Abstract: Provided is an improved electronic component package. The electronic component package comprises a multiplicity of electronic components wherein each electronic component comprises a first external termination and a second external termination. The electronic component package also includes a structural lead frame comprising multiple leads wherein each lead is mounted to at least one first external termination and the structural lead frame comprises at least one break away feature between adjacent leads.

Abstract: An electrical connector includes an insulation base, a plurality of grounding terminals mounted in the insulation base and a plurality of differential signal terminal pairs mounted in the insulation base. The plurality of grounding terminals and the plurality of differential signal terminal pairs are arranged into a plurality of terminal rows. Each of the plurality of differential signal terminal pairs is located between two adjacent grounding terminals in one terminal row and between two other grounding terminals of two terminal rows adjacent to the one terminal row. The insulation base is provided with an electrical connection layer by which at least two of the plurality of grounding terminals are electrically connected to each other.

Abstract: A high-speed connector includes an insulating housing, and a first terminal assembly mounted in the insulating housing. The first terminal assembly includes a plurality of first terminals, a first base body and a first conductive film. The plurality of the first terminals include at least two first grounding terminals and at least two first signal terminals. At least one portion of a bottom of the first base body extends downward to form at least one first protruding portion. The at least two first signal terminals penetrate through the at least one first protruding portion. The first conductive film is covered to the at least one first protruding portion. The first conductive film has a first metal layer. The first metal layer is electrically connected with the at least two first grounding terminals to form a grounding structure.

Abstract: A cable card assembly includes a circuit card and cables terminated to the circuit card. Each cable has signal conductors, an insulator, and a cable shield. The cable card includes conductor holders forward of the insulators manufactured from a dielectric material and having conductor channels that receive the signal conductors. The cable card assembly includes ground shields coupled to the circuit card providing electrical shielding for the cables. Each ground shield includes a side walls and an end wall. The end wall has an end wall connecting portion coupled to the cable shield. The first side wall has a first side wall connecting portion coupled to the cable shield. The second side wall has a second side wall connecting portion coupled to the cable shield.

Abstract: A modular electrical connector with separately shielded signal conductor pairs. In some embodiments, the connector is may be assembled from modules, each containing a pair of signal conductors with surrounding partially or fully conductive material. In some embodiments, the modules may have projecting portions, of conductive and/or dielectric material, that are shaped and positioned to reduce changes in impedance along the signal paths as a function of separation of conductive elements, when the connectors are separated by less than the functional mating range.

Abstract: A backplane connector includes a number of first conductive terminals, an insulating bracket, a first metal shield and a second metal shield. The first conductive terminal includes a first mating portion, a first tail portion and a first connection portion. The first conductive terminals include first differential signal terminals, a first ground terminal and a second ground terminal. The first mating portion, the first connection portion and the first tail portion extend along a mating direction so that the structural design of the conductive terminal is simplified. The first metal shield, the second metal shield, the first mating portion of the first grounding terminal and the first mating portion of the second grounding terminal are enclosed to form a shielding space. The first mating portions of the first differential signal terminals are located in the shielding space.

Abstract: An electrical connector comprises an insulative shell having a floor; a first plurality of contacts extending through the floor, wherein the first plurality of contacts are disposed in a plurality of columns; a second plurality of contacts extending through the floor, wherein the second plurality of contacts are interspersed with the first plurality of contacts within the plurality of columns; and a conductive member adjacent the floor. The conductive member comprises a first plurality of openings, wherein the first plurality of contacts extend through the openings of the first plurality of openings; a second plurality of openings, wherein the second plurality of contacts extend through the openings of the second plurality of openings; and a first plurality of tabs, extending into openings in the insulative shell.

Abstract: An electrical connector includes an insulative housing defining a receiving space, plural contacts secured to the insulative housing and exposed to the receiving space, a first and second holding members secured to two opposite ends of the insulative housing and exposed to the receiving space, and a shielding plate located between the first and second holding members, wherein at least one of the first and second holding members has an integral coupling parallel to the shielding plate.

Abstract: A coaxial connector device includes a first signal contact member joined to a central conductor of a first coaxial cable, a second signal contact member joined to a central conductor of a second coaxial cable, a ground contact member has an annular fitting portion arranged around the first and second signal contact members and is joined to the outer conductors of the respective first and second coaxial cables, and a flat partition provided with a ground potential and located between the first signal contact member and the second signal contact member.

