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20080214025 | Electrical socket connector with a load lever having self-biasing device - Provided herewith a land grid array socket comprises an insulative housing having a plurality of contacts. The insulative housing has a top surface for receiving a land grid array package. A cover member is pivotally mounted on a first end of the insulative housing. The cover member is pivotal between an open position and a closed position where the cover member presses the land grid array package toward the top surface of the insulative housing so that the land grid array package electrically connects to the contacts. A lever is pivotally mounted on a second end of the insulative housing and has a tilted shaft portion biasing against the second end thereof so as to create a self-biasing force with respect to the reinforce plate | 09-04-2008 |
20080220625 | Flexible Board Contact Means for Connection of Outer Edge of Printed Circuit Board - The present invention relates to a longitudinal board guide rail for taking up an outer edge of a circuit board and for being provided in a board connection housing and comprising a board receiving portion e.g. a groove or similar, for receiving the circuit board edge. It comprises side plane contact means, flexible and/or displaceable board contact means comprising or being associated with said side plane contact means. Said flexible and/or displaceable contact means are in a first state so arranged or disposed that no contact is enabled with a board, e.g. a board insertion or contact-less state, and in a second state, e.g. a contact state, they are so arranged that contact is established with a board introduced or provided in the board receiving portion. The invention also relates to a board connection having arrangement with a number of such board guide rails. | 09-11-2008 |
20080227305 | ELECTRICAL CONNECTOR - An electrical connector ( | 09-18-2008 |
20080227306 | Micro power supply device - A micro power supply device is inserted into slots of a circuit board, and the circuit board is fixed into an electronic system. The device includes an electric connector and a plurality of neatly and oppositely arranged pins on a side of the electric connector, and the pins are sheathed with conducting plates, and the conducting plates are electrically connected with the slots. Another end of the conducting plates is protruded from another side of the electric connector, and a power supply board is inserted between the protruded conducting plates. The power supply board is connected with the power of an external port and other electronic equipments. The thickness of the power supply board is reduced, such that the conducting plates are centralized from both lateral side to the middle to reduce the volume of the whole electric connector, so as to reduce the volume of the whole device. | 09-18-2008 |
20080242121 | REDUCED SOCKET SIZE WITH PIN LOCATIONS ARRANGED INTO GROUPS WITH COMPRESSED PIN PITCH - In some embodiments a socket and/or a package includes a plurality of groups of pin locations including at least a first group of pin locations and a second group of pin locations. Each group of pin locations includes a standard pin pitch in a direction between pin locations of the group to allow a maximum breakout from a center of the socket and/or package to an outside of the socket and/or package. Each group of pin locations includes a minimum pin pitch in a direction orthogonal to a direction of the standard pin pitch. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 10-02-2008 |
20080268666 | APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING CONTROLLED IMPEDANCE IN AN ELECTRICAL CONTACT - An apparatus for providing a controlled impedance directly to predetermined contact elements within a socket, thereby reducing the “distorting” nature of the electrical interconnection system. In an illustrative embodiment of the present invention, predetermined contacts of a socket may have a resistance, inductance, capacitance, or a combination thereof incorporated therein. In another illustrative embodiment, at least one active element(s) may also be incorporated into predefined contacts. In this manner, predefined contacts may “process” the corresponding signal in a predetermined manner, defined by the circuitry incorporated on the contact itself. Illustrative functions that may be performed include, but are not limited to, amplifying, analog-to-digital converting, digital-to-analog converting, predefined logic functions, or any other function that may be performed via a combination of active and/or passive elements including a microprocessor function. | 10-30-2008 |
20080280463 | Rugged Chip Packaging - Improved printed circuit boards (PCBs), printed circuit board assemblies (PCBAs) and methods thereof contemplate PCBs with recesses incorporated into planar surfaces thereof adapted to receive respective elongate leads of circuit components. The recesses are sized so as to prevent distal ends of the leads from emerging through the far sides of the boards and, indeed, allow for positioning of the component flush with, or offset above, the board to which they are mounted. | 11-13-2008 |
20080293262 | EDGE-TO-EDGE CONNECTOR SYSTEM FOR ELECTRONIC DEVICES - A connector apparatus for connecting at least two electronic component substrates, e.g., printed circuit boards or flex circuits, to one another at the edges thereof, wherein each of the at least two substrates further comprises at least one electrically conductive contact surface, and wherein the connector apparatus further includes: at least one electrically conductive transverse conducting member, wherein a first portion of the at least one transverse conducting member physically touches the contact surface on the first substrate, and wherein a second portion of the transverse conducting member physically touches the contact surface on the second substrate; and mechanical means for securing the at least one transverse conducting member to each of the substrates and to each of the contact surfaces. | 11-27-2008 |
20080299789 | CIRCUIT DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR - A circuit device is made smaller in higher. The circuit device includes a wiring substrate, a first circuit element, and a second circuit element. The circuit substrate includes an insulating resin layer, a wiring layer provided on a main surface of the insulating resin layer, and a wiring layer provided on the other main surface of the insulating resin layer. The wiring layer includes first interconnectors to which the first circuit element connects, and wiring portions. The film thickness of the first interconnector is made thinner than that of the wiring portion. The wiring layer includes second interconnectors and wiring portions. The first interconnectors and the second interconnectors are connected through the medium of conductors. | 12-04-2008 |
20080305652 | METHOD AND APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONNECTING A FIRST FLAT CONDUCTOR WITH A SECOND CONDUCTOR - An apparatus for establishing a substantially unitary connecting structure including a generally flat conductor member carrying a first plurality of first electrical conductors and a second conductor member carrying a second plurality of second electrical conductors includes: (a) an electrical connecting structure configured for receiving the second conductor member to establish electrical connection between at least one first electrical conductor of the first plurality of first electrical conductors and at least one second electrical conductor of the second plurality of second electrical conductors; (b) a generally inflexible support structure; and (c) at least one connecting member traversing the flat conductor member and cooperating with the electrical connecting structure and the support structure for capturing the flat conductor member between the connecting structure and the support structure in an installed orientation. | 12-11-2008 |
20090011620 | Differential signal connector with wafer-style construction - Stacked receptacles in a connector that each provide side-by-side differential signal contacts, are attached to a circuit board without additional width to accommodate multiple layers of differential signals by using connector wafer inserts that rotate the side-by-side positioned differential signal contacts to front-to-back contacts. | 01-08-2009 |
20090017646 | ELECTRIC CONNECTOR - An electric connector includes an insulative body and groups of contacts. The contacts are disposed in spaced relationship inside the body and arranged in at least two rows in a lateral direction of the body. The groups of contacts include a plurality of first contacts; and a plurality of second contacts located in a different row from a row where their associated first contacts exist, the second contacts being arranged next to the first contacts. Out of one of the first contacts and one of the second contacts subject to impedance tuning, one of these two contacts has a width and an area thereof adjusted in accordance with a difference in impedance from impedances between other first and second contacts. | 01-15-2009 |
20090023309 | CONFIGURABLE PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARD - According to an example embodiment of the invention, a configurable printed circuit board (PCB) includes one or more separable portions for supporting modules for interfacing with the PCB. The separable portions extend from an edge portion of a main body of the PCB, and are disposed between the main body of the PCB and a protective portion. A scored portion is provided at a boundary between the main body of the PCB and the separable portions, the separable portions being separable by being broken off from the main body of the PCB at the scored portion. According to an example embodiment of the invention, a method of configuring a PCB having one or more separable portions of the PCB includes securing the PCB and separating the one or more separable portions of the PCB from another portion of the PCB. | 01-22-2009 |
20090035954 | INTERCONNECT STRUCTURE WITH GRAIN GROWTH PROMOTION LAYER AND METHOD FOR FORMING THE SAME - In general, the present invention provides an interconnect structure and method for forming the same. This present invention discloses an interconnect structure includes a Cu seeding layer embedded between a diffusion barrier layer and a grain growth promotion layer. Specifically, under the present invention, a diffusion barrier layer is formed on a patterned inter-level dielectric layer. A (Cu) seeding layer is then formed on the diffusion barrier layer, and a grain growth promotion layer is formed on the seeding layer. Once the grain growth promotion layer is formed, post-processing steps (e.g., electroplating and chemical-mechanical polishing) are performed. | 02-05-2009 |
20090035955 | Electrical connector with divider shields to minimize crosstalk - A wafer for an electrical connector includes a conductive shield plate, a plurality of signal conductors disposed on the shield plate, and a divider shield. Each of the plurality of signal conductors has at least one contact portion. The divider shield is disposed on the shield plate aligned with the at least one contact portion and is made of conductive metal. The divider shield is separate from and coupled to the shield plate. | 02-05-2009 |
20090035956 | Circuit board electrical connector - An electrical circuit board connector includes a housing made of an electrical insulating material; a groove formed in the housing for receiving a flat conductive member from a rear side of the housing; a signal terminal arranged at a front side of the housing; a ground terminal disposed at a position closer to the rear side relative to the signal terminal; and a pressing member supported to be movable. The signal terminal includes a contact arm, a first contact section for contacting with a circuit section of the flat conductive member, and a connecting section protruding outside the housing. The ground terminal includes a second contact section for contacting with a ground plate of the flat conductive member. When the pressing member moves, the pressing member presses the flat conductive member to the first contact section and the second contact section. | 02-05-2009 |
20090042411 | CONNECTOR HAVING USB AND eSATA INTERFACES - A connector having USB and eSATA interfaces is used in an electronic device for connecting with an external storage device. The electronic device includes a SATA socket on a circuit board thereof. The connector includes one or more USB ports and an eSATA port. The eSATA port is stacked with the USB ports and includes a first connecting terminal and a second connecting terminal. The first connecting terminal is electrically connected to the external storage device. The second connecting terminal is electrically connected to the SATA socket through a transmission line, so that high-speed data transmission between the external storage device and the circuit board of the electronic device is rendered. | 02-12-2009 |
20090047804 | SURFACE-MOUNT CONNECTOR AND CIRCUIT BOARD ASSEMBLY INTERCONNECTED BY SAME - The present invention relates to a surface-mount connector for electrically interconnecting a first circuit board and a second circuit board. The surface-mount connector includes a first connecting part, a second connecting part and a sidewall. The first connecting part is bonded onto the first circuit board. The second connecting part has a conductive surface bonded onto the second circuit board. The sidewall has a first end axially extended from a periphery of the second connecting part and a second end being formed as at least a portion of the first connecting part. | 02-19-2009 |
20090047805 | Socket with solder pad - A socket, for electrically connecting an IC package and a printed circuit board, comprises an insulative housing and a plurality of contacts received in the insulative housing. The insulative housing has an opening in a center thereof, a solder pad is received in the opening and has a soldering board which is soldered to the printed circuit board to enhance a mechanical connection between the socket and the printed circuit board. | 02-19-2009 |
20090075495 | Socket of semiconductor module - A socket of a semiconductor module is provided. The socket of the semiconductor module comprises a pin in the form of a wire having at least one flat plane and at least two round portion. | 03-19-2009 |
20090075496 | Connector which can be reduced in warpage - In a connector for connecting first and second connection objects faced to each other, a conductive contact includes a holding portion held by an insulator, a first spring portion, and a second spring portion connected to the first spring portion. The first spring portion extends from the holding portion in one direction and has a first contacting portion to be connected to the first connection object. The second spring portion extends in the other direction opposite to the one direction and has a free end provided with a second contacting portion to be connected to the second connection object. | 03-19-2009 |
20090088004 | Adapter configured to couple electrical component to slot in host device - In some embodiments, an adapter is configured to couple an electrical component to a slot in a host device. The electrical component can have at least three sides. The adapter including: (a) a first housing piece configured to be coupled to two or more sides of the at least three sides of the electrical component when the adapter is coupled to the electrical component; and (b) a second housing piece coupled to the first housing piece and configured to couple to a first side of the at least three sides of the electrical component. When the adapter is coupled to the electrical component, a portion of the second housing piece can be configured to be located inside the slot in the host device along with the electrical component. When the adapter is coupled to the electrical component and the portion of the second housing piece is located inside the slot in the host device, the first housing piece can be located outside of the slot. Other embodiments are disclosed in this application. | 04-02-2009 |
20090093140 | MODULAR ELECTRICAL CONNECTOR WITH ENHANCED JACK INTERFACE - An electrical connector includes a contact sub-assembly having a plurality of contacts arranged on a contact support member. The contact support member has a pair of opposed support walls extending from a base to a mating end, and the support walls are separated by a gap that extends from the mating end toward the base. The contacts extend at least partially along the support walls between the mating end and the base, wherein a first set of the contacts are provided on one of the support walls and a second set of the contacts are provided on the other of the support walls. The contacts are exposed to the gap for connection with a mating connector received within the gap. The electrical connector also includes a housing having a cavity configured to receive the mating connector, wherein the contact sub-assembly is received within the cavity for mating with the mating connector. | 04-09-2009 |
20090093141 | Card connector - A card connector ( | 04-09-2009 |
20090117756 | Connector arrangement for printed circuit boards and the like - A connector arrangement serves to connect a plurality of the circuits of a printed circuit board with a plurality of electrical conductors, respectively, including a locking member for locking together a first connector member having terminals connected with the electrical conductors, respectively, and a second connector member having a plurality of conductive pins connected with the printed circuit board circuits, respectively. In a first embodiment, the locking pin is connected with the first connector member for longitudinal sliding displacement between unlocked and locked positions relative to a second connector member electrically connected with the first conductor member. Pairs of auxiliary contacts may be provided that are operable when the locking member is in the locked position. In a second embodiment, the locking member is pivotally connected with the first connector member for pivotal displacement between the unlocked and locked positions relative to the other connector member. | 05-07-2009 |
20090142939 | Adapter for card connector - An adapter has a transmitting board ( | 06-04-2009 |
20090149039 | System and method for interconnecting circuit boards - A connector system is provided. The system includes a substantially circular interconnecting hub, and a plurality of circuit board bays configured substantially radially around the substantially circular interconnecting hub. Each circuit board bay has a plurality of aligned connectors configured to receive a circuit board. The interconnecting circuit hub has, for each individual circuit board bay, a direct data pathway connecting the individual circuit board bay to all remaining circuit board bays of the plurality of circuit board bays. Each of the plurality of circuit board bays can directly communicate through the interconnecting hub with each of the remaining circuit boards bays. | 06-11-2009 |
20090149040 | COAXIALLY CONNECTED STRUCTURE FOR OPPOSED WIRING SUBSTRATES AND DEVICE HAVING THE SAME - A coaxially connected structure for opposed wiring substrates of the present invention includes a first substrate equipped with a tab type bracket and a second substrate equipped with a socket type bracket, and further includes first and second ground cases respectively mounted on the first and second substrates to cover them. The first and second ground cases are respectively provided with first and second penetration openings to pass the tab type bracket and the socket type bracket therethrough. Exposed parts of the tab type bracket and the socket type bracket from the openings are mutually engaged and being fully surrounded with at least one conductive tubular member which has a function to determine a distance between the first substrate and the second substrate. | 06-11-2009 |
20090149041 | Orthogonal Backplane Connector - An orthogonal backplane connector systems having midplane footprints that provide for continuity of impedance and signal integrity through the midplane and allow for the same connector to be coupled to either side of the midplane. This design creates an orthogonal interconnect without taking up unnecessary PCB real estate. The midplane circuit board may include a first differential signal pair of electrically conductive vias disposed in a first direction, and a second differential signal pair of electrically conductive vias disposed in a second direction that is generally orthogonal to the first direction. The first and second differential signal pair of electrically conductive vias are electrically connected through the midplane circuit board. Each pair may be associated with and be located in between ground vias. A ground via that is large relative to the signal vias may be provided. The second signal vias may comprise a shared signal via, receiving a contact from respective connectors connected to each side of the midplane circuit board. The second signal vias may comprise partial signal vias, extending from one or more sides partially into the midplane circuit board. The signal pairs may be offset from a via array centerline formed by the ground vias to correspond with mating ends of signal contacts of an electrical connector that likewise jog away from a centerline of a respective contact column of the connector. | 06-11-2009 |
20090156020 | Connector - The present invention provides a connector configured to electrically connect two connection objects. The connector comprises an elastic member having a surface and a conductive film placed on the surface of the elastic member. The conductive film comprises two contact portions to be brought into contact with the connection objects, respectively, and a connect portion connecting the contact portions. Each of the contact portions comprises projections and a drainage arranged, at least in part, between the projections. | 06-18-2009 |
