Patent ID: 11888267
Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
Field: Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A cable connector comprising:
a contact module including a metallic shielding plate and a pair of subunits commonly sandwiching the metallic shielding plate in a transverse direction;
each subunit comprising a plurality of contacts integrally formed within an insulator, the contacts including a plurality of differential-pair contacts and grounding contacts alternately arranged with each other in a longitudinal direction perpendicular to the transverse direction, each contact comprising a front contacting section and a rear tail section along a mating direction perpendicular to both the transverse direction and the longitudinal direction, the tail sections of the grounding contacts being unified with a transverse bar;
a plurality of wires each having a pair of inner conductors respectively soldered to the tail sections of corresponding differential-pair contacts, and an outer braiding layer surrounding the pair of inner conductors and mechanically and electrically connected to the transverse bar; and
a pair of grounding bars positioned upon corresponding subunits, respectively, each grounding bar including a plurality of rear tabs respectively connected to the braiding layers, and a plurality of front tabs respectively connected to the tail sections of corresponding grounding contacts.