Abstract: A backplane connector includes a number of wafers and a spacer for assembling the number of wafers together. Each wafer includes an insulating frame. The insulating frame includes a first protrusion. The spacer includes a body portion. The body portion has a number of slots for holding the first protrusions of the wafers. A periphery of each slot is surrounded by the body portion. Compared with the prior art, the spacer of the present disclosure is provided with a number of slots for holding the first protrusions of the wafers. As a result, the wafers can be easily assembled and fixed as a whole.

Abstract: An add-in card printed circuit board (PCB) includes a body portion and a card edge portion. The body portion includes a circuit trace associated with a high-speed data communication interface. The card edge portion includes contact fingers, and is configured to be inserted into a card edge connector of an information handling system. The contact fingers include a signal contact finger coupled to the circuit trace, and a ground contact finger that is located adjacent to the signal contact finger. The ground contact finger includes a ground via that couples the ground contact finger to a ground plane layer of the add-in card PCB. The ground via is located half way within the body portion and half way within the card edge portion.

Abstract: A USB module includes a first USB port configured to connect a first USB-compatible device with a first USB cable and a USB plug, and a second port configured to connect a second USB-compatible device with a second USB cable. The USB cables are multi-core and respectively comprise first and second configuration lines. An interface is arranged between the first USB port and the second port in a housing interior of a housing of the USB module. The interface makes at least the first configuration line connectable to the second configuration line. The interface comprises a semiconductor module configured to reference to a ground potential of the USB module at least one output signal at the USB module on a configuration connection between the first and second configuration lines.

Abstract: A terminal assembly and an electrical connector. The terminal assembly comprises a plurality of terminals, an insulating body, a first electromagnetic shielding member, and a second electromagnetic shielding member. The plurality of terminals comprises a plurality of signal terminals and a plurality of ground terminals. The signal terminals and the ground terminals are disposed at intervals. At least one signal terminal is disposed between two adjacent ground terminals. The insulating body is disposed at the plurality of terminals. One end of each terminal protrudes from one side of the insulating body, while the other end is exposed from the insulating body. The first electromagnetic shielding member is disposed at one side of the insulating body and is connected with the plurality of ground terminals. The second electromagnetic shielding member is disposed at the other side of the insulating body and is opposite to the first electromagnetic shielding member.

Abstract: A backplane connector includes a housing, a number of terminal modules assembled to the housing, and a metal shield surrounding member. The housing includes a base, a first side wall and a second side wall. The base, the first side wall and the second side wall jointly form a receiving space for at least partially receiving a mating connector. The terminal module includes a first signal terminal, a second signal terminal and an insulating block fixed on the first signal terminal and the second signal terminal. The metal shield surrounding member at least partially surrounds the periphery of the first signal terminal and the second signal terminal. As a result, the shielding effect of the backplane connector is improved.

Abstract: An electrical connector comprises an insulative shell having a floor; a first plurality of contacts extending through the floor, wherein the first plurality of contacts are disposed in a plurality of columns; a second plurality of contacts extending through the floor, wherein the second plurality of contacts are interspersed with the first plurality of contacts within the plurality of columns; and a conductive member adjacent the floor. The conductive member comprises a first plurality of openings, wherein the first plurality of contacts extend through the openings of the first plurality of openings; a second plurality of openings, wherein the second plurality of contacts extend through the openings of the second plurality of openings; and a first plurality of tabs, extending into openings in the insulative shell.

Abstract: Provided are a receptacle connector configured to avoid damage to conductors of the receptacle connector. The receptacle connector includes a plurality of connection terminals, a mold structure which comprises a front part exposing each of the connection terminals and a support part disposed on a rear end of the front part and surrounding each of the connection terminals, and a shield which is disposed on the support part and comprises a conductive material, wherein the support part comprises a flat part which includes a surface along which the shield extends and a protruding part which protrudes from the surface of the flat part and is disposed in front of a front end of the shield. The protruding part is configured to avoid damage to conductors of the receptacle when a plug is mated to the receptacle.

Abstract: A securing mechanism for retaining a daughter board upon the primary board includes a base, which is moveably assembled upon the main board, and a latch assembled upon the base and moveable between a locking position and an unlocking position. The base forms a support platform upwardly abutting against the underside of the daughter board and equipped with an arc protrusion for receipt within a notch of the daughter board, and a grounding piece with one end mechanically and electrically connecting a grounding pad of the daughter board and the other end mechanically and electrically connecting a grounding pad on the main board. The base forms a horizontal slot to receive the main body so as to retain the base to the main body in position in the vertical direction. The latch forms a pressing face downwardly pressing an upper side of the daughter board.

