Abstract: An electrical connector includes an inner housing received in a chamber of an outer housing. The inner housing has a conductive housing body extending between a mating end mated with a pluggable module and a mounting end mounted to a host circuit board. The electrical connector includes a contact assembly having contact inserts of contacts arranged in pairs and received in contact channels. The electrical connector includes a ground shield coupled to the inner housing to close the contact channels such that the ground shield and the conductive housing body provide electrical shielding for the contact inserts.

Abstract: A pluggable communication module includes a circuit card having a substrate with an edge. The pluggable communication module includes an EEPROM device having a power supply pin, a serial data pin, a serial clock pin, a ground pin, and a write control pin for programming the EEPROM device. The pluggable communication module includes a contact pad field proximate to the edge having signal pads, ground pads, a power pad, a serial data pad, a serial clock pad, and a write pad. The write pad is located at a programming depth from the edge of the circuit card forward of the signal pads to mate the write pad to the receptacle connector without mating to the signal pads to the receptacle connector.

Abstract: A power rail for powering a power driver assembly includes a rail member extending between a front end and a rear end. The rail member has a track including a channel between an upper support beam and a lower support beam. The track extends between the front end and the rear end. The track configured to receive a driver circuit card of the power driver assembly. The power rail includes a power contact having a base coupled to the rail member. The power contact includes a cable termination terminated to a power cable. The power contact includes a mating beam extending from the base into the channel. The mating beam has a mating interface configured to be mated to a power pad of the driver circuit card when the driver circuit card is plugged into the track of the rail member.

Abstract: A card edge connector includes a connector housing having a cavity and a card slot at a front configured to receive a module circuit board of the pluggable module. The card edge connector includes a contact assembly received in the cavity having a contact positioner holding contacts in a contact array. The contacts are arranged in pairs. Each contact includes a mating end, a terminating end, and an intermediate portion held by the contact positioner. The mating ends extend into the card slot for mating to corresponding signal pads on the module circuit board. The card edge connector includes a shield structure having ground shields located between the pairs of the contacts. The ground shields include ground beams that extend into the card slot for mating to corresponding ground pads on the module circuit board.

Abstract: A circuit board assembly for a pluggable module includes upper and lower interface printed circuit boards that includes first and second data channels, respectively. The interface printed circuit boards includes mating pads at corresponding mating edges thereof forming portions of the data channels and configured to be plugged into corresponding card edge connectors. The circuit board assembly includes a main printed circuit board that includes an active device electrically connected to the first and second data channels restoring signals transmitting along the data channels. The circuit board assembly includes upper and lower flexible circuits connected between the interface printed circuit boards and the main printed circuit board.

Abstract: An electrical connector assembly includes a connector housing holding contact wafers arranged in a contact wafer stack. Each contact wafer includes a wafer frame, a contact assembly coupled to the wafer frame, and a signal conditioning module coupled to the wafer frame. The signal conditioning module includes a circuit board and a repeater device mounted to the circuit board. The contact assembly includes signal contacts forming data channels. The signal contacts have mating ends and terminating ends. The terminating ends are electrically connected to the circuit board of the signal conditioning module. The data channels are electrically connected to the repeater device through the circuit board. The repeater device is configured to restore signals transmitted along the data channels.

Abstract: An electrical connector system includes a circuit card assembly and a pluggable module. The circuit card assembly including a host circuit board, a socket connector mounted to the host circuit board, and a guide rail extending along the host circuit board. The socket connector has a socket substrate having upper contacts having mating interfaces being accessible from above the socket connector and being coplanar. The guide rail has a guide feature and a module actuator. The pluggable module includes a module body operatively engaging the guide rail to guide mating of the module body with the guide rail in a module mating direction. The pluggable module includes an actuation feature engaging the module actuator to force mating of module contacts with the upper contacts in a contact mating direction transverse to the module mating direction.

Abstract: A receptacle connector includes a receptacle housing having a mounting base at a rear configured to be mounted to a host circuit board. The receptacle connector includes a housing insert received in the receptacle housing. The housing insert includes a slot that receives a pluggable module. A flexible circuit is received in the receptacle housing and has a mating end in the housing insert for mating engagement with the pluggable module and a terminating end extending from the receptacle housing for termination to the host circuit board. A flexible circuit support is used to support the flexible circuit in the receptacle housing with support elements engage the flexible circuit to press the circuit conductors into mating engagement with the contacts of the pluggable module.

Abstract: An electrical connector includes a connector housing having a base, a flange, and a plug. The connector housing has a contact channel holding a contact. The electrical connector includes a latch member integral with the connector housing and located within the flange. The latch member includes a deflectable latch arm and a latching finger extending from the latch arm. The plug is configured to be inserted into a panel opening of the panel in a loading direction. The connector housing is movable laterally relative to the panel in a latching direction to a latched position. The plug is movable in the panel opening in the latching direction. The latching finger engages an inner edge of the panel opening when the housing is in the latched position to hold the connector housing in the latched position.

Abstract: A cable assembly includes a contact assembly coupled to cables. The contact assembly includes a contact holder, contacts held by the contact holder, and a ground bus coupled to the contact holder. The contacts include signal contacts and ground contacts held in contact channels. Each contact includes an intermediate section between a forward section and a rearward section. The forward section extends forward of the front of the contact holder. The rearward section extends rearward of the rear of the contact holder. The ground bus includes ground rails connected to the ground contacts each having a front mating finger coupled to the forward portion of the corresponding ground contact and a rear mating finger coupled to the rearward portion of the corresponding ground contact.

