Patents Assigned to FOXCONN (KUNSHAN) COMPUTER CONNECTOR C
  • Electrical receptacle for transmitting high speed signal
    Patent number: 10367308
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes an insulative housing defining a front cavity for receiving and 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 upper terminal module includes a pair of upper ground terminals. Said lower terminal module includes a plurality of lower ground terminals. Said shielding module includes 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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Terrance F. Little, Chih-Hsien Chou, Chun-Hsiung Hsu, Kuei-Chung Tsai
  • Electrical connector having a middle metal plate with two pairs of fingers contacting an upper and lower ground contacts
    Patent number: 10367313
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes: an insulative housing having a tongue; an upper and lower rows of contacts secured to the insulative housing and exposed to two opposite faces of the tongue, the upper row of contacts including an upper ground contact and the lower row of contacts including a lower ground contact; and a metal plate disposed between the upper row of contacts and the lower row of contacts, wherein the metal plate has a pair of upper fingers contacting the upper ground contact and a pair of lower fingers contacting the lower ground contact.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Jerry Wu, Jun Chen, Min-Qiang Zhang, Yang-Tsun Hsu, Qing-Bin Xia
  • Multi-layer circuit member with reference planes and ground layer surrounding and separating conductive signal pads
    Patent number: 10368433
    Abstract: A multi-layer circuit member includes: a first layer formed of a conductive material, the first layer including plural signal pads and a first reference plane spaced apart from the signal pads, the first reference plane including an outer region surrounding the signal pads and an inner region separating the plurality of signal pads; a second layer formed of a conductive material, the second layer including plural signal conductors and a second reference plane spaced apart from the signal conductors, the second reference plane including an outer region surrounding the signal conductors and an inner region separating the signal conductors; a ground layer disposed at a side of the second layer opposite from the first layer; plural dielectric layers separating the first layer, the second layer, and the ground layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Chin-Yu Chen, Cheng-Wen Chen, Shun-Jung Chuang, Ke-Hao Chen
  • Board to board connector assembly with sandwiching type shielding plate set
    Patent number: 10361519
    Abstract: The receptacle connector includes an insulative housing, a plurality of contacts retained in the housing, and a metallic shielding shell covering the housing. The housing includes a base and an island extending upwardly from the base, and a peripheral wall surrounding the island and forming a tubular receiving cavity. The contacts includes two rows of contacts retained to the island. The shielding shell is retained to the peripheral wall. A pair of metallic shielding plates are retained in the island and between two rows of contacts. The plug connector includes an insulartive housing, a plurality of contacts retained to the housing, and a metallic shielding shell attached upon the housing. The housing includes a base and a circumferential wall forming a mating cavity. A metallic shielding plate is disposed in the mating cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventor: Shun-Jung Chuang
  • Dual-cover structure protectively enclosing socket
    Patent number: 10361505
    Abstract: An electrical connector assembly includes an electrical connector and a cover set used with the connector. The connector includes an insulative housing and a plurality of contacts retained in the housing. Each contact extends beyond both the upper surface and the lower surface of the base of the housing. The cover set includes an upper cover and a lower cover independently detachably attached to the housing and respectively covering the upper portion and the lower portion of the housing for protecting the extending exposed contacts wherein the upper cover further provides holding/suction device for mounting the connector to the printed circuit board after the lower cover is removed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventor: Fang-Jwu Liao
  • Electrical connector having shielding plate retained tightly thereto
    Patent number: 10361518
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes an insulative housing defining a mating chamber opening forwardly along a front-to-back direction, a number of contacts retained to the insulative housing, and a shielding plate having a pair of latch arms located at two opposite lateral sides of the mating chamber. Each of the contacts includes a contact portion extending into the mating chamber. The shielding plate includes a pair of retention arms each including an interference protrusion engaged with the insulative housing by interference fit. The interference protrusions are disposed in a face-to-face way to engage with a rear wall of the insulative housing so that the interference protrusions are retained tightly to insulative housing and less likely to damage the insulative housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Teng-Fei Zhang, Jian-Kuang Zhu, Kuo-Chun Hsu
  • Electrical connector having shared ground contact tail portion
    Patent number: 10355421
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes: an insulative housing having a base and a tongue; an upper and lower rows of contacts arranged in the insulative housing and exposed respectively to an upper and lower surfaces of the tongue, each row of contacts including an outermost ground contact, the ground contact in the lower row having a contacting portion, a tail portion, and an intermediate portion between the contacting portion and the tail portion; a metallic element arranged between the upper row of contacts and the lower row of contacts; and a shielding shell enclosing the insulative housing; wherein the ground contact in the upper row and the ground contact in the lower row are in contact with the metallic element; and the ground contact in the upper row and the ground contact in the lower row share same tail portion of the ground contact in the lower row.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventor: Jun Zhao
