Patent ID: 9083132
Filing Date: 2015-07-14
Classification: H01R,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A network communication connector fabrication method, comprising the steps of: (a) employing a cold drawing technique to repeatedly draw a metal round rod into a thin thickness conducting contact bar; (b) stamping one end of said thin thickness conducting contact bar into a mating contact portion; (c) stamping a part of said thin thickness conducting contact bar between two opposite ends thereof to form an interference portion; (d) attaching said thin thickness conducting contact bar to one respective locating notch of a contact material strip and then stamping the other end of said thin thickness conducting contact bar into a bonding portion, and then cutting off said thin thickness conducting contact bar subject to a predetermined length to obtain a finished metal contact; (e) attaching multiple said metal contacts in respective locating notches of said contact material strip; (f) electroplating said metal contacts at the contact material strips; (g) arranging two said contact material strips at different elevations to hold a plurality of said metal contacts, and then inserting said metal contacts through respective slots of a mold to keep the interference portions of said metal contacts in a cavity of said mold; (h) injection-molding an electrically insulative terminal block on the interference portions of said metal contacts to form a semi-finished product, and then removing said mold from said semi-finished product; (i) removing said contact material strips from said metal contacts, and then forming the mating contact portion and the bonding portion of said metal contacts into a predetermined shape; and (j) using the shaped semi-finished product to make a network communication connector.