Patents by Inventor John Robert Dunham
John Robert Dunham has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 11289830Abstract: A modular high speed, high density electrical connector configurable for use in multiple configurations, including a direct attach orthogonal configuration. The connector is assembled with modules that include shielded pairs of signal conductors with mating ends that are rotated approximately 45 degrees with respect to intermediate portions of the signal conductors. The connector may have a mating interface with receptacles in one connector and pins in the mating connector. The pins may be small diameter and may be implemented with superelastic wires so as to resist damage despite having very small effective diameter. A compact mating interface resulting from small diameter mating contact portions may enable other portions of the connector, including the shielding surrounding the signal conductors to be smaller, which may raise the resonant frequency of the connector and extend its bandwidth.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2020Date of Patent: March 29, 2022Assignee: Amphenol CorporationInventors: Marc B. Cartier, Jr., John Robert Dunham, Mark W. Gailus, John Pitten
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Publication number: 20220013962Abstract: A modular electrical connector facilitates low loss connections to components on a printed circuit board. A portion is of the connector is formed of one or more first type units with conductive elements designed to be attached to a printed circuit board. Signals passing through those units may be routed to components on the printed circuit board through traces in the board. One or more second type units may be integrated with the connector. Those units may be designed for attachment to a cable, which may provide signal paths to a location on the printed circuit board near relatively distant components.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 21, 2021Publication date: January 13, 2022Applicant: Amphenol CorporationInventors: Mark W. Gailus, Allan Astbury, David Manter, Marc B. Cartier, JR., Vysakh Sivarajan, John Robert Dunham
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Publication number: 20210257788Abstract: An electrical interconnect for passing high speed signals through an electronic system with a high density of signals and high signal integrity. The interconnect includes an electrical connector and a transition portion of a printed circuit board to which the connector is mounted. Signal conductors are connected to pads on the surface of the PCB using edge-to-pad mounting. The pads align with intermediate portions of the signal conductors such that transitions within the connector that could degrade signal integrity are avoided. The signal conductors may be positioned as individually shielded broadside coupled pairs extending in rows within the connector. Surface traces on the PCB connect the pads to signal vias aligned for vertical routing out of the connector footprint. Ground planes underlying the surface traces facilitate a transition from the signal paths in the connector to those in the PCB with low mode conversion avoiding resonances in the connector shields.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 27, 2021Publication date: August 19, 2021Applicant: Amphenol CorporationInventors: Marc B. Cartier, JR., John Robert Dunham, Mark W. Gailus, David Levine, Allan Astbury, Vysakh Sivarajan, Daniel B. Provencher, Eric Leo
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Publication number: 20210234290Abstract: An electrical interconnect for passing high speed signals through an electronic system with a high density of signals and high signal integrity. The interconnect includes an electrical connector and a transition portion of a printed circuit board to which the connector is mounted. Signal conductors are connected to pads on the surface of the PCB using edge-to-pad mounting. The pads align with intermediate portions of the signal conductors such that transitions within the connector that could degrade signal integrity are avoided. The signal conductors may be positioned as individually shielded broadside coupled pairs extending in rows within the connector. Surface traces on the PCB connect the pads to signal vias aligned for vertical routing out of the connector footprint. Ground planes underlying the surface traces facilitate a transition from the signal paths in the connector to those in the PCB with low mode conversion avoiding resonances in the connector shields.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 27, 2021Publication date: July 29, 2021Applicant: Amphenol CorporationInventors: John Robert Dunham, Marc B. Cartier, JR., Mark W. Gailus, David Levine, Allan Astbury, Vysakh Sivarajan, Daniel B. Provencher, Eric Leo
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Patent number: 11070006Abstract: A modular electrical connector facilitates low loss connections to components on a printed circuit board. A portion is of the connector is formed of one or more first type units with conductive elements designed to be attached to a printed circuit board. Signals passing through those units may be routed to components on the printed circuit board through traces in the board. One or more second type units may be integrated with the connector. Those units may be designed for attachment to a cable, which may provide signal paths to a location on the printed circuit board near relatively distant components.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2018Date of Patent: July 20, 2021Assignee: Amphenol CorporationInventors: Mark W. Gailus, Allan Astbury, David Manter, Marc B. Cartier, Jr., Vysakh Sivarajan, John Robert Dunham
