Patents Assigned to FCI
  • On board transceiver assembly having hold down member
    Patent number: 10638629
    Abstract: A hold down member can be surface mounted to a substrate, such that a post of the hold down member extends at least into an interposer. Accordingly, when an on board transceiver is placed in electrical communication with the interposer, a fastener can be inserted at least into the on board transceiver so as to attach to the post, thereby securing the on board transceiver to the interposer and the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: FCI USA LLC
    Inventor: John P. Thompson
  • LOW COST, HIGH RELIABILITY SLIDING POWER CONNECTOR
    Publication number: 20200127402
    Abstract: An electronic assembly with a first substrate and electrical connector terminals mounted on the first substrate. The electrical connector terminals have contact fingers and tracks. A bus bar may be aligned by the tracks such that contact surfaces on the contact fingers press against contact surfaces on the bus bar. The bus bar may slide in the tracks such that, when the bus bar is mounted in an electronic system including the electronic assembly, the electrical connector terminals enable the electronic assembly to slide relative to the bus bar. The electronic system may be implemented as a rack, and the electronic assembly may be or include a printed circuit board on which the electrical connector terminals are mounted. The printed circuit board may be slid in and out of the rack while power is supplied from the bus bar to components on the printed circuit board.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2019
    Publication date: April 23, 2020
    Applicant: FCI USA LLC
    Inventors: James M. Sabo, Clarence Randall Fry
  • HIGH RELIABILITY SLIDING POWER CONNECTOR
    Publication number: 20200127403
    Abstract: An electronic assembly with a sliding power connector mounted on a first substrate. The connector has tracks and terminals with contact fingers. A bus bar may be aligned by the tracks such that contact surfaces on the contact fingers press against contact surfaces on the bus bar. The electronic system may be implemented as a rack, and the electronic assembly may be or include a printed circuit board on which the power connector terminals are mounted. The printed circuit board may slide in and out of the rack while power is supplied from the bus bar to components on the printed circuit board. High reliability may be provided by one or more tabs on the housing that increase mating force of the contact fingers and/or prevent damage to the contact fingers from overstress. The contact fingers may be positioned to increase the lifetime of the system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2019
    Publication date: April 23, 2020
    Applicant: FCI USA LLC
    Inventors: James M. Sabo, Clarence Randall Fry
  • Electrical cable assembly
    Patent number: 10615524
    Abstract: An electrical cable assembly includes a plurality of electrical cables, and a plurality of interposers configured to be mounted to a substrate at a first end, and mounted to electrical conductors of the electrical cables at a second end that is offset from the first end. The electrical cable assembly further includes an alignment housing that supports the interposers, and further defines a conduit to receive the drain wires of the electrical cables that are mounted to the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: FCI USA LLC
    Inventor: Charles M. Gross
  • HIGH SPEED ELECTRICAL CONNECTOR
    Publication number: 20200083648
    Abstract: An electrical connector comprises a housing having a mating direction, a width direction orthogonal to the mating direction and a height direction orthogonal to the mating direction and the width direction. Low speed signal contacts and high speed signal contacts are arranged in the housing. Ground bars are each disposed between adjacent two of the contacts. A support member is attached to the housing and engaged to the ground bars. The support member has a main body disposed along the width direction and fingers extending laterally from the main body. Each of the fingers being in alignment with one of the low speed signal contacts along the mounting direction. The fingers are positioned away from the high speed contacts to achieve better signal integrity and crosstalk reduction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2017
    Publication date: March 12, 2020
    Applicant: Amphenol FCI Connectors Singapore Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Abin Simon Kurudamannil, Biju K. Paul, Alex Babu Thuruthummalil, Binesh C. Devimandiram
  • CONNECTORS FOR LOW COST, HIGH SPEED PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARDS
    Publication number: 20200083625
    Abstract: A connector with contact tails configured to provide a connector footprint enabling a low cost printed circuit board. The contact tails are positioned to leave routing channels, parallel to an edge of a printed circuit board, within the connector footprint. The routing channels may enable routing of high speed signal traces out of the connector footprint on a small number of routing layers. In a connector with 16 columns, each with 8 pairs of signal traces, two routing layers may be adequate to route traces connecting all of the signal vias in the connector footprint to components at the interior of the printed circuit board.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2019
    Publication date: March 12, 2020
    Applicant: FCI USA LLC
    Inventor: Steven E. Minich
  • Hingeable connector assembly
    Patent number: 10566753
    Abstract: An electrical connector assembly including a first connector with header contact blade (s) and a second connector with receptacle contact blade (s), The connectors are pivotable with respect to each other. The second connector includes a receptacle housing with an entrance for insertion of a header contact blade between a contact surface of the receptacle contact blade and an opposite surface. The entrance allows insertion in an angular range of mating directions within a plane perpendicular to the main pivoting axis. The contact surface of the receptacle contact blade and the opposite surface converge towards the main pivoting axis over said angular range. The receptacle contact blade has a free peripheral portion at the entrance of the receptacle housing, which is resiliently movable with respect to the receptacle housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: Amphenol FCI Asia Pte. Ltd.