20090163047 | Connector having both press-fit pins and high-speed conductive resilient surface contact elements - A connector has a two-dimensional array of Press-Fit Pins (PFPs) and Conductive Resilient Surface Contact Elements (CRSCEs). Within the connector is a set of signal conductors. Each conductor is connected to a corresponding one of the PFPs or the CRSCEs. When the connector is attached to a printed circuit board (PCB), the PFPs extend into and engage corresponding plated through-holes in the PCB. As the PFPs are inserted into the through-holes, the CRSCEs contact the surface of the PCB and are compressed between the connector and the PCB so that each CRSCE makes an electrical connection between a pad on the PCB and a corresponding conductor in the connector. The retention force of the PFPs holds the CRSCEs in their compressed condition. The connector need not be soldered to the PCB, and solder bridging problems and breaking problems associated with solder tails and solder balls are avoided. | 06-25-2009 |
20090163048 | EXPANSION CARD SOCKET - An expansion card socket used to fix an expansion card includes a main body and a latching member. The main body includes a fixing portion defining a slot for fixing the expansion card, and a clamping portion perpendicularly extending from an end of the fixing portion. The latching member is fixed to the clamping portion. A guiding portion extends from a surface of the latching member and gradually tapers to an edge in a direction away from the fixing portion of the main body, and the guiding portion is configured for guiding airflow to dissipate heat from the expansion card. | 06-25-2009 |
20090170349 | Contact and Interposer - A contact has a spring section, and a pair of contact points. The spring section is formed as a single closed loop of material, prepared from Ni alloy. The loop may be subjected to elastic deformation through force. The pair of contact points formed in such way that the contact points project outwardly at positions separated from one another, the contact points positioned by about half way around the loop of the spring section. The pair of contact points capable of meeting with and coming into with terminals. | 07-02-2009 |
20090186494 | APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR A CONFIGURABLE BLADE CARD - An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for a configurable blade card. A base card is in physical and electrical communication with a blade connector. The blade connector is in physical and electrical communication with a blade enclosure connector. A secondary card is in physical and electrical communication with the base card to form a blade card. A coupler physically couples the base card and the secondary card. The base card and the secondary card are co-planar and compatible with a blade card form factor. | 07-23-2009 |
20090191726 | Connecting device and method for electronic machinery - A connecting device and method for electronic machinery. The connecting device for electronic machinery includes a PCB provided with first contact points, a case provided with second contact points, on which electronic parts are mounted, and at least one connection member formed integrally with at least one of the PCB and the case such that the first and second contact points can be electrically connected. The connecting device for electronic machinery can electrically connect electronic parts having contact points easily without any additional part. | 07-30-2009 |
20090197435 | PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARD DIRECT CONNECTION AND METHOD OF FORMING THE SAME - A system for directly connecting multiple printed circuit boards (PCB) circuits without the need for peripheral connectors. Multiple PCBs are electrically and mechanically interfaced with one or more plated holes or tabs on at least one first PCB and one or more plated tabs or holes on at least one second PCB. The plated tab(s)/hole(s) from said second PCB mate with the corresponding plated tab(s)/hole(s) from said first PCB to form a mechanical and electrical interconnect. | 08-06-2009 |
20090221155 | Board Connector - A card connector that allows a card to be at least partially coplanar with a logic board is described herein. A system having a card at least partially coplanar with a logic board is also disclosed. A card connector that allows at least one longitudinal plane through the logic board to intersect at least a point of the card is also disclosed. The card may be a memory module. | 09-03-2009 |
20090233460 | OUTPUT ADAPTING DEVICE OF PLUG-IN POWER SYSTEM - An output adapting device of a plug-in power system is used to connect an output terminal of the plug-in power system with an input terminal of an electronic device, so as to transmit the power from the plug-in power system to the electronic device. The adapting device includes an output adapting terminal and an input adapting terminal respectively corresponding to the output terminal and the input terminal, in which corresponding pins of the corresponding terminals have identical potential, and at least one corresponding pair of pins of the output adapting terminal and the input adapting terminal have different potential. Furthermore, the adapting device also includes an adapting unit for adapting and outputting the power from the output adapting terminal to another pin with identical potential of the input adapting terminal. Therefore, the output terminal of the plug-in power system can be standardized for widely applying in various electronic devices. | 09-17-2009 |
20090233461 | Method of Manufacturing a Printed Circuit Board - A method of making a circuit board comprising the steps of: (1) forming two or more metallized vias through at least a portion of a circuit board; and (2) forming an isolation opening between the two or more metallized vias, whereby at least a portion of the metallization is removed from at least one of the two or more vias | 09-17-2009 |
20090233462 | Cable connector assembly with FFC module - A cable connector assembly comprises a FFC module and a receptacle connector mating with the FFC module. The receptacle connector comprises an insulative housing and a plurality of terminals received into the insulative housing. The FFC module comprises a pair of FFCs paralleled with each other and at least one reinforcing plate disposed between the pair of FFCs and integrated with the pair of FFCs. Each FFC defines a plurality of conductors arranged side by side, and insulating films laminated on the both sides of the conductors. Two end portions of the conductors are exposed out of the insulating film for contacting with the terminals to achieve electric connection. | 09-17-2009 |
20090239395 | ELECTRICAL CONNECTOR LEAD FRAME - An electrical interconnection system with high speed, high density electrical connectors. The connector is assembled from wafers containing columns of conductive elements, held in an insulative housing. The conductive elements may each have a plurality of beams of different lengths such that the mating contact surfaces of the first beam are offset, in a direction perpendicular with the columns, from the mating contact surfaces of the second beam. The mating contact surface of the shorter beam of each conductive element may be behind the mating contact of the longer beam such that the width of the conductive element is reduced while still protecting the shorter beam from stubbing upon connector mating. The multi-beam conductive elements may be used as signal or ground conductors. | 09-24-2009 |
20090246980 | BOARD-TO-BOARD ELECTRICAL CONNECTOR - An electrical connector includes a housing defining a connector mating interface. The housing holds a plurality of contact modules that cooperate to define a connector mounting interface. Each contact module contains signal leads and ground leads arranged in an alternating pattern of individual ground leads and pairs of signal leads positioned side-by-side with respect to a thickness of the contact module. The signal and ground leads have respective mating contacts proximate the mating interface and respective mounting contacts proximate the mounting interface. The mating and mounting contacts within each contact module are arranged in one of first and second contact patterns different from the pattern of the signal and ground leads. The mating and mounting contacts in adjacent contact modules are arranged in respective different ones of the first and second contact patterns. | 10-01-2009 |
20090263982 | CIRCUIT BOARD CONNECTION STRUCTURE - A circuit board connection structure comprises: first and second circuit boards; a connector having first and second insertion openings receiving the first and second circuit boards, respectively, the first and second insertion openings being opposite each other. First and second connection pins are located on inner walls of the first and second insertion openings, respectively. The first and second connection pins are connected to each other in the connector. First and second patterned conductors connectable to the first and second connection pins are respectively located on the first and second circuit boards and connected to the first and second connection pins when inserted in the first and second insertion openings. The transmission path from the first connection pin to the second connection pin is a characteristic-impedance-matched coplanar line. | 10-22-2009 |
20090263983 | CIRCUIT BOARD AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE USING THE SAME - A circuit board includes four positioning pads placed on a surface of the circuit board, four positioning holes corresponding to the positioning pads, respectively, and a solder mask placed on the surface around the periphery of the positioning pads. An arc-shaped recess is defined at a side of each positioning pad near the corresponding positioning hole and the space between the edges of the positioning pad and the positioning hole ranges from 0.2 mm to 0.5 mm. | 10-22-2009 |
20090263984 | POWER CONNECTOR ASSEMBLY - A power connector is provided which includes an insulating housing having a plurality of contact receiving passages, each of said plurality of contact receiving passages receives a contact pair having a pair of independent conductive contacts, each of said independent conductive contacts has a base portion and a contacting portion extending from said base portion, a retention portion extends from at least one of said independent conductive contacts to another one of said independent conductive contacts, and rests on said another one of said independent conductive contacts when said contacting portion deforms under force, so as to prevent said contacting portion of said conductive contact from over deforming under force, and ensure the stability of power transmission. | 10-22-2009 |
20090269948 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE MODULE - The present invention relates to an electronic device module into which at least one printed circuit card is plugged. The electronic device module ( | 10-29-2009 |
20090275218 | POWER CONNECTOR ASSEMBLY - A power connector, includes an insulating housing having a plurality of contact receiving passages, each of said plurality of contact receiving passages receives a contact pair having a pair of independent conductive contacts, wherein said independent conductive contact includes a first part made of high conductive material and a second part made of high mechanical material, said first part is connected with said second part by a positioning element, said supporting portion of said second part keeps said first part from over deforming when a force is applied on said contacting portion for power transmission, so as to ensure the stability of power transmission. | 11-05-2009 |
20090298307 | Conductive Contact Unit and Conductive Contact - A conductive contact unit includes plate-like conductive contacts for electrically connecting different circuitries. Each conductive contact includes a first contacting element to be brought in physical contact with one circuitry, a second contacting element to be brought in physical contact with another circuitry, an elastic element between the first contacting element and the second contacting element, a first connecting element that connects the elastic element and the first contacting element, and a second connecting element that connects the elastic element and the second contacting element and that has an opening. The conductive contact unit also includes a conductive contact holder including first guiding grooves and second guiding grooves facing the first guiding grooves. The conductive contact holder holds the conductive contacts with both longitudinal outside ends of each conductive contact being slidably engaged with the first and the second guiding grooves. | 12-03-2009 |
20090298308 | ELECTRICAL CONNECTOR INCORPORATING PASSIVE CIRCUIT ELEMENTS - An electrical connector that electrically connects a first printed circuit board and a second printed circuit board is disclosed, where the electrical connector in the preferred embodiment includes: (a) an insulative housing; (b) a plurality of signal conductors, with at least a portion of each of the plurality of signal conductors disposed within the insulative housing; (c) each of the plurality of signal conductors having a first contact end, a second contact end and an intermediate portion therebetween; and (d) a passive circuit element electrically connected to the intermediate portion of each of the plurality of signal conductors, where the passive circuit element is housed in an insulative package and includes at least a capacitor or an inductor. | 12-03-2009 |
20090311884 | CIRCUIT DEVICE, CIRCUIT DEVICE MANUFACTURING METHOD AND CONNECTING MEMBER - A circuit device which can form terminal portions at narrow pitches a manufacturing method of the circuit device, and a connecting member are provided. A circuit device | 12-17-2009 |
20090311885 | ELECTRICAL CONNECTOR ASSEMBLY HAVING IMPROVED CLIP MECHANISM - An electrical connector assembly for electrically connecting a printed circuit board and an electronic package, comprises an electrical connector on which the electronic package is mounted, a heat sink module mounted upon the electronic package and a clip positioned upon the heat sink module. The printed circuit board defines a connector mounting area surrounded by a plurality of through holes thereof. The clip has a base portion downwardly pressing against the heat sink module, a pair of mounting portions mounted to the corresponding holes, and a pair of pressing portions extending from the mounting portions and disposed on opposite sides of the clip for pressing against the heat sink module. | 12-17-2009 |
20090317986 | SKIVED ELECTRICAL CONTACT FOR CONNECTING AN IC DEVICE TO A CIRCUIT BOARD AND METHOD OF MAKING A CONTACT BY SKIVING - The disclosed embodiments relate to the formation of an electrical contact using a skiving technique. The electrical contact includes a spring structure that has been skived away from an underlying metal body, but the spring remains coupled with the metal body which provides a base for the spring structure. The skived spring portion of the electrical contact may comprise a cantilever-like spring, a coil-like spring, or any other suitable type of spring. Such a spring contact may be used to form an electrical connection between an integrated circuit device and a circuit board (or other substrate). Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 12-24-2009 |
20090325396 | Board-To-Board Connector Pair - Board-to-board connectors are disclosed which include an insulative housing and conductive terminals. One connector has a receiving recess and the other has an insertion projection. The insertion projection ( | 12-31-2009 |
20090325397 | CABLE CONNECTOR - A cable connector includes a contact assembly including an electrically insulating block body and multiple signal contacts incorporated therein; an intermediary interconnection board having multiple contact connection pads, multiple groups of wire connection pads, and multiple interconnects on its surface, the interconnects connecting the contact connection pads to the corresponding wire connection pads, the contact connection pads being electrically connected to the corresponding signal contacts of the contact assembly; and a cable having multiple wires electrically connected to the corresponding wire connection pads. Adjacent groups of the wire connection pads are offset in a direction in which the interconnects extend. | 12-31-2009 |
20100009554 | Microelectronic interconnect element with decreased conductor spacing - A microelectronic interconnect element can include a plurality of first metal lines and a plurality of second metal lines interleaved with the first metal lines. Each of the first and second metal lines has a surface extending within the same reference plane. The first metal lines have surfaces above the reference plane and remote therefrom and the second metal lines have surfaces below the reference plane and remote therefrom. A dielectric layer can separate a metal line of the first metal lines from an adjacent metal line of the second metal lines. | 01-14-2010 |
20100009555 | ELECTRICAL CONNECTOR TRANSMITTING HIGH FREQUENCY SIGNAL - An electrical connector includes an insulating housing ( | 01-14-2010 |
20100009556 | ELECTRICAL CONNECTOR ASSEMBLY - An electrical connector assembly ( | 01-14-2010 |
20100022104 | ELECTRICAL CONNECTING APPARATUS - An electrical connecting apparatus comprises a housing having a first recess extending in a first direction in a plane parallel to a board having a conductive portion to be connected to an electrode of a device under test and opened downward and a plurality of slits spaced in the first direction and extending in a second direction intersecting the first direction in the plane, wherein each slit communicates at one end portion in its longitudinal direction with the first recess and is opened at least upward, a plurality of plate-shaped contacts each electrically connecting the conductive portion to the electrode, having on the tip end side of the contact a tip end thrust to the electrode and a curved external surface, and arranged in the housing in a state of extending inside the slit from within the first recess with the external surface being on the lower side, and a probe holder arranged in the first recess and abutting on a part opposite the external surface of the contact so as to contact the external surface of the contact with the conductive portion. Accordingly, scraps scraped away by the tip end of the contact are prevented from reaching the board via the slit. | 01-28-2010 |
20100041251 | CONDUCTIVE CONTACT HOLDER AND CONDUCTIVE CONTACT UNIT - A conductive contact holder includes a holder substrate that is made of a conductive material. The holder substrate has a first opening section for holding conductive signal contacts, and a holding member that is made of an insulating material and that is arranged into the first opening section for holding at least one of the conductive signal contacts. The largest outer diameter of a surface of the holding member parallel to a surface of the conductive contact holder is larger than the smallest interval between longitudinal axes of the conductive contacts held in the conductive contact holder. | 02-18-2010 |
20100041252 | CONNECTOR, CONNECTOR MOUNTING STRUCTURE, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING CONNECTOR - A connector includes a wiring board; a lead configured to connect the wiring board electrically to an external board; a conductive layer configured to connect the lead to the wiring board; a guide part configured to guide the lead in directions in which the lead extends, when the conductive layer is melted; and a reinforcement member configured to reinforce a mechanical connection of the wiring board and the external board. | 02-18-2010 |
20100055932 | ELECTRICAL CONNECTOR HAVING IMPROVED INTERCONNECTING ARRANGEMENT BETWEEN LOAD PLATE AND STIFFENER - An electrical connector for receiving an IC package includes an insulative housing, a plurality of contacts received in the insulative housing, a stiffener surrounding the insulative housing and a load plate pivotally connected to the stiffener and movable between an opened position and a closed position. The load plate has a shaft and an abutting portion. The stiffener has a connecting member comprising an insertion opening for the shaft, a cavity communicated with the insertion opening for rotation of the shaft, and a supporting portion engaging with the abutting portion to keep the load plate in the opened position with a predetermined angle. | 03-04-2010 |
20100055933 | HIGH-DENSITY, ROBUST CONNECTOR - A high speed connector includes a plurality of wafer-style components, the wafers including two columns of conductive terminals that are supported in an insulative support body by a plurality of channels. Ribs may be provided to help secure one of the terminals in one of the plurality of channels. The two columns of terminals are configured to form broadside coupled terminal pairs and an air channel is at least partially disposed in the wafer between two adjacent broadside coupled terminal pairs. | 03-04-2010 |
20100055934 | CONTACT FOR BURN-IN SOCKET - A contact for a burn-in socket electrically connecting an IC package and a printed circuit board, comprises a first contact, a second contact and a spring disposed between the first contact and the second contact. The first contact and the second contacts have a same configuration, and each contact has a U-shaped actuating portion with two legs and a conductive portion extending from one of the legs. The first contact and the second contact are orthogonally assembled together, and the first actuating portion bestrides the second actuating portion to clasp with second actuating portion, so that the conductive portions have an offset therebetween. | 03-04-2010 |
20100093190 | ELECTRICAL CONNECTION BODY - In an electrical connection body, a carrier is formed with a through-hole and a wall portion formed upright by a groove portion on both sides of the through-hole, and a connector is provided with a first beam on one end of a connecting portion and a second beam on the other end of the connecting portion, and is also provided with regulating portions on both sides of the connecting portion on the side of the first beam. The regulating portions come into contact with the wall portion to regulate the axial rotation of the connector. The first beam and the second beam are bent with respect to the connecting portion and come into contact with respective opening portions of the through-hole, to thereby regulate the movement of the connector in the forming direction of the through-hole. | 04-15-2010 |