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Publication number: 20210218198Abstract: An electrical connector module with openings in an insulative support selectively positioned to limit dielectric loss in a signal. The connector may include a first and second conductor including first and second sides between first and second edges. An insulative support holds the first conductor adjacent the second conductor and may have at least five pedestal portions, wherein the first pedestal portion contacts the first side of the first conductor, the second pedestal portion contacts the second side of the first conductor, the third pedestal portion contacts the first side of the second conductor, the fourth pedestal portion contacts the second side of the second conductor, and at least a portion of the fifth pedestal portion is disposed between two edges of the first and second conductors. The pedestal portions may have widths less than the widths of the first and second sides of the first and second conductors.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2021Publication date: July 15, 2021Applicant: Amphenol CorporationInventors: Marc B. Cartier, JR., John Robert Dunham, Vysakh Sivarajan, Mark W. Gailus, David Levine, Michael Joseph Snyder
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Publication number: 20210194182Abstract: A cable termination that provides low signal distortion even at high frequencies. Conductive elements of the cable are fused to edges of signal conductors in a cable connector or other component terminating the cable. For terminating a differential pair, the conductive elements of the cable may be terminated to opposing edges of a pair of signal conductors in the cable termination. The conductive elements may be shaped such that the spacing between signal paths passing through the conductive elements of the cable and into the signal conductors of the cable termination is uniform.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 8, 2021Publication date: June 24, 2021Applicant: Amphenol CorporationInventors: Mark W. Gailus, Allan Astbury, David Manter, Marc B. Cartier, JR., Vysakh Sivarajan, John Robert Dunham
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Publication number: 20210175670Abstract: A modular electrical connector with separately shielded signal conductor pairs. The connector may be assembled from modules, each containing a pair of signal conductors with surrounding partially or fully conductive material. Modules of different sizes may be assembled into wafers, which are then assembled into a connector. Wafers may include lossy material. In some embodiments, shielding members of two mating connectors may each have compliant members along their distal portions, such that, the shielding members engage at points of contact at multiple locations, some of which are adjacent the mating edge of each of the mating shielding members.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 23, 2020Publication date: June 10, 2021Applicant: Amphenol CorporationInventors: Marc B. Cartier, JR., John Robert Dunham, Mark W. Gailus, Donald A. Girard, JR., David Manter, Tom Pitten, Vysakh Sivarajan, Michael Joseph Snyder
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Publication number: 20210119371Abstract: A modular electrical connector with modular components suitable for assembly into a right angle connector may also be used in forming an orthogonal connector or connector in other desired configurations. The connector modules may be configured through the user of extender modules. Those connector modules may be held together as a right angle connector with a front housing portion, which, in some embodiments, may be shaped differently depending on whether the connector modules are used to form a right angle connector or an orthogonal connector. When designed to form an orthogonal connector, the extender modules may interlock into subarrays, which may be held to other connector components through the use of an extender shell. The mating contact portions on the extender modules may be such that a right angle connector, similarly made with connector modules, may directly mate with the orthogonal connector.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 28, 2020Publication date: April 22, 2021Applicant: Amphenol CorporationInventors: Allan Astbury, John Robert Dunham, Marc B. Cartier, JR., Mark W. Gailus, Daniel B. Provencher
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Patent number: 10965065Abstract: An electrical connector module with openings in an insulative support selectively positioned to limit dielectric loss in a signal. The connector may include a first and second conductor including first and second sides between first and second edges. An insulative support holds the first conductor adjacent the second conductor and may have at least five pedestal portions, wherein the first pedestal portion contacts the first side of the first conductor, the second pedestal portion contacts the second side of the first conductor, the third pedestal portion contacts the first side of the second conductor, the fourth pedestal portion contacts the second side of the second conductor, and at least a portion of the fifth pedestal portion is disposed between two edges of the first and second conductors. The pedestal portions may have widths less than the widths of the first and second sides of the first and second conductors.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2020Date of Patent: March 30, 2021Assignee: Amphenol CorporationInventors: Marc B. Cartier, Jr., John Robert Dunham, Vysakh Sivarajan, Mark W. Gailus, David Levine, Michael Joseph Snyder
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Publication number: 20210083434Abstract: A modular electrical connector with separately shielded signal conductor pairs. In some embodiments, the connector is may be assembled from modules, each containing a pair of signal conductors with surrounding partially or fully conductive material. In some embodiments, the modules may have projecting portions, of conductive and/or dielectric material, that are shaped and positioned to reduce changes in impedance along the signal paths as a function of separation of conductive elements, when the connectors are separated by less than the functional mating range.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2020Publication date: March 18, 2021Applicant: Amphenol CorporationInventors: Mark W. Gailus, John Robert Dunham, Marc B. Cartier, JR., Donald A. Girard, JR.
