An improved ultrasound apparatus and methods of use are provided, the apparatus comprising at least one ultrasound transducer electrically connected to another electrical component by a flexible electrical connection. In some embodiments, the other electrical component is a printed circuit board. In some embodiments, the flexible electrical connection may allow vertical, horizontal and/or tilting displacement of the ultrasound transducer with respect to the flexible circuit board while maintaining electrical connectivity. In some embodiments, the flexible electrical connection is capable of temporarily disconnecting when an excessive deformation force is applied and self-reconnecting after the excessive deformation force is removed.

A connector comprises a housing and a plurality of contacts retained in the housing. Each of the contacts extends in a longitudinal direction and has a retained portion, a contacting portion disposed in front of the retained portion in the longitudinal direction, and a connecting portion disposed behind the retained portion in the longitudinal direction. Each of the contacting portion and the connecting portion are shifted with respect to the retained portion in a vertical direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction. The housing is in contact with the retained portion of each of the contacts from both above and below in the vertical direction and from both right and left in a lateral direction perpendicular to the vertical direction and the longitudinal direction.

[Object] To provide a contact that can hold down effects caused by solder, even if an elastic contacting portion is extending from a location contacting a first member. [Solving means] The contact includes a base portion, an elastic contacting portion and a gap forming portion. The base portion is configured solderable on a component mounting surface of the first member. The elastic contacting portion is configured elastically deformable and relatively swingable with respect to the base portion, and when contacting a contacted surface of the second member, is configured to elastically deform to be in pressurized contact with the contacted surface. In the gap forming portion, a concave portion is provided between a first end portion and a second end portion, and is configured to have a gap between the concave portion and the component mounting surface when the base portion is soldered on the component mounting surface in a state in which the concave portion and the component mounting surface are oriented in directions facing each other.

An electronic device includes a first printed circuit board (PCB) including an opening, and a plurality of first connecting terminals disposed to be spaced apart from each other along a circumference of the opening, a camera module including a second PCB, and a connecting interface including an interface body connected to a lower end of the camera module. A plurality of second connecting terminals formed of an elastic material and are disposed to be spaced apart from each other along a circumference of the interface body to be electrically connected to the second PCB. The connecting interface is inserted into the opening so that the first connecting terminals are electrically connected to one respective second connecting terminal of the plurality of second connecting terminals, and a relative position of the connecting interface with respect to the opening is fixed by an elastic force of the plurality of second connecting terminals.

Interposer socket includes a base substrate and a plurality of spring contacts coupled to the base substrate. Each of the spring contacts has an inclined section that extends away from a top side of the base substrate at a generally non-orthogonal orientation. The inclined section configured to be deflected toward the top side when an electronic module is mounted onto the interposer socket. The inclined section has a mating surface of the spring contact that is configured to engage the electronic module. The inclined section also includes first and second beam segments and a contact slot therebetween. The first and second beam segments extend in an oblique direction away from the top side. The contact slot has a slot width that is defined between inner edges of the first and second beam segments. The slot width increases as the contact slot extends in the oblique direction.

An electrical connector includes at least one conductive terminal mounted to a housing. The conductive terminal has a body, two elastic arms formed by extending upward from the body, a conducting portion connected below the body and having a strip connecting portion to be connected to a first strip, and a connecting portion provided at an upper end of the body to be connected to a second strip to assist mounting and located between the two elastic arms. A method for manufacturing the electrical connector includes: forming at least one conductive terminal and a first strip connected thereto; connecting a second strip to the connecting portion of the conductive terminal; disconnecting the conducting portion of the conductive terminal and the first strip; operating the second strip to control the conductive terminal to be mounted to a housing; and releasing a control force of the second strip onto the conductive terminal.

A connector assembly allows a conductive terminal to provide shielding to reduce any effect of external interference on signal transmission of the connector assembly so as to meet signal transmission requirements for the connector assembly, and with the use of a jumper conductor, at least partial conductive terminals on the connector assembly can be electrically interconnected with no need of any additional jumper, such that an electronic device using such connector assembly can be made compact in size desirably.

A receptacle connector for mating with a plug connector, the receptacle connector includes: a terminal module comprising an insulative housing, two rows of terminals, and a metallic shielding plate, the insulative housing having a base portion and a tongue portion, the tongue portion defining two opposite surfaces, the two rows of terminals being reversely-symmetrically arranged at the two surfaces of the tongue portion, the metallic shielding plate located between the two rows of terminals; and a shielding shell retained to the insulative housing and forming a mating cavity to receive the tongue portion, wherein the shielding shell defines a mating protrusion on one of the plurality of side walls, the mating protrusion extending outwardly to be precluded from reversely mating with the plug connector which has a contour compliant with said mating cavity and an identification protrusion accommodated in the mating protrusion.

A socket which holds an IC package and is to be mounted on a circuit board is described that includes: a housing with a bottom portion, two pairs of side wall portions and an opening accommodating the IC package, contacts and holders. The bottom portion is provided with penetration holes. The two pairs of side wall portions face each other across the opening and one pair of side wall portions are provided with ribs protruding outward. The contacts are supported by the housing so as to pass through the penetration holes and are exposed on an opposite side of the opening. The holders have first support holes and are fixed to side surfaces of the housing with the ribs passing through the first support holes.

A shielding cage of a connector is disclosed. The shielding cage includes an opening defined by four walls and configured to receive a plug of a mating connector, and a plurality of shielding spring sheets held on the four walls, each shielding spring sheet having an inner spring sheet portion located inside the opening and an outer spring sheet portion located outside the opening.