  • Card edge connector with holes for transferring light
    Patent number: 10355428
    Abstract: A card edge connector includes a longitudinal insulative housing, a number of terminals retained in the insulative housing, a pair of transparent members mounted to the insulative housing, and a metallic shell surrounding around the insulative housing. The insulative housing has two side walls extending along a longitudinal direction, two end walls connecting between the longitudinal ends of the two side walls and a center slot defined therebetween. The metallic shell includes two covering portions respectively located above the two side walls in a vertical direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction. Each of the covering portions has a number of through-holes arranged above the transparent members to leak out the light transferred therefrom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Jun Fang, Xiao-Hu Yin, Kuo-Chun Hsu
  • Electrical connector having front and rear sealing members
    Patent number: 10355396
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes: an insulative housing having a base and a tongue; plural contacts affixed to the insulative housing and exposed to the tongue; a shielding shell enclosing the insulative housing and having a front end; an outer cover enclosing the shielding shell and having a front protrusion, an annular slot being defined between the front end of the shielding shell and the front protrusion of the outer cover; a rear sealer sealing an interfacing gap between the shielding shell and the outer cover; and a front sealer disposed in the annular slot; wherein at least one of the shielding shell, the outer cover, and the front sealer has a groove in fluid communication with the interfacing gap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventor: Jun Zhao
  • Cable connector assembly having minimized cable wires size
    Patent number: 10348010
    Abstract: A cable connector assembly includes: a mating portion; a flat cable electrically connecting with the mating portion, the flat cable having plural wires and an outer boot enclosed the wires, the wires including a first wire and a second wire; an inner mold enclosing a part of the mating portion and a part of the flat cable; and a shielding shell enclosed the inner mold, wherein the first wire is a core wire directly enclosed by the outer boot and the second wire comprises a core wire and an insulative layer enclosing the associated core wire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Jerry Wu, Jun Chen, Fan-Bo Meng
  • Electrical connector with soldering legs extending from shell rear edge and retained to inner edge of PCB
    Patent number: 10333258
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes: a housing having a base and a tongue, the base having a mounting face; plural contacts arranged in the housing and exposed to the tongue, each contact having a contacting portion, a tail portion, and an intermediate portion between the contacting portion and the tail portion, the tail portions of the plural contacts being arranged in a front and rear rows at the mounting face of the housing base; and a shielding shell enclosing the housing and having a pair of rear mounting legs; wherein the shielding shell has a pair of soldering legs at two opposite outer sides of the front row of contact tail portions, respectively, forwardly and inwardly of the pair of rear mounting legs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventor: Jun Zhao
  • Electrical connector having shell retention structure and method of assembling the same
    Patent number: 10333255
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes an insulative housing enclosed within a metallic shell wherein the housing forms a mating cavity and the shell includes a first shell and a second shell assembled together. The first shell includes a main body abutting against the housing, and a folded plate abutting against the main body and having a plurality of first spring tangs for engagement with the case in which the connector is position. The folded plate forms a securing tab and the housing includes a retention slot receiving the securing tab therein so as to prevent outward movement of the folded plate in the vertical direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Wen-Fang Zhang, Wei Zhong, Jian-Kuang Zhu
  • Electrical connector with shielding plate and shell soldered together
    Patent number: 10333254
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes a contact module enclosed within a metallic shielding shell. The contact module includes an insulative housing and a plurality of upper contacts and lower contact with a metallic shielding plate commonly retained in the housing. The upper contacts and the lower contacts have the corresponding contacting sections and soldering sections exposed upon the mounting surface of the housing. The shielding plate has the contacting area on the mounting surface. The shielding shell forms contacting legs positioned upon the contacting area for grounding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventor: Jun Zhao
  • Electrical connector assembly
    Patent number: 10333250