Abstract: The present disclosure discloses an electrical connector including an insulating body, a plurality of conductive terminals, a shielding shell and an outer metal shell. The insulating body has a tongue plate. The plurality of conductive terminals include a ground terminal and a signal terminal. Each of the ground terminal and the signal terminal includes a contact portion exposed on the tongue plate. The outer metal shell is provided with a mounting portion for being mounted to a circuit board. The shielding shell is in contact with the ground terminal, and the outer metal shell is in contact with the shielding shell. There is no need to provide any mounting part on the shielding shell to be directly mounted on the circuit board, thereby saving installation space and improving installation convenience.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides an electrical connector including an insulating housing, a number of terminals and a lossy member. The terminals include a number of ground terminals and a number of signal terminals. The ground terminals and the signal terminals are set adjacently to each other but do not contact each other. The ground terminals do not directly contact the lossy member. As a result, installation consistency of the ground terminals can be achieved, thereby improving the electrical performance of the electrical connector.

Abstract: An electrical plug connector includes a metallic shell, an insulated housing in the metallic shell, plug terminals held in the insulated housing, and a hook member. Hook portions of the hook member extend into the insertion cavity of the insulated housing. Each hook portion forms a first positioning portion and a second positioning portion. When the electrical plug connector is mated with an electrical receptacle connector, the electrical plug connector can be positioned with the electrical receptacle connector through multiple contacts, thereby preventing the electrical plug connector from shaking.

Abstract: An electrical connecting device includes an insulated body, a first terminal set, and a conductive shielding member. The insulated body includes a base and a tongue plate connected to the base. The first terminal set includes several first signal terminals and several first ground terminals. Each of the first signal terminals and the first ground terminals includes a fixed portion and a contact portion. The fixed portion of each of the first signal terminals and the fixed portion of each of the first ground terminals is in the base, and the contact portion of each of the first signal terminals and the contact portion of each of the first ground terminals are extending to the tongue plate and exposed from the tongue plate. The conductive shielding member is in the insulated body, and the conductive shielding member is near but not in contact with the first terminal set.

Abstract: An electrical connector includes two adjacent terminal groups in a front-rear direction, including a front terminal group and a rear terminal group. Each terminal group includes a ground terminal and a signal terminal. The ground terminal has a first base portion and a first elastic arm. The first elastic arm includes two extending arms and a through slot formed therebetween. The signal terminal has a second base portion and a second elastic arm. The first elastic arm and the second elastic arm are used to be electrically connected to a mating member. In a same terminal group, the signal terminal is located in front of the first base portion, and the second elastic arm runs through the through slot. The mating member presses on the first elastic arm. The first elastic arm of the ground terminal of the rear terminal group abuts the ground terminal of the front terminal group.

Abstract: A connector includes an insulated member, a plurality of first conductive terminals, a plurality of second conductive terminals, a shielding shell, and a metal housing. The first conductive terminals are disposed on an upper surface of the insulated member and extending rearward. The second conductive terminals are disposed on a lower surface of the insulated member, extending rearward, and located below the first conductive terminals. The shielding shell is fitted over the insulated member, and the shielding shell has a plug end and a mounting end. The metal housing has a plurality of grounding structures, the metal housing is fitted over the mounting end of the shielding shell, and the grounding structures are completely located below the second conductive terminals.

Abstract: A communications connector has a middle barrel, top sled, and bottom sled. The top sled has a top wire opening and a top insulation displacement contact (IDC) hole with the top IDC hole providing access to a wire inserted into the top wire opening. The top sled has a top IDC channel containing a top IDC. The bottom sled has a bottom wire opening and a bottom IDC hole with the bottom IDC hole providing access to a wire inserted into the bottom wire opening. The bottom sled also has a bottom IDC channel with a bottom IDC. The top and bottom sleds are can be fitted together and inserted into the middle barrel with the top IDC engaging a wire inserted into the bottom wire opening through the bottom IDC hole and the bottom IDC engaging a wire inserted into the top wire opening through the top IDC hole.

Abstract: An electrical connector includes: terminal pairs to which wire pairs are attached; a terminal holding part made of insulating material and holding the terminal pairs; an outer shell made of electric conductive material and accommodating the terminal holding part and end portions of the wire pairs; a fitting part fitted to a counter connector; and a shield member disposed in the outer shell and made of electric conductive material. The shield member includes wire separation walls twisted around the axial center of the shield member. The wire separation walls separate the wire pairs for each wire pair, and two insulated wires of each wire pair are curved in the same direction as each other.

