Abstract: A method of making an electrical connector which includes an insulative housing having a tongue and a first and second rows of contacts with respective contacting portions exposed to the two opposite surfaces of the tongue and respective soldering portions is characterized by the steps of: forming the first row of contacts from a first contact carrier to have the soldering portions thereof connected to a first carrier strip; forming the second row of contacts from a second contact carrier to have the soldering portions thereof connected to a second carrier strip; insert-molding the first row of contacts with a first insulator to form a first contact module unit; insert-molding the second row of contacts with a second insulator to form a second contact module unit; holding the first carrier strip and the second carrier strip against each other for further over-molding to form the complete contact module.

Abstract: An electrical connector assembly comprising: an insulative housing with a front mating slot and a rear receiving cavity; a combo contact module assembly received within the receiving cavity and including a sideband contact module sandwiched between a pair of high speed contact modules; each high speed contact module including an upper unit and a lower unit assembled with each other in a vertical direction; the upper unit and the lower unit being essentially symmetrically arranged with each other in the vertical direction with a half of pitch offset in a transverse direction; and a metallic shell; wherein each of the upper unit and the lower unit including a front subunit and a rear subunit stacked with each other in the vertical direction and retained together.

Abstract: An electrical connector assembly includes an electrical connector and the pick-up cap assembled upon the housing of the electrical connector. A plurality of contacts are disposed in the housing and covered by the pick-up cap. The pick-up cap includes a pair of first side walls, and the housing includes a pair of first side faces corresponding to the pair of corresponding first side walls. Each first side face forms a pair of locking recesses. Each first side wall includes an operation section and a pair of latches. The operation section includes a cavity in the first side wall and a raised section above the cavity. Each latch includes a spring arm, and a hook located at the end of the spring arm and engaged within the corresponding locking recess. The latch is located within the boundary of the housing without extending beyond the corresponding side face.

Abstract: An electrical contact includes a retention section of an outer part and an extension section of an inner part parallel to each other and linked to each other via a transverse bridge located in another vertical plane perpendicular to both the retention section and the extension section. An upper contacting arm extends, toward the extension section, from an upper end of the retention section with an upper mating apex and an upper abutment tip region, and a lower contacting arm extends, toward the extension, from a lower end of the retention section with a lower mating apex and a lower abutment tip region. An upper abutment tab upwardly and obliquely extends from an upper end of the extension section toward the retention section and adapted to be mated with the upper abutment tip region when the upper contacting arm is downwardly depressed by the CPU.

Abstract: A cable connector assembly includes: an electrical connector; a circuit board electrically connected to the electrical connector and including a first row of pads and a second row of pads located behind the first row of pads and separated from the first row of pads; and a cable electrically connected to the circuit board and including plural coaxial wires each including a center conductor and a shielding layer and plural single core wires each comprising a conductor; wherein the center conductors of the coaxial wires are soldered to the first row of pads of the circuit board, and the conductors of the single core wires and the shielding layers of the coaxial wires are soldered to the second row of pads of the circuit board.

Abstract: A plug connector includes an insulative housing, a locking member located at an upper end of the insulative housing, and a pulling tape connected with the locking member, wherein the insulative housing includes an insertion member for the pulling tape to pass through, the pull tape includes a horizontal portion connected with the locking member, a handle portion for manual pulling, and a vertical portion located between the horizontal portion and the handle portion, and the handle portion is operable to pull horizontally backwards to move the locking member downwards to unlock the plug connector from a socket connector.

Abstract: An electrical connector assembly includes a seat unit and a cover unit. The seat unit defines a receiving cavity for receiving the CPU. The cover unit is pivotably mounted upon one end of the seat unit. The cover unit includes a first cover and a second cover surrounding the first cover. The first cover includes a first frame equipped with therein a floating heat sink which is located above and aligned with the receiving cavity. The heat sink forms a pair of side extensions sandwiched between a pair of pressing blocks and the first frame in a vertical direction and essentially downwardly pressed by the pair of pressing blocks of the first cover in a resilient manner. Resilient mechanism is provided between the pressing block and the heat sink to result in a downward force constantly urge the heat sink downwardly against the first frame.

Abstract: An electrical connector assembly comprising: an insulative housing with a front mating slot and a rear receiving cavity; a combo contact module assembly received within the receiving cavity and including a sideband contact module sandwiched between a pair of high speed contact modules; each high speed contact module including an upper unit and a lower unit assembled with each other in a vertical direction; each of the upper unit and the lower unit including a front subunit and a rear subunit; each of the front subunit and the rear subunit includes differential pair contacts alternately arranged with grounding contacts in a transverse direction; and a metallic grounding bar discrete from the grounding contacts mechanically and electrically connecting to the grounding contacts.

Abstract: A plug connector used to mate with the socket connector includes: a housing; a printed circuit board received in the housing, the circuit print board having plural soldering points; and a cable electrically connected to the soldering points of the printed circuit board, wherein the soldering points are provided with glue blocks to protect a connection between the printed circuit board and the cable.