    Abstract: An electrical connector assembly including a first connector and a second connector mated with each other. The first connector includes an insulative housing with a mating cavity sounded by opposite top wall and bottom wall, two opposite side walls and a rear wall. The rear wall forms opposite inner surface and outer surface. A plurality of contacts are retained to the housing and include the contacting sections exposed in the mating cavity and soldering sections exposed outside of the housing and behind the rear wall. A plurality of inner partitions are formed on the interior surface of the rear wall and extend into the mating cavity to separate the contacting sections of the neighboring contacts, respectively. A plurality of outer partitions are formed on the exterior surface of the rear wall to separate the soldering sections of the neighboring contacts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Xue-Yuan Xiao, Ling-Jie Meng, Zi-Qiang Zhu, Wei Wang
  • Electrical connector having a terminal module supported by an insulative housing and a shielding shell
    Patent number: 10333243
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes: an insulative housing; a terminal module received by the insulative housing, the terminal module including an insulator, a plurality of terminals, and an internal, horizontal printed circuit board (PCB) carrying plural magnetic components; and a shielding shell enclosing the insulative housing and the PCB, wherein the insulative housing has a pair of restraining slots receiving a front of the insulator, and the shielding shell has a pair of abutting arms received between the insulator and the PCB.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Zhi-Hui Tang, Jun-Hua Hu, Chih-Ching Hsu
  • Electrical connector with reinforced and thickened metallic shielding plate on front edge of mating tongue
    Patent number: 10333253
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes a metallic frame, an insulative housing and two rows of contacts. The metallic frame made by metal injection molding and includes a main part and a first plat section. Two rows of contacts are respectively located by two sides of the first plate section in the vertical direction. The housing is secured to both the contacts and the frame and forms a mating tongue enclosing the first plate section. Thickened portions are formed on a front edge and two opposite side edges of the first plate section, and exposed upon a front edge and two opposite side edges of the mating tongue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventor: Jun Zhao
  • SFP transceiver equipped with deep drawn metal EMI sleeve around mating portion of lens module
    Patent number: 10317633
    Abstract: An SFP transceiver with a die-casting metal housing and a metallic upper cover formed via sheet metal and assembled to the housing to commonly form therebetween a receiving cavity in which a printed circuit board assembly is received. The printed circuit board assembly includes an optical module with a lens structure, around a mating port, including a front face with a pair of tubular structures extending forwardly. A metallic EMI shielding device includes a plate with a pair of sleeves unitarily extending therefrom via a deep drawing method to cover the front face and the tubular structures, respectively. Each sleeve further includes a flange to cover a ring type front end face of the corresponding tubular structure in the front-to-back direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Paul Yu, David Meadowcroft
  • Flippable electrical connector
    Patent number: 10312646
    Abstract: A receptacle connector assembly includes an outer housing and a terminal module. The terminals module includes an insulator having a base and a mating tongue extending from the base and equipped with a plurality of contacts and a shielding plate. The contacts include front contacting sections exposed upon the mating tongue and tail sections extending out of the base. The shielding plate is embedded within the mating tongue and includes a pair of rigid notches in two opposite lateral sides for locking to a pair of corresponding latches of a complementary plug connector. The outer housing is of an insulative molding part or a metallic die cast, the terminal module is assembled in the outer housing, and thus a mating cavity is directly defined between the mating tongue and the outer housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Terrance F. Little, Chih-Pi Cheng, Wei-Hao Su, Cheng-Chi Yeh, Yuan Zhang, Stephen Sedio, Hendrikus P. G. Van der Steen
  • Contact bridge punched out away from shielding plate
    Patent number: 10312635
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes a terminal module enclosed within a metallic shell. The terminal module including two contact module commonly sandwich a shielding plate therebetween. In each contact module, before forming the complete terminal module, the bridges between the contacting sections of the neighboring contacts are removed by punching in a direction from the inner hidden surface to the outer exposed surface of the contacting section of the contact. Such an outward punching results in the barbs extending away from the shielding plate after the whole terminal module is formed so as to avoid the defect due to the unexpected relatively tiny distance between the contacting sections of the contacts and the shielding plate in the mating tongue along the vertical direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventor: Jun Zhao
  • Shielded board-to-board connector assembly
    Patent number: 10312639
    Abstract: An electrical connector assembly includes a receptacle connector and a plug connector wherein the receptacle connector has an insulative housing with a plurality of contacts therein, and metallic shielding shell covering the housing. The housing includes a peripheral wall surrounding an island to form a mating cavity therebetween wherein the shielding shell covers the exterior surfaces of the peripheral wall and further provides pressing section upon an interior surfaces thereof. The plug connector has an insulative housing and a plurality of contacts therein, and a metallic shielding shell cover the housing. The housing forms a receiving cavity to receive the island. The shielding shell of the plug connector forms a recess in the outer abutting section to engage the pressing section of the receptacle connector during mating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventor: Chin-Yu Chen