| Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
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| 439608000 | Conductive shielding material individually surrounding or interposed between mutually insulated contacts | 15 |
| 20080233800 | HIGH SPEED SIGNAL BACKPLANE INTERFACE - A modular chassis-based system may include a high speed backplane and multiple line cards. A connector connects the backplane to each line card for greater performance. The connector may include a stripline with a curved portion that transitions from the line cards to the backplane. | 09-25-2008 |
| 20080248693 | SHIELDLESS, HIGH-SPEED ELECTRICAL CONNECTORS - A shieldless, high-speed electrical connector is disclosed. Such a connector may include a first column of electrical contacts comprising a first arrangement of differential signal pairs separated from one another by first ground contacts, and a second column of electrical contacts adjacent to the first column, the second column of electrical contacts comprising a second arrangement of differential signal pairs separated from one another by second ground contacts. The connector may be devoid of electrical shield plates between the first column of electrical contacts and the second column of electrical contacts. The connector may be capable of transferring differential signals at data transfer rates of at least ten gigabits per second through the connector while producing no more than an acceptable level of cross talk on any of the differential signal pairs. | 10-09-2008 |
| 20080280491 | Grounding Terminal for Electrical Connector - A grounding terminal for electrical connector, which can reduce noise, includes a main body, a wing portion and a coupling portion. A connector insulator includes signal terminal openings and L-shaped or U-shaped grounding terminal openings. The wing portion and the coupling portion are extended from both lower side edges of the main body, respectively. Thus, the grounding terminal can be engaged with the L-shaped or U-shaped grounding terminal opening. Although the grounding terminal is not in U shape, the grounding terminal and the grounding terminal opening surround the signal terminals. Therefore, the grounding terminal still provides an EMI shielding similar to that of a conventional U-shaped grounding terminal. | 11-13-2008 |
| 20080280492 | Electrical connector with programmable lead frame - A contact module assembly is provided for an electrical connector. The contact module assembly includes a lead frame having a plurality of terminals and a commoning member at least partially including an electrically conductive material. The commoning member has a plurality of tabs that are electrically connected to selected ones of the terminals, thereby electrically commoning the selected ones of the terminals. The commoning member can be configured with different patterns of the tabs to selectively configure the lead frame with different patterns of commoned terminals. | 11-13-2008 |
| 20090011640 | ELECTRICAL CONNECTOR - An electrical connector ( | 01-08-2009 |
| 20090011641 | HIGH SPEED, HIGH DENSITY ELECTRICAL CONNECTOR - An electrical connector includes a wafer formed with a ground shield made from a non-conductive material made conductive with conductive particles disposed therein, thereby eliminating the necessity of the metal ground shield plate found in prior art connectors while maintaining sufficient performance characteristics and minimizing electrical noise generated in the wafer. The wafer housing is formed with a first, insulative housing at least partially surrounding a pair of signal strips and a second, conductive housing at least partially surrounding the first, insulative housing and the signal strips. The housings provide the wafer with sufficient structural integrity, obviating the need for additional support structures or components for a wafer. Ground strips may be employed in the wafer and may be formed in the same plane as the signal strips. The second, conductive housing may be connected (e.g., molded) to the ground strips and spaced appropriately from the signal strips. The wafer may also include air gaps between the signal strips of one wafer and the conductive housing of an adjacent wafer further reducing electrical noise or other losses (e.g., cross-talk) without sacrificing significant signal strength. | 01-08-2009 |
| 20090011642 | SHORT LENGTH COMPLIANT PIN, PARTICULARLY SUITABLE WITH BACKPLANE CONNECTORS - An electrical connector having a plurality of connector units each having a pair of columns of edge coupled differential signal pairs separated by a ground shield terminal. The ground shield terminals each face a different signal pair of terminals in an adjacent column. Notwithstanding the different size and configurations of the ground and signal terminals, the terminals have mounting tail portions that are disposed in a uniform array different from the arrangement of the body portions of the terminals of the connector unit. The mounting tail portions are of a reduced length which benefit the electrical performance of the connector where it meets its supporting circuit board. | 01-08-2009 |
