Patents by Inventor David Wayne Helster
David Wayne Helster has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Publication number: 20220181824Abstract: An electrical connector including a housing defining an interior cavity and extending from a mounting end to an engagement end, and at least one signal component disposed within the interior cavity of the housing. The housing is formed from a conductive composite material and engages the at least one signal component to shield the interior cavity.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 23, 2022Publication date: June 9, 2022Inventors: John Joseph Consoli, Chad William Morgan, Timothy Robert Minnick, David Wayne Helster, Ting Gao, Jialing Wang, Mark Wartenberg
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Publication number: 20200274300Abstract: An electrical connector including a housing defining an interior cavity and extending from a mounting end to an engagement end, and at least one signal component disposed within the interior cavity of the housing. The housing is formed from a conductive composite material and engages the at least one signal component to shield the interior cavity.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2019Publication date: August 27, 2020Inventors: John Joseph Consoli, Chad William Morgan, Timothy Robert Minnick, David Wayne Helster, Ting Gao, Jialing Wang, Mark Wartenberg
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Patent number: 10128616Abstract: An electrical connector includes a housing and contact assemblies. The housing includes shroud walls and a base having a front side and a rear side. The front side of the base and the shroud walls define a cavity configured to receive a mating connector. The base is electrically conductive and has chambers extending therethrough that are defined by chamber walls. The contact assemblies are received in the chambers. Each contact assembly has a signal pod surrounded on at least two sides by a ground shield. The signal pod includes a dielectric body holding a pair of signal contacts. The dielectric body engages interior sides of the ground shield to electrically insulate the signal contacts from the ground shield. Exterior sides of the ground shield engage the chamber walls of the base to electrically connect the ground shield to the base.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2016Date of Patent: November 13, 2018Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY CORPORATIONInventors: Chad William Morgan, Timothy Robert Minnick, Arturo Pachon Munoz, David Wayne Helster, Brian Patrick Costello, Douglas Edward Lawrence
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Publication number: 20180026400Abstract: An electrical connector includes a housing and contact assemblies. The housing includes shroud walls and a base having a front side and a rear side. The front side of the base and the shroud walls define a cavity configured to receive a mating connector. The base is electrically conductive and has chambers extending therethrough that are defined by chamber walls. The contact assemblies are received in the chambers. Each contact assembly has a signal pod surrounded on at least two sides by a ground shield. The signal pod includes a dielectric body holding a pair of signal contacts. The dielectric body engages interior sides of the ground shield to electrically insulate the signal contacts from the ground shield. Exterior sides of the ground shield engage the chamber walls of the base to electrically connect the ground shield to the base.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 25, 2016Publication date: January 25, 2018Inventors: Chad William Morgan, Timothy Robert Minnick, Arturo Pachon Munoz, David Wayne Helster, Brian Patrick Costello, Douglas Edward Lawrence
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Patent number: 9768558Abstract: Electrical connector includes a connector housing. The electrical connector also includes a plurality of signal conductors coupled to the connector housing. Each of the signal conductors has a first terminal, a second terminal, and an elongated conductor body extending between the first and second terminals. The first terminals are configured to engage corresponding conductive elements of an electrical component. The electrical connector also includes a ground structure coupled to the connector housing. The ground structure is positioned between adjacent signal conductors and has an exterior surface. At least a portion the exterior surface has a textured area that is configured to dampen reflected energy that propagates there along.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2016Date of Patent: September 19, 2017Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY CORPORATIONInventors: Justin Dennis Pickel, Timothy Robert Minnick, Chad William Morgan, David Wayne Helster
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Patent number: 9748698Abstract: An electrical connector includes a housing, signal pods, and ground shields. The housing has a base that is electrically conductive. The base has chambers and ground slots extending therethrough. The chambers are defined by chamber walls that separate the chambers from the ground slots. The signal pods, which each include a dielectric body holding a pair of signal contacts, are received in the chambers. The dielectric body engages the chamber walls and electrically insulates the signal contacts from the base. The ground shields are received in the ground slots. Each ground shield surrounds an associated signal pod on at least two sides to provide electrical shielding for the signal contacts in the signal pod from other signal contacts.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2016Date of Patent: August 29, 2017Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY CORPORATIONInventors: Chad William Morgan, Timothy Robert Minnick, Arturo Pachon Munoz, David Wayne Helster, Brian Patrick Costello, Douglas Edward Lawrence
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Patent number: 9472878Abstract: Cable connector including a connector body extending along a longitudinal axis between a mating side and a loading side of the connector body. The connector body is oriented with respect to a mating axis that is perpendicular to the longitudinal axis. The cable connector also includes electrical conductors having body segments that extend through the connector body between the mating and loading sides and contact beams that project from the mating side. The contact beams have mating interfaces that are configured to directly engage corresponding electrical contacts of a mating component during a mating operation. The contact beams are shaped to extend along the longitudinal axis away from the mating side and along the mating axis such that the mating interfaces form a two-dimensional (2D) array that is oriented substantially perpendicular to the mating axis.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2015Date of Patent: October 18, 2016Assignee: Tyco Electronics CorporationInventors: Brian Patrick Costello, Michael David Herring, Arash Behziz, David Wayne Helster
