Abstract: A receptacle connector includes a first housing, a second housing, a number of first contacts and second contacts, a metallic plate sandwiched between the first housing and the second housing, and a shielding shell. The first housing has a first base and a first tongue portion. The first tongue portion has a connection portion close to the first base and a first stepping portion in a lower surface. The second housing has a second tongue portion. The second tongue portion has a second stepping portion in an upper surface. Each first contact has a first affixed portion. The metallic plate has a connecting section inclining with the connection portion and the first affixed portion in a same direction and an opening receiving the first stepping portion and the second stepping portion. The first stepping portion and the second stepping portion contacts with each other through the opening.

Abstract: An electrical connector includes an insulative housing having a tongue portion, a shielding plate, a first contact assembly and a second contact assembly accommodated to the insulative housing. The first contact assembly and the second contact assembly include a number of first contacts and second contacts respectively. The first contacts include a number of outer contacts and a number of inner contacts. Each first contact includes a head portion. There are an outer secondary belting connecting the head portions of the outer contacts together and an inner secondary belting connecting the head portions of the inside contacts together. The outer secondary belting and the inner secondary belting are separated from each other.

Abstract: An electrical connector includes an insulative housing, a number of terminals disposed in the insulative housing, a metallic shielding plate, and a shell. The insulative housing defines a base portion and a tongue portion extending upwardly from the base portion. The terminals have at least one grounding contact located laterally. The at least one grounding contact has a connecting portion retained in the base portion, a soldering portion extending backwardly from the base portion, and a tail portion extending upwardly from the connecting portion and exposed from a gap of the tongue portion. The metallic shielding plate has a bridge portion enclosing a front end of the tongue portion and a pair of side portions extending backwardly from two sides of the bridge portion. The side portions partly cover side edges of the tongue portion and electrically connect with the tail portions of the at least one grounding contact.

Abstract: An electrical connector assembly includes an electrical connector, a printed circuit board, and an electrical device. The electrical connector includes an insulative housing defining a tongue portion, a number of first contacts and second contacts, and a shielding shell. The tongue portion has an exposed part exposed from a front edge of the shielding shell to receive in a mating hole of the electrical device. The electrical device has an installing portion assembling the electrical connector. The electrical connector is mated with a mating connector through the mating hole, the exposed part of the tongue portion is received in the mating hole of electrical device, and the electrical connector except the exposed part is exposed our of the installing portion of the electrical device.

Abstract: An electrical connector includes an insulative housing, a number of terminals disposed in the insulative housing, a metallic shielding plate, a shielding shell defining a mating cavity, and a metal shell. The insulative housing defines a base portion and a tongue portion extending forwardly from the base portion. The base portion includes a front side, a rear side opposite to the front side, at least one retaining slot located in the front side of the base portion. The shielding shell includes at least one front stopping portion protruding into the mating cavity and received in the retaining slot, the at least one front stopping portion includes a front surface located beyond the front side of the base portion to prevent damage the base portion when a mating connector inserting into the electrical connector.

Abstract: A receptacle connector mounted upon a printed circuit board and adapted for mating with a plug connector, includes an insulative housing, a number of terminals disposed in the insulative housing, a metal sheet, and a shielding shell attached to the housing. The housing includes a first insulative housing defining a first tongue portion extending forwardly, a second insulative housing defining a second tongue portion extending forwardly, and a third insulative housing defining a third tongue portion extending forwardly. The terminals include a number of first contacts and second contacts. The third insulative housing is over-molded with the first insulative housing, the metal sheet, and the second insulative housing to enclose the first tongue portion and the second tongue portion into the third tongue portion and the first contacts and the second contacts respectively exposed on an upper and a bottom surface of the third tongue portion.

Abstract: An electrical connector includes: an insulative housing having a rear base portion and a front tongue portion, said tongue portion being formed with a platform connected with the base portion; a number of terminals arranged at the tongue portion, each terminal comprising a conductive portion formed with a contacting portion for contacting with a mating connector, and a soldering portion extending outwardly of the insulative housing; at least one waterproof film extending rearwardly up to the platform; and a shielding shell enclosing the insulative housing; wherein the conductive portions of the terminals are exposed on the tongue portion to form at least one conductive region on the tongue portion covered by the at least one waterproof film.

Abstract: An electrical connector, defining an insertion port, a mating direction, a transverse direction perpendicular to the mating direction, and a vertical direction perpendicular to the mating direction and the transverse direction, includes an insulative housing, a number of terminals retained in the insulative housing, and a metal shell attached to the insulative housing. Each terminal has a soldering portion. The terminals have a number of grounding contacts, power contacts, and signal contacts.

Abstract: An electrical connector includes an insulative housing, a number of terminals, and a metal shell attached to the housing. The terminals have a number of grounding contacts, power contacts, and signal contacts. Each terminal has a contacting portion, an inclined portion bent forwardly from the contacting portion at a bending point, and a soldering portion. The bending points have a first bending point located at the grounding contacts, a second bending point located at the power contacts, and a third bending point located at the signal contact. A distance between the first bending points of the grounding contacts and the insertion port is larger than that between the second bending points of the power contacts and the insertion port and smaller than that between the third bending points of the signal contacts and the insertion port.