20100099276 | Method of connecting printed circuit boards and corresponding arrangment - Connecting a first ( | 04-22-2010 |
20100112826 | INTERCONNECT DEVICE WITH DISCRETE IN-LINE COMPONENTS - An interconnect device is provided with a body through which a plurality of wells has been defined. At least one component having two terminals is provided in one or more of the wells. The component is sealed in its respective well such that the two terminals are accessible on opposite sides of the body. The body corresponds to a Ball Grid Array (BGA) device and is positioned between a BGA device and a printed circuit board (PCB). The component in the well is then inline with a solder ball on the BGA device and a corresponding pad on the PCB. Providing the component in the well frees up surface area on the PCB and also allows for positioning the component closer to a source of a signal. A component in the well is a discrete component having two terminals that may be solderable or made from a conductive pliable material. The terminals may be spring-mounted on the component. | 05-06-2010 |
20100112827 | BOARD MOUNTED ELECTRICAL CONNECTOR WITH REINFORCING DEVICE - The electrical connector ( | 05-06-2010 |
20100120265 | ELECTRICAL CONNECTING DEVICE - An electrical connecting device for electrically connecting between two contacted articles, comprising a push member, a lock member, which holds one of the contacted articles in a predetermined mount position through the push member, a base member, to which the two contacted articles are mounted, an elastic member held on the base member, and a plurality of contacts held on the elastic member, and wherein the base member includes an upper base member and a lower base member, each including an accommodating recess, which accommodates the elastic member, the elastic member includes slits, respectively, holding the plurality of contacts, the plurality of contacts, respectively, include at least an upper contact arm having an upper contact portion and a lower contact arm having a lower contact portion, and the upper and lower contact portions of each of the plurality of contacts are structured to enable abutting against the elastic member. | 05-13-2010 |
20100120266 | Backplane To Mate Boards With Different Widths - The invention provides a backplane ( | 05-13-2010 |
20100130029 | BUILDING ENTRANCE PROTECTOR HAVING PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARD AND FUSIBLE LINK - A building entrance protector for interconnecting wire entering a building from outside the building with wire inside the building which building entrance protector includes a printed circuit board, a protector panel mounted on and electrically connected to the printed circuit board, an input termination connector connectable to the wire entering the building and electrically connected to the protector panel by a fusible link formed on the printed circuit board, and an output termination connector connectable to the wire inside the building and electrically connected to the printed circuit board. | 05-27-2010 |
20100136803 | CONNECTOR FOR INSERTING WIRING BOARD, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - There is provided a wiring board insertion connector having only a small restriction on the structure of a wiring board to be inserted to the connector, having high connection reliability such as high durability against repetitive insertion and pullout, and having a relatively simple structure. | 06-03-2010 |
20100136804 | Electrical Interconnection System - According to one embodiment, an electrical interconnection system includes multiple first electrical contacts and multiple second electrical contacts alternatively meshed together using a slider. The first electrical contacts are configured on a first substrate and electrical coupled to a first electrical circuit, while the second electrical contacts are configured on a second substrate and electrical coupled to a second electrical circuit. When meshed together, the first electrical contacts and second electrical contacts electrically couple the first electrical circuit to the second electrical circuit. | 06-03-2010 |
20100144165 | 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 |
20100151702 | Board-to-board connector assembly - A board-to-board connector assembly includes a receptacle connector and a plug connector mated with each other. The receptacle connector has a receptacle housing, a plurality of first terminals disposed in the receptacle housing, and at least one first fixing member mounted to the receptacle housing and having a base portion. A top of the base portion is bent toward one side and then extends downward to form a propping portion defining a first fixing structure thereon. The plug connector has a plug housing, a plurality of second terminals disposed in the plug housing and contacting the corresponding first terminals electrically, and at least one second fixing member mounted to the plug housing and having a base board. At least one end of the base board extends downward to form a connecting portion defining a second fixing structure thereon which can be buckled with the first fixing structure. | 06-17-2010 |
20100151703 | EDGE CONNECTOR AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR - An edge connector includes, a multilayer printed board having an inner layer and a connector edge, an electronic circuit disposed on the multilayer printed board, an electrical terminal on the multilayer printed board and spaced by a predetermined clearance from the connector edge, an electrical conductor on the multilayer printed board and connected between the electronic circuit and the electrical terminal, a via connected to the electrical terminal and extending to the inner layer of the multilayer printed board, and a lead conductor on the inner layer of the multilayer printed board and connected at one end to the via, another end of the lead conductor being exposed at the connector edge. The electrical terminal is plated. The sum of the length of the via and the length of the lead conductor is less than one-sixth of the wavelength of an electrical signal transmitted. | 06-17-2010 |
20100151704 | High Speed, Direct Path, Stair-Step, Electronic Connectors with Improved Signal Integrity Characteristics and Methods for their Manufacture - An electrical connector comprised of a plurality of electrical contacts arranged in a stair-step configuration designed to mate with electrical components having electrical contacts arranged in a stair-step configuration. A direct connect signaling system comprised of stair-step electrical connectors mated to stair-step printed circuit boards, other stair-step electrical components, or combinations thereof. | 06-17-2010 |
20100159716 | Connector For Interconnecting Surface-Mount Devices and Circuit Substrates - The invention relates to a connector for electrically connecting at least one terminal arranged on a surface of a surface-mount device to a corresponding substrate contact of a circuit substrate. The connector for electrically includes at least one resilient electrically conductive interconnection element being connectable to the at least one substrate contact and configured to establish a releasable electrical contact with the at least one terminal, and a connector housing for mounting the at least one interconnection element. The interconnection element is affixed to the housing by means of a foil-shaped carrier. | 06-24-2010 |
20100159717 | Board-To-Board Connector - A board-to-board connector is disclosed. The connector has first and second connectors. The first connector has concave insertion portions in which first terminals are arranged. The second connector is configured to be engaged, by fitting, with the first connector. The second connector has convex insertion portions in which second terminals are arranged and which are inserted in the concave insertion portions. | 06-24-2010 |
20100167558 | CONNECTOR HAVING AN IMPROVED FASTENER - A connector ( | 07-01-2010 |
20100167559 | LOW INSERTION FORCE BGA SOCKET ASSEMBLY - A socket assembly includes a housing with a plurality of through openings that extend between opposite surfaces of the housing. First and second plurality of contact members are positioned in a plurality of the through openings. The contact members each include major beams and minor beams with proximal ends attached to a center portion, and distal ends extending away from the center portion. The major beams preferably have a length greater than the minor beams. When the first circuit member is engaged with the socket assembly the ball grid array displaces the distal ends of the major beams to create a plurality of first and second forces. The first plurality of forces generally oppose the second plurality of forces. The first and second plurality of forces also generate an engagement force that biases the first circuit member toward the housing. The minor beams on the first and second plurality of contact members do not contribute to the engagement force. | 07-01-2010 |
20100178779 | ORTHOGONAL CONNECTOR SYSTEM - An orthogonal connector system for connecting a first circuit board and a second circuit board oriented orthogonally with respect to the first circuit board includes a receptacle assembly and a header assembly mated with the receptacle assembly. The receptacle assembly is connected to the first circuit board and the header assembly is connected to the second circuit board. The receptacle assembly and the header assembly both have a housing and contact modules held within the corresponding housing. The contact modules have contact tails extending from a mounting edge thereof, where the contact tails of the receptacle connector are connected to the first circuit board and the contact tails of the header assembly are connected to the second circuit board. The contact modules have mating contacts extending from a mating edge thereof, where the mating edges are generally orthogonal with respect to the mounting edges. The mating contacts of the receptacle assembly are directly connected to the mating contacts of the header assembly. The mounting edge of the receptacle assembly is generally orthogonal with respect to the mounting edge of the header assembly. | 07-15-2010 |
20100178780 | SOCKET ASSEMBLY INCORPORATED WITH ROTATIONALLY MOUNTED PRESSING MEMBER - A socket assembly, comprising a socket, a package received in the socket, a pressing member arranged upon the package and downwardly pressing the package and two heat pipes attached to the pressing member. The pressing member is formed with four arch grooves along a peripheral thereof, and the arch grooves allow linking members to pass therethrough and rotatablely retain the pressing member on a printed circuit board. Therefore, the pressing member can rotate in a certain range, by sliding the arch groove with respect to the linking member, to provide a flexible arrangement for heat pipes. | 07-15-2010 |
20100184307 | REDUCING FAR-END CROSSTALK IN ELECTRICAL CONNECTORS - The present invention involves connectors for reducing Far-End Crosstalk (FEXT) through the use of novel polarity swapping to negate the cumulative effect of FEXT. Skew adjustment is used to improve the FEXT cancellation from polarity swapping. The polarity reversal location or locations among FEXT sources are optimized to achieve maximum FEXT cancellation. The novelty polarity swapping technique can be applied to a wide variety of connectors, such as mezzanine connectors, backplane connectors, and any other connectors that can benefit from FEXT reduction. | 07-22-2010 |
20100184308 | SOCKET ASSEMBLY HAVING CLIP AND ARTICULATED LEAF SELECTIVELY INTERLOCKED WITH STIFFENER - An electrical connector is adapted for electrically connecting an electronic package ( | 07-22-2010 |
20100203744 | SOUND SOCKET CONNECTOR WITH BUILT-IN SOUND PROCESSING CAPABILITY - A sound socket connector with built-in sound processing capability includes a base, a sound circuit board, a metallic casing and a rear cover. The base has a front surface and a rear surface. The front surface has a plurality of sound input ports. The rear surface has a plurality of outward-extending electric-conductive pins at positions corresponding to those of the sound input ports. One end of the sound circuit board has a plurality of perforations. The electric-conductive pins pass through the perforations to be electrically connected to the sound circuit board. The other end of the sound circuit board is electrically connected with electric-conductive terminals. The electric-conductive terminals are electrically connected to a mother board. A decoder, a sound processor and a wireless module are electrically connected between the perforations and the electric-conductive terminals. | 08-12-2010 |
20100216319 | Protected and Unprotected Interfaces via I/O Panel Choice - A system comprises a backplane configured to receive a first signal and a second signal from a first plug-in unit, and a third signal and a fourth signal from a second plug-in unit, wherein the backplane is further configured to communicate each of the signals to one or more mid-plane connectors. The system further comprises the one or more mid-plane connectors configured to output the first and third signals at a first output as separate signals, and configured to output the second and fourth signals at a second output as separate signals. The system further comprises one or more I/O panels each configured to receive the first and third signals at a first input and to receive the second and fourth signals at a second input. | 08-26-2010 |
20100285675 | ELECTRICAL CONNECTOR ASSEMBLY HAVING CONNECTORS MOUNTED TO A CIRCUIT BOARD - An electrical connector assembly is configured to be mounted to a circuit board having opposite first and second sides that are interconnected by a board edge. The connector assembly includes first and second connectors disposed along the board edge. The connectors are configured to mate with at least one of mating connectors and a circuit board of an external device to electrically couple the first and second connectors with the external device. Each of the first and second connectors has a center signal contact and a shield shell that extends around the center signal contact. The center signal contact of the first connector engages the first side of the circuit board and the center signal contact of the second connector engages the second side of the circuit board. The first and second connectors mate with the at least one of the mating connectors and the circuit board along parallel mating directions. | 11-11-2010 |
20100285676 | CONNECTION TERMINAL AND TRANSMISSION LINE - A lead terminal includes signal lead pins and GND lead pins. The signal lead pin connects one signal pattern on a flexible substrate and another signal pattern on a rigid substrate. The GND lead pin connects one GND pattern on the flexible substrate and another GND pattern in the rigid substrate. A holding member has an insulating property and holds pairs of the signal lead pins and the GND lead pins at a distance. One main part of the signal lead pin and another main part of the GND lead pin form a microstrip line structure. | 11-11-2010 |
20100297857 | SUBSTRATE CONNECTING CONNECTOR AND SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE SOCKET, CABLE CONNECTOR, AND BOARD-TO-BOARD CONNECTOR HAVING SUBSTRATE CONNECTING CONNECTOR - An electrode terminal supporting body fixed on a printed wiring board and an anisotropic conductive sheet which is positioned on the electrode terminal supporting body and on which a semiconductor device is placed are provided between first and second stiffening plates. The first and second stiffening plates are fastened by machine screws with the electrode terminal supporting body, the anisotropic conductive sheet, and the printed wiring board interposed therebetween. | 11-25-2010 |
20100297858 | ELELCTRICAL CONNECTOR WITH NOTCH FOR RECEIVING MATING COMPONENT - An electrical connector includes an insulative housing and a plurality of contacts. The insulative housing defines a base with opposite front and rear end regions along a front-to-back direction and a plurality of side walls upwardly extending from the base, the base cooperates with the sidewalls to commonly define a first receiving room. A notch defined in the front region of the base forms a second receiving room under the first receiving room, said second receiving room is smaller than the first receiving room. The contacts is disposed in the rear region of said housing with contacting sections extending upwardly beyond an upward mating face of the base and into the first receiving room. An optoelectronic module includes stacked upper portion and lower portion, said upper portion is received in the upper receiving room and said lower portion is received in the lower receiving room. Soldering tails of said contacts are located under the rear region of the base and do not extend into the second receiving room. | 11-25-2010 |
20100304580 | Electrical component interface - An apparatus and method of providing an electrical component interface is disclosed. For one embodiment, the electrical component interface includes an electrical component adapter. The electrical component adapter includes an electronic component solder pattern for receiving and allowing attachment of an electrical component. An adhesive backing is adjacent a surface of the electrical component adapter. The adhesive backing provides attachment of the electrical component adapter to a second surface. | 12-02-2010 |
20100304581 | ORTHOGONAL CONNECTOR SYSTEM WITH POWER CONNECTION - An orthogonal connector system for connecting a first circuit board and a second circuit board oriented orthogonally with respect to the first circuit board includes a receptacle assembly and a header assembly mated with the receptacle assembly. The receptacle assembly is connected to the first circuit board and the header assembly is connected to the second circuit board. The receptacle assembly and the header assembly both have a housing and contact modules held within the corresponding housing. Each contact module has a dielectric body and mating contacts extending from the dielectric body. The mating contacts of the receptacle assembly are directly connected to the mating contacts of the header assembly. At least some of the mating contacts of the receptacle assembly define power contacts configured to transmit power and at least some of the mating contacts of the receptacle assembly define power contacts configured to be mated with the power contacts of the receptacle assembly. | 12-02-2010 |
20100304582 | INVERSE COPLANAR ELECTRICAL CONNECTOR - A matable electrical connector, for connecting electrical modules, is described. The connector comprising a plug, the plug including a mating end, mating terminals at the mating end, a module mounting surface substantially perpendicular to the mating end, the module mounting surface including module terminals electrically connectable to the module, and at least one circuit connecting the module terminals to the mating terminals. The connector further comprising a receptacle, the receptacle including a mating end, mating terminals at the mating end, a module mounting surface substantially perpendicular to the mating end, the module mounting surface including module terminals electrically connectable to the module, and at least one circuit connecting the module terminals to the mating terminals. The plug and the receptacle are adapted to mate in a first mode wherein the module mounting surfaces of the plug and the receptacle are substantially coplanar and a second mode wherein the plane of the module mounting surfaces of the plug and the receptacle are substantially parallel but not coplanar. The modules to be connected include PCBs. | 12-02-2010 |
20100311253 | ELECTRICAL CONNECTOR AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - An electrical connector includes a fixing member having a support seat; a plurality of terminals, each having an embed section embedded within the fixing member along an extension direction via an insert-molding process and a contact section exposing from the support seat of the fixing member; and an insulated body for seating on the support seat of the fixing member. The insulated body has an insert face formed with a plurality of terminal holes. The insert face is dented inwardly so as to form a plug reception chamber in spatial communication with the terminal holes. When the insulated body is seated on the support seat of the fixing member, the contact sections of the terminals pass through the terminal holes in the insulated body and are retained within the plug reception chamber. | 12-09-2010 |
20100323537 | Electrical connector having reversible wire dress - An electrical connector assembly is disclosed having a main housing portion, camming slide mounting in camming slide receiving guides of the main housing portion, a wire guide and a lever. The lever is operably coupled to the camming slides to translate the camming slides upon rotation of the lever. The lever is mounted to the wire guide, and the combination of the wire guide and the lever are reversible to reverse the orientation of the wires in the wire dress. | 12-23-2010 |
20100323538 | CONNECTOR ASSEMBLY HAVING ALIGNMENT MEMBERS FOR HOLDING A MODULE - An electrical connector for electrically coupling an electronic module and an electrical component. The connector includes a substrate that has first and second surfaces separated by a thickness. The substrate includes interconnects that extend through the substrate and are arranged in an array. The interconnects are configured to engage the module along the first surface and engage the electrical component along the second surface. The connector also includes alignment members that extend through openings in the substrate. The alignment members include heads that project beyond and away from the first surface. The heads are located about the substrate relative to each other to collectively form a module reception area therebetween to hold the module in a predetermined position and orientation with respect to the first surface and with respect to the interconnects. | 12-23-2010 |
