Abstract: An electrical connector assembly includes a housing having a mating interface configured to be mated with a hermaphroditic mating electrical connector assembly. The housing includes an electrically conductive commoning member having contact openings. Wafer assemblies are coupled to the housing each having a leadframe, a wafer body holding the leadframe, and a ground frame providing electrical shielding for the leadframe. The signal contacts are terminated to cables. The ground shields are electrically connected to the commoning member. The mating ends of the signal contacts and the ground shields form a hermaphroditic mating interface for mating with the hermaphroditic mating electrical connector assembly.

Abstract: An electrical connector assembly having a printed circuit board, signal wires, and an impedance mold. The signal wires transmit signals at a determined signal speed. The signal wires have ends which are connected to the printed circuit board. The impedance mold cooperates with the printed circuit and the signal wires. The impedance mold is formed from a tunable hot melt adhesive composition. A dielectric constant of the tunable hot melt adhesive composition is adjusted to be compatible with the desired signal performance characteristics of the signals transmitted over the signal wires to the printed circuit board.

Abstract: A socket connector includes a substrate having an upper surface and a lower surface. The substrate has a ground plane between the upper surface and the lower surface. The substrate includes contact channels between the upper and lower surfaces. The socket connector includes socket contacts received in corresponding contact channels. Each socket contact includes a contact body, an upper mating element, and a lower mating element. The upper mating element is deflectable relative to the contact body and extends to the upper surface to interface with a first electrical component. The lower mating element is deflectable relative to the contact body and extends to the lower surface to interface with a second electrical component. A plurality of the socket contacts are electrically connected to the ground plane.

Abstract: A circuit board assembly includes a circuit board and an electrical connector having a connector housing holding contacts in a contact array. The connector housing has a mating end configured to be mated with a mating electrical connector in a mating direction. The electrical connector has cables terminated to the contacts and extending from a cable end. A connector mount is used to locate the electrical connector relative to the circuit board. A bracket is coupled to the mounting surface of the circuit board. A biasing member is coupled to the bracket and the mounting feature and is compressible along a compression axis parallel to the mating direction to allow the electrical connector to float in the mating direction relative to the circuit board.

Abstract: The present invention relates to metallic structure with desired combinations of mechanical and electrical characteristics formed of a higher electrical conductivity element with a mechanically stronger element.

Abstract: An electrical connector having a housing with a first surface and a second surface. Contact receiving openings extend from the first surface to the second surface. Contacts are positioned in the contact receiving openings. The contacts have base members and resilient contact beams extending from opposed sides of the base members. Sidewalls extend from opposed sides of the base members from which the resilient contact beams do not extend. The contacts also provide multiple electrical pathways across the contacts for electrical signal transmissions, allowing for signal transmissions to transmitted at frequencies of approximately 224 Gbps or greater.

Abstract: A circuit board assembly includes a circuit board and an electrical connector having a connector housing holding contacts in a contact array. The connector housing has a mating end configured to be mated with a mating electrical connector in a mating direction. The electrical connector has cables terminated to the contacts and extending from a cable end. A connector mount is used to locate the electrical connector relative to the circuit board. A bracket is coupled to the mounting surface of the circuit board. A biasing member is coupled to the bracket and the mounting feature and is compressible along a compression axis parallel to the mating direction to allow the electrical connector to float in the mating direction relative to the circuit board.

Abstract: A cable assembly includes a cable having an insulator holding a first signal conductor and a second signal conductor and a cable shield surrounding the insulator. Exposed portions of the signal conductors extend forward of an end of the insulator for termination to a circuit card. The cable assembly includes a ground clip coupled to the end of the cable. The ground clip includes a bottom ground rake below the cable and a top ground hood above the cable. The bottom ground rake includes a window that receives the exposed portions of the first and second signal conductors therethrough. The bottom ground rake includes a lower grounding tab electrically connected to a lower portion of the cable shield and the top ground hood includes an upper grounding tab electrically connected to an upper portion of the cable shield. The bottom ground rake is coupled to the circuit card to support the cable relative to the circuit card.

Abstract: A circuit board assembly includes an electrical connector mounted to a circuit board having a connector housing holding contacts in a contact array. A connector mount having a bracket is coupled to the mounting surface of the circuit board proximate to the mating edge. The electrical connector is movably coupled to the connector mount to move relative to the circuit board during mating with the mating electrical connector. The connector mount has a biasing member compressible along a compression axis parallel to the mating direction to allow the electrical connector to float in the mating direction relative to the circuit board. The electrical connector is movably coupled to the connector mount in a confined envelope in at least one floating direction perpendicular to the mating direction.

Abstract: An electrical connector includes wafer assemblies coupled to a housing. Each wafer assembly includes a leadframe, a wafer body holding the leadframe, and a ground frame coupled to the wafer body to provide electrical shielding for the leadframe. Each leadframe has signal contacts with mating ends extending from the wafer body for mating with mating signal contacts of a mating electrical connector. The mating ends are twisted 45° to define twisted mating interfaces. Each ground frame has ground shields extending from a ground plate along the mating ends of the signal contacts. The ground shields are twisted 45° relative to the ground plate to define twisted shield zones along the mating ends of the signal contacts.