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Patent number: 9413112Abstract: An electrical connector includes a housing and a plurality of contact modules and ground plates held by the housing. Each contact module includes left and right signal wafers stacked next to each other along a stack axis. The signal wafers include electrical terminals held by a dielectric body. The electrical terminals have mounting contacts protruding from the dielectric body at a mounting face of the housing. The electrical terminals of at least one of the signal wafers in each contact module are jogged toward the other signal wafer such that the mounting contacts of each contact module align in a column. Each of the ground plates is disposed along an outer side of a corresponding contact module.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2014Date of Patent: August 9, 2016Assignee: Tyco Electronics CorporationInventors: David Wayne Helster, Linda Ellen Shields, Michael John Phillips, Bruce Allen Champion, Sandeep Patel
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Publication number: 20160211598Abstract: Cable connector including a connector body extending along a longitudinal axis between a mating side and a loading side of the connector body. The connector body is oriented with respect to a mating axis that is perpendicular to the longitudinal axis. The cable connector also includes electrical conductors having body segments that extend through the connector body between the mating and loading sides and contact beams that project from the mating side. The contact beams have mating interfaces that are configured to directly engage corresponding electrical contacts of a mating component during a mating operation. The contact beams are shaped to extend along the longitudinal axis away from the mating side and along the mating axis such that the mating interfaces form a two-dimensional (2D) array that is oriented substantially perpendicular to the mating axis.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 16, 2015Publication date: July 21, 2016Inventors: Brian Patrick Costello, Michael David Herring, Arash Behziz, David Wayne Helster
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Publication number: 20160043508Abstract: An electrical connector includes a housing and a plurality of contact modules and ground plates held by the housing. Each contact module includes left and right signal wafers stacked next to each other along a stack axis. The signal wafers include electrical terminals held by a dielectric body. The electrical terminals have mounting contacts protruding from the dielectric body at a mounting face of the housing. The electrical terminals of at least one of the signal wafers in each contact module are jogged toward the other signal wafer such that the mounting contacts of each contact module align in a column. Each of the ground plates is disposed along an outer side of a corresponding contact module.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 7, 2014Publication date: February 11, 2016Inventors: David Wayne Helster, Linda Ellen Shields, Michael John Phillips, Bruce Allen Champion, Sandeep Patel
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Patent number: 7878854Abstract: An electrical connector is provided for mounting on a circuit board having first and second vias. The electrical connector includes a housing having a mounting face for mounting along the circuit board, and first and second signal terminals held by the housing. The first and second signal terminals include respective first and second mounting contacts extending outward from the mounting face of the housing. The first and second mounting contacts are configured to be received within the first and second vias, respectively, of the circuit board. The first mounting contact extends a different length from the mounting face of the housing than the second mounting contact.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2008Date of Patent: February 1, 2011Assignee: Tyco Electronics CorporationInventors: Chad William Morgan, David Wayne Helster
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Patent number: 7862344Abstract: A contact module is provided for an electrical connector. The contact module includes a body having a mating edge portion and a mounting edge portion. A lead frame is held by the body. The lead frame includes a differential pair of terminals extending between the mating edge portion and the mounting edge portion. The differential pair includes a positive terminal and a negative terminal having positive and negative mating contacts, respectively, and positive and negative mounting contacts, respectively. The positive and negative mating contacts extend from the mating edge portion in a first orientation. The positive and negative mounting contacts extend from the mounting edge portion in a second orientation. The first orientation at the mating edge portion is inverted relative to the second orientation at the mounting edge portion.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2008Date of Patent: January 4, 2011Assignee: Tyco Electronics CorporationInventors: Chad William Morgan, David Wayne Helster
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Patent number: 7833026Abstract: An electrical connector assembly includes a circuit board having vias each extending at least partially through the circuit board along parallel via axes and an electrical connector configured to be mounted on the circuit board. The electrical connector includes a plurality of variable depth signal terminals configured to extend different depths into respective vias of the circuit board. The signal terminals each have a terminal axis, and the signal terminals are arranged in pairs carrying differential pair signals. The signal terminals of each pair extend to the same depth in the respective vias of the circuit board. The terminal axes of the signal terminals of each pair are offset with respect to the corresponding via axes along a majority of the signal terminals within the vias.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2010Date of Patent: November 16, 2010Assignee: Tyco Electronics CorporationInventors: Chad William Morgan, David Wayne Helster, Michael William Woodford