Abstract: A receptacle connector includes an insulative housing having an upper wall and a lower wall with a plurality of vertical walls linked therebetween to form corresponding passageways alternately arranged with the vertical walls. A plurality of contacts are disposed in the corresponding passageways, respectively. A plurality of upper apertures are formed in the upper wall to communicate with the corresponding passageways. A plug connector is adapted to be mated with the receptacle connector and includes an insulative body with opposite top wall and bottom wall. A plurality of through openings are formed in the top wall. A plurality of grooves are formed in an interior face of the top wall to communicate the through openings of the plug connector with the corresponding apertures of the receptacle connector.

Abstract: An electrical connector assembly includes a receptacle connector and a plug connector adapted to be mated with each other. The receptacle connector includes a contact unit forwardly assembled into the receptacle housing and having a plurality of receptacle contacts and a common mode choke electrically connected together. The plug connector includes a resilient latch associated with the plug shell and received within an enlarged area of a circumferential space formed between the receptacle shell and the receptacle housing.

Abstract: An electrical connector includes: a contact module including a housing and an upper and lower rows of contacts arranged in the housing, the housing having a base and a front tongue; a metallic shell enclosing the housing; and a metallic bracket affixed to the metallic shell and having a pair of soldering legs; wherein the base has a front face and plural recesses behind the front face, each recess having an interior face; and the metallic shell has plural stops accommodated in corresponding recesses, each stop having a front face positioned in front of the front face of the base and a rear face spaced a gap from the interior face of a corresponding recess.

Abstract: An electrical contact for extending through a hole in the printed circuit board in an insertion direction, includes a retention plate and a leg extending therefrom. The leg includes an insertion section and a deformation section. The deformation section includes a pair of opposite wide side faces in a first direction perpendicular to the insertion direction, and a pair of opposite narrow side faces in a second direction perpendicular to both the insertion direction and the first direction, and a cavity recessed from one wide side face in the first direction. The cavity forms a first end located closer to the insertion end of the leg in the insertion direction and equipped with a cone shape thereof, and a second end located opposite to the first end and closer to a rectangular retention section and equipped with an arc shape thereof. The cavity forms a trapezoidal cross-section.

Abstract: A plug connector includes: an insulative housing including a main body, a reinforcement projecting forward from the main body, and a pair of baffle plates; and a printed circuit board partially received in the insulative housing, the printed circuit board extending forward from the main body and beyond the reinforcement, the reinforcement wrapping on the printed circuit board, wherein a width of a front end of the printed circuit board exposed outside the main body in a horizontal direction is greater than a width of the reinforcement, and a limiting groove is formed between the baffle plate and the printed circuit board for guiding the plug connector to mate with a socket connector.

Abstract: A twin axial cable includes a pair of wires each with a core conductor; a first dielectric extruded around each of the core conductors, said pair of conductors with the first dielectrics being intimately side by side positioned with each other in a transverse direction; a second dielectric different form the first dielectric and extruded around the first dielectrics; a shielding layer enclosing the second dielectric; and a heat seal PET layer enclosing the shielding layer. A coupling ratio which is calculated by a value of an even mode characteristic impedance subtracted an odd mode characteristic impedance divided by a value of the even mode characteristic impedance pulsed the odd mode characteristic impedance is between 15% to 30%.

Abstract: A plurality of contacts are disposed within the corresponding passageways of the housing of the electrical connector, respectively. Each contact includes a main body extending in a vertical plane with two pairs of fixing sections on two opposite lateral sides to form an X-like shape, and a pair of resilient contacting arms extending from opposite upper and lower ends of the main body for mating with the CPU and PCB. A pair of extension arms extend from the waist section of the main body in a direction perpendicular to the vertical plane. The contacting arm includes a vertical section coplanar with the main body, an oblique section extending from an upper end of the vertical section with a bulged and narrowed contacting section at the free end. Each pair of fixing sections are located by two sides of the vertical section of the corresponding contacting arm.

Abstract: A card edge connector includes an elongated insulative housing, a plurality of conductive terminals retained in the housing, and a latching structure. The housing defines a card receiving slot. The latching structure includes a locking portion and an operating portion. The operating portion defines an operating surface. The operating portion is made of insulative material, and a metal plate is attached to the operating surface. The metal plate can effectively improve the technical feeling of the card edge connector and protect the operating surface from being damaged by external tools.

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 for connection between the CPU and the PCB includes an insulative housing, an insulative plate below the housing and a plurality of contacts retained to the housing and the plate. The housing forms a receiving cavity for receiving the CPU, and the plate forms a mounting face confronting the PCB. Each contact includes an upper part and a lower part discrete and independent from each other. The upper part includes an upward resilient arm extending into the receiving cavity for mechanically and electrically connecting to the CPU, and a bottom connecting section. The lower part includes a downward resilient arm extending toward the PCB for mechanically and electrically connecting to the PCB, and a top connecting section. The bottom connecting section and the top connecting section are mechanically and electrically connected to each other.

Abstract: A method of making a contact module of an electrical connector which includes a tongue and plural contacts exposed to two opposite surfaces of the tongue is characterized by the steps of: forming the contacts from a single contact carrier to have one contact thereof with a first contacting portion oriented reversely-symmetrically with respect to a second contacting portion of another contact thereof and to have two outermost contacts each with a respective integral latching portion; insert-molding the contacts with a first insulator while exposing front ends thereof and the latching portions; severing a carrier strip from the front ends of the plurality of contacts; and over-molding a second insulator to the first insulator and embedding the front ends of the plurality of contacts.