Patent ID: 6179650
Filing Date: 2001-01-30
Classification: H01R

Abstract:
A modularized electric connector comprising:a housing, said housing comprising a receiving chamber for receiving a module plug, a longitudinal coupling tongue and a longitudinal coupling groove respectively provided at two opposite lateral side walls thereof on the outside near a top side thereof, and two locating flanges respectively provided at the two opposite lateral side walls on the outside at different elevations near a bottom side thereof;a terminal holder, said terminal holder comprising a flat horizontal base fastened to the receiving chamber in said housing, a vertical block perpendicularly raised from a rear end of said flat horizontal base and disposed outside said housing, two vertically extended coupling flanges respectively provided at two opposite vertical lateral side walls of said vertical block and arranged in reversed directions, a plurality of terminal slots respectively extended through said vertical block and said flat horizontal base;a plurality of terminals respectively mounted in said terminal slots in said terminal holder;wherein said longitudinal coupling tongue, said longitudinal coupling groove and said locating flanges of said housing are so arranged that when two modularized electric connectors are arranged together, the longitudinal coupling tongue at the housing of a first modularized electric connector can be coupled to the longitudinal coupling groove at the housing of a second modularized electric connector, enabling the locating flange at one side of the housing of the first modularized electric connector to be pressed against the locating flange at one side of the housing of the second modularized electric connector; and the coupling flange at one side of the vertical block of the terminal holder of the first modularized electric connector can be coupled to the coupling flange at the other side of the vertical block of the terminal holder of the second modularized electric connector.