mating with a docking connector, a printed circuit board electrically connected to the plug and a cable electrically connected to the connector, the plug includes a plurality of conductive terminals, the cable includes a plurality of high speed signal cores for transmitting high speed signals and low speed signal cores for transmitting low speed signals, wherein the electrical path of the high speed signal cores connected to the corresponding conductive terminals is shorter than the electrical path of the low speed signal cores connected to the corresponding conductive terminals.

Abstract: A cable connector assembly includes: a cable connector; a cable electrically connected with the cable connector; an outer shell enclosing at least a portion of the cable connector and enclosing a portion of the cable, the outer shell having an inner dimension greater than an outer dimension of the cable; and a filler filled between the outer shell and the cable.

Abstract: An electrical connector includes an insulative housing having a plurality of passageways arranged in matrix, and a plurality of contacts assembled and retained in the corresponding passageways, respectively. Each contact has a main body, a secondary body sidewardly connected to and angled with the main body. A resilient contacting section upwardly extends from an upper portion of the main body and above the top surface of the housing for contacting an electronic package, and a soldering section extends from a lower portion of the secondary body around the bottom surface of the housing for mounting to a printed circuit board. The main body includes an upper linking part originally linked to an upper carrier, and the secondary body includes a lower linking part which is originally linked to a lower carrier. The main body includes retaining structures for retaining the contact within the passageways without moving.

Abstract: A card edge connector includes a housing defining a card slot, a terminal module and a grounding member. The terminal module includes two rows of terminals and an insulating base with a first surface, a second surface and end surfaces between and connecting with the first and second surfaces. Each row of terminals includes a plurality of signal terminals and a plurality of grounding terminals. The terminals includes contacting sections extending out the first surface of the insulating base and into the card slot, leg sections extending out the second surface of the insulating base, and connecting sections. The grounding member fitly surrounds the end surfaces of the insulating base and includes a group of first contacting arms and a group of second contacting arms, each grounding terminal is contacted with one first contacting arm and one second contacting arm.

Abstract: An electrical connector includes a metallic shell and a PCB enclosed within the shell. The shell includes a base and a tongue section forwardly extending from the base, and a receiving space extending along the front-to-back direction from the base into the tongue section. The tongue section forms a pair of opposite mating faces with a plurality of openings therein to communicate with the receiving space. A plurality of ribs are formed between every adjacent openings and extend rearwardly into the receiving space in the front-to-back direction. The printed circuit board forms a plurality of notches in a front edge region to receive the corresponding ribs, respectively.

Abstract: A electrical connector includes a terminal module and a metallic shell receiving the terminal module. The terminal module includes an insulative housing and a plurality of terminals retained in the housing. The housing includes a base intimately enclosed within the shell, and a tongue extending forwardly from the base. The contact includes a front contacting section, a rear soldering section and a middle retaining section therebetween. The base forms in a peripheral surface a circumferential or race course like groove which is isolated from an exterior along a front-to-back direction, and the shell forms an upward opening in a top wall and downwardly communicates with the groove so as to inject the glue into the groove through the opening to form the glue structure only after the connector is soldered upon the printed circuit board.

Abstract: A card edge connector includes an insulative elongated housing defining an elongated slot extending along a longitudinal direction. Two rows of contacts are disposed in the housing so as to be paired in each cross-sectional plane in a transverse direction. A pair of towers are located at two opposite ends of the housing in the longitudinal direction. A pair of ejectors/lockers are disposed in the corresponding towers and rotational about a pivot extending along the transverse direction. Each ejector has a bottom kicker adapted to intimately confront a bottom edge of the memory module for ejecting the memory module out of the housing. The kicker slightly interferes with the contacting sections of the neighboring contacts when the ejector is located at an outer position so as to be retained in position with regard to the housing.

Abstract: A card connector includes: an insulative body; plural contacts secured to the insulative body; and an operating mechanism including a latch moveable relative to the insulative body and an actuator coupled to the latch, wherein: the actuator includes a pair of terminals, a slider coupled to one of the pair of terminals, and a shape memory alloy wire coupled between the other terminal and the slider; and the slider is operable by the shape memory alloy wire to move the latch from a card-locking position to a card-unlocking position.