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Patent number: 10944214Abstract: A cable termination that provides low signal distortion even at high frequencies. Conductive elements of the cable are fused to edges of signal conductors in a cable connector or other component terminating the cable. For terminating a differential pair, the conductive elements of the cable may be terminated to opposing edges of a pair of signal conductors in the cable termination. The conductive elements may be shaped such that the spacing between signal paths passing through the conductive elements of the cable and into the signal conductors of the cable termination is uniform.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2018Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: Amphenol CorporationInventors: Mark W. Gailus, Allan Astbury, David Manter, Marc B. Cartier, Jr., Vysakh Sivarajan, John Robert Dunham
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Patent number: 10879643Abstract: A modular electrical connector with modular components suitable for assembly into a right angle connector may also be used in forming an orthogonal connector or connector in other desired configurations. The connector modules may be configured through the user of extender modules. Those connector modules may be held together as a right angle connector with a front housing portion, which, in some embodiments, may be shaped differently depending on whether the connector modules are used to form a right angle connector or an orthogonal connector. When designed to form an orthogonal connector, the extender modules may interlock into subarrays, which may be held to other connector components through the use of an extender shell. The mating contact portions on the extender modules may be such that a right angle connector, similarly made with connector modules, may directly mate with the orthogonal connector.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2018Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Assignee: Amphenol CorporationInventors: Allan Astbury, John Robert Dunham, Marc B. Cartier, Jr., Mark W. Gailus, Daniel B. Provencher
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Patent number: 10855034Abstract: A modular electrical connector with separately shielded signal conductor pairs. In some embodiments, the connector is may be assembled from modules, each containing a pair of signal conductors with surrounding partially or fully conductive material. In some embodiments, the modules may have projecting portions, of conductive and/or dielectric material, that are shaped and positioned to reduce changes in impedance along the signal paths as a function of separation of conductive elements, when the connectors are separated by less than the functional mating range.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2018Date of Patent: December 1, 2020Assignee: Amphenol CorporationInventors: Mark W. Gailus, John Robert Dunham, Marc B. Cartier, Jr., Donald A. Girard, Jr.
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Publication number: 20200373689Abstract: A modular high speed, high density electrical connector configurable for use in multiple configurations, including a direct attach orthogonal configuration. The connector is assembled with modules that include shielded pairs of signal conductors with mating ends that are rotated approximately 45 degrees with respect to intermediate portions of the signal conductors. The connector may have a mating interface with receptacles in one connector and pins in the mating connector. The pins may be small diameter and may be implemented with superelastic wires so as to resist damage despite having very small effective diameter. A compact mating interface resulting from small diameter mating contact portions may enable other portions of the connector, including the shielding surrounding the signal conductors to be smaller, which may raise the resonant frequency of the connector and extend its bandwidth.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 19, 2020Publication date: November 26, 2020Applicant: Amphenol CorporationInventors: Marc B. Cartier, John Robert Dunham, Mark W. Gailus, John Pitten
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Patent number: 10847937Abstract: A modular electrical connector with separately shielded signal conductor pairs. The connector may be assembled from modules, each containing a pair of signal conductors with surrounding partially or fully conductive material. Modules of different sizes may be assembled into wafers, which are then assembled into a connector. Wafers may include lossy material. In some embodiments, shielding members of two mating connectors may each have compliant members along their distal portions, such that, the shielding members engage at points of contact at multiple locations, some of which are adjacent the mating edge of each of the mating shielding members.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2019Date of Patent: November 24, 2020Assignee: Amphenol CorporationInventors: Marc B. Cartier, Jr., John Robert Dunham, Mark W. Gailus, Donald A. Girard, Jr., David Manter, Tom Pitten, Vysakh Sivarajan, Michael Joseph Snyder
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Patent number: 10840649Abstract: A high speed, high density connector has an organizer. Contact tails of the connector pass through the organizer. The organizer has an insulative body. Portions of the organizer are selectively made more conductive by plating on the body. Those plated portions electrically connect contact tails of ground conductors passing through the organizer. The plated portions are lossy or conductive.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2018Date of Patent: November 17, 2020Assignee: Amphenol CorporationInventors: Mark W. Gailus, John Robert Dunham, Marc B. Cartier, Jr., Donald A. Girard, Jr.
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Patent number: D908633Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2018Date of Patent: January 26, 2021Assignee: Amphenol CorporationInventors: Marc B. Cartier, Jr., Mark W. Gailus, David Levine, Vysakh Sivarajan, John Robert Dunham, John Pitten
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Patent number: D948454Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2020Date of Patent: April 12, 2022Assignee: Amphenol CorporationInventors: Marc B. Cartier, Jr., Mark W. Gailus, David Levine, Vysakh Sivarajan, John Robert Dunham, John Pitten
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Patent number: D953275Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2020Date of Patent: May 31, 2022Assignee: Amphenol CorporationInventors: Marc B. Cartier, Jr., Mark W. Gailus, David Levine, Vysakh Sivarajan, John Robert Dunham, John Pitten