Abstract: A power interface may include a housing, a connection body, and a partition piece. The connection body may be arranged in the housing, configured to be connected to a circuit board, and include at least one power pin assembly. Each power-pin assembly may include a pair of power pins spaced apart from each other. The partition piece may be sandwiched between the pair of power pins, extend along a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, and include a tail end connected to the circuit board and a head end away from the circuit board and opposite to the tail end in the second direction. At least one of the head end and the rail end may define a through hole, and a reinforcing rib may be arranged in the through hole. A mobile terminal and a power adapter are also provided.

Abstract: The present invention provides a printed circuit board comprising: a dielectric layer (130); N pairs of differential signal vias (2) which penetrate through the dielectric layer wherein N is an integer more than one; N pairs of first strip conductors (101,102) disposed on a first surface of the dielectric layer; a first ground conductor layer (103) disposed in the dielectric layer forming N first differential transmission lines (100) with the N pairs of first strip conductors and the dielectric layer; N pairs of second strip conductors (111,112) disposed on a second surface of the dielectric layer; a second ground conductor layer (113) disposed in the dielectric layer forming N of second differential transmission lines (110) with the N pairs of second strip conductors and the dielectric layer.

Abstract: A connector includes contacts, a mid-plate and a housing, each contact having a contact portion at a front end portion and having a length corresponding to an effective connection length along a fitting direction, an exposed portion adjacent to a rear end of the contact portion and exposed from the housing, a connecting portion at a rear end portion, and a holding portion between the exposed portion and the connecting portion and at least partially embedded in the housing, the contact portion of each contact being disposed away from the mid-plate by a predetermined distance, each of a plurality of pairs of contacts having a separation portion separated from the mid-plate by a separation distance longer than the predetermined distance, the separation portion including the exposed portion and a part of the holding portion adjacent to a rear end of the exposed portion in the fitting direction.

Abstract: A connector is attachable with a composite cable and is connectable with a mating connector having a mating contact portion. The composite cable has at least one cable set which comprises a first cable and two second cables. The connector has a first member, a plurality of terminals and a second member. The first member is attachable with the composite cable. The plurality of terminals include at least one terminal set which comprises a first terminal and two second terminals. Each of the terminals has a contact portion, a held portion and a connecting portion. The connecting portion is connected with the composite cable when the connector is attached with the composite cable. In the at least one terminal set, the connecting portion of the first terminal is positioned between the connecting portions of the second terminals in a horizontal direction. The second member is combined with the first member.

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: A connector system enables charging of a portable information handling system in a charging dock. The connector system has improved tolerance to misalignment of male and female connectors to facilitate engagement when the portable information handling system is inserted into a charging dock. An embodiment of a receptacle adapter is disposed such that there is only one orientation for power connector engagement. An embodiment of the charging dock has an angular tilt that causes a partial weight component of the portable computer to contribute to positive engagement of the external plug adapter and receptacle adapter. An embodiment of the connector system includes a power interface including conductive pads and pogo pins. The conductive pads have contact surfaces that tolerate alignment variation between the pogo pins and the conductive pads. An embodiment of the connector system is a USB Type-C power adapter connector system.

Abstract: A contact module includes a dielectric holder holding signal contacts having mating portions extending forward of the dielectric holder. A shield structure is coupled to the dielectric holder providing electrical shielding for the signal contacts. The shield structure has first and second ground shields having corresponding mating portions extending forward of the mating end of the dielectric holder. The shield structure has ground blades extending between the first and second ground shields having mating portions extending forward of the mating end of the dielectric holder at least one of above or below the mating portions of the signal contacts. The ground blades electrically connect the mating portions of the first ground shield and the mating portions of the second ground shield immediately forward of the mating end of dielectric holder.

Abstract: A connection system for a quantum computer that employs constant impedance connectors with attenuation or filtering components or both embedded therein or within an adaptor removably insertable within an adaptor housing for use in a cryogenically cooled quantum computer. The connection system provides a higher density of cables traversing through a hermetic sealed top plate, and which are accessible to chill blocks to reduce the thermal energy from the signal lines. Attenuators or filter circuits are embedded in the constant impedance connector housings, or provided in adaptors that connect on each end to form mating constant impedance connections, in order to reduce signal strength as the signal progresses through the cryogenic environment and to remove extraneous electrical signal noise.

