A contact assembly for an electrical connector signal contacts arranged in pairs and ground contacts are interspersed with the pairs of the signal contacts. Each signal contact includes a signal contact body having first and second sides extending between a signal mating end and a signal terminating end. Each ground contact includes a ground contact body having first and second sides extending between a ground mating end and a ground terminating end. The contact assembly includes a ground shield assembly including a ground shield spanning across the contacts and ground connective elements electrically connected to the ground shield and the corresponding ground contacts. The ground connective elements are compressible.

A connector terminal includes a terminal body. An elastic arm structure is arranged on one end of the terminal body, and includes a support part and a contact part. The support part is a bending structure formed by sequentially connecting multiple extension sections, a first end of the support part is an operation end and a second end of the support part is a connection end, from the connection end to the operation end, an included angle between a first direction and each of extension directions of the multiple extension sections is gradually reduced, and the first direction is parallel to a length direction of the terminal body. The contact part is arranged at the operation end and is bent towards an inner side of the bending structure.

An electrical connector includes: an insulative housing comprising two side walls extending along a longitudinal direction thereof and two end walls connecting with the two side walls to together define a mating slot; plural conductive terminals arranged on the side walls and having contacting portions protruding into the mating slot; a metallic shell surrounding the insulative housing and having two side plates covering the side walls and two end plates covering the end walls; and a pair of reinforcing members retained in the end walls, respectively, wherein the end wall defines a recess accommodating the reinforcing member, an inside of the reinforcing member directly faces the mating slot, and an outside of the reinforcing member is attached with the end plate.

An electrical connector assembly includes an electrical plug connector and an electrical receptacle connector corresponding to the electrical plug connector. The electrical plug connector includes a plug fixation housing, a plug movable housing, and plug terminals. The plug terminals are on the plug fixation housing, and the plug movable housing is floatingly arranged on the plug fixation housing. The electrical receptacle connector includes a receptacle fixation housing, a receptacle movable housing, and receptacle terminals. The receptacle terminals are on the receptacle fixation housing, and the receptacle movable housing is floatingly arranged on the receptacle fixation housing. An electrical plug connector and an electrical receptacle connector are also provided.

A hybrid edge connector includes an insulative housing with a slot lined with signal terminals, in a signal portion, and power terminals in a power portion. The power terminals may be made with multiple layers, with each layer formed into one or more fingers. Each finger may be configured to make contact with an edge of a card inserted in the slot such that each terminal has multiple contact points to the card and can carry a large current. To support a large current, the card may be a hybrid card, with a signal portion formed using a conventional PCB manufacturing techniques and a power portion formed with one or more blades mechanically coupled to the signal portion. The slot in the connector housing may have different widths in the signal and power portions and the center lines of those portions may be offset with respect to each other.

A socket electrically connects a first electric component and a second electric component, including: a base part in which a through hole extending through the base part from a top surface to a bottom surface in a vertical direction is formed; a contact pin inserted to the through hole such that a pin lower end is exposed from the bottom surface, and configured such that, when in use, a pin upper end makes contact with the first electric component; and a sheet member including a through electrode extending therethrough in the vertical direction, disposed at the base part in a state where the sheet member faces the bottom surface, and configured such that, when in use, an upper end of the through electrode makes contact with the pin lower end and a lower end of the through electrode makes contact with the second electric component.

A circuit board assembly includes an electrical connector mounted to a circuit board having a connector housing holding contacts in a contact array. A connector mount having a bracket is coupled to the mounting surface of the circuit board proximate to the mating edge. The electrical connector is movably coupled to the connector mount to move relative to the circuit board during mating with the mating electrical connector. The connector mount has a biasing member compressible along a compression axis parallel to the mating direction to allow the electrical connector to float in the mating direction relative to the circuit board. The electrical connector is movably coupled to the connector mount in a confined envelope in at least one floating direction perpendicular to the mating direction.

A substrate assembly includes a printed circuit (PC) substrate, first and second microchips, components or substrates mounted on a surface of the PC substrate, and a projection extending in spaced relation to the surface of the PC substrate. In one example, the projection extends between (i) a downward facing surface and/or an edge of a side facing surface proximate the downward facing surface of the first microchip, component or substrate and (ii) an upward facing surface and/or an edge of a side facing surface proximate the upward facing surface of the first microchip, component or substrate. The first and second microchips, components or substrates may be mounted on different levels of the PC substrate surface. In another example, the projection extends between a upward and/or side facing surface of a first microchip, component or substrate and a slot or cavity in a second microchip, component or substrate.

A flat conductor electric connector mounted on a circuit board and electrically connected to a front end side portion of a band-shaped flat conductor extending in a front-back direction, comprising: multiple terminals in such a shape that metal plate members are bent in a plate thickness direction thereof; and a housing holding, by insert molding, the multiple terminals arrayed in a terminal array direction which is a band width direction, wherein each of the multiple terminals has, at least at one end portion in the front-back direction, a holding target portion held on the housing and an extending portion extending from the housing and formed with a mounting portion to be mounted on the circuit board by soldering, and the holding target portions adjacent to each other and the extending portions adjacent to each other are arrayed and positioned in the terminal array direction. The mounting portion includes an opening to receive a pin of a molding device.

An electrical connector includes an insulating housing, a number of terminals and a lossy member. The terminals include a number of ground terminals and a number of signal terminals. The ground terminals and the signal terminals are set adjacently to each other but do not contact each other. The ground terminals do not directly contact the lossy member. As a result, installation consistency of the ground terminals can be achieved, thereby improving the electrical performance of the electrical connector.