Patents Assigned to FCI Americas Technology LLC
  • Straddle mount electrical connector with fusible elements
    Patent number: 8834181
    Abstract: 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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2014
    Assignee: FCI Americas Technology LLC
    Inventor: John P. Thompson
  • Electrical connector with latch
    Patent number: 8834190
    Abstract: An electrical connector may retain a substrate in secure, mating engagement with the electrical connector. The electrical connector can include at least one attachment member that is configured to be received in an aperture that extends through the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2014
    Assignee: FCI Americas Technology LLC
    Inventors: Hung Viet Ngo, Robert E. Marshall
  • Housing insert contact protection
    Patent number: 8827741
    Abstract: An electrical connector housing including a main housing member and at least one protective wafer. The main housing member has a contact locating area. Opposite sides of the contact locating area include slots for receiving opposite end portions of insertable wafers. The at least one protective wafer is configured to be located in the contact locating area and includes opposite end portions adapted to be matingly slid into a pair of the slots. The protective wafer has a top side configured to project above top ends of contacts located in the contact locating area. The protective wafer and the main housing member are sized and shaped to combine to help prevent a user's finger from contacting the top ends of the contacts located in the contact locating area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: FCI Americas Technology LLC
    Inventors: Lewis R. Johnson, Steven E. Minich, Derek L. Brickner, Scott Kleinle
  • Receptacle heat sink connection
    Patent number: 8830679
    Abstract: A receptacle including a shield housing and a heat sink. The shield housing has a first side configured to be connected to a printed circuit board. The housing has an aperture for insertion of a plug of a cable assembly. The heat sink is connected to the first side or an opposite second side of the shield housing. The heat sink has a lateral end section which extends along an exterior of a least one lateral side of the shield housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: FCI Americas Technology LLC
    Inventor: Michael Scholeno
  • Electrical assembly with connector-supported light pipe and pass through heat sink
    Patent number: 8823540
    Abstract: An electrical assembly includes a guide frame with closed and open ends, the guide frame configured to be mounted to a substrate. The guide frame defines at least one cavity configured to receive an electrical component therein. A connector housing configured to be disposed in the at least one cavity and mounted to the substrate can support a retainer that extends outwardly from a body of the connector housing. The retainer can be configured to receive an attachment member supported by a light pipe, and can extend outwardly through the closed end of the guide frame. A heat sink coupled to the guide frame can be configured to have at least a portion of the light pipe disposed therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: FCI Americas Technology LLC
    Inventor: Michael Scholeno
  • Electrical connector including guidance and latch assembly
    Patent number: 8794991
    Abstract: An electrical connector assembly includes first and second electrical connectors that include complementary guidance members and complementary latch members that engage when the first and second electrical connectors are mated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: FCI Americas Technology LLC
    Inventor: Hung Viet Ngo
  • Electrical connector
    Patent number: 8784116
    Abstract: Electrical connectors that are mating compatible with the MicroTCA® standard and configured to be mounted to an underlying substrate are provided. Certain of the electrical connectors can be configured to be mounted to a substrate configured in accordance with the MicroTCA® press fit footprint. Additionally, electrical connectors that are mating compatible with the MicroTCA® standard and configured to be mounted to respective alternative footprints, and substrates configured in accordance with the respective alternative footprints are provided. The disclosed electrical connectors and corresponding substrate footprints can operate to transmit data at speed up to and in excess of 25 Gigabits per second.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignee: FCI Americas Technology LLC
    Inventors: Jonathan E. Buck, Madhumitha Rengarajan
  • Cross talk reduction for high speed electrical connectors
    Patent number: 8764464
    Abstract: Example electrical connectors are provided including a plurality of electrical contacts configured to communicate between electrical devices. The plurality of electrical contacts includes a plurality of ground contacts. A ground coupling assembly is configured to electrically connect ground contacts of an electrical connector to adjust a performance characteristic of the electrical connector as desired.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Assignees: FCI Americas Technology LLC, FCI
