Abstract: A cable connector assembly includes: an electrical connector; and a cable electrically connected with the electrical connector, the cable including plural high-speed wires for transmitting high-speed signal, a pair of low-speed wires for transmitting low-speed signal, a pair of power wires for transmitting power signal, a pair of standby wires, a detection wire for transmitting detection signal, and a power supply wire; wherein the pair of standby wires, the detection wire, and the power supply wire are arranged in a line along a horizontal direction; the high-speed wires are evenly distributed on both sides of the line along a thickness direction vertical to the horizontal direction; the low-speed wires are disposed on a side of the line along the thickness direction; and the power wires are disposed on another side of the line along the thickness direction.

Abstract: The electrical connector is equipped with a retention mechanism for securing mounting a heat sink upon a CPU which is received within an insulative housing of the connector. The retention mechanism includes a pair of seats, a pair of towers fixed to the pair of seats, respectively, a pressing device retained between the pair of towers in a deformable manner. The pressing device is intimately seated upon the heat sink to significantly press the heat sink against the CPU when the pressing device is deformed in a tensional status.

Abstract: A plug connector assembly includes: a plug connector having a cage, and a PCB received in the cage, the PCB including a mating end for being mated with a mating connector and an opposite connecting end, the connecting end comprising a first row of pads and a second row of pads disposed at one side of the PCB; at least one cable electrically connected to the connecting end, the at least one cable comprising a number of core wires, the core wires comprising a first group of core wires and a second group of core wires extending beyond the first group of core wires, the first group of core wires soldered to the first row of pads, the second group of core wires soldered to the second row of pads; and an insulative member isolating a soldering area of the first and second group of core wires.

Abstract: A screw disassembly device includes a driving mechanism, an electric screwdriver, and a collecting mechanism. The driving mechanism is coupled to the electric screwdriver to drive the electric screwdriver to move. The electric screwdriver disassembles a screw and includes a head portion. The head portion adsorbs the screw. The collecting mechanism includes a stripping member, a transfer block, and a receiving box. The transfer block is mounted on the driving mechanism. The transfer block defines a transfer chamber. The head portion movably passes through the transfer block and the transfer chamber. The stripping member clamps the screw within the transfer chamber to remove the screw from the head portion. An inner chamber of the receiving box is coupled to the transfer chamber by the transfer tube. The receiving box generates a negative pressure to suck the screw through the transfer tube into the receiving box.

Abstract: A cable connector assembly includes an electrical connector and a cable, the electrical connector comprising a plug mated with a mating connector, a circuit board connected between the plug and the cable, and a housing disposed outside the circuit board, the cable comprising a number of core wires and a shielding layer covering the core wires, the housing electrically connected to the shielding layer, wherein the housing is grounded to the circuit board.

Abstract: An automated boot failure prevention and recovery circuit includes one or more non-transitory computer-readable media having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon, a processor coupled to the one or more non-transitory computer-readable media, and configured to execute the computer-executable instructions to electrically disconnect a memory from a power source, short the memory to ground for a predetermined period of time to adjust memory content from a stochastic state to a machine-tolerable state or an acceptable non-failure state. The processor is further configured to execute the computer-executable instructions to electrically disconnect the memory from the ground, and electrically reconnect the memory to the power source. The processor is further configured to execute the computer-executable instructions to apply a load across the power source, acquire power source information, and notify the user of the battery charge status to preclude loss of memory data.

Abstract: A receptacle connector includes an insulative housing defining a base and a mating tongue extending with a step portion defined at a root region of the mating tongue; a plurality of contacts disposed in the insulative housing with contacting sections exposed upon a first surface and a second surface of the mating tongue and categorized with signal contacts, power contacts and grounding contacts; a shielding plate embedded with the mating tongue and forming a pair of locking edge in two opposite lateral side edges; and an EMI collar intimately surrounding the step portion, the collar comprising two long portions covering the first surface and the second surface of the step portion and two short portions connecting with opposite ends of the long portions. A lateral rigid finger extends straight from a side of the shielding plate and touch an inner side of a short portion of the collar.

Abstract: A card edge connector includes an elongated insulative housing, a number of terminals retained to the housing, and a metallic member formed integrally with the housing via an insert-molding process. The housing includes two lengthwise walls, a central slot defining by the two lengthwise walls, and two protrusions located at two opposite ends of the two lengthwise walls. The protrusions protrude upwardly out of an upper surface of the lengthwise walls. The metallic member includes two main portions retained respectively in the two lengthwise walls and a pair of connecting portions connecting therebetween. The connecting portions are located at the bottom of the metallic member.

Abstract: A method of making an electrical connector includes: forming an upper row of contacts each connected between a primary carrier strip and a secondary carrier strip and stamping a selected one of the upper contacts to have a front extension thereof leveled at a lowest position; insert-molding the upper row of contacts with an upper insulator to form an upper terminal module unit; forming a lower row of contacts each connected between another primary carrier strip and another secondary carrier strip and stamping a selected one of the lower contacts to have a front extension thereof leveled at a highest position; insert-molding the lower row of contacts with a lower insulator to form a lower terminal module unit; bringing the front extensions of the selected upper and lower contacts to be in touch with each other. The primary and secondary carrier strips are then severed and an over-mold applied.

