Abstract: An opto-electric (OE) module having a front and back orientation and comprising a connector having a front end configured to mate with a connector, an optical interconnect comprising an optical conduit with first and second ends, the first end being terminated by at least one first ferrule, the first ferrule being disposed in the connector in a non-biased state, and the second end being optically coupled to at least one opto-electric device (OED), wherein the optical interconnect is not configured to bend to accommodate distance variations between said first ferrule and said OED, a cover being attached to the connector and having an interior, a circuit board disposed in the interior and having an electrical interface configured to connect to a daughter card, and the opto-electric device (OED) attached to the circuit board and optically connected to the second end.

Abstract: Electrical connector includes a connector body having a front side configured to engage a mating connector and a mounting side configured to engage an electrical component. The electrical connector also includes a conductor array including a plurality of signal conductors and a plurality of ground conductors that extend through the connector body. The plurality of signal conductors includes adjacent signal conductors and the plurality of ground conductors include first and second ground conductors that are positioned between the adjacent signal conductors. The first and second ground conductors are separated from each other by a physical gap. The electrical connector also includes first and second resonance-control elements attached to the first and second ground conductors, respectively, within the gap between grounds. The first and second resonance-control elements are spaced from each other and include at least one of an electrically-lossy or magnetically-lossy material.

Abstract: An electrical connector includes a housing having a cavity and a wafer stack received in the cavity. The wafer stack includes a plurality of electrical wafers arranged parallel to each other within the cavity. Each wafer includes a dielectric body and a leadframe having plural conductors held in the dielectric body, the conductors having terminating contacts and mating contacts with leads therebetween. The terminating contacts are both horizontally staged and vertically staged and exposed in a pocket of the dielectric body for electrical termination. The mating contacts being exposed for electrical connection. The electrical connector includes a flex harness includes a plurality of FPCBs. The FPCBs are electrically connected to corresponding wafers. Each FPCB has a stepped mating interface with conductors along the stepped mating interface configured to be electrically connected to corresponding terminating contacts.

Abstract: A pluggable module includes a pluggable body extending between a mating end and a cable end. The pluggable body includes a single-piece, unitary shell defining a cavity. The shell is seamless around a perimeter of the shell. An internal circuit board is held in the cavity and surrounded by the unitary shell. The internal circuit board is provided at an end of a cable communicatively coupled to the internal circuit board. The pluggable body is configured to be plugged into a receptacle assembly such that the internal circuit board is communicatively coupled to a communication connector of the receptacle assembly.

Abstract: An electrical connector assembly may include a plurality of signal isolating barriers. Each of the plurality of signal isolating barriers may be positioned around a group of board contacts proximate to a board connecting interface. Each of the plurality of signal isolating barriers isolates the group of the plurality of board contacts from other groups of the plurality of board contacts.

Abstract: An electrical connector includes a housing having a signal contact section and a power contact section. The housing has a plurality of signal contact channels at the signal contact section and a plurality of power contact channels at the power contact section. A signal contact assembly is coupled to a rear of the housing and has a plurality of signal contacts. The signal contacts are configured to be terminated to a circuit board. A power contact assembly is coupled to the rear of the housing and has a plurality of power contacts received in corresponding power contact channels. The power contacts are terminated to ends of power wires. The power wires are configured to be electrically connected to the circuit board remote from the signal contacts.

Abstract: A cable management clasp includes a clasp body having an upper locating member and a lower locating member joined to the upper locating member at opposite first and second ends. The upper and lower locating members are parallel to each other to form an elongated cable receptacle between the upper and lower locating members. The upper and lower locating members gang a plurality of cables in a parallel arrangement within the cable receptacle.

Abstract: A guide pin for a connector assembly includes a guide pin body extending along a pin axis. The guide pin body has a stem extending between a root and a tip. The root has threads configured to be threadably coupled to a support frame of the connector assembly and the tip has a lead-in to guide the guide pin body into a mounting block. The stem has slots extending parallel to the pin axis from the tip to an intermediate position along the guide pin body remote from the tip. The slots are configured to receive ribs of a driver tool used to rotate the guide pin body to threadably couple the root to the support frame.

Abstract: A multiple cable disconnect includes a housing having a separable mating end and a wire terminating end configured to receive wires of power cables. The housing has a plurality of terminal chambers with terminals therein. The terminals each have a base, a mating contact extending from the base and a wire contact extending from the base. The mating contact has a mating pad defining a separable mating interface for the terminal for mating with a corresponding mating terminal of the mating connector. The wire contact has plural wire interfaces for mating with plural wires such that plural wires are configured to be terminated to and commoned with each terminal. Wire retention springs are received in the housing each having at least one spring arm defining a wire trap with the corresponding wire contact. The spring arms are releasable to release the wires from the housing.

Abstract: A connector is provided and includes a cage, a plurality of partition devices, and a heat dissipation device. The cage includes a plurality of plug receiving units that are arranged in at least a two columns by two rows arrangement. The plurality of partition devices include an upper partition plate and a lower partition plate and is positioned between two adjacent plug receiving units of the plurality of plug receiving units. The heat dissipation device includes a heat conduction block positioned between the upper partition plate and the lower partition plate, and a heat conduction pipe that contacts the heat conduction block and extends beyond a rear wall of the cage.

