A connector includes mounting tabs that are extended relative to traditional mounting tabs. On a back side of the printed circuit board (PCB), the mounting tabs connect to a back plate. The mounting tabs extend through the PCB and connect with the back plate, which provides improved structural integrity. Depending on the connector, the use of the mounting tabs can use existing mounting holes for the connector and remove the need for additional mounting holes.

An electrical connector assembly can include a plug connector and a receptacle connector that can mate together. Conductive communication between the plug and receptacle connectors is established by mating signals terminals and mating ground terminals contained in terminal subassemblies accommodated in each connector. To align and support the signal and ground terminals, the terminals may be part of a terminal wafer and the terminal subassembly can be assembled from one or more wafers. The terminal wafer may include grounding features to improve the electrical characteristics and data transmission through the electrical connector assembly.

An electrical connector includes an elongate insulative housing defining a central slot extending along a longitudinal direction, and two rows of contacts disposed by two sides of the central slot. The housing forms a front receiving cavity to receive the corresponding mating tongue of the complementary connector, and a rear receiving cavity to receive the corresponding insulators wherein each insulator is integrally formed with each row of contacts via insert-molding for completing the whole contact module. Each grounding contact is equipped with the corresponding EMI absorber before being insert-molded within the insulator so as to have the corresponding EMI absorber also integrally formed with the insulator.

A connector assembly includes an adapter connector and two end-connectors. Each connector includes a high-speed differential area and a low-speed area. The high-speed differential area of each end-connector includes an end differential unit. The high-speed differential area of the adapter connector includes an adapter differential module. Each end differential unit and a corresponding adapter differential unit include a signal contact and a ground shielding member. The plug-in parts of the two end-connectors, which are adapted with the adapter connector, are the same in structure, and of the end differential unit and the adapter differential unit, one is a male unit and the other is a female unit in corresponding plug-in fit. Due to the fact that the plug-in parts of the two end-connectors are the same in structure, when the end-connectors are plugged into the adapter connector, identification can be saved, and blind plugging operation can be directly performed.

An electrical connector assembly can include a plug connector and a receptacle connector that can mate together. Conductive communication between the plug and receptacle connectors is established by mating signals terminals and mating ground terminals contained in terminal subassemblies accommodated in each connector. To align and support the signal and ground terminals, the terminals may be part of a terminal wafer and the terminal subassembly can be assembled from one or more wafers. The terminal wafer may include grounding features to improve the electrical characteristics and data transmission through the electrical connector assembly.

A socket structure is provided and includes a circuit board, an insulating base, a pin and a conductive component. The insulating base is disposed on the circuit board and includes a first side and a second side opposite to each other. The pin is disposed between the first side and the second side. The conductive component is connected between the circuit board and the insulating base and includes a first arm, a second arm and a connecting part. The first arm and the second arm are connected to each other through the connecting part. The first arm is fixed on the second side of the insulating base and connected to the pin and includes a first fixing end connected to the circuit board. The second arm includes a second fixing end connected to the circuit board.

The present invention relates to a fixed connector including a body fixedly inserted into a substrate, a signal pin having one side inserted into the body and the other side extending from the one side to be disposed on the substrate, and a dielectric coupling the signal pin and the body, wherein a portion of the signal pin has an L shape to be in contact with the substrate, and the portion of the signal pin is exposed to an outside of the body.

Provided is a connector that can hold a substrate firmly even in high-temperature and high-humidity environments. The connector (1) has: a connector housing (10) having a substrate accommodation space (S1); a terminal fitting (11) attached to the connector housing (10) so as to face the substrate accommodation space (S1); and a retainer (13) that holds a flexible substrate (30) positioned in the substrate accommodation space (S1) by pinching the flexible substrate (30) against the terminal fitting (11). The retainer (13) changes between a pressing state in which the flexible substrate (30) is pressed toward the terminal fitting (11), and a non-pressing state in which the pressing on the flexible substrate (30) is released. The retainer (13) is made of metal.

Provided is a board-to-board socket, comprising a socket body, a socket terminal, and a socket reinforcing member; said socket body comprises a bottom wall, socket side walls formed by protruding upward from two longitudinal ends of the bottom wall, socket guide parts formed at two lateral ends of the socket body, and an island part; the socket guide part comprises a plug guide part receiving cavity, a longitudinal peripheral wall, and a pair of lateral peripheral walls; the socket reinforcing member comprises a main body part covering surface of the longitudinal peripheral wall, lateral peripheral wall covering parts which extend from two longitudinal sides of the main body part in the lateral direction and cover the lateral peripheral walls, a protection part formed by bending and extending inward from top ends of the lateral peripheral wall covering parts, and an elastic arm part continuously extending from the protection part.

A socket includes a housing and a plurality of contacts. The housing is formed in a box-shape with an opening and is provided with a matrix of through holes at a bottom portion. The plurality of contacts includes ground contacts and signal contacts which are arranged so as to be aligned alternately in a predetermined array direction by one or a plurality of them and are passed through the through holes. The ground contacts adjacent to each other in the array direction are short-circuited.