US 12,341,298 B2
Electrical connector with stable state electrical communication between ground members
Nobuhiro Tamai, Kanagawa (JP); Takafumi Sugawara, Kanagawa (JP); Shota Yamada, Kanagawa (JP); and Xingyu Cheng, Kanagawa (JP)
Assigned to HIROSE ELECTRIC CO., LTD., Kanagawa (JP)
Filed by Hirose Electric Co., Ltd., Kanagawa (JP)
Filed on Dec. 13, 2022, as Appl. No. 18/065,592.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-202375 (JP), filed on Dec. 14, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0187879 A1, Jun. 15, 2023
Int. Cl. H01R 13/652 (2006.01); H01R 12/73 (2011.01); H01R 13/405 (2006.01); H01R 13/504 (2006.01); H01R 13/6471 (2011.01); H01R 43/24 (2006.01)
CPC H01R 13/652 (2013.01) [H01R 12/732 (2013.01); H01R 13/405 (2013.01); H01R 13/504 (2013.01); H01R 13/6471 (2013.01); H01R 43/24 (2013.01)] 3 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An electrical connector comprising:
multiple metallic signal transmission paths,
a plate-shaped retaining member of electrically insulating material retaining the multiple signal transmission paths, and
a first ground member of metal provided on one side of the retaining member in the through-thickness direction of the retaining member and a second ground member of metal provided on the other side, wherein
the retaining member, which retains rows of signal transmission paths consisting of the multiple signal transmission paths arranged side by side in a direction along the major faces of the retaining member together with the first ground member and second ground member, has perforation portions extending in the through-thickness direction at locations between adjacent signal transmission paths;
the electrical connector has provided therein a shorting member of electrically conductive plastics co-molded with the first ground member and second ground member; and
the shorting member has first base portions that are located at the first ground member side and are in contact with the first ground member, second base portions that are located at the second ground member side and are in contact with the second ground member, and coupling portions that are located within the perforation portions and couple the first base portions and the second base portions.