    Inventor: Jeroen Jozef Maria De Bruijn
  • Connector assembly
    Patent number: 10559914
    Abstract: A connector assembly (1) comprises an outer housing (300); and a latch (330), which is carried by the outer housing (300), to allow a coupling of the connector assembly to a corresponding counter connector. Further, the outer housing (300) is configured to receive at least one of two different types of cables (100) through a first end and at least one of two different module mating interfaces (430, 432, 434) at a second end. In another embodiment the outer housing (300) is arranged movable on an inner housing (200), and the latch (330) is rotatably arranged on the outer housing (300).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2020
    Assignee: FCI USA LLC
    Inventors: Thierry Goossens, Kai Peters, Henricus E. g. Derks, Roland Tristan De Blieck
  • Electrical power connector
    Patent number: 10553973
    Abstract: An electrical power interconnection system is described. The electrical interconnection system may comprise an electrical power connector and a substrate, such as a printed circuit board. The electrical power connector may comprise a housing and a plurality of electrical power contacts supported by the housing. The electrical power contacts may comprise a mounting end, a mating end, and a contact body disposed between the mounting end and the mating end. The electrical power contacts may have planar portions. The mating ends may comprise opposing first second beams defining a slot. The slot may be configured to receive the substrate therein, such that the first beam contacts the first side of the substrate and the second beam contacts the second side of the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: FCI USA LLC
    Inventors: Charles Copper, Christopher J. Kolivoski, Hung Viet Ngo, Thomas Brungard
  • HIGH FREQUENCY CONNECTOR WITH KICK-OUT
    Publication number: 20200028302
    Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein relate to a high frequency connector system with reduced stub lengths that provide improved performance at high frequencies. A first connector includes a plurality of mating contacts designed to electrically connect to a second plurality of mating contacts associated with a second connector. The first connector includes one or more elastic members such that when the second connector is mated to the first connector, the one or more elastic members are compressed between the first and second connectors. The first and second plurality of contacts overlap by a first distance when initially mated, but when the connectors are released, the first elastic member biases the second connector away from the first connector such that the first and second plurality of contacts overlap by a second distance smaller than the first distance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2019
    Publication date: January 23, 2020
    Applicant: FCI USA LLC
    Inventor: Jordan Winey
  • Electrical connector with cavity between terminals
    Patent number: 10541482
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes a housing, first and second sets of terminals and a spacer. The housing has a first sidewall, a second sidewall spaced apart from the first sidewall and a cavity between the first and second sidewalls. The first set of terminals is disposed in the cavity adjacent to the first sidewall. The second set of terminals is disposed in the cavity adjacent to the second sidewall. The spacer is disposed in the cavity between the first and second sets of terminals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignees: Amphenol FCI Asia Pte. Ltd., Amphenol FCI Connectors Singapore Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Naotaka Sasame, Motomu Kajiura, Masahiko Motoyama
  • ELECTRICAL CONNECTOR WITH HERMAPHRODITIC TERMINAL AND HOUSING
    Publication number: 20200021069
    Abstract: A power connector assembly with hermaphroditic power connectors. The housing and the terminals of first and second mating power connectors may have like mating interfaces. The first power connector may include a plurality of first terminals, where the mating portion of each first terminal of the plurality of first terminals includes a first flat portion, and a first bent portion coupled to the first flat portion and including a first set of fingers parallel to the first flat portion. The second power connector may include a plurality of second terminals, where each second terminal of the plurality of second terminals includes a mating portion with a second flat portion, and a second bent portion coupled to the second flat portion and including a second set of fingers parallel to the second flat portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2019
    Publication date: January 16, 2020
    Applicant: FCI USA LLC
    Inventor: James M. Sabo
  • Selectively plated plastic part
    Patent number: 10535959
    Abstract: An electrical connector including a housing and electrical conductor plating. The housing includes a first member and a second member. The first member is made of plastic and forms at least one first contact receiving channel therein. The second member is attached around the first member, and the first and second members form at least one second contact receiving channel therebetween. The electrical conductor plating is on the first member. The electrical conductor plating includes at least one first section along the at least one first contact receiving channel and at least one second section along an exterior side of the first member at the at least one second contact receiving channel. The first and second sections of the electrical conductor plating are electrically separate from one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: FCI USA LLC
