Patent ID: 8636548
Filing Date: 2014-01-28
Classification: H01R

Abstract:
1. A card edge connector comprising: an elongated housing extending along an elongated direction thereof and having a first housing half, a second housing half being discrete from the first housing half, and a central slot formed between the first and the second housing halves; and two rows of contacts retained in the first and second housing halves respectively, each contact of the two rows of the contacts having a contact portion protruding into the central slot, a securing portion being vertically retained in the first/second housing half, and a soldering tail connecting the securing portion; wherein the first housing half having a first engaging surface, the second housing half having a second engaging surface facing to the first engaging surface in a transverse direction perpendicular to the elongated direction, a gap being defined between the first and the second surfaces and being adjustable to define the central slot with different widths respectively for receiving different daughter boards with different thicknesses, each of the first and second housing halves has a depression depressed at the lower side thereof and a pair of standoffs formed at two opposite ends of the depression in the elongated direction, the soldering tails of each row of the contacts extend horizontally out from the corresponding depression under condition that lower surfaces of the soldering tails and lower surfaces of the standoffs are located in a same horizontal plane.