US 11,817,656 B2
Electrical connector having overlapping coupling portions
Yong-Chun Xu, Kunshan (CN); Hung-Chi Yu, New Taipei (TW); Chih-Ching Hsu, New Taipei (TW); Wei-Kang Liu, New Taipei (TW); Chin-Jung Wu, New Taipei (TW); and Xiao-Qin Zheng, Kunshan (CN)
Assigned to FOXCONN (KUNSHAN) COMPUTER CONNECTOR CO., LTD., Kunshan (CN); and FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED, Grand Cayman (KY)
Filed by FOXCONN (KUNSHAN) COMPUTER CONNECTOR CO., LTD., Kunshan (CN); and FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED, Grand Cayman (KY)
Filed on Jan. 13, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/574,723.
Claims priority of application No. 202110060415.8 (CN), filed on Jan. 18, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0231461 A1, Jul. 21, 2022
Int. Cl. H01R 13/6471 (2011.01); H01R 24/62 (2011.01); H01R 107/00 (2006.01)
CPC H01R 13/6471 (2013.01) [H01R 24/62 (2013.01); H01R 2107/00 (2013.01)] 12 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An electrical connector comprising: an insulating body; and first through eighth terminals sequentially arranged in a lateral direction in the insulating body, wherein the first and second terminals, the third and sixth terminals, the fourth and fifth terminals, and the seventh and eighth terminals are respectively used to transmit a pair of differential signals, each terminal including: a mating portion for mating to a mating connector; a tail portion opposite to the mating portion; and a connecting portion connected between the tail portion and the mating portion, the connecting portions of the third terminal to the fifth terminal are all provided with a coupling portion; wherein the coupling portions of the third through fifth terminals are in three different planes, respectively, and the coupling portion of the fifth terminal and the coupling portion of the third terminal at least partially overlap in a longitudinal direction perpendicular to the lateral direction; wherein the sixth terminal is provided with a coupling portion, the coupling portion of the fourth terminal and the coupling portion of the sixth terminal at least partially overlap in the longitudinal direction; and the coupling portions of the third through sixth terminals are located in four planes parallel to each other in the longitudinal direction.