Micro coaxial cable connector assembly with grounding mechanism

[0001] 1. Field of the Invention

[0002] The present invention generally relates to a cable connector assembly, and more particularly to a cable connector assembly with grounding bar.

[0003] 2. Description of Related Art

[0004] In the previous invention, the electric connector with grounding bar is popular to provide. Grounding bar is a metallic plate to connect with metal braid layer or grounding cable or shield so as to realize the grounding of the metal braid layer. However, the shield is used to accept the grounding bar, so a volume of shield is big, and a figure of the shield is complex, and this will increase the cost of manufacture and the difficulty of the design.

[0005] Hence, an improved cable connector assembly is provided in the invention to address the problems mentioned above and meet the current trend.

[0006] Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to provide a cable connector assembly, which can achieve the function of grounding and be easy to make.

[0007] In order to achieve the above object, a cable connector assembly in accordance with the present invention comprises a plurality of cables; an insulating housing comprising a plurality of grooves to receive said cables; a series of contacts are fixed in the insulating housing to connect the wire of the cable electrically; a metal shield covering on said insulating housing to shield the contacts; a bended grounding bar is set between the insulating housing and cables, said bended grounding bar formed by an insert face and a cover face, the insert face electrically contact with the braid layer of said cables and the cover face is covering on the insulating housing to screen it.

[0008] Other objects, advantages and novel features of the invention will become more apparent from the following detailed description of the present embodiment when taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings.

[0017] Reference will now be made to the drawing figures to describe the present invention in detail.

[0018] Referring to FIGS. 1-2, a cable connector assembly 100 of the present invention comprises a metal shield 1, an insulating housing 2 which is located in metal shield 1, a plurality of the contacts 27 which are located in the insulating housing 2, and a plurality of cables 4, a flat grounding bar 31 and a bended grounding bar 32 respectively located on the upside and downside of the cable 4, an insulating plate 5 located between the metal shield 1 and cable 4.

[0019] Referring to FIG. 2 and FIG. 6, viewed from center to outer, each cable 4 comprises a wire 44, an insulating layer 43, a metal braid 42 and an insulating shroud 41. The metal braid 42 connects with the bended grounding bar 32 for shielding the wire 44 and achieving a grounding performance.

[0020] Please referring to FIG. 3, the metal shield 1 comprises an up plate 11, a front plate 12 and an inclined plate 13. The up plate 11 is generally vertical to the front plate 12, and the inclined plate 13 connects the up plate 11 and the front plate 12. The up plate 11 extends along a longitudinal direction there of, on the two ends of the up plate 11, two locking portions 111 and two inserting portions 112 are formed respectively by bending the two ends of the up plate 11. Each inserting portion 112 has a protruding portion 114 for retaining the insulating housing 2. For electrically connecting with the flat grounding bar 31, the up plate 11 comprises a plurality of touch portions 113 which extend backwardly from the up plate 11. The conjunction of the front plate 12 and inclined plate 13 has at least a rectangular hole 131; the front plate 12 has a plurality of the retaining portions 121 for fastening the insulating housing 2.

[0021] Referring to FIGS. 3-5, a scalariform face 21, an up face 22, a front face 23 and a back face 24 are set on the insulating housing 2. The front face 23 cooperates with the front plate 12 of the shield 1. The back face 24 has a plurality of receiving slots 243 to receive part of contacts 27. Two fix members 25 are set on the two sides of the scalariform face 21 to fasten the locking portion 111 of the shield 1. A cavity 26 is set on the front of the fix member 25 to receive and cooperate with the insert portion 112 of the shield 1 by an interferential manner. A series of bulges 211 are set on the scalariform face 21, for receiving the cable 4, the direction of the axes of the cable 4 is perpendicular to the front plate 12 of the shield 1. A plurality of grooves 212 is defined between said bulges 211, and a number of contacts 27 are taken in the grooves 212. The insulating housing 2 has an inclined face 29 between the front face 23 and the up face 22, said inclined face 29 forms a number of projections 28 to combine with the hole 131 of the shield 1.

[0022] Referring to FIG. 2 and FIG. 6, the cable connector assembly 100 comprises two grounding bars, one is flat grounding bar 31, which is set on the metal braid 42 of the cable 4 and contacts with the tough portion 113 of the shield 1 to achieve an electrical loop; the other one is bended grounding bar 32, which comprises an insert face 321 and a cover face 322 which is perpendicular to the inserting face 321, the insert face 321 is set under the metal braid 42 and the cover face 322 covers on the back face 24 to shield the contact 27 which are received in the receiving slot 243, the cover face 322 also has several protruding points 323 for engaging a mating connector. The insulating housing 2 is covered by a front plate, a up plate and the cover face 322, the direction of the mating connector mating with the cable connector assembly 100 is perpendicular to the up plate of the shield. The insulating plate 5 is set on the flat grounding bar 31 and covers the cable 4 to separate the shield 1 and wire 44.

[0023] Referring to FIG. 7 and FIG. 8, a board to board connector 200, mating with present invention, comprising a insulating housing 9, a cover 72 fixed in the insulating housing 9, a series of terminals 71 and two ears 8. Said terminals 71 are mounted on said insulating housing 9 and connect with the contacts 27 of present invention electrically. Said two ears 8 are settled on the two sides of the insulating housing 9 to fasten the insulating housing 9 to a printed circuit board. The cover 72 has a basic portion 721 to contact the cover face 322 electrically, and has two arms 722 contacting with the ears 8 to insure the signal transmitted by the cable uninterrupted. The construction of said board to board connector 200 is just for showing the manner of the board to board connector 200 electrically mating with the cable connector assembly 100, especially the connection between the bended grounding bar 32 and the cover 72, and the invention should not be restricted within this embodiment.

[0024] While the present invention has been described with reference to specific embodiments, the description is illustrative of the invention and is not to be construed as limiting the invention. Various modifications to the present invention can be made to the preferred embodiments by those skilled in the art without departing from the true spirit and scope of the invention as defined by the appended claims. Therefore, person of ordinary skill in this field is to understand that all such equivalent structures are to be included in the scope of the following claims.