Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
439607060 | Planar shields separating multiple (three or more) thin connector modules | 15 |
20090291593 | HIGH FREQUENCY BROADSIDE-COUPLED ELECTRICAL CONNECTOR - An improved broadside coupled, open pin field connector. The connector incorporates lossy material to selectively dampen resonance within pairs of conductive members connected to ground when the connector is mounted to a printed circuit board. The material may also decrease crosstalk and mode conversion. The lossy material is selectively positioned to substantially dampen resonances along pairs that may be connected to ground without unacceptably attenuating signals carried by other pairs. The lossy material may be selectively positioned near mating contact portions of the conductive members. Multiple techniques are described for selectively positioning the lossy material, including molding, inserting lossy members into a housing or coating surfaces of the connector housing. The lossy material alternatively may be positioned between broad sides of conductive members of a pair. By using material of relatively low loss, loss when the conductive members are used to carry signals is relatively low, but an appreciable attenuation of resonances is provided on pairs connected to ground. As a result, an overall improvement of signal to noise ratio is achieved. | 11-26-2009 |
20100144202 | CABLE ASSEMBLY HAVING ENHANCED INTERCONNECTION DEVICE THEREOF - A cable assembly ( | 06-10-2010 |
20110230095 | HIGH FREQUENCY ELECTRICAL CONNECTOR - An improved broadside coupled, open pin field connector. The connector incorporates lossy material to selectively dampen resonance within pairs of conductive members connected to ground when the connector is mounted to a printed circuit board. The material may also decrease crosstalk and mode conversion. The lossy material is selectively positioned to substantially dampen resonances along pairs that may be connected to ground without unacceptably attenuating signals carried by other pairs. The lossy material may be selectively positioned near mating contact portions of the conductive members. Multiple techniques are described for selectively positioning the lossy material, including molding, inserting lossy members into a housing or coating surfaces of the connector housing. The lossy material alternatively may be positioned between broad sides of conductive members of a pair. By using material of relatively low loss, loss when the conductive members are used to carry signals is relatively low, but an appreciable attenuation of resonances is provided on pairs connected to ground. As a result, an overall improvement of signal to noise ratio is achieved. | 09-22-2011 |
20150056856 | HIGH FREQUENCY ELECTRICAL CONNECTOR - An improved broadside coupled, open pin field connector. The connector incorporates lossy material to selectively dampen resonance within pairs of conductive members connected to ground when the connector is mounted to a printed circuit board. The material may also decrease crosstalk and mode conversion. The lossy material is selectively positioned to substantially dampen resonances along pairs that may be connected to ground without unacceptably attenuating signals carried by other pairs. The lossy material may be selectively positioned near mating contact portions of the conductive members. Multiple techniques are described for selectively positioning the lossy material, including molding, inserting lossy members into a housing or coating surfaces of the connector housing. The lossy material alternatively may be positioned between broad sides of conductive members of a pair. By using material of relatively low loss, loss when the conductive members are used to carry signals is relatively low, but an appreciable attenuation of resonances is provided on pairs connected to ground. As a result, an overall improvement of signal to noise ratio is achieved. | 02-26-2015 |
20150132994 | INSERTION TYPE CONNECTOR - A connector having a housing and a plurality of contact element pairs fixed inside the housing, wherein at least two contact element pairs are arranged adjacent to each other in one row and at least one contact element pair is arranged adjacent to the row at a distance that is identical to that to the contact element pairs, and wherein a shielding element is arranged between the contact element pairs of the row and the further contact element pair. | 05-14-2015 |
20150132995 | PCB-MOUNT ELECTRICAL CONNECTOR WITH SHIELDING FOR INHIBITING CROSSTALK - A board-mount electrical connector includes an electrically conductive rear shell interposed between a contact-retaining front body and an insulator member that holds a plurality of board-mount contacts. The rear shell includes at least one electrically conductive shielding divider that extends through the insulator member and is positioned between two or more of the board-mount contacts. Also disclosed is a rear shell elbow for an electrical connector that is assembled from a pair of slidably interlocking members that form an X-shaped divider within the rear shell when assembled. | 05-14-2015 |
