Patent ID: 9172173
Filing Date: 2015-10-27
Classification: H01R

Abstract:
1. A universal serial bus (USB) connector comprising: an insulating base having a tongue portion extending from a front end of the insulating base, a top end of the insulating base and the tongue portion is equipped with a number of terminal grooves for inlaying USB terminals, and attaching an insulating film over the USB terminals; a bottom end of the insulating base being equipped with grooves whose middle is protrudently equipped with a plurality of inlaying strips, and a rear end of the grooves being protrudently equipped with projections corresponding to the inlaying strips; an inlaying hole being equipped between the inlaying strips and corresponding projections; opposing sides of the insulating base being equipped with inlaying grooves; one side of the bottom surface of the insulating base being protrudently equipped with a guiding protrusion and an inlaying guiding groove positioned at an end of the guiding protrusion; a substantially U-shaped hook; a top locking spring; a plurality of connecting terminals; a middle of each of the connecting terminals being equipped with a protrudent tab, a front end of each of the connecting terminals having a resilient top surface connecting end, and a rear terminal end being folded to be a welding rod; the bottom end of the insulating base having valleys between each of the inlaying strips and each of the projections provided for inlaying the connecting terminals; the inlaying hole being positioned between the inlaying strip and the bump is projection and being provided for positioning the protrudent slice tab positioned at the middle of the connecting terminal; the inlaying grooves of both sides of the insulating base being provided for inlaying the substantially U-shaped hook, provided for pressing each connecting terminal in order not to be loosened; one side of the bottom surface of the insulting base being protrudently equipped with a second guiding protrusion, the inlaying guiding groove being provided for inlaying the top locking spring; and a metal shell being fixedly inserted to the insulating base forming a connector having an upper slot and a rear slot for inserting a memory card.