    Inventors: Jonathan E. Buck, Stefaan Hendrik Jozef Sercu, Jan De Geest, Steven E. Minich, Mark R. Gray, Christopher J. Kolivoski, Douglas M. Johnescu, Stuart C. Stoner, Alan Raistrick
  • Electrical connector
    Patent number: 8764483
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes a connector housing, a plurality of electrical contacts carried by the housing, including respective pluralities of signal contacts and ground contacts configured as crosstalk shields. Electrical characteristics exhibited by the electrical connector during operation can be tuned by modifying physical characteristics of one or more of the crosstalk shields, for instance by modifying the respective shield body of one or more of the plurality of crosstalk shields so as to alter a corresponding shield area defined by the shield body of each of the plurality of crosstalk shields.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Assignee: FCI Americas Technology LLC
    Inventor: Jason John Ellison
  • Electrical connector with ground plates
    Patent number: 8734187
    Abstract: An electrical connector and leadframe assemblies for use therein are provided. Each leadframe assembly can be constructed with at least one electric contact having a ground plate. A first type of leadframe assembly includes an uppermost electrical contact defining a ground plate. A second type of leadframe assembly includes a lowermost electrical contact defining a ground plate. The ground plates can reduce the level of crosstalk exhibited by the electrical connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Assignees: FCI, FCI Americas Technology LLC
    Inventors: Jan De Geest, Stefaan Hendrik Jozef Sercu, Stephen B. Smith, Douglas M. Johnescu, Jonathan E. Buck
  • Power connector
    Patent number: 8727796
    Abstract: An electrical power connector can include a connector housing having a front end defining a mating interface that includes a receptacle defined by opposing first and second surfaces. The interface can further include a plurality of first dividers that extend from the first surface and into the receptacle, and a plurality of second dividers that extend from the second surface and into the receptacle. The connector can further include a first row of contact beams and a second row of contact beams supported by the housing. Each contact beam of the first and second rows extends at least partially into the receptacle. The contact beams of the first row are separated from each other by the first dividers, and the contact beams of the second row are separated from each other by the second dividers such that a minimum creep distance between adjacent contact beams is greater than 1.0 mm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Assignee: FCI Americas Technology LLC
    Inventor: Hung Viet Ngo
  • Straddle mount connector
    Patent number: D709455
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignee: FCI Americas Technology LLC
    Inventor: Hung Viet Ngo
  • Right-angle electrical connector housing
    Patent number: D712841
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: FCI Americas Technology LLC
    Inventors: Jonathan E. Buck, Stuart C. Stoner, Steven E. Minich, Douglas M. Johnescu, Stephen B. Smith
  • Right-angle electrical connector housing
    Patent number: D712842
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: FCI Americas Technology LLC
    Inventors: Jonathan E. Buck, Stuart C. Stoner, Steven E. Minich, Douglas M. Johnescu, Stephen B. Smith
  • Vertical electrical connector housing
    Patent number: D712843
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: FCI Americas Technology LLC
    Inventors: Jonathan E. Buck, Stuart C. Stoner, Steven E. Minich, Douglas M. Johnescu, Stephen B. Smith
  • Right-angle electrical connector housing
    Patent number: D712844
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: FCI Americas Technology LLC
    Inventors: Jonathan E. Buck, Stuart C. Stoner, Steven E. Minich, Douglas M. Johnescu, Stephen B. Smith
  • Vertical electrical connector
    Patent number: D713346
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2014
    Assignee: FCI Americas Technology LLC
    Inventors: Jonathan E. Buck, Stuart C. Stoner, Steven E. Minich, Douglas M. Johnescu, Stephen B. Smith
  • Vertical electrical connector
    Patent number: D713356
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2014
    Assignee: FCI Americas Technology LLC
    Inventors: Jonathan E. Buck, Stuart C. Stoner, Steven E. Minch, Douglas M. Johnescu, Stephen B. Smith
  • Electrical connector housing
    Patent number: D713799
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2014
    Assignee: FCI Americas Technology LLC
    Inventors: Jonathan E. Buck, Stuart C. Stoner, Steven E. Minich, Douglas M. Johnescu, Stephen B. Smith, Lewis Robin Johnson, Mark Edwin Lauermann
  • Ground plate for an electrical connector
    Patent number: D714227
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: FCI Americas Technology LLC
    Inventors: Jonathan E. Buck, Stuart C. Stoner, Steven E. Minich, Douglas M. Johnescu, Stephen B. Smith, Lewis Robin Johnson, Mark Edwin Lauermann