Abstract: A plug comprises a plug housing having a body and a plurality of beams extending therefrom and forming gaps therebetween. A member bridges the gaps between the beams at their distal ends. Ground contacts comprising a body, an elongated contact portion, and armatures are inserted into the plug housing. A recess formed in the distal end of the elongated contact portion engages the member. The ground contacts have projections extending therefrom that are disposed in channels formed through the body and along the beams. Signal contacts having a portion with a first form factor and a portion with a second form factor are also inserted into the plug housing. The portion with a first form factor extends through a conduit in the plug housing body and along a trough formed in the beams. The distal ends of the signal contacts have recesses formed in their distal ends with projections from the beams situated therein. The portion of the signal contact with a second form factor abuts the housing body.

Abstract: A modular jack for receiving complimentary plugs. The jack comprises a ground shield, a dielectric housing, a shield insert, a switching block, a circuit board sub-assembly, a plurality of terminal contacts, and a plurality of switching contacts. The ground shield has a plug receiving face that is open to expose a plug receiving cavity and is adapted to receive a complimentary plug. The ground shield also has a mounting face which defines grounding springs that extend inward towards the plurality of switching contacts. Portions of some of the terminal contacts extend in cantilever fashion into the plug receiving cavity while portions of some the terminal contacts extend through the ground shield forming terminal posts. A number of the terminal contacts have contact switching pads upon which mating portions of the switching contacts rest.

Abstract: A plug comprises a plug housing having a body and a plurality of beams extending therefrom and forming gaps therebetween. A member bridges the gaps between the beams at their distal ends. Ground contacts comprising a body, an elongated contact portion, and armatures are inserted into the plug housing. A recess formed in the distal end of the elongated contact portion engages the member. The ground contacts have projections extending therefrom that are disposed in channels formed through the body and along the beams. Signal contacts having a portion with a first form factor and a portion with a second form factor are also inserted into the plug housing. The portion with a first form factor extends through a conduit in the plug housing body and along a trough formed in the beams. The distal ends of the signal contacts have recesses formed in their distal ends with projections from the beams situated therein. The portion of the signal contact with a second form factor abuts the housing body.

Abstract: An electrical connector for connecting a daughter and a mother printed wiring board. A receptacle is connected to one board on one face and to the header on the other. The header has a conductive housing with opposed end walls and a medial pin receiving wall where it is connected to the other board. The receptacle housing is electrically connected to the header conductive housing by removable springs extending from the end walls of the header housing and separate removable grounding pins extend to a printed wiring board from the medial wall.

Abstract: An electrical connector for connecting a daughter and a mother printed wiring board. A receptacle is connected to one board on one face and to the header on the other. The header has a conductive housing with opposed end walls and a medial pin receiving wall where it is connected to the other board. The receptacle housing is electrically connected to the header conductive housing by removable springs extending from the end walls of the header housing and separate removable grounding pins extending to a printed wiring board from the medial wall.

Abstract: A receptacle has a housing that defines a connector-receiving cavity for receiving a connector therein. The housing has a front face and the cavity has a mouth thereof at the front face of the housing. A conductive exterior shield is fitted over the housing and has a pair of opposing side faces, each of which includes a rear edge opposite the mouth of the cavity and a slot at such rear edge. A conductive cavity insertion piece is inserted into the housing and has an interior arm and a pair of wings. The interior arm extends toward the mouth of the cavity and is in communication with the cavity to conductively contact an outer portion of the received connector. The interior arm releasably locks the connector as received within the cavity. Each wing is fitted within a respective slot at the rear edge of a side face of the exterior shield, whereby the wings conductively couple the arm to the exterior shield.

Abstract: In an electrical connector having a strip line arrangement of a plurality of signal contacts flanked by ground planes, the improvement comprising the signal contacts having an elongated cross-section defined by minor surfaces and major surfaces, with the major surfaces extending transversely between the ground planes. An electrical connector for reducing cross-talk and controlling impedance, comprising: an insulative housing; a ground plane; and a plurality of contacts. Each contact has having an elongated cross-section and a mating portion for engaging a contact of a mating connector. The elongated cross-section, at least in the mating portion, extends transverse to the ground plane. An electrical connector for reducing cross-talk and controlling impedance, comprising: an insulative housing; a ground plane; and a plurality of contacts. Each contact has an elongated cross-section and a mating portion for engaging a contact of a mating connector.