Abstract: In a laminated core type heat sink in which a plate is formed by arranging a plurality of slits in parallel to a metal flat plate and by laminating the plate in large numbers, the thickness of a second plate positioned second in the lamination direction from an end lid to which a semiconductor is attached is made greater than thickness of a first plate other than the second plate.

Abstract: A plug connector includes a main body, a plurality of terminals, an insulating housing and a protecting portion. The main body includes a main plate, a base body assembled to the main plate, and an outer ground shell. The base body has an assembling end, and a connecting end connected with the assembling end. The outer ground shell is mounted around the assembling end. The plurality of the terminals mounted to the base body, include a plurality of ground terminals. Each terminal has a contact portion. The contact portions of the plurality of the terminals are exposed to the connecting end. The contact portion of each ground terminal has a soldering pad fastened to the main plate. The insulating housing surrounds the outer ground shell. The protecting portion surrounds front ends of the contact portions of the plurality of the terminals and a front end of the connecting end.

Abstract: An electrical connector assembly, a female connector, and a male connector are provided. The electrical connector assembly includes a female connector and a male connector detachably inserted into the female connector. The female connector includes a housing and a plurality of transmission wafers inserted into the housing. Each of the transmission wafers includes an insulating frame and a plurality of grounding terminals fixed to the insulating frame. The male connector includes a carrier and a plurality of shielding terminals fixed to the carrier. Two side walls of each of the shielding terminals are respectively abutted against and electrically connected to two of the grounding terminals each having at least one first contacting portion.

Abstract: A connection system for a quantum computer that employs constant impedance connectors with attenuation or filtering components or both embedded therein or within an adaptor removably insertable within an adaptor housing for use in a cryogenically cooled quantum computer. The connection system provides a higher density of cables traversing through a hermetic sealed top plate, and which are accessible to chill blocks to reduce the thermal energy from the signal lines. Attenuators or filter circuits are embedded in the constant impedance connector housings, or provided in adaptors that connect on each end to form mating constant impedance connections, in order to reduce signal strength as the signal progresses through the cryogenic environment and to remove extraneous electrical signal noise.

Abstract: A female connector and a transmission wafer are provided. The female connector includes a housing and a plurality of transmission wafers inserted into the housing. Each of the transmission wafers includes an insulating frame, a plurality of grounding terminals fixed to the insulating frame, and a first shielding member and a second shielding member respectively disposed on two opposite sides of the insulating frame. In each of the transmission wafers, the second shielding member is disposed on a front end portion of the insulating frame, and the first and second shielding members are electrically connected to the grounding terminals so as to be electrically connected to each other through the grounding terminals. The second shielding member of one of any two adjacent transmission wafers is abutted against and electrically connected to the first shielding member of the other one of the any two adjacent transmission wafers.

Abstract: A module mount interposer may include one or more fastener receivers configured to mechanically couple with one or more fasteners so as to mechanically and electrically couple a module to the interposer. The module mount interposer may also include a core configured to electrically couple with the module, wherein each of the fastener receivers are mechanically coupled to the core. The module mount interposer may additionally include a solder layer electrically coupled to the core and configured to electrically couple with a printed circuit board (PCB) so as to provide an electrical signal from the module to the PCB and to provide an electrical signal from the PCB to the module.

Abstract: An electrical plug connector includes a first terminal module, a second terminal module, and a metallic contact member. The first terminal module and the second terminal module are received in a metallic shell. The metallic contact member is between the first terminal module and the second terminal module. The metallic contact member separates the first terminal module from the second terminal module. Moreover, two ends of the metallic contact member are respectively in contact with the ground terminals of the first plug terminals or in contact with the ground terminals of the second plug terminals.

Abstract: Occurrence of contact point slide due to vibration is suppressed in a movable connector that has a floating function from a technical approach that is different from the related art. A movable connector includes a displacement support member that includes a flexible support portion that is elastically deformable in a fitting direction, in which a mating connector is to be fitted with a movable housing, with the flexible support portion abutting against the movable housing. The movable housing includes a bottom wall, against which the mating connector abuts in the fitting direction. The movable housing is displaced in the fitting direction with the flexible support portion elastically deformed in the fitting direction when the mating connector presses the bottom wall in the fitting direction.

Abstract: An interconnect structure that includes a component circuit board containing a plurality of electrical components, and a wafer connector assembly. The wafer connector assembly includes a plurality of interconnect circuit boards that are in electrical connection with the components circuit board through a plurality of rows of solder joints, the plurality of interconnect circuit boards having a connection end including at least one contact. An adhesive is present structurally reinforcing at least a row of the solder joints that is proximate to the connection end of the plurality of interconnect circuit boards of the wafer assembly.