Abstract: An electrical connector includes an insulative housing, metal reinforcing member, a number of terminals affixed to the insulative housing, and a shielding shell enclosing the insulative housing. The insulative housing includes a base portion and a tongue portion extending forwardly from the base portion. The tongue portion defines a pair of lateral walls and a pair of positioning grooves located in front of the lateral walls. The metal reinforcing member includes a pair of engaging portions located in front of the lateral walls and engaged with the positioning grooves of the tongue portion. The engaging portions are aligned with the lateral walls.

Abstract: An electrical connector, mounted upon a printed circuit board, includes an insulative housing, a number of terminals disposed in the insulative housing, a shielding shell attached to the housing, and a glue wall formed by glue. The housing defines a third base portion and a groove located at an upper surface in a rear end and for receiving glue. The terminals has a number of first contacts and a number of second contacts. Each first contact has a first soldering portion and each second contact has a second soldering portion. The shielding shell defines a guiding hole for flowing the glue. The glue wall flows from the guiding hole through the groove to seal up a gap between the insulative housing and the shielding shell.

Abstract: An electrical connector includes an insulative housing, a number of first contacts and second contacts, an insulator inset-molded with the first contacts, a metallic shielding plate retained in the insulative housing, and a shielding shell attached to the insulative housing. The housing has a base portion defining a receiving cavity located at a back-end thereof and extending forwardly and a tongue portion extending forwardly from the base portion. The tongue portion defines a first surface carrying the first contacts and a second surface located oppositely and a number of terminal-receiving slots located at the first surface and the second surface and communicated with receiving cavity. The second contacts are inserted into terminal-receiving slots located at the second surface. The insulator is received in the receiving cavity to insert the first contacts into the terminal-receiving slots located at the first surface.

Abstract: An electrical connector includes an insulative housing having a tongue portion, and two rows of terminals reversely-symmetrically arranged at opposite faces of the tongue portion. Each row of terminals include a grounding terminal and a power terminal arranged at a first district, and at least one subsidiary terminal arranged at a second district connecting the first district. Each row of terminals lack of at least two terminals to thereby form a vacant space between the grounding terminal and the power terminal. The subsidiary terminals in the two rows are offset with each other along an up-to-down direction.

Abstract: An electrical connector includes: an insulating body having an upper face and a lower face, two opposite side faces, a front face and a rear face, and a plug-receiving hole; and a number of terminals mounted to the insulating body, each terminal having a holding portion, an elastic portion extending into the hole, and an abutment portion. The abutment portion is movably exposed to a corresponding side face.

Abstract: An electrical connector includes an insulative housing, a number of contacts, a shielding plate, and a metallic shell. The insulative housing defines a number of contact-receiving grooves and a number of through holes connecting with adjacent contact-receiving grooves. The contacts include a number of first contacts having connecting sections, at least one connecting section of the first contacts has a first bending section bent along a direction away from the contiguous first contact to form an enlarged gap for increasing a distance between the adjacent first contacts. The insulative housing, the shielding plate and the contacts are molded to form a contact module. The enlarged gap and the corresponding through hole are connected together.

Abstract: An electrical connector includes an insulative housing, a number of terminals carried by the insulative housing, a metallic shielding plate retained in the insulative housing, and a shielding shell attached to the insulative housing. The insulative housing has a number of receiving slots located at a back-end thereof. The terminals have a number of soldering portions exposed from the insulative housing. Each receiving slot is located between every two neighboring soldering portions to receive soldering material.

Abstract: An electrical connector includes: a terminal module including an insulative housing and a number of terminals insert molded with the housing, the housing including a base and a tongue extending forwardly from the base; a metallic shield enclosing the terminal module; and a sealing member positioned in front of the base and sealed between the terminal module and the shield. A related method of making includes: enclosing a metallic shield about a terminal module; inserting a terminal protector into a front mating port of the shield and module combination until abutting a part of the terminal module; and applying a sealing material via the front mating port into a space defined between the terminal module and the shield to form a sealing member.

Abstract: An electrical connector includes an insulative housing, a number of first contacts and second contacts carried by the housing, a metallic shielding plate received in the housing, and a shielding shell attached to the insulative housing. The first contacts and the second contacts have a number of grounding contacts. Each grounding contact of the first contacts has a first end portion located at a front end thereof. Each grounding contact of the second contacts has a second end portion located at a front end thereof and corresponding to the first end portion. The metallic shielding plate respectively is contacted with the first end portion and the second end portion.

Abstract: An electrical connector comprising an insulative body, a plurality of terminals secured in said insulative body, and a grounding shell. Wherein said grounding shell is composed of two U-shaped collar shells oppositely assembled onto said insulative body. The connector also includes an insulator injected upon said grounding shell and a metallic shell assembled upon said insulator. Each collar shell includes a spring arm extending beyond said insulator and abutting against said metallic shell.

Abstract: An electrical connector includes an insulative housing having a tongue portion, a number of terminals having a number of first contacts and second contacts, and a shielding shell attached to the housing. The tongue portion defines a first surface and a second surface. Each first contact has a first contacting portion exposed from the first surface, a first soldering portion, and a first connecting portion. Each second contact has a second contacting portion exposed from the second surface, a second soldering portion, and a second connecting portion. The first contacts have a first outermost contact, and the first contacting portion of the first outermost contact offsets outwardly beyond the second contacting portion along a transverse direction.