Patents by Inventor Nathan Lincoln Tracy
Nathan Lincoln Tracy 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: 10398050Abstract: Pluggable transceiver assembly includes a transceiver body having first and second plug portions and a common base portion that joins the first and second plug portions. The first and second plug portions are separated from each other by an elongated wall-receiving gap that is sized and shaped to receive a receptacle wall of a receptacle assembly. The pluggable transceiver assembly also includes a communication sub-assembly having a transceiver substrate that includes first and second plug sections and a shared section that joins the first and second plug sections. The first and second plug sections extend toward a leading end of the transceiver body from the shared section to substrate edges of the first and second plug sections, respectively. The substrate edges include electrical contacts configured to engage a corresponding receptacle connector of the receptacle assembly.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2016Date of Patent: August 27, 2019Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY CORPORATIONInventors: Nathan Lincoln Tracy, Alex Michael Sharf, Michael David Herring
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Publication number: 20190214756Abstract: An electrical connector includes a housing and a plurality of signal conductors held within the housing. The housing includes a mating shroud protruding forward from a front wall of the housing and defining a port that receives a mating circuit card therein. Each of the signal conductors includes a mating contact disposed within the mating shroud and a mounting contact that projects beyond a bottom end of the housing to electrically connect to a circuit board. The mounting contacts are located within a termination area of the electrical connector. The housing defines a nesting cavity extending rearward from the front wall along the bottom end. The nesting cavity is disposed between the mating shroud and the termination area along a longitudinal axis of the electrical connector. The nesting cavity is configured to accommodate a discrete, second connector that is mounted to the circuit board.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 10, 2018Publication date: July 11, 2019Inventors: Nathan Lincoln Tracy, David Patrick Orris, Chad William Morgan, Lucas Arthur Benson, Linda Ellen Shields
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Patent number: 10312633Abstract: A dual connector system includes a host circuit board and first and second electrical connectors mounted to the host circuit board. The first electrical connector has a housing having a card slot for a module circuit board and the second electrical connector has a housing having an upper mating surface for the module circuit board. The housing has a first side and an opposite second side with connector latching features and holding second contacts at the upper mating surface between the first and second sides. A dual connector module is mated to the first and second electrical connectors. A securing strap is secured to the dual connector module and has a first strap latching feature being latchably coupled to the corresponding connector latching feature to secure the dual connector module to the second electrical connector.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2017Date of Patent: June 4, 2019Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITYInventors: Michael Joseph Tryson, Nathan Lincoln Tracy, Michael David Herring, Dean Marlin Harmon, III
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Patent number: 10297963Abstract: A dual connector system includes a host circuit board with first and second electrical connectors. The first electrical connector has a housing with a card slot. The second electrical connector has a housing having a latch member including a latching tab. The dual connector system includes a dual connector module having a module circuit board having contact pads. The dual connector module has a latching element that engages the latching tab to hold the dual connector module in the mated position with the first electrical connector and the second electrical connector. The dual connector system includes an ejector actuated to release the latching tab from the latch member to allow the dual connector module to unmate from the electrical connectors.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2017Date of Patent: May 21, 2019Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY CORPORATIONInventors: Michael David Herring, Nathan Lincoln Tracy
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Publication number: 20190103707Abstract: A dual connector system includes a host circuit board and first and second electrical connectors mounted to the host circuit board. The first electrical connector has a housing having a card slot for a module circuit board and the second electrical connector has a housing having an upper mating surface for the module circuit board. The housing has a first side and an opposite second side with connector latching features and holding second contacts at the upper mating surface between the first and second sides. A dual connector module is mated to the first and second electrical connectors. A securing strap is secured to the dual connector module and has a first strap latching feature being latchably coupled to the corresponding connector latching feature to secure the dual connector module to the second electrical connector.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 3, 2017Publication date: April 4, 2019Inventors: Michael Joseph Tryson, Nathan Lincoln Tracy, Michael David Herring, Dean Marlin Harmon, III
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Patent number: 10178804Abstract: A heat spreader includes a main body extending between a front and a rear configured to be mounted to a cage and heat transfer fingers cantilevered forward from the front of the main body. The heat transfer fingers each have a fixed end, a distal end, a top, a bottom and mating edges facing each other across gaps. The heat transfer fingers are configured to be received in corresponding channels between heat transfer fins of a pluggable module as the pluggable module is installed in the cage through the front end with the gaps receiving the heat transfer fins. The mating edges are configured to face and be thermally coupled to corresponding heat transfer fins. The heat transfer fingers transfer heat from the heat transfer fins rearward toward the distal ends and into the main body.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2017Date of Patent: January 8, 2019Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY CORPORATIONInventors: Alex Michael Sharf, Nathan Lincoln Tracy
