Electrical connector with grounding means

Details Electrical connector with grounding means Electrical connector with grounding means

1999-08-11

2000-11-21

Paumen, Gary F.

Electrical connectors

With circuit conductors and safety grounding provision

Grounding to connector container or housing

439939, H01K 13648

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061494445

ABSTRACT:
An electrical connector comprises an insulative housing, a shell, a number of terminals received in the housing and grounding means attached to the shell and engaging means. The housing comprises a mating surface with a number of terminal receiving passageways defined therein and an adjacent mounting surface perpendicular to the mating surface. One end of each terminal is received in the corresponding passageway of the housing and the other end is bent to extend through the mounting surface for connecting with a circuit board. The grounding means attached to the shell comprises at least a resilient spring finger appropriately bent and warped relative to the mating surface. After the circuit board is assembled within a computer with the connector mounted thereon extending through a corresponding slot formed in a computer panel, the spring finger of the grounding means reliably contacts an inner surface of the computer panel to establish a grounding path thereby eliminating interference caused by static electricity and ensuring stable signal transmission between the connector and a mating connector.

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patent: 4906201 (1990-03-01), Young et al.
patent: 5266053 (1993-11-01), Jamet et al.
patent: 5622523 (1997-04-01), Kan et al.
patent: 5772471 (1998-06-01), Buck
patent: 5913698 (1999-06-01), Keng

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