US 12,347,951 B2
Cable-end connector, board-end connector and assembly thereof
Yi-Tse Ho, New Taipei (TW); Ricardo Alvarez Gonzalez, Lisle, IL (US); and Robert Piszczor, LaGrange, IL (US)
Assigned to Molex, LLC, Lisle, IL (US)
Filed by Molex, LLC, Lisle, IL (US)
Filed on Sep. 2, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/902,494.
Claims priority of application No. 202111042872.0 (CN), filed on Sep. 7, 2021; and application No. 202210811606.8 (CN), filed on Jul. 11, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0076927 A1, Mar. 9, 2023
Int. Cl. H01R 12/70 (2011.01); H01R 13/518 (2006.01)
CPC H01R 12/7029 (2013.01) [H01R 13/518 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A cable-end connector comprising:
an outer casing having a mating face which is positioned at a bottom of the outer casing, a front end face and a rear end face which face each other, and a first side face and a second side face which face each other, the front end face, the rear end face, the first side face and the second side face being formed by extending from respective side edges of the mating face, the outer casing having a recessed portion which is positioned adjacent to the front end face or the rear end face;
a first contact member provided in the outer casing, the first contact member comprising a first mating portion which is provided in the outer casing and extends toward the mating face and a first connecting portion which is connected to the first mating portion;
a second contact member provided in the outer casing, the second contact member comprising a second mating portion which is provided in the outer casing and extends toward the mating face and a second connecting portion which is connected to the second mating portion;
two cables entering into the outer casing and electrically connected with the first connecting portion and the second connecting portion respectively;
a first locking structure provided to the outer casing, the first locking structure being at least partially positioned in the recessed portion so that the first locking structure, the first contact member and the second contact member are triangularly arranged; and
a plane portion positioned in the mating face and away from the recessed portion, the plane portion being adjacent to the first mating portion of the first contact member and being adjacent to the second mating portion of the second contact member, the plane portion, the first contact member and the second contact member being triangularly arranged.