US 12,308,541 B2
Board-to-board socket
Xiaoshuo Chen, Guangdong (CN); and Yiping Shi, Guangdong (CN)
Assigned to SHENZHEN EVERWIN PRECISION TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., Guangdong (CN)
Filed by SHENZHEN EVERWIN PRECISION TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., Guangdong (CN)
Filed on Sep. 30, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/937,189.
Application 17/937,189 is a continuation of application No. PCT/CN2020/141931, filed on Dec. 31, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 202010547827.X (CN), filed on Jun. 16, 2020; and application No. 202021116910.3 (CN), filed on Jun. 16, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0036015 A1, Feb. 2, 2023
Int. Cl. H01R 12/70 (2011.01); H01R 12/71 (2011.01)
CPC H01R 12/7023 (2013.01) [H01R 12/716 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A board-to-hoard socket, comprising:
a socket body;
a socket terminal; and
a socket reinforcing member,
wherein the socket body comprises a bottom wall, socket side walls formed by protruding upward from two longitudinal ends of the bottom wall, socket guide parts formed at two lateral ends of the socket body, and an island part formed by protruding upward from the bottom wall,
wherein each of the socket guide parts comprises a plug guide part receiving cavity, a longitudinal peripheral wall located at a lateral outer side of the plug guide part receiving cavity, and a pair of lateral peripheral walls located at two longitudinal sides of the plug guide part receiving cavity,
wherein the socket reinforcing member comprises a main body part covering a surface of the longitudinal peripheral wall, lateral peripheral wall covering parts which extend from the main body part and cover the lateral peripheral walls, and an elastic arm part and a protection part formed by bending and extending from top ends of the lateral peripheral wall covering parts toward a side of the plug guide part receiving cavity,
wherein the elastic arm part comprises: an inclined connecting arm formed by bending and extending obliquely downward from the lateral peripheral wall covering parts, a contact arm part formed by bending vertically from the inclined connecting arm, and a contact convex part formed by stamping from the contact arm part toward the plug guide part receiving cavity, and
wherein an end of the contact arm part extends to a side of the protection part along the lateral direction.