439607070 | For mounting on PCB | 9 |
20100144203 | ELECTRICAL CONNECTOR SYSTEM - High-speed backplane connectors systems for mounting a substrate that are capable of operating at speeds of up to at least 25 Gbps, while in some implementations also providing pin densities of at least 50 pairs of electrical connectors per inch are disclosed. Implementations of the high-speed connector systems may provide ground shields and/or other ground structures that substantially encapsulate electrical connector pairs, which may be differential electrical connector pairs, in a three-dimensional manner throughout a backplane footprint, a backplane connector, and a daughtercard footprint. These encapsulating ground shields and/or ground structures prevent undesirable propagation of non-traverse, longitudinal, and higher-order modes when the high-speed backplane connector systems operates at frequencies up to at least 30 GHz. | 06-10-2010 |
20100144204 | ELECTRICAL CONNECTOR SYSTEM - An electrical connector system may include a plurality wafer assemblies that engage with a substrate. Each wafer assembly includes a housing that defines a plurality of projections extending from an edge of the housing at a mounting end of the wafer assembly. At least a portion of a projection of the plurality of projections of the housing is dimensioned to fit into a corresponding hole in a substrate when the housing is engaged with the substrate. In some implementations, the projection is positioned on the housing to block a line-of-sight between a first signal substrate engagement element of an array of electrical contacts associated with the housing and a second signal substrate engagement element of the array of electrical contacts. | 06-10-2010 |
20120100754 | USB MODEM - A Universal Serial Bus (USB) modem is provided. The USB modem includes a USB plug ( | 04-26-2012 |
20130102192 | RECEPTACLE ASSEMBLY - A receptacle assembly includes a front housing having a mating end and a loading end. A contact module is coupled to the loading end and includes a frame assembly having a plurality of contacts and a dielectric frame supporting the contacts. The dielectric frame has first and second sides and channels between the contacts that extend at least partially through the dielectric frame between the first and second sides. The contacts extend from the dielectric frame for electrical termination. Ground conductors are received in corresponding channels and provide electrical shielding between corresponding contacts. A ground shield is coupled to the first side. The ground shield has side shields that extend along sides of the contacts to provide electrical shielding along sides of the contacts. The ground shield has shield tabs that engage corresponding ground conductors to electrically connect the ground shield to the ground conductors. | 04-25-2013 |
20130109232 | ELECTRICAL CONNECTOR WITH HYBRID SHIELD | 05-02-2013 |
20130217263 | HIGH SPEED HIGH DENSITY CONNECTOR ASSEMBLY - An electrical connector assembly includes plural wafers that are stacked. Each wafer includes a conductive board defining plural slots therein, and plural contact modules each received in one of the slots. The conductive board is made from plastic coated with metal plating to improve shielding performance. Each of the contact modules includes a pair of contacts and an insulating holder fixing the contact pair to the conductive board. The insulating holder is differently void along the contact pairs to improve impedance. | 08-22-2013 |
20160043508 | ELECTRICAL CONNECTOR HAVING CONTACT MODULES - An electrical connector includes a housing and a plurality of contact modules and ground plates held by the housing. Each contact module includes left and right signal wafers stacked next to each other along a stack axis. The signal wafers include electrical terminals held by a dielectric body. The electrical terminals have mounting contacts protruding from the dielectric body at a mounting face of the housing. The electrical terminals of at least one of the signal wafers in each contact module are jogged toward the other signal wafer such that the mounting contacts of each contact module align in a column. Each of the ground plates is disposed along an outer side of a corresponding contact module. | 02-11-2016 |
20160093985 | HIGH SPEED HIGH DENSITY CONNECTOR ASSEMBLY - An electrical connector assembly includes plural wafers and the corresponding shielding plates are alternately stacked with one another. Each wafer includes a conductive housing defining plural slots therein, and plural terminal modules received in the corresponding slots, respectively. Each of the terminal modules includes a pair of differential contacts and an insulative holder retaining the pair of differential contacts. A plurality of cable assemblies correspond to the corresponding wafers. Each cable assemblies includes a plurality of cables each including a pair of differential wires respectively connected to the pair of differential contacts, respectively. | 03-31-2016 |
20160172792 | ELECTRICAL CONNECTOR WITH JOINED GROUND SHIELDS | 06-16-2016 |