US 12,438,299 B2
Pin array assembly and connector for high-speed signal transmission using the same
Soo Joo Lee, Hwaseong-si (KR); Jeong Il Jeon, Seoul (KR); Sung Jin Kim, Yongin-si (KR); Yong Goo Lee, Seongnam-si (KR); Jeong Nam Cheon, Seoul (KR); Young Kun Kwon, Hwaseong-si (KR); Bum Hee Bae, Yongin-si (KR); Youn Ho Kim, Seoul (KR); Jong Wan Shim, Seongnam-si (KR); and Seong Soo Han, Suwon-si (KR)
Assigned to WITHWAVE, Suwon-si (KR)
Filed by WITHWAVE, Suwon-si (KR)
Filed on Oct. 26, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/974,380.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2021-0154469 (KR), filed on Nov. 11, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0146943 A1, May 11, 2023
Int. Cl. H01R 13/11 (2006.01); H01R 43/16 (2006.01)
CPC H01R 13/112 (2013.01) [H01R 43/16 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
6. A connector for high-speed signal transmission, the connector comprising:
a pin array assembly,
wherein the pin array assembly includes:
a pin array including a plurality of pins, the plurality of pins including a first pin including a body area in which a through hole is formed, wherein the plurality of pins are arranged to be spaced apart from each other;
a lower support in which a lower end of the pin array is insert-molded and sealed, wherein the lower support is configured to support the lower end of the pin array while maintaining a set pitch of the pin array; and
an upper support, separated from the lower support, in which a middle portion of the pin array is insert-molded and sealed, and is configured to support the middle portion of the pin array while maintaining the set pitch of the pin array;
a base mold mounted and fixed on a substrate and in which the lower support is inserted and supported so that an end of the first pin is mounted and fixed to the substrate; and
a top mold in which the upper support is inserted and supported,
wherein the body area of the first pin is a deformable body area,
wherein the through hole passes through a center of the deformable body area, and
wherein the deformable body area, in response to a relative movement of the lower support and the upper support, is deformable in a width direction of the deformable body area in a space between the middle portion of the pin array and the lower end of the pin array.