Abstract: A cable connector assembly includes a contact holder holding first and second contacts in contact channels terminated to ends of conductors of a cable. The contacts have mating ends forward of the front of the contact holder. The cable connector assembly includes a contact shield coupled to the contact holder having a base and a shroud. The base surrounds a base chamber that receives an end of the cable and the contact holder and provides electrical shielding at first and second interfaces. The shroud surrounds a shroud chamber that receives the mating ends of the first and second contacts to provide electrical shielding along the mating ends of the first and second contacts.

Abstract: A cable assembly includes a cable having an insulator holding a first signal conductor and a second signal conductor and a cable shield surrounding the insulator. Exposed portions of the signal conductors extend forward of an end of the insulator for termination to a circuit card. The cable assembly includes a ground clip coupled to the end of the cable. The ground clip includes a bottom ground rake below the cable and a top ground hood above the cable. The bottom ground rake includes a window that receives the exposed portions of the first and second signal conductors therethrough. The bottom ground rake includes a lower grounding tab electrically connected to a lower portion of the cable shield and the top ground hood includes an upper grounding tab electrically connected to an upper portion of the cable shield. The bottom ground rake is coupled to the circuit card to support the cable relative to the circuit card.

Abstract: A cable connector module includes a circuit card having signal contact pads on an upper surface and signal mating pads on a lower surface configured to be mated with interposer contacts of a socket connector. Signal vias extend directly through the circuit card electrically connecting the signal contact pads and the corresponding signal mating pads in the shortest path possible. The cable connector module includes cable assemblies terminated to the upper surface having a cable and a ground structure coupled to an end of the cable.

Abstract: A cable assembly includes a cable having a cable shield surrounding an insulator and first and second signal conductors with exposed portions at the end of the cable coupled to a circuit card. The cable has a drain wire exposed at the end of the cable. The cable assembly includes a ground clip coupled to the end of the cable having a bottom ground rake below the cable and a top ground hood above the cable. The bottom ground rake includes a lower grounding tab electrically connected to a lower portion of the cable shield and the top ground hood includes an upper grounding tab electrically connected to an upper portion of the cable shield. The top ground hood includes a cable connector coupled to the end of the cable. The cable connector pressing the drain wire toward the cable shield.

Abstract: An electronic assembly includes a socket assembly including a cage mounted to a circuit board and a socket connector received in a cavity of the cage. The socket connector includes a substrate holding interposer contacts with compressible upper and lower contact portions. The electronic assembly includes a cable connector module received in the cavity of the cage and coupled to the socket connector. The cable connector module includes a housing coupled to the cage, a circuit card received in the cavity of the housing, and cable assemblies coupled to the circuit card. The circuit card is coupled to the socket connector.

Abstract: A cable assembly includes a cable having signal conductors and a cable shield. The cable may have drain wires at sides of the cable. A ground clip is coupled to the end of the cable having a window that receives the exposed portions of the signal conductors therethrough. The ground clip is coupled to the circuit card to support the cable relative to the circuit card. The ground clip includes a lower grounding tab electrically connected to a lower portion of the cable shield and an upper grounding tab electrically connected to an upper portion of the cable shield. The ground clip includes connecting tines electrically connected to sides of the cable shield, such as via the drain wires.

Abstract: A cable assembly includes a cable having signal conductors and a cable shield surrounding an insulator. The cable assembly includes a ground clip coupled to the end of the cable having a support wall supporting the end of the cable. Exposed portions of the signal conductors extend through a window in the support wall. The ground clip includes connecting tines extending from the support wall to interface with upper and lower portions of the cable shield. The ground clip includes a mounting tab configured to be mounted to a circuit card to fix the ground clip relative to the circuit card and electrically connect the ground clip to the circuit card. The ground clip supports the cable such that the cable extends from the support wall in a cable exit direction angled transverse relative to a mounting surface of the circuit card.

Abstract: A socket assembly includes an electrical interconnect having an insulator having apertures. The electrical interconnect includes primary contacts and secondary contacts received in corresponding apertures. The primary contacts include a primary conductive polymer column having upper contact tips and lower contact tips for electrically interconnecting first and second electronic packages. The secondary contacts include a secondary conductive polymer column having upper contact tips and lower contact tips for electrically interconnecting the first and second electronic packages. The contact tips of the secondary conductive polymer columns have a different shape from the shape of the contact tips of the primary conductive polymer columns.

Abstract: A wafer assembly includes a leadframe having signal contacts and cables with signal conductors terminated to the corresponding signal contacts. Each cable includes a cable shield providing shielding for the signal conductors. The wafer assembly includes a wafer body holding the signal contacts. The wafer assembly includes first and second ground frames coupled to the first and second sides of the wafer body to provide electrical shielding for the leadframe. The ground frames include ground shields providing shielding for mating ends of the corresponding signal contacts. The ground frames includes cable covers coupled to the corresponding cable shields.

Abstract: An electrical connector assembly includes a housing having a mating interface configured to be mated with a hermaphroditic mating electrical connector assembly. The housing includes an electrically conductive commoning member having contact openings. Wafer assemblies are coupled to the housing each having a leadframe, a wafer body holding the leadframe, and a ground frame providing electrical shielding for the leadframe. The signal contacts are terminated to cables. The ground shields are electrically connected to the commoning member. The mating ends of the signal contacts and the ground shields form a hermaphroditic mating interface for mating with the hermaphroditic mating electrical connector assembly.