Patent ID: 6506075
Filing Date: 2003-01-14
Classification: H01R

Abstract:
An angle type plug connector comprising:an insulated body having an axis and an outer end portion designed for insertion into a mating connector; the insulated body having an inner end region integral with guard lugs protruding perpendicularly to the axis; a plurality of contacts fixed in the insulated body and each having at one of its opposed ends a finger to be engaged with a mating contact held in the mating connector; each contact also having at the other end thereof a leg adjoined to one of a plurality of electric wires constituting a signal transmission cable that has a central line; an angle type shield that consists of a first metallic cover and a second metallic cover, the first cover enclosing outer portions of the insulated body, and the second cover enclosing the legs of the contacts and bare end portions of the electric wires, the second cover extending generally at a right angle relative to the first cover, the first and second covers being engaged to prevent separation of the first and second covers in a first direction, wherein the first metallic cover of the angle type shield comprises a forward part enclosing substantially the entire transversely protrudIng insulating body, a middle part that is generally U-shaped in cross section to have side walls and continues from an inner end of the forward part and extends downwards perpendicularly thereto, and a collar portion continuing from a lower end of the middle part so as to grip a shielding layer of the signal transmission cable; and an insulated housing that encloses the angle type shield such that the insulated body and the cable protrude from the housing and are arranged perpendicularly to each other, wherein the insulated housing is split up into a first half and a second half symmetrical therewith so that these halves lie in parallel with a plane in which the axis of the insulated body and the central line of the cable are included, the split halves of the insulated housing respectively have inner faces, and wherein retention grooves are formed in the inner faces, the retention grooves securing therein the guard tugs of the insulated body, and each of the split halves has three side walls extending generally around the angle type shield and has three interlocking portions each formed in and along the respective side walls for interlocking with mating interlocking portions in the other split half to prevent the split halves from separating in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction.