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 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 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, 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 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: 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 includes an insulative housing forming plural rows of passageways wherein each row of passageways extends along a transverse direction while the plural rows are spaced from one another in a front-to-back direction perpendicular to the transverse direction. Each passageway is dimension to receive a unified contact having three sets of spring arms spaced from one another in the transverse direction. The three sets of spring arms are categorized with two outer sets and one inner set therebetween in the transverse direction. The pitch between the two neighboring sets of spring arms of each unified contact is essentially one half of the distance between one outer set of spring arms of one unified contact and another outer set of spring arms of the neighboring unified contact.

Abstract: In a plug connector assembly, a plug connector for mating with a receptacle connector, includes: a shell and a locking spring mounted on the shell and including a mating curved surface for directly locking to and unlocking from a receptacle connector.

Abstract: The first type adaptor cable assembly has an inner connector equipped with a plug board derived from the FP5 for mating with the FP5 vertical receptacle connector, and an outer connector configured to be in compliance with the FP5 or QSFP-DD receptacle connector and disposed at a rear end of the cage for mating with the FP5 or QSFP-DD inserted into the cage. Notably, the connection between the inserted FP5 and QSFP-DD and the corresponding FP5 or QSFP-DD receptacle connector directly attached/linked to the adaptor cable, is same with the traditional connection between the inserted FP5 or QSFP-DD and the corresponding receptacle connector which is only mounted to the main/external printed circuit board without directly attachment to the cable.

Abstract: An electrical connector includes an insulative housing, a plurality of passageways, a plurality of blade type contacts retained to the retaining grooves in the corresponding passageways, a spacer located in a rear receiving space of the housing with corresponding slits through which tails of the contacts rearwardly extend, and a plurality of wires having the inner conductors soldered upon the tails of the contacts behind the spacer. A waterproof glue plate fills the receiving space of the housing to enclose the exposed inner conductors and the corresponding tails. A plurality of passages are formed in one side of the peripheral wall, through which the wires extend in a vertical direction perpendicular to the horizontal direction along which the contacts extend. The spacer forms a recess to receive a protrusion of the glue plate, and the protrusion is located adjacent to the passages for assuring sealing around said passages.

Abstract: An electrical connector includes: an insulative housing having a base and a tongue, the base having a front face for abutting a front end face of a mating connector; and plural contacts arranged in an upper and lower rows and exposed respectively to an upper and lower surfaces of the tongue, wherein the insulative housing is devoid of a step between the base and the tongue, and a length measured from a front end face of the tongue to the front face of the base is about 2.85 mm A complementary electrical connector is devoid of a grounding piece in front of plural contacts thereof, and a length measured from a front end face of a shell thereof to mating points of the contacts is about 1.05 mm.

Abstract: An electrical assembly includes a system board and a power board closely arranged with each other in a parallel relation. An electronic package and a system connector are mounted upon an upper surface of the system board. A power connector and a set of connector units are mounted on an undersurface of the power board. Another set of connector units are formed on an upper surface of the electronic package. A heat sink is positioned upon the power board and contacts the electronic package via a center opening in the power board. After assembled, the power supply is provide through connection between the two sets of the connector units and that between the system connector and the power connector.

Abstract: An electrical connector assembly includes an insulative housing, a plurality of terminals mounted on the insulative housing, a cable electrically connected with the terminals, a magnet disposed on the insulative housing, and an inner mold integrally formed on the insulative housing and the cable, wherein the electrical connector assembly also includes a heat insulation member disposed between the magnet and the inner mold to prevent the magnet from heat of the inner mold during molding.

Abstract: An electrical connector includes: an insulative housing having a base and a tongue; and plural contacts arranged in an upper and lower rows and exposed respectively to an upper and lower surfaces of the tongue, wherein the upper and lower rows of contacts include a first and second power contacts in the same row, the second power contact being shorter than the first power contact so as to be prevented from making an electrical contact with an ordinary connector.

Abstract: An electrical connector includes an insulative housing with a rear base and a mating tongue extending forwardly from the base. Two rows of contacts are retained in the housing. A metallic shielding plate is embedded within the housing and between the two rows of contacts. Each row of contacts defines positions from one to twelve in the transverse direction wherein positions 2&3 and 10&11 are designated for high frequency signal transmission. In the shielding plate the space between corresponding positions 4 and 6, and that between corresponding positions 7 and 9, are of a complete or enlarged hole being essentially fully empty along the front-to-back direction for achieving the high frequency transmission without undesired crosstalk among the corresponding contacts.

Abstract: A hermetic electrical adaptor including a first insulative body, a second insulative body, a plurality of contacts, a first glue body and a second glue body. The contact has a main body and first and second contacting sections located at two opposite ends of the main body. The first insulative body has a first base and a first tongue, and the second insulative body has a second base and a second tongue. The second base forms a receiving cavity to receive the first base. The first contacting section is disposed upon the first tongue, and the second contacting section is disposed upon the second tongue. The first insulative body is integrally formed with the contacts as a contact module before assembled with the second insulative body. The first base forms in a back side a receiving space to receive the first glue body.

Abstract: An electrical connector includes: an insulative housing having a front tongue with two opposite surfaces; and a first and second rows of contacts with contacting portions exposed to the two opposite surfaces of the tongue; wherein the first row of contacts include a row of contacts from a first contact carrier of a first thickness and a row of contacts from a second contact carrier of a second thickness less than the first thickness; and the row of contacts from the first contact carrier and the row of contacts from the second contact carrier are molded to form the first row of contacts. A method of making a contact module of the electrical connector is characterized by molding the row of contacts from the first thicker contact carrier and the row of contacts from the second thinner contact carrier to form the first row of contacts.

Abstract: An electrical connector includes: a housing; a locking mechanism held on the housing and including a holding portion secured to the housing, a locking portion for locking with a mating connector, and an operation portion for unlocking the locking portion from the mating connector; a plug portion including a wide surface and being connected with the mating connector in a first direction; and a cable electrically connected to the plug portion and extending out of the housing; wherein the cable extends out of the housing in a second direction that is parallel to the wide surface and perpendicular to the first direction, and the operation portion extends to an edge of the housing in a third direction opposite to the first direction.