US 12,237,601 B2
Electrical connector and electrical connector assembly
Dai-Pei Fu, Kunshan (CN); and Chun-Hsiung Hsu, New Taipei (TW)
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 Jul. 1, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/810,454.
Claims priority of application No. 202121489042.8 (CN), filed on Jul. 2, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0006380 A1, Jan. 5, 2023
Int. Cl. H01R 13/426 (2006.01); H01R 12/71 (2011.01); H01R 13/502 (2006.01); H01R 13/652 (2006.01)
CPC H01R 12/716 (2013.01) [H01R 13/426 (2013.01); H01R 13/502 (2013.01); H01R 13/652 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An electrical connector for mating with a plug module in a front-to-rear direction, comprising:
an insulating housing including:
a front housing having a front top wall and a pair of front side walls connected to the front top wall, the front housing being provided with an upper mating slot and a lower mating slot spaced apart in a top-to-bottom direction perpendicular to the front-to-rear direction; and
a rear housing cooperating with the front housing; and
a plurality of terminal modules arranged in a transverse direction perpendicular to the front-to-rear direction and the top-to-bottom direction and accommodated in the insulating housing, each of the terminal modules including an insulating body and a plurality of conductive terminals held in the insulating body, the conductive terminals including contact portions disposed on opposite sides of the upper mating slot and the lower mating slot, wherein
the rear housing includes a rear top wall and a pair of rear side walls extending downward from the rear top wall, and the rear top wall and the pair of rear side walls surround the plurality of terminal modules in three directions; and
the front side wall includes a front main side wall portion, a front upper side wall portion extending rearward from an upper part of the front main side wall portion, a front lower side wall portion extending rearward from a lower part of the front main side wall portion, and a hollow portion formed therebetween to facilitate access of the terminal module.