Abstract: An electrical connector comprising an electrical contact; and a housing. The housing comprises a first member and a second member. The first member comprises a contact receiving channel. The second member is over-molded onto the first member. The electrical contact is located in the channel and retained on the housing by a capture of the contact between the first and second members. The first member and the contact extend past a first end of the capture of the contact between the first and second members.

Abstract: Disclosed is an electrical connector in which the conductive and dielectric elements are arranged in a composite I-beam shaped geometry in which the conductive element is perpendicularly interposed between two parallel dielectric and ground plane elements. Low cross talk and controlled impedance are found to result from the use of this geometry.

Abstract: A receptacle adapted to be mounted on a printed wiring board (PWB) which includes an insulative member supporting a plurality of conductive contacts which conductive contacts engage the PWB and a conductive sheet having a lower wall superimposed on said PWB. An upper wall is superimposed over the insulative member in spaced relation over the lower wall and a pair of side walls perpendicularly interposed between said upper and lower walls to form a plug receiving space. A conductive sensor is positioned adjacent one of said conductive contacts and which contacts one of the conductive contacts when a plug is inserted in the plug receiving space. In an alternate embodiment a convex projection on the plug presses the power contact against the sensor.

Abstract: An electrical connector for connecting a daughter and a mother printed wiring board. A receptacle is connected to one board on one face and to the header on the other. The header has a conductive housing with opposed end walls and a medial pin receiving wall where it is connected to the other board. The receptacle housing is electrically connected to the header conductive housing by removable springs extending from the end walls of the header housing and separate removable grounding pins extending to a printed wiring board from the medial wall.

Abstract: A receptacle adapted to be mounted on a printed wiring board (PWB) comprising an insulative member supporting a plurality of conductive contacts which conductive contacts engage said PWB and a conductive sheet having a lower wall superimposed on said PWB and an upper wall superimposed over the insulative member in spaced relation over the lower wall and a pair of side walls perpendicularly interposed between said upper and lower walls to form a plug receiving space between said upper and lower wall and a conductive sensor means which is positioned adjacent one of said conductive contacts and which contacts one of the conductive contacts when a plug is inserted in the plug receiving space.

Abstract: Disclosed is an electrical connector in which the conductive and dielectric elements are arranged in a composite I-beam shaped geometry in which the conductive element is perpendicularly interposed between two parallel dielectric and ground plane elements. Low cross talk and controlled impedance are found to result from the use of this geometry.

Abstract: A wire management adapter for organizing wires for presentment to a connector include a member having an array of grooves at the leading edge thereof. In one aspect, guideways are provided for positioning the wires of a cable for receipt within the grooves. The guideways accept both standard and coaxial conductors. A pocket carries a clip with insulation displacement tines to contact the braid of the coaxial conductor. In a second aspect, the member has alternating arrays of shallow and deeper grooves on each surface. The shallow and deeper grooves on each surface communicate with each other via a groove in the leading edge of the member. The shallow and deeper grooves on each surface register with the respective deeper and shallow grooves on the other surface.

Abstract: The present invention relates to electrical connectors with a ground structure for impedance and cross talk control between signal carrying conductors.

Abstract: The present invention relates to electrical connectors with a ground structure for impedance and cross talk control between signal carrying conductors.

Abstract: The present invention relates to electrical connectors with a ground structure for impedance and cross talk control between signal carrying conductors.

Abstract: The present invention relates to methods and apparatus for forming features on an elongated metal wire and, in particular to making features, such as pin tips, compliant sections and retention sections on electrical terminal pins for use in interconnecting electrical leads, plated through holes in printed circuit boards and/or connector contacts.

Abstract: The present invention relates to electrical connectors with a ground structure for impedance and cross talk control between signal carrying conductors.

Abstract: The present invention relates to electrical connectors with a ground structure for impedance and cross talk control between signal carrying conductors.