Abstract: An electrical connector system includes a circuit card assembly having a cage mounted to a host circuit board and having shielding walls forming a module channel configured to receive a pluggable module in a module loading direction generally parallel to the host circuit board. The circuit card assembly includes an interposer frame received in the module channel having a socket cavity receiving a socket connector having compressible socket contacts having separable mating interfaces at a module mating zone configured to be mated with module contacts of a module circuit board of the pluggable module in a contact mating direction generally perpendicular to the module loading direction. The interposer frame selectively receives, in an interposer cavity, either a board interposer to electrically connect the socket connector to the host circuit board or a cable interposer to electrically connect the socket connector to a cable assembly.

Abstract: An electrical connector system includes a circuit card assembly having a host circuit board, an interposer, and a socket connector arranged in a circuit stack. The interposer includes interposer contacts on an interposer circuit board. The socket connector includes compressible socket contacts having mating ends with separable mating interfaces. The electrical connector system includes a pluggable module having a module circuit board held in a module body at the mating end configured to be loaded into the module mating zone in a module loading direction and mated with the socket contacts in a contact mating direction generally perpendicular to the module loading direction to compress the socket contacts between the module circuit board and the interposer contacts and create circuit paths between the module contacts and the interposer contacts through the socket contacts.

Abstract: An electrical power connector includes a connector housing having a slot at a mating end of the connector housing configured to receive a power distribution assembly. The electrical power connector includes power contacts received in the connector housing configured to be is coupled to a power distribution contact of the power distribution assembly. The electrical power connector includes a monitoring device having a monitoring circuit, a monitoring sensor coupled to the monitoring circuit, and a monitoring transmitter coupled to the monitoring circuit. The monitoring sensor is coupled to the power contact to monitor an operating characteristic of the power contact. The monitoring circuit receives sensor signals from the monitoring sensor and the monitoring transmitter transmits monitoring signals from the monitoring circuit based on the operating characteristic of the power contact to a monitoring network remote from the electrical power connector.

Abstract: A receptacle connector includes a receptacle housing having a housing mounting end configured to be mounted to a host circuit board and a slot at a housing mating end configured to receive a mating end of a pluggable module. The receptacle housing includes contact pockets that receive interposer contacts. The receptacle connector includes a flexible circuit having circuit conductors extending between a mating end and a terminating end configured to be terminated to the host circuit board. Each interposer contact includes an inner mating interface forming a separable interface configured to be mated with module contacts of the pluggable module and an outer mating interface connected to the mating end of the corresponding circuit conductor.

Abstract: A back plate configured to support a circuit board includes a body. The body defines a central recess formed into a top surface thereof, and a raised main support column extending from the central recess and adapted to support the circuit board.

Abstract: A busbar assembly includes a first busbar having a mating interface for mating with an electrical component to power the electrical component and a second busbar having a mating interface for mating with the electrical component to power the electrical component. The busbar assembly includes a first thermal conduit extending along the first busbar that allows liquid coolant to flow therethrough to dissipate heat from the first busbar. The busbar assembly includes a second thermal conduit extending along the second busbar that allows liquid coolant to flow therethrough to dissipate heat from the second busbar.

Abstract: An electrical connector system includes a circuit card assembly that includes a host circuit board, an interposer, and a socket connector arranged in a circuit stack. The electrical connector system includes a cable assembly that has cables electrically connected to terminating ends of the interposer contacts. The electrical connector system includes a pluggable module having a mating end with a module circuit board mated with the socket contacts of the socket connector. The electrical connector system includes a loading mechanism operably coupled to the circuit card assembly operated to compress the socket contacts between the module circuit board and interposer contacts to create circuit paths between the module contacts and the interposer contacts through the socket contacts. The cables are electrically connected to the pluggable module through the interposer and the socket connector.

Abstract: A connector for plugging into a bus bar comprises a housing with a first side wall, a second side wall, and a connecting channel between the first side wall and the second side wall. A plurality of power terminals each having an electrical connection part are provided inside the connecting channel and are adapted to electrically connect with the bus bar. A plurality of grounding terminals are each disposed on the first side wall and the second side wall outside the connecting channel respectively. Each of the grounding terminals have an elastic first finger. An auxiliary support member is provided and supports the first finger.

Abstract: A contact assembly includes a contact holder having a central wall separating walls extending from a surface of the central wall defining contact tracks along the surface. A contact array is coupled to the surface and includes inner contacts arranged in pairs with contact dielectric bodies encapsulating portions of corresponding pairs of the contacts. Each pair of the contacts and the corresponding contact dielectric bodies form a contact set. The contact dielectric bodies of each contact set is spaced apart from each other and received in the corresponding contact track with the separating walls separating the contact sets from each other. A shield is coupled to the contact holder to cover the contact tracks and form shield pockets surrounding the corresponding contact tracks to provide circumferential shielding for the corresponding contact sets.

Abstract: A busbar assembly includes a first busbar having a mating interface for mating with an electrical component to power the electrical component and a second busbar having a mating interface for mating with the electrical component to power the electrical component. The busbar assembly includes a first thermal conduit extending along the first busbar that allows liquid coolant to flow therethrough to dissipate heat from the first busbar. The busbar assembly includes a second thermal conduit extending along the second busbar that allows liquid coolant to flow therethrough to dissipate heat from the second busbar.