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Publication number: 20100035454Abstract: A contact module is provided for an electrical connector. The contact module includes a body having a mating edge portion and a mounting edge portion. A lead frame is held by the body. The lead frame includes a differential pair of terminals extending between the mating edge portion and the mounting edge portion. The differential pair includes a positive terminal and a negative terminal having positive and negative mating contacts, respectively, and positive and negative mounting contacts, respectively. The positive and negative mating contacts extend from the mating edge portion in a first orientation. The positive and negative mounting contacts extend from the mounting edge portion in a second orientation. The first orientation at the mating edge portion is inverted relative to the second orientation at the mounting edge portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 8, 2008Publication date: February 11, 2010Inventors: Chad William Morgan, David Wayne Helster
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Publication number: 20100015822Abstract: An electrical connector is provided for mounting on a circuit board having first and second vias. The electrical connector includes a housing having a mounting face for mounting along the circuit board, and first and second signal terminals held by the housing. The first and second signal terminals include respective first and second mounting contacts extending outward from the mounting face of the housing. The first and second mounting contacts are configured to be received within the first and second vias, respectively, of the circuit board. The first mounting contact extends a different length from the mounting face of the housing than the second mounting contact.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 21, 2008Publication date: January 21, 2010Applicant: TYCO ELECTRONICS CORPORATIONInventors: CHAD WILLIAM MORGAN, DAVID WAYNE HELSTER
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Patent number: 7384311Abstract: An electrical connector includes a housing and a contact module mounted in the housing. The contact module includes a mating edge and a mounting edge, and a lead frame having terminals extending between the mating and mounting edges. The contact module has an insulated body with a side surface, and the insulated body includes a slot open from the side surface to expose at least some of the terminals. Each of the terminals exposed by the slot has a respective exposed portion in the slot, and each exposed portion has an equal length.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2006Date of Patent: June 10, 2008Assignee: Tyco Electronics CorporationInventors: Alex Michael Sharf, Brent Ryan Rothermel, Chad William Morgan, David Wayne Helster
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Patent number: 7331802Abstract: An electrical connector includes a housing having a mating face and a mounting face. The housing holds signal contacts and ground contacts arranged in rows. Each of the signal contacts and ground contacts include a mating end extending from the mating face of the housing and a mounting end extending from the mounting face of the housing. For each row, the mating ends of the signal contacts and ground contacts are aligned in a common plane. The mounting ends of the ground contacts are aligned in the common plane, and the mounting ends of the signal contacts are offset from the common plane.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2005Date of Patent: February 19, 2008Assignee: Tyco Electronics CorporationInventors: Brent Ryan Rothermel, Chad William Morgan, Wayne Samuel Davis, Alex Michael Sharf, David Wayne Helster
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Patent number: 6932649Abstract: An electrical connector is provided for operation in a point-to-point application. The connector includes an insulated housing having first and second card interfaces configured to mate with associated first and second circuit cards. An electrical wafer is held in the housing and configured to operate in a point-to-point architecture. The signal traces end at signal contact pads located proximate to first and second edges, respectively. The signal contact pads receive a unidirectional signal. Each of the signal traces include a break section at an intermediate point along a length thereof to form a disconnect in the signal traces. The connector further includes an active compensation component bridging the break section in the signal traces. The active compensation component compensates the differential signal incoming from the input contact pads for signal degradation and transmits a compensated signal outward to the output contact pads.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2004Date of Patent: August 23, 2005Assignee: Tyco Electronics CorporationInventors: Brent Ryan Rothermel, Chad William Morgan, Alex Michael Sharf, David Wayne Helster
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Patent number: 6808399Abstract: An electrical wafer configured to be housed within an electrical connector comprising a main body, and a plurality of signal routes, gap routes and ground planes. The plurality of signal routes, gap routes and ground planes may be positioned on each of the first and second sides of the main body. Alternatively, all of the signal routes may be on one side, while all of the ground planes may be on the other side. Each ground plane on one side of the wafer is positioned between two gap routes, or a gap route and a signal route.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2002Date of Patent: October 26, 2004Assignee: Tyco Electronics CorporationInventors: Brent Ryan Rothermel, Chad William Morgan, Alex Michael Sharf, David Wayne Helster
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Publication number: 20040106311Abstract: An electrical wafer configured to be housed within an electrical connector comprising a main body, and a plurality of signal routes, gap routes and ground planes. The plurality of signal routes, gap routes and ground planes may be positioned on each of the first and second sides of the main body. Alternatively, all of the signal routes may be on one side, while all of the ground planes may be on the other side. Each ground plane on one side of the wafer is positioned between two gap routes, or a gap route and a signal route.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 2, 2002Publication date: June 3, 2004Inventors: Brent Ryan Rothermel, Chad William Morgan, Alex Michael Sharf, David Wayne Helster