20100330820 | ELECTRICAL CONNECTOR SYSTEM HAVING REDUCED MATING FORCES - An electrical connector system includes a circuit board having a mounting side and first and second electrical connectors mounted to the mounting side of the circuit board. The first and second electrical connectors each having a mating interface. The first and second electrical connectors being mounted to the circuit board in an offset configuration such that the mating interfaces of the first and second electrical connectors are parallel to one another and non-coplanar with respect to one another. Optionally, the mating interfaces may be perpendicular to the mounting side. The first and second electrical connectors may be identical to one another. | 12-30-2010 |
20100330821 | BOARD-TO-BOARD CONNECTOR - A board-to-board connector pair includes first and second intermateable connectors with each including a housing and a plurality of terminals therein. The first connector includes a first planar reinforcing locking bracket stamped from sheet metal and the second connector includes a second planar reinforcing locking bracket stamped from sheet metal and configured to mate with the first planar reinforcing locking bracket. | 12-30-2010 |
20110014801 | SOCKET CONNECTOR BRIDGING MOTHERBOARDS ARRANGED AT DIFFERENT LEVELS - An electrical socket comprises a socket body and a plurality of contacts. The socket body comprises a first section and a second section, the first section and the second section each having a plurality of contacts received therein, the first section defining an upper face being spaced away from a top face of the second section in a vertical direction. | 01-20-2011 |
20110028008 | PROGRAMMABLE STRUCTURE FOR PASSING PARAMETERS TO A CONTROLLER - An enclosure includes a base unit and an insertable unit wherein the base unit has an opening corresponding to the insertable unit. A single structure is formed when the insertable unit is inserted into the base. The base is electrically connected to a first electronic device, such as a solar panel. The insertable unit includes a second electronic device. The base and the insertable unit have connectors that make electrical connections when the insertable unit is inserted into the base unit. The base unit further includes electrical connectors connected to a memory device wherein the electrical connections correspond to matching connections in the insertable unit. Upon assembly the second electronic device reads data prepositioned in the memory device, thereby passing data to the second electronic device. The data may be parametric, characteristic, flag, or a serial number, for example. | 02-03-2011 |
20110028009 | IC socket having restraining mechanism - An IC socket includes a base receiving a number of contacts, a lid mounted upon the base, and at least one latch mounted in the base. The lid is able to be operated between a first position away from the base and a second position adjacent to the base. The latch is driven by the lid to open and close. At least one stopper is disposed on the lid and extends into a recess defined on the latch to lock with latch the latch when the lid located at the first position for preventing the lid from dropping from the base. | 02-03-2011 |
20110039422 | TERMINAL BLOCK AND BOARD ASSEMBLY FOR AN ELECTRICAL CONNECTOR - A terminal block for electrically coupling conductors and terminal contacts. The terminal block includes a terminal base portion that has a mounting side configured to be mounted to a surface of an electrical component. The base portion has contact slots that extend from the mounting side therethrough. The contact slots are configured to receive terminal contacts that are electrically coupled to the electrical component. The terminal block also includes an organizer portion that extends from the base portion and includes channels that extend substantially parallel to the surface of the electrical component. The channels are configured to receive corresponding conductors. The contact slots of the base portion align with corresponding channels of the organizer portion so that the terminal contacts electrically couple the conductors. | 02-17-2011 |
20110039423 | MULTI-PORT CONNECTOR SYSTEM - An electrical connector assembly includes a housing, a connector and a conductor. The housing extends from a mating interface to a back end along a longitudinal axis and from a top side to a mounting interface along a vertical axis. The connector is disposed at the mating interface and is configured to mate with a mating connector. The conductor extends from the electrical connector to the mounting interface to provide a conductive pathway between the mating connector and the circuit board. The conductor includes a mating portion oriented along the longitudinal axis and a mounting portion oriented along the vertical axis. One of the mating portion and the mounting portion includes a bifurcated end having opposing contact tips and the other of the mating portion and the mounting portion includes an interconnection end that is received between the contact tips to electrically couple the mating portion and the mounting portion. | 02-17-2011 |
20110059630 | CARD HOLDER AND BROADCAST RECEIVING APPARATUS HAVING CARD HOLDER - According to one embodiment, a card holder includes a first printed wiring board, a second printed wiring board disposed to face the first printed wiring board, a third printed wiring board disposed to face second printed wiring board, a first stacking connector disposed between the first printed wiring board and the second printed wiring board to electrically connect and to physically fix the first printed wiring board and the second printed wiring board, and a second stacking connector disposed between the second printed wiring board and the third printed wiring board to electrically connect and to physically fix the second printed wiring board and the third printed wiring board. The first stacking connector and the second stacking connector the first stacking connector and the second stacking connector are structurally incompatible with each other. | 03-10-2011 |
20110065292 | CONNECTOR AND ASSEMBLY HAVING SAME - An exemplary connector for connecting an electronic device to a main circuit board is provided. The electronic device includes a secondary circuit board. The connector includes an insulating housing shell, a first sidewall, a second sidewall facing the first sidewall, and a third sidewall interconnecting the first and second sidewalls. The first, second and third sidewalls cooperatively defines a housing space. There is an electrically conductive member mounted at the third sidewall for electrically connected to the main circuit board. The housing space is configured for housing the electronic device therein in a manner so as to enable the secondary circuit board of the electronic device to be electrically connected to the conductive member. | 03-17-2011 |
20110070748 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR CONNECTING PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARDS USING ZERO-INSERTION WIPING FORCE CONNECTORS - A circuit board assembly includes a primary board, and a connector mounted to a mounting location of the primary board. The connector includes compliant conductors, each compliant conductor having a first end and a second end. The connector further includes a connector body supported by the primary board. The connector body constrains the first end of each compliant conductor at the mounting location and the second end of each compliant conductor at an interface location. The connector further includes a movable member which is capable of moving relative to the connector body along an axis extending between the mounting location and the interface location. The movable member is constructed and arranged to control tension of the compliant conductors while the connector body constrains the first end of each compliant conductor at the mounting location and the second end of each compliant conductor at the interface location. | 03-24-2011 |
20110070749 | CARD CONNECTOR AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SAME - There is provided a card connector for electrically coupling a card with a motherboard. The card connector includes a housing to and from which a contact pad of the card is inserted and ejected, where the housing is mountable on the motherboard; a pair of contacts is configured to hold the card between the pair of the contacts and to be electrically coupled with the contact pads of the card inserted into the housing, and extend in a first direction, and a pair of urging members is configured in the housing to force the pair of the contacts toward the card and extend in a second direction opposite to the first direction. | 03-24-2011 |
20110086521 | INSERTING CONNECTOR, CONNECTOR UNIT, AND BACKPLANE - An inserting connector includes a plurality of plug electrodes where plug connecting terminals are provided at first ends of the plug electrodes and plug terminals are provided at second ends of the plug electrodes, the plug connecting terminals being configured to be connected to a board, the plug terminals being configured to be connected to jack terminals; wherein the plug connecting terminals extend in a direction perpendicular to a surface of the board; the plug terminals extend in a movable direction where the plug terminals are attached to or detached from the jack terminals; the plug electrodes are bent at an angle α in longitudinal directions of the plug electrodes, the angle α being greater than 0 degrees and less than 90 degrees. | 04-14-2011 |
20110104911 | BRIDGE CONNECTORS AND CIRCUIT BOARD ASSEMBLIES INCLUDING THE SAME - A bridge connector configured to electrically and mechanically couple adjacent circuit boards. The connector includes a connector housing that has a mating side configured to interface with board surfaces of adjacent circuit boards when mounted thereon. The housing includes a contact-receiving slot that at least partially defines a restricted space. The connector also includes a bridge contact that is held within the slot and the restricted space. The bridge contact has a pair of contact ends that are spaced apart from each other and project from the mating side. The contact ends are inserted into corresponding through-holes of the adjacent circuit boards when the housing is mounted thereon. The bridge contact is sized and shaped relative to the restricted space to float within the slot such that the bridge contact at least one of shifts and pivots therein. | 05-05-2011 |
20110124206 | Board-To-Board Connector - A board-to-board connector is disclosed. The board-to-board connector comprises a first connector and a second connector. The first connector has a first housing and a first terminal, and is configured to be mounted on a first board. The first terminal is fitted in the first housing. The second connector has a second housing and a second terminal. The second terminal is fitted in the second housing and is configured to make contact with the first terminal. The second connector is configured to be mounted on a second board so as to be engaged with the first connector. When the first connector and the second connector are engaged together, a plane where the first board is present intersects a plane where the second board is present. | 05-26-2011 |
20110151684 | ELECTRICAL ELEMENT AND ELECTRICAL CONNECTOR - An electrical element is revealed. At least one receiving hole disposes on an insulating body. A conductive layer disposes on surfaces of the receiving hole. At least one soldering body mounts in the receiving hole correspondingly and contacts with the conductive layer. Part of the soldering body exposes outside a surface of the insulating body to form a soldering part. The electrical element is further arranged with at least one conductive terminal mounted in the corresponding receiving hole movably and slantingly, the conductive terminal contacts with the conductive layer. Each conductive terminal includes a head part exposed outside the surface of the insulating body for being pressed and contacted. By electrical connection of the conductive layer, the assembly between the soldering body and the terminal is replaced and errors of the assembly between the soldering body and the terminal are eliminated. Therefore, the soldering quality is improved greatly. | 06-23-2011 |
20110151685 | CONNECTOR ASSEMBLY FOR COUPLING CIRCUIT BOARDS - A connector assembly includes a housing, a connector interface body, an elongated shaft, and a cam. The housing has an opening extending into the front face and an elongated channel oriented along the longitudinal axis. The cam is within the opening of the housing and includes a passageway through which a shaft of the housing extends. Rotation of the shaft rotates the cam to engage and drive the connector interface body away from the housing. The cam includes a collar protruding from the cam and extending along a periphery of the passageway. The collar has a clearance dimension along a first direction that is smaller than a gap between the retention features of the housing and an interference dimension along a transverse direction that is larger than the gap. The cam is retained in the housing when the collar engages retention features of the housing across the interference dimension. | 06-23-2011 |
20110151686 | DISTRIBUTOR CONNECTION MODULE - The invention relates to a distributor connection module ( | 06-23-2011 |
20110159709 | ELECTRICAL CONNECTOR WITH IMPROVED FEATURE FOR SECURING SOLDER BALL THEREON - An electrical connector includes an insulative housing with a number of passageways, a number of electrical contacts received in the passageways and a number of solder balls disposed on the electrical contacts respectively. The electrical contact or together with the insulative housing form a retention feature for pre-setting the solder balls thereon. | 06-30-2011 |
20110159710 | ARRAY OF ELECTRICAL CONNECTORS HAVING OFFSET ELECTRICAL CONNECTORS - An array of electrical connectors is provided having a first plurality of electrical connectors configured to be mounted on a substrate, and a second plurality of electrical connectors configured to be mounted on the substrate at a location adjacent the first plurality of electrical connectors, such that the first plurality of electrical connectors is offset with respect to the second plurality of electrical connectors along an insertion direction. | 06-30-2011 |
20110165784 | ELECTRICAL CONNECTOR ASSEMBLY - Electrical connectors for interconnecting circuit boards. One such connector includes an integral flange for mounting a guidance pin in any of multiple orientations. A corresponding keying block may have a polarization component that can be mounted in a corresponding number of positions. The connector can accept conductive elements with different shapes for signals and grounds, but the housing may be adapted to receive either type of contact in any contact location. Protection of contact elements from excessive yield is provided within the insulative housing of the backplane connector. On the daughter card connector, height difference between ground and signal contacts in wafer assemblies protects components from electrostatic discharge. | 07-07-2011 |
20110177700 | ELECTRICAL CONNECTOR - An electrical connector is disclosed and includes a body and a cover. The body has a first through hole and an area for conducting and accommodating solder between the first through hole and the edges of the body. The cover is movably disposed on the body. The color of the cover is lighter than that of the body. The cover has a second through hole and an area for accommodating pins between the second through hole and the edges of the cover. The second through hole corresponds to the first through hole. The second through hole has a first rim, a second rim, a third rim, and a fourth rim. The third rim and the fourth rim are parallel to a movement direction of the cover. When the cover is at an open state on the body, the area for accommodating pins and the area for conducting and accommodating solder are disengaged, the projection of the first rim and the second rim of the second through hole vertically on the body does not lie in the first through hole. It solves the problem of making mistakes in inspection. | 07-21-2011 |
20110177701 | ELECTRICAL CONNECTING DEVICE - An electrical connecting device is disclosed and includes a printed circuit board, an electrical connector, and a fixing gum. The electrical connector is used for electrically connecting a chip module onto the printed circuit board and has at least one gum positioning portion formed on at least one sidewall thereof. The gum positioning portion is non-coplanar with respect to the sidewall. The fixing gum adheres between and to the recess and the printed circuit board and is also attached in the recess. Because the gum positioning portion of the electrical connector is non-coplanar with respect to the sidewall, after the fixing gum is sprayed on the gum positioning portion, the electrical connector is reliably mounted on the printed circuit board to be prevented from falling off under an external force during a reflowing or due to shaking. | 07-21-2011 |
20110195584 | PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARD PLUG-TYPE CONNECTOR AND CONNECTION MODULE WITH PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARD PLUG-TYPE CONNECTOR - The invention relates to a printed circuit board plug-type connector ( | 08-11-2011 |
20110207342 | INCREASED DENSITY CONNECTOR SYSTEM - A connector system is provided for electrically connecting a receptacle printed circuit to a header printed circuit. The connector system includes a header assembly configured to be mounted on the header printed circuit. The header assembly includes header contacts. A receptacle assembly is configured to be mounted on the receptacle printed circuit and mated with the header assembly. The receptacle assembly includes a housing and a contact module held within the housing. The contact module has separate first and second chicklets that are coupled together to define the contact module. First and second receptacle contacts are held by the contact module and arranged in a differential pair. The first and second receptacle contacts are engaged with the header contacts of the header assembly. The first receptacle contact of the differential pair is held by the first chicklet and the second receptacle contact of the differential pair is held by the second chicklet. | 08-25-2011 |
20110230067 | CONNECTOR SYSTEM HAVING CONTACT OVERLAPPING VIAS - An electronic connector system includes an electronic package and an interposer connector assembly. The electronic package has a body with a conductive member disposed on a mating surface of the body. The conductive member is coupled with a conductive via that extends into the body and is oriented along a center axis. The interposer connector assembly includes a substrate with an elongated conductive pad mounted to the substrate and a contact joined to the conductive pad. The contact engages the conductive member when the electronic package mates with the interposer connector assembly such that the center axis extends through the contact. | 09-22-2011 |
20110230068 | COMPONENT COMPRISING A CHIP IN A CAVITY AND A STRESS-REDUCED ATTACHMENT - A mechanically improved component comprising a chip in a cavity and a stress-reduced attachment is specified. A component comprises an opening in a housing, an opaque cover or a mechanically flexible line connector, which is attached to two locations. | 09-22-2011 |
20110237095 | Connector With Electrostatic Discharge Protection - An electrical connector having electrostatic discharge protection comprises a body and an electrostatic discharge dissipative element. The body defines a socket having electrical contacts configured to make electrical contact with electrical contacts along a bottom surface of a component module when the component module is inserted in the socket. The electrostatic discharge dissipative element is configured to make contact with the electrical contacts along the bottom surface of the component module before the electrical contacts along the bottom surface of the component module make contact with the electrical contacts of the socket. | 09-29-2011 |
20110250766 | CONNECTOR ASSEMBLY - A connector assembly includes a riser card, a first connector, a bent connector, and a second connector. The riser card includes a first side and a second side. The first connector is mounted on the first side of the riser card. The first connector includes at least one first pin extending through the riser card and protruding from the second side of the riser card. The bent connector is mounted on the second side of the riser card. The bent connector is coupled with the first connector in the riser card. The bent connector includes a first portion mounted on the second side and a second portion spaced from the riser card. The second connector is connected to the second portion. A gap is defined between the second connector and the riser card, and the at least one first pin of the first connector is located in the gap to avoid interfering with the second connector. | 10-13-2011 |
20110250767 | ELECTRICAL CONNECTOR SYSTEM HAVING TRANSITION ASSEMBLY - An electrical connector assembly includes a first substrate and a second substrate that is configured to be placed into and out of electrical communication with the first substrate by moving the second substrate along a direction that is parallel to the first substrate. | 10-13-2011 |
20110256740 | Connector that enables connection between circuit boards with excellent space efficiency - A particular connector is for selectively connecting a first and a second mating connector which are insertable into the particular connector from mutually perpendicular directions, respectively. The particular connector includes a contact and a housing holding the contacts. The contact has a first a second contact portion which are for contacting with the first and the second mating connectors, respectively. The housing includes a first fitting portion provided with a first insertion opening for inserting the first mating connector, a second fitting portion provided with a second insertion opening for inserting the second mating connector, and guide portions which define the first and the second insertion openings, respectively. By the guide portions, the first and the second mating connectors are allowed to be selectively connected to the connector. | 10-20-2011 |
