US 12,107,357 B2
Edge connector
Dominik Schroll, Ampfing (DE); Thomas Grasser, Gars am Inn (DE); and Daniel Bock, Schoenberg (DE)
Assigned to MD ELEKTRONIK GMBH, Waldkraiburg (DE)
Filed by MD ELEKTRONIK GmbH, Waldkraiburg (DE)
Filed on Mar. 15, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/694,753.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2021 107 810.5 (DE), filed on Mar. 29, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0311163 A1, Sep. 29, 2022
Int. Cl. H01R 12/72 (2011.01); H01R 12/71 (2011.01); H01R 103/00 (2006.01)
CPC H01R 12/724 (2013.01) [H01R 12/716 (2013.01); H01R 2103/00 (2013.01)] 11 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An edge connector for connecting to a mating connector, the edge connector comprising:
an outer conductor, which comprises a main body and a plug-in portion;
a first and a second inner-conductor contact, which are arranged at least in part inside the outer conductor, the first inner-conductor contact comprising a first coupling end and a first contact end, and the second inner-conductor contact comprising a second coupling end and a second contact end, the first and second coupling ends being configured to electrically couple the first and second inner-conductor contacts, respectively, to a printed circuit board, the first and second contact ends being configured to electrically connect the first and second inner-conductor contacts, respectively, to an inner-conductor contact element of the mating connector, a shortest spacing between the first coupling end and the first contact end being different from a shortest spacing between the second coupling end and the second contact end, an overall electrical length of the first inner-conductor contact being identical to an overall electrical length of the second inner-conductor contact, the first and second contact ends being arranged in parallel with one another on a main plane and in the plug-in portion, the first and second inner-conductor contacts being arranged at least in part inside a receiving chamber of the main body, the main plane dividing the receiving chamber into a first chamber portion and a second chamber portion, and the first chamber portion being formed asymmetrically in relation to the second chamber portion; and
an insulator, which galvanically isolates the first and second inner-conductor contacts from the outer conductor,
wherein a longitudinal-extension direction of the first coupling end is arranged at a first predetermined angle relative to a longitudinal-extension direction of the first contact end and/or a longitudinal-extension direction of the second coupling end is arranged at a second predetermined angle relative to a longitudinal-extension direction of the second contact end.