Abstract: A differential pair cable assembly includes a cable having a twin axial cable core including first and second conductors conveying differential signals and a cable shield. The cable assembly includes first and second contacts and a housing holding the first and second contacts. The cable assembly includes a shield having a shield cavity that receives the housing and the end of the cable and is electrically connected to the cable shield. The shield provides electrical shielding for the first and second contacts. The shield, the housing, and the contacts define a mating interface of the cable assembly configured to be mated to a mating component.

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: An electrical connector includes a housing, signal contacts, and ground shields. The housing has a base wall that defines openings therethrough. The signal contacts are arranged in pairs and project through at least some of the openings beyond a top side of the base wall. The ground shields project through at least some of the openings beyond the top side of the base wall. Each ground shield has at least two walls and at least partially surrounds a corresponding pair of the signal contacts. Each ground shield has an inner side that faces the corresponding pair of signal contacts and an outer side that is opposite the inner side. The outer sides of the ground shields have a lossy coating to absorb electrical resonances, and the inner sides of the ground shields lack the lossy coating.

Abstract: An electrical connector mounted on a PCB includes: an housing comprising a base, a mating tongue and a mounting portion, each surface of the mating tongue defining twelve terminal positions (P1) through (P12); two rows of terminals, each terminal including a mating portion, a leg portion and a middle portion connecting with the mating portion and the leg portion, each leg portion defining a soldering pad. Each row of terminals include grounding terminals in terminal positions (P1, P12) power terminals in terminal positions (P4, P9), and there are no terminals set in terminal positions (P2, P3, P10, P11). The soldering pads of the two rows of terminals are arranged in one row and at least two grounding terminals or two power terminals aligned with each other in a vertical direction are located side by side so as to share a same pad defined on the PCB.

Abstract: A differential trace pair system includes a first conductive layer that is located immediately adjacent a first insulating layer. The system includes a second conductive layer that is located immediately adjacent the first insulating layer and opposite the first insulating layer from the first conductive layer, and includes an aperture that extends through the second conductive layer. A second insulating layer is located immediately adjacent the second conductive layer and opposite the second conductive layer from the first insulating layer. The system includes a first differential trace pair that is included in the second insulating layer and that includes a first differential trace that is positioned adjacent the aperture and references the second conductive layer, and a second differential trace that is longer than the first differential trace and that includes a first portion that is positioned adjacent the second conductive layer aperture and references the first conductive layer.

Abstract: A contact module includes a dielectric holder holding signal contacts having mating portions extending forward of the dielectric holder. A shield structure is coupled to the dielectric holder providing electrical shielding for the signal contacts. The shield structure has first and second ground shields having corresponding mating portions extending forward of the mating end of the dielectric holder. The shield structure has ground blades extending between the first and second ground shields having mating portions extending forward of the mating end of the dielectric holder at least one of above or below the mating portions of the signal contacts. The ground blades electrically connect the mating portions of the first ground shield and the mating portions of the second ground shield immediately forward of the mating end of dielectric holder.

Abstract: A ground plate of a connector has protruding portions, a coupling portion and press-fit portions. The coupling portion couples rear ends of the protruding portions to one another. Each of the press-fit portions has a flat plate portion intersecting an up-down direction and press-fit protrusions protruding from the flat plate portion in a pitch direction. The press-fit portions are held by press-fitted portions provided to a base portion of a holding member, so that the ground plate is attached to the holding member. A regulating portion provided to the base portion of the holding member is located between the protruding portions in the pitch direction and located forward of the coupling portion in a front-rear direction and thereby regulating movement of the ground plate.

Abstract: An electrical plug connector includes a plurality of terminals and an insulator, a pair of grounding latches, a shielding spring and a shielding shell. Each of the terminals has a contacting segment and an elastic segment. Each of the contacting segments has a stopping face. The insulator partially covers the terminals and has a plurality of stopping edges. When the electrical plug connector is inserted into an electrical receptacle connector, shape deformation of each of the elastic segments shifts the corresponding contacting segment until the corresponding stopping edge is against the corresponding stopping face, and each contacting segment does not protrude from the insulator. When the electrical plug connector is not inserted into the electrical receptacle connector, shape recovery of each of the elastic segments restores the corresponding contacting segment and the corresponding stopping edge is away from the stopping face.