    Inventor: Charles Copper
  • Circuit board connector having a pair of locking arms
    Patent number: 10530082
    Abstract: A circuit board connector comprises a housing, at least one signal contact disposed in the housing, and a pair of locking arms attached to the housing. The housing has a slot formed therein, for receiving a circuit board. Each locking arm has a latch movably disposed in the slot. The pair of locking arms are resiliently deformable relative to the housing between a lock position at which the latch is positioned to block the slot, to lock a circuit board to the connect, and an unlock position at which the latch is positioned to form a clearance in the slot, to allow disconnection of the circuit board from the connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: Amphenol FCI Asia Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Masahiko Motoyama, Yasutoshi Kameda
  • CONNECTOR ASSEMBLY
    Publication number: 20200006897
    Abstract: A connector (103) is provided having a plurality of leads generally arranged in columns extending substantially parallel each other in a column direction (C) and being adjacent each other in a row direction (R). At least one first column comprises at least one first pair of single leads (S) substantially parallel each other in a first pair direction (P) to form a first differential pair. In at least a portion of the connector the first pair direction extends at an acute angle (a) to the column direction. Further, an assembly, and a circuit board are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2019
    Publication date: January 2, 2020
    Applicant: Amphenol FCI Asia Pte Ltd
    Inventors: Jan De Geest, Stefaan Hendrik Jozef Sercu
  • HIGH FREQUENCY BGA CONNECTOR
    Publication number: 20190387638
    Abstract: A connector for surface mounting with a solder reflow process with closely-spaced solder masses on mounting ends of reference contacts. The solder masses on the reference contacts may fuse for enhanced shielding. The mounting ends of signal and reference contacts may be positioned in rows, configured such that the solder masses of the reference contacts may shield solder masses attached to signal contacts in adjacent rows. The mounting ends of the signal contacts may be disposed in pockets in a surface of the connector housing. In some embodiments, solder balls may be fused to an edge of the signal contact, with the length of the edge extending beyond locations at which the solder ball is fused to. The edge may extend through a wall of the pocket, so as to set a desired impedance in the mounting region of the connector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2019
    Publication date: December 19, 2019
    Applicant: FCI USA LLC
    Inventors: Madhumitha Rengarajan, Lewis Robin Johnson
  • Differential pair signal contacts with skew correction
    Patent number: 10498086
    Abstract: An electrical connector configured for differential pairs with low in-pair skew. The connector may comprise lead frame assemblies, such as insert molded lead frame assemblies, with adjacent conductors configured for reduced skew by distributing skew correction throughout the transmission path through the lead frame assembly. Elongated air gaps are formed in a side of the housing, exposing the longer conductor of each pair. The elongated air gap may span the entire length of the arc of a longer conductor of each pair. The width of this air gap may be different for different pairs in the lead frame assembly and may be selected to cancel or prevent in-pair skew from arising. The width for each pair may be selected to tune the effective dielectric constant of the longer conductor such that its electrical length matches that of the shorter conductor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: FCI USA LLC
    Inventors: Madhumitha Rengarajan, Lewis Robin Johnson, Jan De Geest
  • Power detector
    Patent number: 10488446
    Abstract: Disclosed is a power detector. The power detector in which calibration is performed to minimize errors caused by a process variation and a temperature variation in a structure that allows a wide input dynamic range of the power detector at a low supply voltage is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: FCI INC.
    Inventor: DongHyun Ko
  • Organizer for electrical connector
    Patent number: 10483683
    Abstract: Electrically insulative organizers configured to maintain alignment of leadframe assemblies in an electrical connector are disclosed, in one example, an organizer includes a stiffener wall and a projection that extends from the stiffener wall. The electrically insulative body is sized to be inserted into a channel defined by the leadframe assemblies. In another example, an organizer includes an electrically insulative organizer body and a plurality of divider walls that are supported by the organizer body and spaced from each other along a lateral direction so as to be positioned for insertion between adjacent leadframe assemblies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: FCI USA LLC
    Inventors: Douglas M. Johnescu, Stuart C. Stoner, Charles Copper
  • Electrical connector having electrically commoned grounds
    Patent number: 10468829
    Abstract: A ground shield includes a plurality of contact members configured to contact the ground contacts of a column of contacts of an electrical connector, so as to electrically common the grounds to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: FCI USA LLC
    Inventors: Arkady Y. Zerebilov, Jason John Ellison