20110256741 | ELECTRICAL CONNECTOR INCORPORATING PASSIVE CIRCUIT ELEMENTS - An electrical connector that electrically connects a first printed circuit board and a second printed circuit board is disclosed, where the electrical connector in the preferred embodiment includes: (a) an insulative housing; (b) a plurality of signal conductors, with at least a portion of each of the plurality of signal conductors disposed within the insulative housing; (c) each of the plurality of signal conductors having a first contact end, a second contact end and an intermediate portion therebetween; and (d) a passive circuit element electrically connected to the intermediate portion of each of the plurality of signal conductors, where the passive circuit element is housed in an insulative package and includes at least a capacitor or an inductor. | 10-20-2011 |
20110256742 | Patch Panel Assembly For Use With Data Networks - A patch panel ( | 10-20-2011 |
20110269318 | CONNECTOR - The present invention provides a technique that is easy for soldering fixture to a printed circuit board and is easy to handle. Regarding a connector having an insulating base portion and a conductive portion, in at least one direction of a surface to which the conductive portion is exposed, a metal plate extending from a side constituting the surface to another side not adjacent to the side is included. The metal plate can be fixed to a circuit board with solder, and deformation of the connector can be made less likely to occur. | 11-03-2011 |
20110275227 | MODULE TO CIRCUIT BOARD CONNECTOR - A connector is provided. The connector includes contact members having a main body with a top, a bottom, a front, and a rear. A base extends from the bottom of the main body. The base is configured to be surface mounted to a first circuit board. An electrical contact extends from the front of the main body. The electrical contact is configured to be through hole mounted to a second circuit board. The connector also includes a housing having a top, a bottom, a front, and a rear. The housing has slots formed therein. The contact members are secured in corresponding slots of the housing so that the bases of the contact members are held coplanar along the bottom of the housing for mounting to the first circuit board. The electrical contacts of the contact members extend from the front of the housing for mounting to the second circuit board. | 11-10-2011 |
20110275228 | CAPACITIVELY COUPLED CONNECTOR FOR ELECTRONIC DEVICE - An electrical connector is provided that includes a plug portion having an upper surface on which one electronic device is disposed, and a receptacle which is disposed on another electronic device. The plug portion has plug side contact conductors which are positioned separately from each other on a lower surface side of the plug portion. Between the plug side contact conductors which are positioned separately from each other, a capacitive coupling conductor is provided. The receptacle has a receptacle side contact conductors which are in contact with the plug side contact conductors. The plug side contact conductors and the receptacle side contact conductors have shapes corresponding to each other, and the receptacle side contact conductors retain the plug side contact conductors while the dielectric is interposed between the capacitive coupling. | 11-10-2011 |
20110287638 | LARGE SCALE HYBRID SOCKET FOR AN AREA ARRAY DEVICE - An apparatus is disclosed for aligning socket housing segments for an area array device. Each socket housing segment includes at least a first surface and a second surface, with the second surface opposite the first surface. The second surface of each socket housing segment provides electrical connections for a portion of the area array device. Socket contact pads are disposed on the first surfaces of the plurality of socket housing segments. The socket contact pads correspond to substrate contact pads disposed on a substrate. One or more alignment structures are disposed at a space between the socket housing segments. Each alignment structure is coupled to at least two of the socket housing segments. The one or more alignment structures maintain a predetermined alignment of each socket housing segment so that the socket contact pads align with the substrate contact pads during a surface mount connection process. | 11-24-2011 |
20110294309 | EXPANSION CARD AND EXPANSION APPARATUS THEREOF - An expansion card includes a card body and an expansion apparatus. The expansion apparatus includes a connection board and a connector mounted to the connection board to connect to the card body. A connection portion is mounted to the connection board and connected to the connector. When the connection portion is connected to the expansion slot, the connection portion receives signals from the expansion slot and output the signals to the card body. | 12-01-2011 |
20120003845 | SPLIT RING TERMINAL ASSEMBLY - A connector assembly configured to electrically connect a first substrate with a second substrate is provided. The connector assembly includes an insulating support member including an array of apertures, and terminal assemblies disposed in the apertures. Each terminal assembly includes a hollow cylindrical body, and first and second terminals disposed on opposed ends of the body. The body is split by an opening extending between opposed ends, and resiliency of the body biases the first and second terminals in opposed directions along the longitudinal axis. | 01-05-2012 |
20120003846 | ELECTRICAL CONNECTOR ASSEMBLY HAVING ELECTRICAL CONNECTOR WITH LOW PROFILE AND PROCESSOR WITH CONE PINS - An electrical connector assembly ( | 01-05-2012 |
20120003847 | CONNECTOR FOR INTERCONNECTING CONDUCTORS OF CIRCUIT BOARDS - A connector comprises a generally cylindrical dielectric body with a central bore in the dielectric body. The dielectric body has a first end and second end opposite the first end. Conductors extend axially through the cylindrical dielectric body and are spaced apart from each other in a generally circular or elliptical arrangement. Each conductor comprises an embedded portion in the dielectric body and mating portions extending from the first end and the second end. | 01-05-2012 |
20120003848 | HIGH DATA RATE CONNECTOR SYSTEM - A connector and circuit board assembly includes terminals in a connector that are mounted to vias in a circuit board. Signal and ground terminals are thus coupled to signal traces and ground planes in the circuit board. Additional pinning vias that are aligned with the ground vias may be provided in a circuit board to help improve electrical performance at the interface between the terminals in the connector and the signal traces in the circuit board. A signal collar may allow pairs of signal traces to be split and routed around two difference sides of a via before rejoining while maintaining close electrical proximity that provides for relatively consistent electrical coupling between the traces in the pair of signal traces. | 01-05-2012 |
20120021621 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING MULTILAYERED FLEXIBLE CIRCUIT BOARD - Disclosed herein is a method of manufacturing a multilayered flexible circuit board. The method of manufacturing a multilayered flexible circuit board may include integrally forming a first flexible printed circuit board and a second flexible printed circuit board divided in a symmetrical shape with respect to a reference line on the same plane to provide an original plate; attaching the first flexible printed circuit board to the second flexible printed circuit board by folding the original plate with respect to the reference line; and electrically connecting the first flexible printed circuit board to the second flexible printed circuit board. | 01-26-2012 |
20120040540 | Electrical Connector And Circuit Board Assembly - An electrical connector adapted to electrically connect with a plug-type electrical connector of the periphery equipment of the computer. The electrical connector includes a housing, an insulating body, a plurality of first conductive terminals, and a plurality of second conductive terminals. The insulating body having a frame and a terminal block positioned within the frame. The plurality of first conductive terminals positioned along a first surface of the terminal block, while the plurality of second conductive terminals are positioned along a second surface of the terminal block. The plurality of first conductive terminals include a first ground terminal, while the plurality of second conductive terminals include a second ground terminal, and the first ground terminal and the second ground terminal share one free end leading out of the electrical connector. | 02-16-2012 |
20120064737 | Socket having heat-dissipating vents - A socket receptive to insertion of an integrated circuit (IC) printed circuit board (PCB) includes a housing, conductors, and vents. The housing has first and second sides corresponding to a length of the IC PCB. The conductors are mounted within the housing to mate with corresponding conductors of the IC PCB upon insertion of the IC PCB into the housing, and have leads adapted to being soldered to corresponding conductors of a host PCB. The vents are within the housing and are adapted to dissipate heat resulting from soldering the leads to the host PCB to minimize warping of the housing during soldering. The vents are further adapted to compensate for a mismatch between a coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE) of the housing and a CTE of the host PCB during soldering, regardless of the CTE of the host PCB. | 03-15-2012 |
20120064738 | Component Interposer - A component interposer provides access to signals communicated between an integrated circuit and control circuit board. The component interposer may include a signal circuit board and a socket. The board may include one or more electrical contacts that may be used to sample a signal. The socket may include first and second portions. The first portion may include a surface that contacts with the control circuit board. The first portion may have a first width and first length. The second portion may have a surface that contacts the signal board. The second portion may have a second width and second length. The first length may be smaller than the second length, the first width may be smaller than the second width, or both. The socket may include an overhang that defines a space or void. The socket may include one or more pins for aligning the signal board and the socket. The component interposer may include one or more fasteners. The fasteners may be screws that do not extend into a space or void below the second portion of the socket and above the control circuit board. | 03-15-2012 |
20120071009 | ELECTRICAL SOCKET ASSEMBLY FOR ELECTRICALLY CONNECTING ADJACENT CIRCUIT BOARDS - An electrical socket assembly including a socket housing having coupling and flange portions and a contact cavity that extends through the coupling and flange portions along a central axis. The coupling and flange portions have different peripheral contours that extend about the central axis. The peripheral contour of the flange portion being sized and shaped to prevent the flange portion from advancing through a thru-hole of a circuit board. The socket assembly also includes a fastener that is configured to be secured to the coupling portion. The fastener and the flange portion have respective mating surfaces that face each other in opposite directions along the central axis. The respective mating surfaces are configured to grip the circuit board therebetween such that the socket housing has a fixed position relative to the circuit board. A conductive path exists between the power contact and the circuit board. | 03-22-2012 |
20120077357 | SELF REFERENCING PIN - Methods and apparatus relating to self-referencing pins are described. In one embodiment, a pin electrically couples a first agent to a second agent. The pin includes two or more portions that are at least partially separated by an insulator, e.g., to improve crosstalk performance. Other embodiments are also disclosed and claimed. | 03-29-2012 |
20120077358 | CARD CONNECTOR, WIRING BOARD UNIT, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A card connector includes a housing and a card tray configured to be drawn out of the housing. The card tray includes a first protrusion configured to define a movement path of the card tray, and a second protrusion configured to restrict a movement the card tray. The housing includes an inclined portion extending in a drawing direction of the card tray to guide the first protrusion. | 03-29-2012 |
20120083140 | INTERFACE CONTACT FOR AN ELECTRICAL CONNECTOR - An electrical connector includes a housing and a contact held by the housing. The contact has a mating interface configured for mating with a mating contact of a mating connector. The contact has a planar side extending to a tip. An interface contact is separately provided from, and coupled to, the mating interface of the contact. The interface contact has a base coupled to the side of the contact proximate to the tip. The interface contact has a spring beam extending from the base away from the side of the contact. The spring beam is configured to engage the mating contact of the mating connector to make an electrical connection between the contact and the mating contact. | 04-05-2012 |
20120088376 | SPLIT FLEX CABLE - A cable assembly for interconnecting a plurality of circuit boards together by using a connector assembly connected to each of the circuit boards. The cable assembly includes a first cable having a first end part and a second cable having a second end part. A first periphery of the first end part has a plurality of first half vias that collectively form a column along a width direction of the connector assembly. A second periphery of the second end part has a plurality of second half vias that collectively form a column along the width direction of the connector assembly. The first and second end parts are coupled together to form a connecting unit, such that the first half vias and the second half vias are joined together to form full vias. | 04-12-2012 |
20120088377 | METHOD AND DEVICE OF ELECTROMAGNETICS - A method and device for electromagnetic shielding is disclosed. An example arrangement includes a first and a second printed circuit board arranged adjacently and having an electromagnetic shield cover. An electrically conductive plug electrically provides an interconnection of the electromagnetic shielding. | 04-12-2012 |
20120094507 | CONNECTOR - A connector is disposed at a circuit board and utilized for connecting to an external connecting port which is detachably connected to the connector of the circuit board via a connecting terminal, so as to provide an expansion connecting channel between the connecting port and the circuit board. The connector includes the plurality of power pins and the plurality of signal pins, and the length of the power pins is longer than that of the signal pins along an assembling direction of the connecting terminal to the connector. Thus, when the connecting terminal is removed from the connector, the connecting terminal is detached from the connecting pins first to stop the data transmission to avoid the data loss or damage due to the power off, thus to achieve the “hot-plug” function, and also to avoid the damage of the host or the external device. | 04-19-2012 |
20120122324 | CIRCUIT CONNECTION ASSEMBLY - A circuit connection structure is disclosed. A disclosed example circuit connection structure includes circuit board including a plurality of connection terminals; a housing for supporting the circuit board; and a circuit supporting unit including a plurality of circuit patterns on a surface thereof, formed of an electrical insulating material, and coupled to the housing so that the circuit patterns contact the connection terminals. | 05-17-2012 |
20120129362 | PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARD CONNECTION ASSEMBLY - In at least one embodiment, a vehicle power module comprises a first printed circuit board (PCB) including a first plurality of electrical components for providing a first voltage and a second voltage. The vehicle power module further comprises a second PCB including a second plurality of electrical components, the second PCB being spaced away from the first printed circuit board and a first connector assembly being coupled to the first PCB and to the second PCB for providing the first voltage to the second PCB. The vehicle power module further comprises a second connector assembly being coupled to the first PCB and to the second PCB for providing the second voltage to the second PCB. The first connector assembly provides the first voltage of up to 14V and the second connector assembly provides the second voltage of 200V or greater. | 05-24-2012 |
20120142200 | RECEPTACLE CONNECTOR AND AN ELECTRICAL CONNECTOR USING THE SAME - A receptacle connector of the present invention is used as an electrical connector configured to connect two circuit boards. The receptacle connector includes: a housing in which a receiving space is formed, a connection target being inserted in the receiving space; a plurality of contacts being arranged parallel to one another, having a plurality of signal line contacts and a plurality of ground contacts, and being placed with every two adjacent signal line contacts for transmitting signals interposed between two ground contacts; a supporting member made of an electrically-insulating synthetic resin material, and configured to integrally support and fix thereto the plurality of contacts; and a common contact made of a conductive resin material and configured to electrically connect the plurality of ground contacts together among the plurality of contacts. The plurality of contacts integrated together by the supporting member are received in the receiving space. | 06-07-2012 |
20120149215 | INTERCONNECT MEMBER FOR AN ELECTRONIC MODULE - An interconnect member is provided for electrically connecting an electronic module to a printed circuit. The interconnect member includes a substrate having a module side and an opposite circuit side. Module contacts are held by the substrate. The module contacts are arranged within an array along the module side of the substrate. The module contacts include module mating interfaces that are configured to be electrically connected to the electronic module. Circuit contacts are held by the substrate. The circuit contacts are arranged within an array along the circuit side of the substrate. The circuit contacts include circuit mating interfaces that are configured to be electrically connected to the printed circuit. Electrical components extend between and electrically connect corresponding module contacts to corresponding circuit contacts to provide electrical paths for electrical signals transmitted between the module and circuit contacts. At least one of the electrical components modifies the corresponding electrical signal transmitted along the electrical path between the corresponding module and circuit contacts. | 06-14-2012 |
20120149216 | CONNECTOR FOR CONNECTING SUBSTRATES TO EACH OTHER, AND STRUCTURE FOR CONNECTING SUBSTRATES TO EACH OTHER - Provided is a board-to-board connector with which connecting workability can be improved. The board-to-board connector ( | 06-14-2012 |
20120156898 | Connection Of Printed Circuit Boards - In order to mechanically and electrically connect two printed circuit boards ( | 06-21-2012 |
20120164852 | ADAPTER APPARATUS - An adapter apparatus for connecting two connectors of the same type includes a receiving rack used to fasten two connectors, and a connection board attached to the receiving rack. A number of first gold fingers and a number of second gold fingers are formed on opposite ends of the connection board, to be electrically connected to the connectors, respectively. | 06-28-2012 |
20120164853 | BOARD-TO-BOARD CONNECTOR - A board-to-board connector includes a double plastic pin header connector and a supporting plate. The double plastic pin header connector includes two opposite positioning plates, and a number of pin headers arranged in two rows and extending through the positioning plates. The supporting plate is placed between the two rows of pin headers, with opposite ends of the supporting plate resisting against the corresponding positioning plates. | 06-28-2012 |
20120178273 | TALL MEZZANINE CONNECTOR - A tall mezzanine connector which connects the substantial middle half of each of a pair of circuit cards positioned normal thereto in such a way that there is compliance when the two halves of the circuit cards are not in alignment. The mezzanine connector comprises a header and a receptacle that includes wafers having electrical contact means at each end thereof for contacting contacts in the respective circuit cards, the wafers being held in place by an upper base member and a lower base member. | 07-12-2012 |
20120184115 | PLUG CONNECTOR AND MULTI-LAYER CIRCUIT BOARD - The invention relates to a multi-pole plug connector ( | 07-19-2012 |
20120190219 | MOTHERBOARD AND MEMORY CONNECTOR THEREOF - A motherboard includes a printed circuit board (PCB) and a memory connector. A number of golden fingers are set on corresponding sides of a top layer and a bottom layer of the PCB and connected to a memory controller. First and second socket slots are defined in two opposite sides of the memory connector. A number of grooves are defined in top and bottom sidewalls bounding the first and the second socket slots. A number of metal pins are exposed through the grooves of the first socket slot for connection to the golden fingers of the PCB. The metal pins are extended to the second socket slot to be exposed through the grooves of the second socket opening for connection to the golden fingers of a memory. | 07-26-2012 |
20120231637 | BOARD-TO-BOARD CONNECTOR - A board-to-board connector has such a configuration that at least one a first reinforcing bracket of a first connector and a second reinforcing bracket of a second connector is provided with a bent portion having a crank shape, viewed from the insertion/removal direction of the first and second connectors. Owing to such a configuration, deformation of the first reinforcing bracket and/or the second reinforcing bracket can be prevented, and a firm engagement state between the first and second reinforcing brackets is achieved. As a result, a strong removal force is required for releasing the engagement state, and a stable engagement between the first connector and the second connector can be maintained. | 09-13-2012 |