Abstract: A switch assembly adapted and a method for switching power to a circuit having a power source. The switch assembly includes current carrying contacts and a coupling member. The coupling member has conductive pads for engaging the current carrying contacts and a contact bridge extending between the conductive pads. An actuator assembly moves the coupling member between a closed position in which the conductive pads of the coupling member engage the current carrying contacts and an open position in which the conductive pads of the coupling member are disengaged from the current carrying contacts. Opposing electromagnetic forces are generated between the contact bridge and the conductive pads to resist electromagnetic repulsion forces generated between the current carrying contacts and the conductive pads as the actuator assembly approaches or is in the closed position.

Abstract: A terminal crimping system for a crimping machine includes an anvil, a movable ram, an image acquisition device, and a display device. The anvil is located in a crimping zone and configured to receive a terminal thereon. The terminal has a wire crimp barrel configured to receive a wire therein. The ram has crimp tooling configured to crimp the wire crimp barrel of the terminal to the wire during a crimp stroke of the ram. The image acquisition device is configured to be mounted on the crimping machine above the crimping zone. The image acquisition device is positioned to acquire an image of the wire within the wire crimp barrel of the terminal in the crimping zone. The display device is configured to display the image.

Abstract: An isolation system is provided for an electronic device that is configured to be mounted to a structure. The isolation system includes a flexible conductor configured to be electrically connected to the electronic device. The isolation system also includes an isolator configured to be coupled between the electronic device and the structure such that the isolator is configured to attenuate at least one of shock or vibration exerted on the electronic device. At least a portion of the isolator is electrically conductive. The isolator is electrically connected to the flexible conductor and is configured to be electrically connected to the structure such that the isolator provides an electrical path between the flexible conductor and the structure.

Abstract: A terminal crimping machine includes an applicator having a movable ram and an anvil. The anvil is located in a crimping zone and configured to receive a terminal thereon. The ram has crimp tooling that is configured to crimp the terminal on the anvil to a wire during a crimp stroke of the ram. An image acquisition device is positioned to acquire at least one image of the crimping zone. A display device is configured to display the at least one acquired image.

Abstract: A wire singulating device includes a carrier member and a retention feature. The carrier member has a front edge and an opposite rear edge. The front edge defines an opening to a slot that extends at least partially towards the rear edge. The carrier member is configured to move relative to a wire bundle that includes plural wires such that the front edge engages the wire bundle. The slot is configured to receive one wire of the wire bundle therein. The retention feature is coupled to the carrier member and juxtaposed relative to the slot to retain the wire within the slot as the carrier member moves away from the wire bundle to separate the wire from the wire bundle.

Abstract: An electrical contact assembly includes a first electrical contact having a first mating element, and a second electrical contact having a second mating element. The first and second electrical contacts being configured to mate together at the first and second mating elements such that the first and second mating elements engage each other at a contact interface. A distribution of contact pressure across the contact interface at least partially coincides with a distribution of electrical current flow across the contact interface.

Abstract: A pre-expanded cover unit for an electrical cable includes a cold-shrinkable, tubular, elastomeric cover sleeve, a removable holdout, and a positioning device. The cover sleeve defines a cover sleeve through passage configured to receive the electrical cable. The holdout is mounted within the cover sleeve through passage and configured to be withdrawn therefrom. The holdout maintains the cover sleeve in an expanded state in which the cover sleeve is elastically expanded and, when withdrawn from the cover sleeve through passage, permits the cover sleeve to radially contract to a contracted state about the electrical cable. The positioning device is secured to the cover sleeve and includes a cable clamp. The cable clamp is configured to secure the positioning device to the electrical cable such that, when the holdout is withdrawn from the cover sleeve, the positioning device axially constrains the cover sleeve relative to the cable to axially align the contracted cover sleeve with the electrical cable.

Abstract: Connector adapter includes an adapter body having a mating side and a mounting side. The mating side includes signal cavities that open to the mating side. The connector adapter also includes signal conductors extending through the adapter body. Each of the signal conductors has and extends between a pin socket positioned at the mating side and a signal tail positioned at the mounting side. The pin sockets are positioned within corresponding signal cavities. Each of the pin sockets includes first and second arms that oppose each other and define a thru-hole therebetween. The first and second arms engage a signal tail of an electrical connector when the signal tail of the electrical connector is inserted into the thru-hole.

Abstract: Pluggable connector including a connector housing having a leading end. The connector housing includes interior sidewalls that define a receiving space and an opening to the receiving space at the leading end. The pluggable connector also includes a contact array of electrical contacts disposed in the receiving space. The contact array is configured to engage corresponding electrical contacts of a mating connector. The pluggable connector also includes an inner electromagnetic interference (EMI) gasket that is coupled to the interior sidewalls and surrounds a portion of the interior space about the central axis. The connector housing is configured to receive the mating connector through the opening and into the receiving space when the connector housing is moved in a mating direction along the central axis. The inner EMI gasket engages the mating connector in the receiving space to electrically couple the mating connector to the connector housing.

Abstract: A connector module includes a housing and a gasket. The housing is defined by a first shell and a second shell that mate at a seam. The housing includes a cable exit region extending along a cable axis. A passage through the cable exit region has an elliptical cross-section along a plane perpendicular to the cable axis. The gasket is within the passage of the cable exit region. An outer perimeter of the gasket in an uncompressed state has a non-elliptical cross section along a plane perpendicular to the cable axis. The gasket has an outer side engaging the inner surface of the cable exit region and an inner side configured to engage at least one cable received within the cable exit region. As the shells are mated, the gasket is sandwiched in a compressed state between the at least one cable and the cable exit region.