Cable assembly with new arrangement of terminals

摘要

A cable assembly comprises: a housing defining a receiving space; a metallic shell surrounding the housing; and a number of terminals arranged into two rows and received in the housing, each terminal defining a front mating portion and a rear terminating portion and a cable electrically connected with the plurality of terminals. The terminals are divided into several terminal groups, each terminal group comprises a pair of signal terminals and a grounding terminal located on different rows, two terminating portions of the pair of signal terminals and a terminating portions of the grounding terminal are arranged into right-angled triangular configuration in a vertical plane.

主权项

1. A cable assembly comprising:
a housing defining a receiving space; a metallic shell surrounding the housing; a plurality of terminals arranged into two rows and received in the housing, each terminal defining a front mating portion and a rear terminating portion; and a cable electrically connected with the plurality of terminals; wherein the plurality of terminals are divided into several terminal groups, each terminal group comprises a pair of signal terminals and a grounding terminal located on different rows, and the two terminating portions of the pair of signal terminals and the terminating portion of the grounding terminal of same terminal group are arranged into right-angled triangular configuration in a vertical plane; a spacer assembled to a rear end of the housing and having a tongue portion received into the receiving space, and a metallic plate disposed in the spacer and between the two rows of terminals; a cover surrounding a rear end of the metallic shell; wherein the spacer defines a base portion and a forward tongue portion; wherein the base portion of the spacer defines two rows of channels through front and rear faces thereof for the terminating portions of the terminals to pass through, and the tongue portion of the spacer defines a plurality of ribs for supporting the body portions of the terminals.