| 20090011643 | Impedance control in connector mounting areas - A high speed connector with reduced crosstalk utilizes individual connector support frames that are assembled together to form a block of connector units. Each such unit supports a column of conductive terminals in two spaced-apart columns. The columns have differential signal terminal pairs separated from each other by larger intervening ground shields that serve as ground terminals. The ground shields are arranged in alternating fashion within the pair of columns and they are closely spaced together so as to face a differential signal terminal pair. In areas where the terminals are mounted to the connector units, window-like openings are formed in the large ground shield terminals to reduce the amount of broadside coupling between the differential signal terminal pair and the signal terminal pair are narrowed to increase their edge-to-edge distance to account for the change in dielectric constant of the connector unit material filing in the area between the signal terminal pair. | 01-08-2009 |
| 20090011644 | High speed connector with spoked mounting frame - A high speed connector with reduced crosstalk utilizes individual connector support frames that are assembled together to form a block of connector units. Each such unit supports a column of conductive terminals in two spaced-apart columns. The columns have differential signal terminal pairs separated from each other by larger intervening ground shields that serve as ground terminals. The ground shields are arranged in alternating fashion within the pair of columns and they are closely spaced together so as to face a differential signal terminal pair. The support frames support the ground and signal terminals utilizing radial spokes in which the spokes take the form of ribs that extend along the inner surfaces of one of the connector halves and define V-shaped air channels. | 01-08-2009 |
| 20090011645 | Mezzanine-style connector with serpentine ground structure - A high speed connector with reduced crosstalk utilizes individual connector support frames that are assembled together to form a block of connector units in a vertical arrangement. Each such unit supports an array of conductive terminals that are arranged in two spaced-apart rows. The rows have differential signal terminal pairs separated from each other by larger intervening ground shields that serve as ground terminals. The ground shields are arranged in alternating fashion within each row of terminals and they are closely spaced together so as to define within the rows of each connector unit, a horizontal serpentine pattern of ground shields that cooperate to act as a single “pseudo” shield within each pair of terminal rows. | 01-08-2009 |
| 20090017681 | Connector with uniformly arrange ground and signal tail portions - An electrical connector having a plurality of connector units each having a pair of columns of edge coupled differential signal pairs separated by a ground shield terminal. The ground shield terminals each face a different signal pair of terminals in an adjacent column. Notwithstanding the different size and configurations of the ground and signal terminals, the terminals have mounting tail portions that are disposed in a uniform array different from the arrangement of the body portions of the terminals of the connector unit. | 01-15-2009 |
| 20090017682 | Connector with serpentine ground structure - A high speed connector with reduced crosstalk utilizes individual connector support frames that are assembled together to form a block of connector units. Each such unit supports a column of conductive terminals in two spaced-apart columns. The columns have differential signal terminal pairs separated from each other by larger intervening ground shields that serve as ground terminals. The ground shields are arranged in alternating fashion within the pair of columns and they are closely spaced together so as to define within the pair of columns, a serpentine pattern of ground shields that cooperate to act as a single “pseudo” shield within each pair of columns. | 01-15-2009 |
| 20090061684 | 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. | 03-05-2009 |
| 20090068887 | High speed transmission connector - Each of the ground contact terminals of a contact unit has a pair of bifurcated terminals located on opposite sides of a pair of transmission contact terminals formed adjacent to each other. | 03-12-2009 |
| 20090068888 | Socket connector - A socket connector is disclosed that includes a housing, multiple contact modules fixed to the housing, and multiple shield members coupled and fixed to the corresponding contact modules. The contact modules and the shield members are alternately arranged in alignment in a longitudinal direction of the housing. The shield members are fixed to the housing. | 03-12-2009 |
