Patents by Inventor Doug W. Glover

Doug W. Glover 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).

  • Performance enhancing contact module assemblies
    Patent number: 7585186
    Abstract: A contact module assembly includes a dielectric body having a mating end with a plurality of mating contacts and a mounting end with a plurality of mounting contacts. A lead frame is at least partially encased by the dielectric body, wherein the lead frame has a plurality of conductors representing both signal conductors and ground conductors extending alone a lead frame plane. The signal and ground conductors extend from respective ones of the mating contacts and the mounting contacts, wherein at least some of the ground conductors include a mating contact terminal proximate the respective mating contact and a mounting contact terminal proximate the respective mounting contact. The ground conductors extend only partially between the mating contact and the mounting contact associated with the respective ground conductor such that a gap exists between the mating contact terminal and the mounting contact terminal of the ground conductor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2009
    Assignee: Tyco Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Matthew Richard McAlonis, Lynn Robert Sipe, James Lee Fedder, Brent Ryan Rothermel, Doug W. Glover
  • PERFORMANCE ENHANCING CONTACT MODULE ASSEMBLIES
    Publication number: 20090093158
    Abstract: A contact module assembly includes a dielectric body having a mating end with a plurality of mating contacts and a mounting end with a plurality of mounting contacts. A lead frame is at least partially encased by the dielectric body, wherein the lead frame has a plurality of conductors representing both signal conductors and ground conductors extending alone a lead frame plane. The signal and ground conductors extend from respective ones of the mating contacts and the mounting contacts, wherein at least some of the ground conductors include a mating contact terminal proximate the respective mating contact and a mounting contact terminal proximate the respective mounting contact. The ground conductors extend only partially between the mating contact and the mounting contact associated with the respective ground conductor such that a gap exists between the mating contact terminal and the mounting contact terminal of the ground conductor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2007
    Publication date: April 9, 2009
    Inventors: Matthew Richard McAlonis, Lynn Robert Sipe, James Lee Fedder, Brent Ryan Rothermel, Doug W. Glover