Abstract: An electrical connector includes: an insulative housing; and a row of contacts secured to the insulative housing, the row of contacts including one or more power contacts and one or more signal and/or ground contacts, wherein the one or more power contacts are plated with a first material and the one or more signal and/or ground contacts are plated with a second material different from the first material. A related method of manufacturing such connector includes separate plating of the row of power contacts from the row of signal and ground contacts with a different material.

Abstract: An electrical connector includes: a terminal module including a first unit, a second unit, and a shielding plate between the first and second units, each of the first unit and the second unit having an insulative body and a row of contacts, the insulative body including a rear base and a front tongue; and a shielding shell enclosing the terminal module, wherein the first unit and the second unit have same structure.

Abstract: The electrical connector includes an insulative housing having a columnar section and an annular groove surrounding the columnar section. The column section includes a mating face and a plurality of power contact passageways and a plurality of signal contact passageways extending through the mating face wherein the signal contacts and the power contacts are commonly arranged with a cross configuration area to have the signal contacts located by opposite upper and lower sides of the power contacts. Both the power contacts and the signal contacts of the plug connector are of a blade type while both the power contacts and the signal contacts of the receptacle connector are of a clamp type wherein each signal contact has one clamping structure while each power contact has a pair of clamping structures side by side arranged with each other.

Abstract: An electrical connector includes: a terminal module including a first unit having a first row of contacts, a second unit having a second row of contacts, and a shielding plate between the first and second units, each of the first and second units including a rear base and a front tongue, the rear base of the first unit being locked to the rear base of the second unit; and a shielding shell enclosing the terminal module, wherein the shielding plate has a pair of engaging arms, and the first unit has at a junction between the base and the tongue thereof two side portions locked to the pair of engaging arms.

Abstract: An electrical connector assembly includes: an electrical connector including a terminal module, a shielding shell enclosing the terminal module, an insulative cover enclosing the shielding shell, and a sealing member disposed at a front portion of the insulative cover; and an outer housing accommodating the electrical connector, wherein the insulative cover has a plurality of humps engaging an inner surface of the outer housing, and the sealing member is compressed between the front portion of the insulative cover and the inner surface of the outer housing.

Abstract: A receptacle connector includes: a housing including a base and a mating tongue in front of the base, the mating tongue defining a thickened portion at a root to the base, the mating tongue defining a pair of lateral locking sides; two rows of contacts with contacting section exposing to opposite surfaces of the mating tongue in front of the thickened portion and tail sections extending out of the base; and a metallic shield retained on the base and surrounding the mating tongue to define a mating cavity among the shield and the mating tongue. The shield is formed via a deep drawing process.

Abstract: An electrical connector includes: an insulative housing having a front tongue with two opposite surfaces; and plural contacts with contacting portions exposed to the two opposite surfaces of the tongue; wherein the plural contacts are formed from a single contact carrier with each contact having a first contacting portion; and at least one of the plural contacts has a second contacting portion oriented symmetrically with respect to the first contacting portion thereof. A method of making a contact module of the electrical connector is characterized by the steps of: forming the plural contacts from a single contact carrier with each contact having a first contacting portion; and bending at least one of the plural contacts to form a second contacting portion oriented symmetrically with respect to the first contacting portion thereof.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing electrical connector contacts includes the steps of: forming a row of contacts each having a front contacting portion, a rear soldering portion, and a securing portion between the front contacting portion and the rear soldering portion; forming an electrophoretic deposition (ED) coating on the contacting portions of the row of contacts; removing a respective front region of ED coating on the contacting portion; and forming a precious-metal-alloy coating on the front regions removed of ED coating.

Abstract: An electrical connector includes a terminal module including a base, a mating tongue, a row of first terminals, a row of second terminals and a shielding plate. Terminals comprise contacting portions, middle portions and leg portions. Each row of terminals comprises three pairs of differential signal terminals, and grounding terminals and power terminals. The shielding plate defines a first row of openings corresponding to the contacting portions, a second row of openings and third row of openings both corresponding to the middle portion. The first row of openings are aligned with the contacting portions of the first and second terminals in a vertical direction and the second row of openings are at least aligned with gaps between every two adjacent terminals while the shielding plate defines no opening corresponding to the middle portions of the three pair of differential signal terminals so as improve shielding performance.

Abstract: An electrical receptacle connector is mounted within a metallic cage for mating with a QSFP module received within the cage. The contacts of the cable receptacle connector are arranged with two groups, of which one are connected to the printed circuit board on which the cage is mounted, and the other are connected to the wires which are further connected to a board-mount receptacle connector mounted on another printed circuit board on which the CPU (Central Processing Unit) socket is mounted. Each board-mount receptacle connector corresponds to more than one cable receptacle connector.

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.