| US 7,588,445 B2 | ||
| Stacked electrical connector with improved signal transmission | ||
| Jia-Yong He, Kunshan (China); Qi-Sheng Zheng, Kunshan (China); Hao Gu, Kunshan (China); Yu-Long Mao, Kunshan (China); and Feng Qiao, Kunshan (China) | ||
| Assigned to Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd., Taipei Hsien (Taiwan) | ||
| Filed on Aug. 11, 2008, as Appl. No. 12/228,390. | ||
| Claims priority of application No. 2007 1 0025933 (CN), filed on Aug. 10, 2007; application No. 2007 2 0042746 U (CN), filed on Aug. 10, 2007; and application No. 2007 2 0042747 U (CN), filed on Aug. 10, 2007. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2009/0042448 A1, Feb. 12, 2009 | ||
| Int. Cl. H01R 12/00 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 439—79 | 5 Claims |

| 1. An stacked electrical connector, comprising:
a first mating interface comprising a first receiving space with a first tongue received therein, and a plurality of first
contacts retained therein, the first contacts comprising a plurality of first elastic contacts and a plurality of first flat
contact, each first elastic contact having a securing portion fixed in the first mating interface, an elastic contact portion
extending to the first tongue and a soldering portion, each first flat contact having a retention portion retained in the
first mating interface, a flat contact portion extending to the first tongue and a tail portion, the first tongue having a
pair of opposite upper face and lower face; and
a second mating interface stacked with the first mating interface along a thickness direction of the first tongue, a plurality
of second contacts retained in the second mating interface;
wherein the flat contact portions and the elastic contact portions are located at a same side of the upper face, and are arranged
in two rows along a length direction of the first tongue, wherein a geometric profile of the first tongue is substantially
same as what of a standard USB 2.0 A type receptacle, wherein the first elastic contacts are adapted for USB protocol and
an arrangement of the first elastic contacts is compatible to a standard USB plug, wherein the first tongue defines a plurality
of first passageways depressed from the upper face and a plurality of second passageways depressed from the lower face and
communicating with the first passageways, the retention portions are received in the first passageways, and the fiat contact
portions are received in the second passageways, wherein the first tongue defines a plurality of third passageways depressed
from a lower face thereof, and the elastic contact portions are assembled in the third passageways and extend out of the lower
face, the second passageways and the third passageways are arranged in two rows along the length direction and discontinuous
with each other, wherein the first fiat contacts comprise two pairs of differential signal contacts and a grounding contact
located therebetween, and the fiat contact portions of the signal and grounding contacts are juxtaposed with respect to each
other in a width direction of the first tongue, wherein the second mating interface is different from the first mating interface.
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