Electrical connector
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Jan 30, 2001
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N/A
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Oct 18, 1999
filing date -
Apr 6, 1999
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An electrical connector mounted to a PCB comprises a housing unit, a contact unit and a pair of boardlocks. The housing unit has a projection with a number of pairs of upper and lower passageways defined therethrough and a pair of slots formed in opposite sides thereof. The contact unit includes a number of pairs of upper and lower contacts respectively received in the upper and lower passageways of the housing unit. Each upper and lower contact in a pair has a bent portion bent in opposite directions from mating portions of the contacts for engaging with contacts in a complementary connector, whereby mounting tails of the contacts are spaced from each other a distance when the mating portions are received in the contact passageways in a manner that they are vertically aligned with each other. The mounting tails are used for mounting the connector to a printed circuit board by Surface Mounting Technology. The boardlocks are received in the slots of the housing unit. Each boardlock has a pair legs and a solder pad on opposite sides thereof.
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