US 11,799,225 B2
Connector having contact array
George Tziviskos, San Jose, CA (US); Aaron N. Miletich, San Jose, CA (US); and Eric S. Jol, San Jose, CA (US)
Assigned to Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed by Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed on May 27, 2020, as Appl. No. 16/885,122.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/907,063, filed on Sep. 27, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2021/0098915 A1, Apr. 1, 2021
Int. Cl. H01R 12/79 (2011.01); H01R 12/77 (2011.01); H05K 1/02 (2006.01)
CPC H01R 12/79 (2013.01) [H01R 12/774 (2013.01); H05K 1/0281 (2013.01); H05K 2201/2009 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A connector comprising:
a contact array, wherein the contact array comprises a plurality of rows, wherein each row comprises:
a plurality of contacts; and
an array crossbar joining the plurality of contacts;
a frame having a plurality of slats, wherein each array crossbar of each of the plurality of rows is fixed to each of the plurality of slats; and
a shell over the frame and the contact array, the shell comprising a plurality of tabs folded under the frame and located in corresponding recesses in a bottom of the frame.