Claims
- 1. An electrical connector comprising:a main housing having a partition dividing an interior space thereof into a first and second cavities, the partition defining a channel extending there through; a plurality of terminals received in at least one of the cavities of the main housing; and an integral shield attached to the main housing, the shield having a shielding plate received in the channel of the main housing for suppressing electromagnetic interference (EM1) and cross-talk between the two cavities; wherein the shield has a front wall, the front wall has a beam section and the shielding plate extends rearward from a bottom edge of the beam section, and a distal end of said shielding plate is closer to a rear portion of the connector than a front portion of the connector; wherein the electrical connector has a subassembly, the subassembly has an internal printed circuit board (PCB), the terminals electrically connect with the internal PCB; wherein the partition of the main housing defines a receiving passage receiving the internal PCB of the subassembly; wherein the partition of the main housing further defines a plurality of recesses on a top wall thereof receiving corresponding terminals of the subassembly.
- 2. An electrical connector comprising:a main insulative housing defining a front face with a partition extending rearwardly from a middle portion of the front face to divide an interior space into first and second cavities; a plurality of terminals located in at least one of said first and second cavities; a unitary metallic shield attached to the housing, and defining at least a front wall circumferentially covering said front face while with at least two large openings therein to expose said first and second cavities, respectively; said shield defining a beam section between said two large openings; a grounding plate integrally extending rearwardly from an edge of said beam section with a significant distance and in a parallel relationship with the partition, wherein said grounding plate is dimensioned, along a lengthwise direction thereof, to be similar to one of sid opening said edge confronts, and a distal end of said grounding plate is closer to a rear portion of the connector than a front portion of the connector.
CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION
This present application is related to a co-pending U.S. patent application Ser. No. 10/236,615, filed on Sep. 6, 2002, invented by Leonard Kay Espenshade et al., entitled “ELECTRICAL CONNECTOR ASSEMBLY HAVING GROUND MEMBER” and assigned to the common assignee.
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