Patent ID: 9728917
Date: 2017-08-08
CPC Classifications: H01R

Claim:
1. A high profile female USB electrical connector comprising: a plurality of walls defining a housing; a female USB connector inside the housing, the housing including an opening having a height H and a width W configured to facilitate insertion of a male USB connector into the female USB connector; contact pins extending from contacts of the female USB connector through a bottom wall of the housing proximate a back wall of the housing for connection to a substrate; one or more connections extending from the bottom wall of the housing proximate a front wall of the housing for connection to the substrate; and electromagnetic interference (EMI) shielding on one or more of the plurality of walls, wherein: the contact pins and the one or more connections are spaced from each other between the front wall and the back wall of the housing; a distance between an exterior of the bottom wall of the housing and one of the contacts that is the closest to the exterior of the bottom wall is at least 1.5×H; and between the female USB connector and the exterior of the bottom wall, the inside of the housing does not include another connector.