20120252233 | SOCKET - This invention provides a socket for a circuit board that adds function of electrical resistive element to a contact. A socket includes a socket body extending at a longitudinal direction; and a plurality of contacts disposed in two lines along the longitudinal direction of the socket body. When a memory module is connected to the socket body, terminals formed on opposite surfaces of the memory module are electrically and elastically connected by the contacts. The contact includes a contact portion which contacts the terminal, a bent portion for generating an elastic force, and a base portion. The contact is made of a conductive metal having elastic properties, and the contact used for carrying signal is provided with a resistor of an electrical resistive material that is different from the conductive metal. The resistor is connected in a current path between the base portion and the terminal of the memory module. | 10-04-2012 |
20120270420 | Board Mounted Connector - A board mounted connector is provided in which a skew occurrence can be prevented between adjacent sets of contacts. The board mounted connector having a housing and a plurality of contacts provided in the housing that are connected to a printed circuit board. Each of the plurality of contacts include a contact portion, a securing portion, and a board connecting portion that connect to the printed circuit board. The plurality of contacts include a first signal contact and a second signal contact positioned next to the first signal contact such that the first signal contact and the second signal contact form a first set of signal contacts positioned along the printed circuit board. The first signal contact is arranged on an inner side of the printed circuit board while the second signal contact is arranged on an outer side of the printed circuit board. | 10-25-2012 |
20120282787 | AT LEAST PARTIALLY REDUNDANT INTERCONNECTS BETWEEN COMPONENT AND PRINTED BOARD - A printed board assembly includes a printed board, an electrical component, a first interconnect that electrically connects the component to the printed board, and a second interconnect that electrically connects the first interconnect to the printed board. In some examples, the second interconnect extends between the first interconnect and the same electrical contact on the printed board to which the first interconnect is electrically connected. The first and second interconnects provide an at least partially redundant electrical pathway between the component and the printed board. | 11-08-2012 |
20120289066 | CONNECTOR MECHANISM FOR CONNECTING A BOARD CARD - A connector mechanism for connecting a board card is disclosed. The connector mechanism includes a circuit board, and a connector installed on the circuit board. An end of the board card is for inserting into the connector. The connector mechanism further includes a socket installed on the circuit board and located on a side of the connector, a rotating component pivoted to the socket, and at least one connecting component sliably installed on the rotating component and coupled to the circuit board for contacting with the other end of the board card so as to electrically connect to the board card as the end of the board card is inserted into the connector and the rotating component rotates to a connection position. | 11-15-2012 |
20120302073 | CONNECTOR MECHANISM FOR CONNECTING A BOARD CARD - A connector mechanism for connecting a board card is disclosed. The connector mechanism includes a circuit board whereon at least one metal contact is formed, and a connector installed on the circuit board. An end of the board card is for inserting into the connector. The connector mechanism further includes at least one signal transmitting component fixed on the other end of the board card and electrically connected to the board card. The at least one signal transmitting component includes at least one conductive clip for resiliently contacting the at least one metal contact on the circuit board as the end of the board card is inserted into the connector so as to electrically connect to the circuit board. | 11-29-2012 |
20130005160 | Connection Footprint For Electrical Connector With Printed Wiring Board - An electrical connector including a housing; ground contacts; and signal contacts. The signal contacts are differential signal pairs. The electrical connector is a right angle connector. First ends of the ground contacts are in a center row. First ends of a first one of the each differential signal pair are on a first side row at a first side of the center row. First ends of a second one of the differential signal pairs are on a second side row at a second opposite side of the center row. At least one of the first ends of the ground contacts is provided between the first ends of two of the differential signal pairs. An assembly is provided including the electrical connector and a printed circuit board having the electrical connector mounted thereon. The printed circuit board includes through-holes with a shared single antipad one of the differential signal pair. | 01-03-2013 |
20130017692 | CONNECTION STRUCTURE OF A PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARD AND A CONNECTION METHOD THEREOFAANM Que; ChengwenAACI GuangdongAACO CNAAGP Que; Chengwen Guangdong CNAANM Kuo; YichengAACI GuangdongAACO CNAAGP Kuo; Yicheng Guangdong CN - The present invention relates to a technology field of a printed circuit board, and more particularly to a connection structure of a printed circuit board and a connection method thereof. The connection structure of the printed circuit board of the present invention comprises a first and second printed circuit boards. One end of the first printed circuit board disposes a receiving portion. One end of the second printed circuit board disposes a protruding portion. The shape of the protruding portion is corresponding to that of the receiving portion. When connecting the first and second printed circuit boards, the protruding portion is engaged with the receiving portion so that realizing a physical connection. The connection structure and the connection method may reduce the product cost. Moreover, the printed circuit boards connected by the solution of the present invention can be conveniently mounted and dismounted to simplify the operation. | 01-17-2013 |
20130023132 | FORMED SHIELDING FEATURE - An electrical device, includes electrical pins that protrude from an enclosing metal housing. A compressible protrusion around the pins is formed out of the material of the metal housing. The protrusion is formed such that (1) an EMI shield does not exist around the pins when the pins are not engaged to an electrical coupler, and (2) the EMI shield is formed around the electrical pins when the protrusion is compressed by an electrical coupler engaging the electrical pins. | 01-24-2013 |
20130072038 | CIRCUIT BOARD DEVICE AND A COMBINED CIRCUIT BOARD AND ELECTRONIC CARD ASSEMBLY - A circuit board device for fixing an electronic card, which is formed with at least one aperture, includes a circuit board and a securing member. The circuit board includes a board body formed with two through holes, and a socket connector provided on the board body for mating with the electronic card. The securing member includes a pressing plate for pressing against the electronic card, at least one engaging stud projecting from a bottom end of the pressing plate for engaging the aperture, and two resilient engaging arms provided respectively on left and right sides of the pressing plate. The engaging arms extend respectively through the through holes and engage releasably the board body. | 03-21-2013 |
20130084717 | BOARD TO BOARD CONNECTORS AND ASSEMBLY THEREOF WITH CONTACT-MOUNTING WALL HAVING VARIABLE THICKNESS - A board to board connector includes a connector housing and a number of contacts mounted to the connector housing. The connector housing includes a base and a pair of side walls extending from the base along a vertical direction. Each side wall includes a number of first mounting walls and a plurality of second mounting walls alternatively arranged along a longitudinal direction perpendicular to the vertical direction. The contacts are fixed to the first mounting walls and each contact is positioned by the adjacent two second mounting walls along the longitudinal direction. A thickness of each second mounting wall is variable along the vertical direction for avoiding irrecoverable deformation or damage thereof | 04-04-2013 |
20130089991 | RECEPTACLE CONNECTOR AND AN ELECTRICAL CONNECTOR USING THE SAME - A receptacle connector used as an electrical connector. The receptacle connector includes: a housing in which a receiving space is formed, a connection target being inserted in the receiving space; a plurality of contacts being arranged parallel to one another, having a plurality of signal line contacts and a plurality of ground contacts, and being placed with every two adjacent signal line contacts for transmitting signals interposed between two ground contacts; a supporting member made of an electrically-insulating synthetic resin material, and configured to integrally support and fix thereto the plurality of contacts; and a common contact made of a conductive resin material and configured to be provided with a certain gap from each of the plurality of ground contacts to electrically connect the plurality of ground contacts. The plurality of contacts integrated together by the supporting member are received in the receiving space. | 04-11-2013 |
20130109203 | CONNECTOR, ELECTRICAL CONNECTION BOX AND CONNECTOR MANUFACTURING METHOD | 05-02-2013 |
20130130516 | MODULAR CONNECTOR FOR A CABLE-LESS PATCHING DEVICE - Embodiments of the present invention are directed to a modular jack or modular connector mountable on a patch panel and having two openings. A first opening may receive a standard modular plug and a second opening may enable access to the resilient part of the conductive contacts inside the jack by a conductive element. The conductive element may electrically connect the connector to a second connector. The connector may be disconnected from the second connector when a communication plug is inserted into the first opening of the connector. | 05-23-2013 |
20130137281 | CIRCUIT-TERMINAL CONNECTING DEVICE - A circuit-terminal connecting device comprising a first connector having a first housing fixed to a main circuit board and first contacts supported by the first housing to be connected with first circuit-terminals provided on the main circuit board and a second connector having a second housing attached to a flat circuit member and second contacts supported by the second housing to be connected with second circuit-terminals provided on the flat circuit member. The first housing of the first connector fits into a hole formed in the second housing of the second connector so as to create an electrical piling connection between the main circuit board and the flat circuit member wherein the flat circuit member is laid on top of the main circuit board and the first circuit-terminals are electrically connected with the second circuit-terminals through the first and second connectors. | 05-30-2013 |
20130143420 | Electrical Connector and Method of Making It - The present invention is an electrical connector in which a substrate (such as a printed circuit board or PCB) includes a plurality of apertures (or vias) and some of those apertures are filled with two materials to improve the characteristics of the electrical interconnection. The preferred process of crating the filled vias includes the steps of plating the vias with an electrically-conductive material to create an electrically-conductive path between portions of the substrate and components associated with the substrate and partially filling the apertures, then filling at least a portion of the apertures or vias with a second or different filling material to seal at least apart of the electrically conductive path through the plating. The second filling material may be chosen to provide thermal compensation for the connection. | 06-06-2013 |
20130157479 | ATTACHMENT MECHANISM FOR ELECTRONIC COMPONENT - An attachment mechanism for fastening an electronic component includes a circuit board and a fastener. The circuit board includes a first connector to be connected to a second connector of the electronic component. The fastener includes a main body engaging with the first connector and an operation portion extending up from the main body. An engaging bar protrudes from the operation portion to abut against a top of the electronic component. | 06-20-2013 |
20130157480 | ELECTRICAL CONNECTORS FOR USE WITH PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARDS - A connector for electrically connecting a first printed circuit board (PCB) with a second PCB wherein, in one example, the connector includes a housing having a keyed feature adapted to mate with a correspondingly keyed feature provided to each of the first and second PCBs and at least one connecting terminal carried by the housing having at least partially exposed opposed ends each of which electrically engages a contact pad formed on an underside of the respective PCBs. The connecting terminal may be arranged to accept a conductor and to thereby electrically couple the conductor to the first and second PCBs. | 06-20-2013 |
20130164953 | ATTACHMENT MECHANISM FOR ELECTRONIC COMPONENT - An attachment mechanism for fastening an electronic component includes a circuit board and a fastener. The circuit board includes a first connector to be connected to a second connector of the electronic component. The first connector defines a groove in a first end of the first connector and a hooking slot below the groove. The fastener includes a main body and an operation portion extending up from the main body. The main body includes a block engaging in the groove and a latch engaging in the hooking slot. An engaging bar protrudes from the operation portion to abut against a top of the electronic component. | 06-27-2013 |
20130164954 | ATTACHMENT MECHANISM FOR ELECTRONIC COMPONENT - An attachment mechanism for an electronic component includes a circuit board, an engaging member, and a pivoting member. The circuit board comprises a first connector to be connected to a second connector of the electronic component. The pivoting member is rotatably connected to the engaging member. The first connector is sandwiched by the pivoting member and the engaging member. The pivoting member includes a resilient bar to abut against a first end of a top surface of the electronic component. | 06-27-2013 |
20130178076 | BOARD-TO-BOARD CONNECTOR - A board-to-board connector includes a male board connector and a female board connector mated with each other and having the same structure. Each board connector includes an insulating housing defining a row of first terminal grooves and a row of second terminal grooves. A plurality of first terminals is retained in the first terminal grooves respectively. A plurality of second terminals is positioned in the second terminal grooves respectively. The male board connector and the female board connector are engaged with each other to make the first terminal and the corresponding second terminal electrically interconnected steadily. The male board connector and the female board connector have the same structure. According to the present invention, it needs only one mold to produce the board-to-board connector and the cost of production will be accordingly lowered. | 07-11-2013 |
20130178077 | CONNECTORS - An electrical connector, which is adapted to a printed circuit board (PCB) with a first connection port, comprises a bottom having a base and a conductive element mounted in an opening of the base, a second connection port disposing on the base, and a housing covering the bottom. When the bottom is disposed on the PCB, the first connection port is accommodated in the opening of the base, and an elastic strip of the conductive element presses on the first connection port toward a direction parallel to the PCB for combining the electrical connector and the first connection port on the PCB, and preventing the separation or loose connection of the electrical connector from the first connection port or the PCB. | 07-11-2013 |
20130178078 | INTER-BOARD CONNECTION TERMINAL AND INVERTER AND ELECTRIC COMPRESSOR EMPLOYING THE SAME - Provided are an inter-board connection terminal with which electrical connection between two boards can be simplified, the operability and productivity thereof can be enhanced, and reliability of electrical connection can also be ensured, as well as an inverter and an electric compressor employing the same. An inter-board connection terminal includes a group of numerous metal terminals which is inserted, individually at both tips thereof, into through-holes in boards to electrically connect two boards, wherein paired resin linking members are provided, which have a predetermined space therebetween with respect to the group of metal terminals and which join the group of metal terminals into a single unit by linking the terminals in the form of a row at both tips thereof near the bases of portions to be inserted into the through-holes in the boards. | 07-11-2013 |
20130189856 | INCREASED DENSITY SFP CONNECTOR - A connector device includes a pluggable interface and a corresponding connector. The pluggable interface includes multiple rows of pads. Similarly, the connector includes multiple rows of contacts to contact the multiple rows of pads. The multiple rows of pads can further be subdivided where at least certain pad locations are subdivided into two smaller pads. At least certain pads can be disposed at angles other than right angles. The connector can include a cover with a mechanism to depress the second row of contacts. The depression mechanism is engaged via side wings on the cover engage with legacy plugs and avoid contact between the second row of contacts and the pads of the legacy plug. | 07-25-2013 |
20130203270 | CONNECTION ASSEMBLY AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A connection assembly includes a connection member and a switch. The connection member includes a serial attached small computer system interface (SAS) connector electronically connected to the switch. When the switch is electronically connect to the motherboard, the switch transmits signals from the motherboard to a hard disk drive backplane via the SAS connector. When the switch is electronically connect to the hard disk drive backplane, the switch transmits signals from the hard disk drive backplane to the motherboard via the SAS connector. | 08-08-2013 |
20130203271 | ELECTRICAL CIRCUIT INTERCONNECT APPARATUS AND SYSTEM - An interconnect apparatus for interconnecting electrical components includes a body and a spring element retained by and extending from the body. The apparatus is configured so that a portion thereof may be captured between first and second substrates and to connect electrical circuits lying in different planes. | 08-08-2013 |
20130203272 | CONNECTOR AND SOCKET FOR USE IN THE SAME - A connector that electrically connects circuit boards to each other by fitting a header | 08-08-2013 |
20130210246 | Midplane Orthogonal Connector System - A receptacle assembly for a midplane connector system has a receptacle housing having openings receiving signal contacts and ground shields of a header assembly. The receptacle assembly includes contact modules coupled to the receptacle housing that each have a leadframe, a dielectric frame and a ground shield. The leadframe has signal contacts arranged in pairs carrying differential signals that are generally arranged along a leadframe plane with mating portions at ends thereof that have at least two points of contact electrically connected to a corresponding signal contact of the header assembly. The dielectric frame holds the signal contacts. The ground shield is coupled to a side of the dielectric frame and has ground tabs extending into the dielectric frame to provide electrical shielding between the pairs of signal contacts and grounding beams electrically connected to ground shields of the header assembly. | 08-15-2013 |
20130230992 | PRINTED WIRING BOARD AND CONNECTOR, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING PRINTED WIRING BOARD - A printed wiring board includes a board body that includes a signal line embedded at a predetermined wiring position and a through hole electrically connected to the signal line, and a connector that includes a connector plate including a connection terminal electrically connected to the signal line via the through hole, and electrically connects the connection terminal to the signal line by insertion of the connection terminal of the connector plate into the through hole in a direction of one of a front surface and a rear surface of the board body according to a wiring position of the signal line so that a transmission path of the connection terminal on a stub side is shorter than a transmission path of the connection terminal on an input and output side. | 09-05-2013 |
20130237066 | ELECTRICAL CONNECTOR WITH DUAL ARM CONTACT - A contact includes a base portion having an upper end and a lower end opposite to the upper end, a first spring arm extending obliquely and upwardly from the upper end of the base portion, and a second spring arm extending obliquely and upwardly from the lower end of the base portion and towards the first spring arm, wherein the second spring arm locates under the first spring arm, a supporting portion is defined on a distal end of the second spring arm and slides along the first spring arm to support the first spring arm when the first spring arm is pressed down by an electronic component. | 09-12-2013 |
20130244455 | PROCESSING DEVICE AND PROCESSING SYSTEM - A processing device includes: a first connecter including a first pin and a second pin which is able to be coupled to one of a first external apparatus and a second external apparatus; and a controller to set a signal of the second pin as an input signal, detect coupling of the first connecter with the first external apparatus or the second external apparatus, set the signal of the second pin as an output signal based on detection of the coupling of the first connecter with the second external apparatus, and outputs a first signal to the second pin. | 09-19-2013 |
20130267102 | CONNECTOR - A connector mounted on a circuit board, and fitted to a mating connector, includes a contact and a housing that holds the contact, and is inserted in an inserted portion of the circuit board. The contact is press-fitted into the housing in a direction orthogonal to a direction of inserting the housing into the inserted portion, and is held therein. | 10-10-2013 |
20130280926 | Connector - To provide a highly reliable board-to-board connector whereby the state of engagement between the first reinforcing metal fitting and the second reinforcing metal fitting can be reliably maintained and also the state of electrical continuity between the first reinforcing metal fitting and the second reinforcing metal fitting can be reliably maintained, and thus the fit between the first connector and second connector is reliably maintained. | 10-24-2013 |
20130280927 | STRADDLE MOUNT ELECTRICAL CONNECTOR WITH FUSIBLE ELEMENTS - A straddle mount electrical connector with fusible elements is provided. The electrical connector can include a connector housing including a housing body that supports element support members that define a receptacle configured to receive a complementary electrical component therein. Each element support member can support a respective plurality of fusible elements, and each fusible element can be connected to a respective electrical contact supported by the connector housing. The pluralities of fusible elements can define a mounting interface of the electrical connector. The mounting interface can be configured to receive printed circuit boards of varying thicknesses. | 10-24-2013 |
20130295785 | Electrical Connector - An electrical connector adapted for electrically connecting with a circuit board includes an insulating housing, a plurality of first and second terminals, and a shielding shell enclosing the insulating housing together with the first and second terminals. The insulating housing includes a main body, and a base body assembled to the main body. The base body defines a plurality of first and second terminal grooves. The first and second terminals are respectively assembled to the first and second terminal grooves. Each first terminal has an inclined first connecting arm connected between a first fastening arm and a first soldering arm of the first terminal, and each second terminal has an inclined second connecting arm connected between the second fastening arm and the second soldering arm of the second terminal to effectively shorten straight lengths of the first terminal and the second terminal which are stretched straight. | 11-07-2013 |
20130323944 | CONNECTOR - A connector includes a housing and terminal fittings attached to a printed circuit board. The terminal fittings form two terminal rows. In the terminal rows, one end parts of the terminal fittings are piled in a fitting plate part of the housing to which a mate side connector is fitted in a mutually parallel state and arranged in parallel with a surface of the printed circuit board. Central parts of the terminal fittings are bent. The other end parts are connected to a conductor pattern of the printed circuit board. In the other end parts of the terminal fittings, outward bent parts are provided which are bent outward in the direction of width of the housing. Tip ends of the other end parts of all the terminal fittings are arranged with spaces left between them along the direction of width of the housing. | 12-05-2013 |
20130330940 | Multi-Level Connector and Use Thereof that Mitigates Data Signaling Reflections - An improved electrical connector for connecting bus lines to a card such as a memory card or media card, including a multi-level connector comprising a latching device having a plurality of insertable latch positions that advantageously allows for selectively connecting or isolating an electrical path to an adjoining connector. The connectors of unpopulated DIMM slots are disconnected from the network along with the traces that would normally form a stub with associated undesirable signal reflections that would otherwise disturb the signal transmitted to the receiving end if not properly terminated. The contacts of the edge connector itself are used as a means to selectively connect or disconnect adjacent/downstream cards in a serially cascaded architecture. The burden of the stubs due to unpopulated card slots and the need to place one card at the far end of the network are thus eliminated. | 12-12-2013 |
20130330941 | CIRCUIT BOARD HAVING PLATED THRU-HOLES AND GROUND COLUMNS - A circuit board including a board substrate having opposite first and second sides. The board substrate has a thickness measured along a z-axis that is perpendicular to the first and second sides. The circuit board also includes plated thru-hole (PTH) vias extending along the z-axis from the first side into the board substrate. The PTH vias are arranged to form multiple signal pairs. The circuit board also includes signal traces that are directly coupled to the PTH vias and extend perpendicular to the z-axis in the board substrate. The signal traces and the PTH vias are configured to transmit differential signals. The circuit board also includes ground columns that extend along the z-axis in the board substrate. The ground columns are distributed relative to the signal pairs to form shield arrays. Each of the shield arrays surrounds one of the signal pairs, wherein the ground columns comprise microvias. | 12-12-2013 |
20130337664 | ELECTRICAL CONNECTOR ASSEMBLY HAVING INDEPENDENT LOADING MECHANISM FACILITATING INTERCONNECTIONS FOR BOTH CPU AND CABLE - An electrical connector assembly ( | 12-19-2013 |
20130337665 | Midplane Especially Applicable to an Orthogonal Architecture Electronic System - A midplane has a first side to which contact ends of a first differential connector are connected and a second side opposite the first side to which contact ends of a second differential connector are connected. The midplane includes a plurality of vias extending from the first side to the second side, with the vias providing first signal launches on the first side and second signal launches on the second side. The first signal launches are provided in a plurality of rows, with each row having first signal launches along a first line and first signal launches along a second line substantially parallel to the first line. The second signal launches are provided in a plurality of columns, with each column having second signal launches along a third line and second signal launches along a fourth line substantially parallel to the third line. | 12-19-2013 |
20130344710 | CIRCUIT BOARD-CIRCUIT BOARD CONNECTOR - A first connector is provided with a first terminal and a first housing that has a first mating guide portion, and a second connector is provided with a second terminal and a second housing that has a second mating guide portion. The first mating guide portion includes a recessed portion into which the second mating guide portion is inserted, and an end wall portion, wherein the inside faces thereof define the lengthwise-direction outsides of the first housing in the recessed portion. | 12-26-2013 |
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20140017911 | ELECTRICAL CONNECTOR HAVING METALLIC SHIELDS TO AVOID EMI FOR CPU - An electrical connector for electrically connecting a central processing unit (CPU) to a printed circuit board (PCB) includes a base having a first opening and a plurality of passageways with a plurality of contacts therein. A base shield is assembled on the first opening of the base. A cover is mounted upon the base and has a second opening corresponding to the first opening of the base and a plurality of through holes corresponding to the passageways. A cover shield is assembled on the second opening of the cover for contacting with the CPU and the base shield. An actuator driving the cover with the cover shield slides along the base with the base shield in a front-to-back direction. | 01-16-2014 |
20140024229 | ELECTRICAL CONNECTOR ASSEMBLY HAVING CABLE CONNECTOR ROTATABLY ASSEMBLED THEREON - An electrical connector assembly ( | 01-23-2014 |
20140024230 | CONNECTOR ASSEMBLIES FOR CONNECTOR SYSTEMS - A connector assembly includes a housing having a body and a head extending outward from the body. The housing is coupled to an LED circuit board with the head mounted to a front side of the LED circuit board and with the body extending through an opening of the LED circuit board to a rear side of the LED circuit board. The housing has driver card slot in the body configured to receive a driver card from the rear side of the LED circuit board. The housing has a contact channel open to the driver card slot with a contact therein. The contact has a mating interface configured to engage and be electrically connected to the driver card. The contact has a mounting leg extending from the head that is configured to be mounted to the front side of the LED circuit board. | 01-23-2014 |
20140065848 | ELECTRICAL CONNECTOR ASSEMBLY - An electrical connector assembly for electrically connecting an external circuit board has an insulating main body, a first connector module, a second connector module and a flexible conducting wire. The first connector module is disposed inside the insulating main body and electrically connected to the external circuit board. The second connector module is disposed inside the insulating main body and located above the connector module. The flexible conducting wire has two ends electrically connected to the second connector module and the external circuit board. The flexible conducting wire replaces a traditional metal conducting pin, so as to achieve simple process and decrease electromagnetic interference. | 03-06-2014 |
20140065849 | CONNECTOR APPARATUS - A connector apparatus includes a board mounting connector mounted on a board housed in a housing case, a mating connector fit to the board mounting connector, and a guide hood that has a connector fitting part to guide insertion of the mating connector and is fit into an opening section of the housing case. The board mounting connector has a recessed fitting part, into which a housing front-end side fitting part of the mating connector is inserted. A connector fitting part of the guide hood has a second opening whose width is wider than a width of a first opening of the recessed fitting part and is substantially equal to a width of a housing rear-end side fitting part of the mating connector. A retainer is held in a housing rear-end side fitting part of the mating connector. | 03-06-2014 |
20140065850 | CONNECTOR DEVICE - A connector device includes a plurality of board mounted connectors and mating side connectors to be fitted with each other and a guiding hood. Levers are rotatably attached to the mating side connectors. A guiding hood includes a plurality of connector fitting parts which guide an insertion of the mating side connectors corresponding to the board mounted connectors, and is attached to the opening part of the housing case. The board mounted connectors and the mating side connectors are configured to be fitted with each other by rotating the levers which are engaged to the connector fitting parts. The guiding hood includes locking means configured to be locked and engaged to the board mounted connectors respectively by being elastically engaged with engaging parts of the board mounted connectors respectively in a direction in which the board mounted connectors are arranged. | 03-06-2014 |
20140080327 | SHIELDING SOCKET WITH A SHIELDING PLATE EXTENDING OUTSIDE FROM AN INSULATIVE HOUSING - An electrical connector electrically connecting a chip module to a printed circuit board includes an insulative housing having a matching surface, a mounting surface and a receiving slot penetrated from the matching surface to the mounting surface, a number of terminals received in the receiving slot and a number of shielding plates received in the receiving slot; the shielding plate includes a body portion, a supporting portion bending outwardly from one side of the body portion and a contact portion extending outwardly from another side of the body portion, the contact portion includes a main body, a spring beam extending upwardly from the main body and a clip extending downwardly from the main body, the spring beam extending upwardly beyond the matching surface and the clip extending downwardly beyond the mounting surface. | 03-20-2014 |
20140120748 | Board-to-Board Connectors with Integral Detachable Transfer Carrier Plate - An electrical connector assembly for mounting to contact pads on a printed circuit board (PCP) includes a carrier plate. A first connector component and a second connector component are attached to the carrier plate. The first and second connector components are spaced apart on the carrier plate a distance corresponding to spacing of the contact pads on the PCB. A frangible connection is defined between each of the first and second connector components and the carrier plate such that after mounting the connector assembly to the PCB, the carrier plate is detached from the first and second connector components. | 05-01-2014 |
20140148019 | COMPONENT MODULE, MATING CONNECTOR, AND CONNECTION STRUCTURE BETWEEN COMPONENT MODULE AND MATING CONNECTOR - The invention provides a component module including a case, a circuit board, an electronic component, and a connector. The case has a through-hole. The circuit board is provided in the case. The electronic component and the connector are mounted on the circuit board. The connector includes a connecting portion and a terminal. The connecting portion is opposed to or located inside the through-hole of the case. At least a portion of the terminal is located at the connecting portion. | 05-29-2014 |
20140154892 | ELECTRICAL CONNECTORS FOR USE WITH PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARDS - A connector for electrically connecting a conductor to a first printed circuit board (PCB) or for electrically connecting a first and second PCB together. A housing is adapted to be slidably moveable relative to a mounting structure to allow the mounting of the PCB to the surface and moveable over the PCB to contact pads located on the top side of the PCB. In another example, a bridging connector for electrically connecting a first PCB with a second PCB includes a resilient holding element, such as for example a spring clip, engageable with at least one of the PCBs and/or a surface supporting the PCB(s) to releasably retain the housing and the terminals in the correct location. | 06-05-2014 |
20140162470 | DOUBLE-SIDED CIRCUIT BOARD WITH OPPOSING MODULAR CARD CONNECTOR ASSEMBLIES - An electronic assembly includes a circuit board that serves as both a mechanical attachment point and signal conduit for electronic components. The circuit board includes at least two modular card connector assemblies disposed on opposing surfaces of a mounting region of the circuit board. Pin sets of the modular card connector assemblies are connected together via corresponding through holes extending between the opposing surfaces in the mounting region. Further, pins of one or both the modular card connector assemblies may be connected to other electronic components disposed at the circuit board via lateral traces. One or both of the modular card connector assemblies can comprise a modular card socket to removably couple with a modular card. Alternatively, one or both of the modular card connector assemblies comprises a pin interface assembly that is integral to or otherwise fixedly attached to the modular card. | 06-12-2014 |
20140162471 | ELECTRICAL CONNECTOR HAVING SHIELDING MEMBERS - An electrical connector for electrically connecting a CPU with a PCB includes a frame, a plurality of base units assembled onto the frame and a plurality of contacts retained in the base units. The base units extend in a longitudinal direction and are assembled side by side in a transverse direction substantially perpendicular to the longitudinal direction. Each of the base units includes an insulating housing and a shielding member embedded within the insulating housing. The shielding member includes a first portion extending in the longitudinal direction and multiple second portions extending in a direction intersecting with the longitudinal direction, the second portions together with the first portion define multiple chambers. The contacts are located in the chambers defined by the shielding member. | 06-12-2014 |
20140170866 | RETENTION MECHANISMS FOR ELECTRICAL CONNECTORS - An improved electrical connector retainer employs a shell having a cavity. A pair of mated electrical connectors are received within the cavity and at least a portion of an upper wall of the shell is deflected towards a lower wall of the shell. The shell is configured to retain the upper wall in the deflected position, maintaining the pair of connectors in the mated position. | 06-19-2014 |
20140187059 | CIRCUIT BOARD CONNECTING DEVICE - A circuit board connecting device comprising a first connector which having a first fixing metallic member attached to a first insulating housing, a second connector having a second fixing metallic member attached to a second insulating housing, and holding means operative to prevent the second insulating housing from being separated from the first insulating housing under a condition wherein the first and second insulating housings are coupled with each other, wherein end portions of a resilient movable holding member provided on the first connector are supported respectively by portions of the first fixing metallic member to engage respectively with portions of the second fixing metallic member for holding the second insulating housing when the second insulating housing is coupled with the first insulating housing, so that the end portions of the resilient movable holding member and the portions of the second fixing metallic member constitute the holding means. | 07-03-2014 |
20140187060 | SUBSTRATE CONNECTION STRUCTURE - A substrate connection structure includes: a first substrate having stiffness with a first connector mounted on a front face; a second substrate having stiffness with a second connector detachably attached to the first connector mounted on a front face facing the front face of the first substrate; and a restricting member including a projection portion, the restricting member including a plate-like member and being detachably attachable to the first substrate by being moved along a planar surface of the first substrate, the projection portion projecting from the front face of the first substrate and regulating a position of the second substrate relative to the first substrate in a state in which the restricting member is attached to the first substrate, and limiting a direction in which the second substrate is detached when the second connector mounted on the second substrate is detached from the first connector on the first substrate. | 07-03-2014 |
20140213076 | ELECTRICAL CONNECTION DEVICE - An electrical connection device is used to be provided in an electronic device casing, and comprises a first circuit board and a second circuit board which are substantially coplanar, a receptacle connector provided to the first circuit board and a plug connector provided to the second circuit board. The receptacle connector comprises a housing and a plurality of first terminals. The housing has a first mating surface, and a pair of sliding contact grooves respectively adjacent to both sides of the first mating surface. The plug connector comprises a body and a plurality of second terminals. The body has a pair of side flanges respectively engaged with and received in the sliding contact grooves. The plug connector is mated with the receptacle connector in a direction perpendicular to a board surface of the first circuit board. | 07-31-2014 |
20140220797 | HIGH PERFORMANCE ELECTRICAL CONNECTOR WITH TRANSLATED INSULATOR CONTACT POSITIONING - An electrical interconnect including a substrate with at least two adjacent layers configured to translate relative to each other between a nominal position and a translated position. A plurality of through holes are formed through the layers from a first surface of the substrate to a second surface of the substrate in both the nominal position and the translated position. At least one contact member is positioned in the through holes with distal portions accessible from the first surface and a proximal portions positioned near the second surface. The proximal portion of the contact members are secured to the substrate near the second surface with a conductive structure. The two adjacent layers of the substrate are translated from the nominal position to the translated position to elastically deform the contact members within the through holes and to displace the distal portions of the contact members toward the conductive structures, respectively. | 08-07-2014 |
20140273551 | CABLE MODULE CONNECTOR ASSEMBLY SUITABLE FOR USE IN BLIND-MATE APPLICATIONS - A cable module that utilizes a plurality of multi-wire cables to provide connections between two sets of connectors is disclosed. The module has a first set of connectors intended to mate with mating connectors disposed on a mother board and a second set of connectors intended to mate with a plurality of opposing connectors disposed on a plurality of daughter boards. The mother board generally lies in the same plane as the base of the module, while the daughter boards are oriented generally transverse to the module base. The two sets of connectors are capable of limited movement in the horizontal and vertical directions to give the module assembly blind mate functionality. The second set of connectors is restricted from movement in the depth direction, while the first set of connectors is capable of such movement. An exterior actuating mechanism provides a mechanical advantage that reduces the effort required to advance the first set of connectors into mating engagement with their opposing counterparts on the mother board. | 09-18-2014 |
20140273552 | INTERCONNECT ARCHITECTURE WITH STACKED FLEX CABLE - Stacked flex cable assemblies and their manufacture are described. One assembly includes a first flex cable and a second flex cable electrically coupled to the first flex cable. The assembly also includes a connector electrically coupled to the first flex cable. The first flex cable is positioned between the connector and the second flex cable. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 09-18-2014 |
20140295681 | ELECTRICAL CONNECTOR - An electrical connector is to be connected to a mating electrical connector in a connecting direction. The electrical connector includes a terminal; and a housing for holding the terminal. The terminal includes a board connecting portion to be connected to a board; a holding portion fixed to the housing; a contact region for contacting a mating contact portion of the mating electrical connector; a contact piece capable of elastically deforming; and a contact portion formed at a distal end portion of the contact piece. The housing includes an inner piece portion and an outer piece portion. The contact piece is disposed between the inner piece portion and the outer piece portion. The outer piece portion includes inner piece holding portions at both sides thereof. The inner piece holding portions are away from each other by a distance greater than a width of the inner piece portion. | 10-02-2014 |
20140302692 | BOARD-TO-BOARD CONNECTORS - Board-to-board connectors that may provide a durable and reliable connection, save board space, may be easy to manufacture, and may be simple to use during device assembly. One example may include a receptacle including a number of contacts forming electrical connections with traces or planes in or on a printed circuit board. A boss may be included as part of the receptacle and the boss may be connected to the printed circuit board. An insert may be mated to the receptacle. Contacts in the insert may form electrical connections with traces or planes in a second or flexible circuit board. A cowling may be placed over the flexible circuit board to act as a stiffener. A fastener, such as a screw, may be placed through openings in the cowling, second or flexible circuit board, and insert, and into the boss. | 10-09-2014 |
20140315397 | Electrical connector for connecting a daughterboard to a motherboard - The present invention relates to an electrical connector ( | 10-23-2014 |
20140357099 | CONNECTING MEMBER - A connecting element for electrically conductively connecting two component parts to a conductor, the conductor having at least two conductor elements which are movable relative to one another in the connection direction, wherein a relative movement of the conductor elements results in a radial deformation of at least one of the conductor elements. | 12-04-2014 |
20150037986 | CABLE CONNECTOR ASSEMBLY - A cable connector assembly comprises: a first connector module comprising an insulative housing with a plurality of receiving rooms, a plurality of first connectors respectively received into the receiving rooms, a first PCB electrically connected to the plurality of first connectors and a metallic shell enclosing the insulative housing; and a second connector module comprising a second PCB formed therein; a flat wire electrically connecting to the first connector module and the second connector module. One end of the flat wire is electrically connected to the first PCB, and the other end of the flat wire is electrically connected to the second PCB. | 02-05-2015 |
20150044887 | CIRCUIT-TERMINAL CONNECTING DEVICE - A circuit-terminal connecting device comprising an electrical connector having an insulated housing mounted on a main circuit board and a plurality of resilient contacts arranged on the insulated housing, and a flat circuit member having a reinforced portion attached to a reinforcing board member operative to engage with the insulated housing of the electrical connector, wherein each of the resilient contacts has a board connecting portion provided to be connected to a first circuit-terminal provided on the main circuit board, a fixable portion provided to be fixed to the insulated housing, and a resilient arm portion extending from the fixable portion and provided with a contact point for coming into press-contact with a second circuit-terminal provided on the reinforced portion of the flat circuit member and a locking portion for engaging with the reinforcing board member to lock the same. | 02-12-2015 |
20150044888 | ELECTRICAL CONNECTOR - An electrical connector is to be connected to a mating connector. The electrical connector includes a circuit board member formed of an insulation plate member; and a holding member for holding the circuit board member. The circuit board member includes a connecting portion to be connected with a mating connector of the mating connector. The connecting portion includes a pair of conductive band portions and a first insulation region disposed between the conductive band portions. | 02-12-2015 |
20150064939 | Interface Card Assembly for Use in a Bus Extension System - An interface card assembly of a bus extension system for coupling a solid state drive to a host bus adaptor of a host computer includes a printed circuit board having an edge connector with a plurality of pins and a plurality of first conducting traces. The interface card also includes a plurality of first serially aligned plated holes disposed along a first center-line having a first end and a second and being disposed perpendicularly to the edge connector and a slot. The slot is milled in the printed circuit board so that the slot is parallel and adjacent to the first center-line and extends beyond the first and second ends thereby leaving each of the first plated holes in a semi-circular shape. | 03-05-2015 |
20150064940 | CONNECTOR HOUSING, ELECTRIC CONNECTOR AND METHOD OF INSERTING CONNECTOR TERMINAL INTO CONNECTOR HOUSING - The connector housing includes a terminal housing in which at least one connector terminal electrically connecting two printed circuit boards to each other is housed, the terminal housing including a holder for holding the connector terminal therewith, the holder being elastically deformable in accordance with a displacement of the connector terminal. | 03-05-2015 |
20150118870 | INTEGRATED CIRCUIT CONNECTORS - Embodiments related to integrated circuit (IC) connectors are described. In some embodiments, an IC assembly may include an IC package substrate, an intermediate member, and a male connector. The IC package substrate may have first signal contacts on a top or bottom surface, and the bottom surface may have second signal contacts for coupling with a socket on a circuit board. The intermediate member may have a first end coupled to the first signal contacts and a second end extending beyond the side surface. The male connector may be disposed at the second end of the intermediate member, and may have signal contacts coupled to the signal contacts of the intermediate member. The male connector may be mateable with a female connector when the female connector is brought into engagement in a direction parallel to the axis of the intermediate member. Other embodiments may be disclosed and/or claimed. | 04-30-2015 |
20150118871 | LEG UNIT USED FOR CONNECTOR HOUSING AND CONNECTOR HOUSING INCLUDING THE SAME - A leg unit used for a connector housing, the leg unit being inserted into a fixing hole formed through a printed circuit board from a first surface towards a second surface of the printed circuit board, the leg unit including a first projection having elasticity, a second projection, and a contact portion making contact with the first surface when the leg unit is inserted into the fixing hole, the first and second projections being spaced away from each other and facing each other, a distance between an outer surface of the first projection and an outer surface of the second projection being greater within a predetermined range than an inner diameter of the fixing hole, the first projection including a unit for preventing the leg unit from being released out of the fixing hole after the leg unit has been inserted into the fixing hole. | 04-30-2015 |
20150303598 | MEZZANINE HEADER CONNECTOR - A mezzanine header connector includes a contact assembly having a pair of contact modules arranged back-to-back. The contact modules each have a dielectric holder holding a plurality of header contacts. The dielectric holder extends between a mating end and a mounting end and has an inner side and an outer side. The header contacts have mating segments exposed along the outer side at the mating end for termination to corresponding receptacle contacts of a mezzanine receptacle connector. The header contacts have terminating segments extending from the mounting end of the dielectric holder for termination to a circuit board. Each of the header contacts extend along a linear path between the corresponding mating segment and the corresponding terminating segment. The inner sides of the dielectric holders of the pair of contact modules abut against each other such that the header contacts face away from each other. | 10-22-2015 |
20150303599 | MEZZANINE CONNECTOR ASSEMBLY - A mezzanine connector assembly includes a mezzanine receptacle connector having a plurality of receptacle contacts arranged in pairs for carrying differential pair signals and each having a mating interface. The mezzanine receptacle connector has a plurality of receptacle ground shields surrounding each pair of receptacle contacts and providing electrical shielding from each other pair. The mezzanine connector assembly includes a mezzanine header connector having a plurality of header contacts arranged in pairs. Each header contact has a mating segment mated to the mating interface of the corresponding receptacle contact. The mezzanine header connector has a plurality of header ground shields surrounding each pair of header contacts and providing electrical shielding from each other pair of header contacts. The header ground shields are mechanically and electrically connected to associated receptacle ground shields to create shield boxes around the various mated pairs of header and receptacle contacts. | 10-22-2015 |
20150303600 | MEZZANINE RECEPTACLE CONNECTOR - A mezzanine receptacle connector includes a housing having a mating end configured to be mated with a mezzanine header connector and a mounting end configured to be mounted to a circuit board. The mating end is opposite the mounting end and includes a plurality of contact cavities configured to receive associated header contacts of the mezzanine header connector. Receptacle contacts are received in corresponding contact cavities of the housing. Each receptacle contact has a main contact and a sub-contact extending from the main contact. The main contact defines a first mating interface and the sub-contact defines a second mating interface. The first and second mating interfaces of each receptacle contact are configured to directly engage the same header contact of the mezzanine header connector at different points of contact. | 10-22-2015 |
20150303601 | MEZZANINE HEADER CONNECTOR - A mezzanine header connector includes header modules stacked side-by-side having housing frames holding contact assemblies. Each contact assembly includes header contacts held by at least one dielectric holder. The header contacts have mating segments for termination to corresponding receptacle contacts of a mezzanine receptacle connector and terminating segments for termination to a circuit board. Each of the header contacts extend along a linear path between the corresponding mating segment and the corresponding terminating segment. Each housing frame has walls defining pockets receiving corresponding header contacts of the contact assembly. The housing frame is conductive and provides shielding around the associated header contacts of the contact assemblies. The header contacts face associated walls with air separating the header contacts and the walls along a majority of the header contacts. | 10-22-2015 |
20150311608 | ELECTRICAL CONNECTION UNIT BETWEEN TWO ELECTRONIC BOARDS - An electrical connection unit for electrically interconnecting two electronic boards, is disclosed. The connection unit includes at least one electrical pin for electrically interconnecting the two boards, a mechanical link part for mechanically interlinking the two boards, where the electrical connection unit is disposed to enable concomitantly the electrical connection of the two boards via the pin and the mechanical link of the two boards via the link part, and a body which simultaneously carries the electrical pin and the mechanical link part, the body including a support portion for receiving and supporting one of the electronic boards, the support portion and the link part being disposed in such a way that the electronic board is held in place by being wedged between the support portion of the body and a point at which the mechanical link part is secured to the board. | 10-29-2015 |
20160006150 | ORTHOGONAL BACKPLANE DESIGN WITH REDUCED CHASSIS DEPTH - According to some embodiments of the invention a device comprises a first circuit board having a hollow slot, wherein a longitudinal length of the hollow slot is greater than a transverse length of the hollow slot, wherein a longitudinal axis of the hollow slot is parallel to a first edge of the first circuit board, wherein the hollow slot causes a gap at a second edge of the first circuit board, and wherein the hollow slot is adapted to accept a second circuit board that is oriented orthogonally to the first circuit board. The device may further comprise a first data transferring connector coupled to the first circuit board at a longitudinal terminus of the hollow slot, wherein the first data transferring connector is adapted to connect to a second data transferring connector that is coupled to the second circuit board. | 01-07-2016 |
20160028173 | PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARD CONNECTOR FOR NON-PLANAR CONFIGURATIONS - A mesh network of printed circuit boards (PCBs) including a first PCB coupled to a second rigid PCB by way of an interlocking connection is provided. The interlocking connection has a degree of freedom that allows the first and second PCBs to form a twist angle between each other; the interlocking connector configured to provide electrical coupling between active components disposed in each of the first and second PCBs. A method of forming a substrate fabric including a mesh network as above is also provided. Further provided is a method of activating the mesh network of printed circuit boards as above. | 01-28-2016 |
20160043484 | DOUBLING AVAILABLE PRINTED WIRING CARD EDGE FOR HIGH SPEED INTERCONNECT IN ELECTRONIC PACKAGING APPLICATIONS - An interconnection assembly for a motherboard uses right-angle edge connectors attached to a bottom side of the motherboard, and vertical header connectors attached to the top side. The header connectors mate with a transition card assembly which includes a transition card having plated through holes that receive pins of the header connectors. Right-angle mezzanine connectors mounted on the transition card have pins that extend into the plated through holes from the top side. The edge connectors and mezzanine connectors both face forward in a common direction. The transition card has holes along a rear edge to retain pressed-in nuts for mounting to a stabilizing bezel. Instead of pins being part of the header connectors, connector caps may be provided with pins having first ends that extend into sockets of the header connectors and second ends that extend into the plated through holes of the transition card. | 02-11-2016 |
20160056554 | HIGH SPEED SIGNAL CONNECTOR ASSEMBLY - A connector assembly is configured to provide one or more signal paths between electrical components mounted on at least one component device. The connector assembly may include a printed circuit board (PCB) that supports one or more contacts on a first PCB surface that is opposite from a second PCB surface, a spacer secured over the first PCB surface, wherein at least portions of the one or more contacts are exposed through the spacer, and a support plate secured to the second PCB surface. The support plate is configured to mount the connector assembly to a first device surface that is opposite from a second device surface on which at least one electrical component is mounted. | 02-25-2016 |
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20160056559 | PRINTED BOARD CONNECTING STRUCTURE - A printed board connecting structure including a first printed board provided with either a male or female connector as a first connector, and a second printed board provided with the other connector (the female or male connector) as a second connector, wherein the first printed board and the second printed board are connected through mating of the first connector and the second connector. The first printed board comprises a guiding hole on a board surface in the vicinity of the first connector; and the second printed board comprises a guiding protrusion for guiding the mating of the first connector and the second connector by first engaging with the guiding hole of the first printed board when the first connector and the second connector are to be mated. | 02-25-2016 |
20160064839 | CONNECTOR ALIGNMENT ASSEMBLY - A connector alignment assembly comprises a support member having a surface from which an array of male connector pins extend outwardly, each male connector pin having a base region proximate the surface of the support member and a tip region proximate the end of each male connector pin. Guide posts extend from the surface in the direction of the array of male connector pins and compression mechanisms, one associated with each of the guide posts. The compression mechanisms are adapted to transition from the uncompressed position to a compressed position. An alignment plate has guide holes which engage with the guide posts to position the alignment plate in a spaced relationship from the surface of the support member. The alignment plate has an array of male connector pin holes which engage with the array of male connector pins. | 03-03-2016 |
20160064841 | Receiving socket for receiving and making contact with an electronic module - The invention relates to a receiving socket for receiving and making contact with an electronic module ( | 03-03-2016 |
20160064843 | ELECTRICAL CONNECTOR ASSEMBLY - In the terminals of the first electrical connector, the elastic arm portions are formed such that their width dimensions in the array direction of the above-mentioned terminals are smaller than the securing arm portions; in the terminals of the second electrical connector, the sections that correspond to the securing arm portions are formed such that their width dimensions are smaller than the sections that correspond to the elastic arm portions; on the elastic arm portions side, the terminals of the first electrical connector are formed such that their width dimensions are smaller than the terminals of the second electrical connector; and on the securing arm portions side, the terminals of the second electrical connector are formed such that their width dimensions are smaller than the terminals of the first electrical connector. | 03-03-2016 |
20160087357 | PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARD - A printed circuit board includes at least two rigid printed circuit board parts which are connected to one another by at least one flexible connecting part which is thinner than the rigid printed circuit board parts. The at least two rigid printed circuit board parts can be moved toward one another by bending the flexible connecting part. A groove, which is produced by the different thickness of the rigid printed circuit board parts relative to the flexible connecting part, is filled with an elastic material. | 03-24-2016 |
20160118734 | SINGLE FLEX PRINTED WIRING BOARD FOR ELECTRIC SYSTEM CONTROLLER - According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided an apparatus that comprises a first printed wiring board and a second printed wiring board that utilize connectors to communicatively couple the apparatus to a processing system. The apparatus further includes at least one additional connector configured to electrically and/or mechanically connect the first and second printed wiring boards so as to eliminate the need for a printed wiring board backplane. | 04-28-2016 |
20160134038 | WIRING MEMBER, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME, METHOD OF DESIGNING THE SAME, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - There is provided a wiring member including: a wiring substrate including wirings including a ground line, and a first insulating layer that covers the wirings and has an opening portion exposing at least a portion of the ground line; a first conductive sheet sandwiched between a second insulating layer and a conductive bonding layer disposed on the first insulating layer and electrically connected to the ground line through the opening portion; a second conductive sheet including first and second electrically connectable portions to another member, the first connection portion disposed between a portion of the first conductive sheet and the wiring substrate to be electrically connected to the conductive bonding layer of the first conductive sheet; and a shielding member that is disposed to be electrically connected to the second connection portion of the second conductive sheet. | 05-12-2016 |
20160134039 | WIRING MEMBER, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME, METHOD OF DESIGNING THE SAME, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - There is provided a wiring member including: a wiring substrate including wirings including a ground line, and a first insulating layer that covers the wirings and has an opening portion exposing at least a portion of the ground line; a conductive sheet sandwiched between a second insulating layer and a conductive bonding layer and disposed on the first insulating layer in a state where the conductive sheet is folded so that the second insulating layers faces to each other, and in which the conductive bonding layer in a portion which is not folded is electrically connected to the ground line through the opening portion; and a shielding member disposed on the wiring substrate and the conductive sheet to be bonded to the conductive bonding layer in a portion of the conductive sheet which is folded, and is electrically connected to the ground line through the folded portion. | 05-12-2016 |
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