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Publication number: 20180310435Abstract: A heat spreader includes a main body extending between a front and a rear configured to be mounted to a cage and heat transfer fingers cantilevered forward from the front of the main body. The heat transfer fingers each have a fixed end, a distal end, a top, a bottom and mating edges facing each other across gaps. The heat transfer fingers are configured to be received in corresponding channels between heat transfer fins of a pluggable module as the pluggable module is installed in the cage through the front end with the gaps receiving the heat transfer fins. The mating edges are configured to face and be thermally coupled to corresponding heat transfer fins. The heat transfer fingers transfer heat from the heat transfer fins rearward toward the distal ends and into the main body.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 25, 2017Publication date: October 25, 2018Inventors: Alex Michael Sharf, Nathan Lincoln Tracy
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Publication number: 20180116063Abstract: Pluggable transceiver assembly includes a transceiver body having first and second plug portions and a common base portion that joins the first and second plug portions. The first and second plug portions are separated from each other by an elongated wall-receiving gap that is sized and shaped to receive a receptacle wall of a receptacle assembly. The pluggable transceiver assembly also includes a communication sub-assembly having a transceiver substrate that includes first and second plug sections and a shared section that joins the first and second plug sections. The first and second plug sections extend toward a leading end of the transceiver body from the shared section to substrate edges of the first and second plug sections, respectively. The substrate edges include electrical contacts configured to engage a corresponding receptacle connector of the receptacle assembly.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 25, 2016Publication date: April 26, 2018Inventors: Nathan Lincoln Tracy, Alex Michael Sharf, Michael David Herring
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Patent number: 9930772Abstract: Printed circuit includes a planar substrate having opposite sides and a thickness extending therebetween. The sides extend parallel to a lateral plane. The printed circuit also includes a plurality of conductive vias extending through the planar substrate in a direction that is perpendicular to the lateral plane. The conductive vias include ground vias and signal vias. The signal vias form a plurality of quad groups in which each quad group includes a two-by-two array of the signal vias. Optionally, the printed circuit also includes signal traces that electrically couple to the signal vias. The signal traces may form a plurality of quad lines in which each quad line includes four of the signal traces. The four signal traces of each quad line may extend parallel to one another and be in a two-by-two formation.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2015Date of Patent: March 27, 2018Assignees: TE CONNECTIVITY CORPORATION, TYCO ELECTRONICS JAPAN G.K.Inventors: Chad William Morgan, Masayuki Aizawa, Arash Behziz, Brian Patrick Costello, Nathan Lincoln Tracy, Michael David Herring
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Publication number: 20180076587Abstract: A dual connector system includes a host circuit board with first and second electrical connectors. The first electrical connector has a housing with a card slot. The second electrical connector has a housing having a latch member including a latching tab. The dual connector system includes a dual connector module having a module circuit board having contact pads. The dual connector module has a latching element that engages the latching tab to hold the dual connector module in the mated position with the first electrical connector and the second electrical connector. The dual connector system includes an ejector actuated to release the latching tab from the latch member to allow the dual connector module to unmate from the electrical connectors.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 24, 2017Publication date: March 15, 2018Inventors: Michael David Herring, Nathan Lincoln Tracy
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Publication number: 20170196079Abstract: Printed circuit includes a planar substrate having opposite sides and a thickness extending therebetween. The sides extend parallel to a lateral plane. The printed circuit also includes a plurality of conductive vias extending through the planar substrate in a direction that is perpendicular to the lateral plane. The conductive vias include ground vias and signal vias. The signal vias form a plurality of quad groups in which each quad group includes a two-by-two array of the signal vias. Optionally, the printed circuit also includes signal traces that electrically couple to the signal vias. The signal traces may form a plurality of quad lines in which each quad line includes four of the signal traces. The four signal traces of each quad line may extend parallel to one another and be in a two-by-two formation.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 30, 2015Publication date: July 6, 2017Inventors: Chad William Morgan, Masayuki Aizawa, Arash Behziz, Brian Patrick Costello, Nathan Lincoln Tracy, Michael David Herring
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Patent number: 9281630Abstract: An electrical connector that includes a housing configured to be coupled to a mating connector. The connector has signal contacts held in signal contact openings. The signal contacts are arranged in arrays of quad groups. Each of the quad group has a set of four contacts arranged in row pairs and column pairs. The signal contacts of each quad group are configured to carry relational signals with each other signal contact in the quad group. Each signal contact is configured to electrically couple to a signal contact of the mating connector. The connector also includes ground shields held in corresponding ground shield openings. The ground shields have walls surrounding a corresponding quad group of signal contacts and provides electrical shielding from adjacent quad groups of signal contacts. The ground shields have mating ends for mating with corresponding ground contacts of the mating connector.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2014Date of Patent: March 8, 2016Assignees: Tyco Electronics Corporation, Tyco Electronics Japan G.K.Inventors: Brian Patrick Costello, Michael David Herring, Arash Behziz, Chad William Morgan, Nathan Lincoln Tracy, Masayuki Aizawa
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Publication number: 20160013594Abstract: An electrical connector that includes a housing configured to be coupled to a mating connector. The connector has signal contacts held in signal contact openings. The signal contacts are arranged in arrays of quad groups. Each of the quad group has a set of four contacts arranged in row pairs and column pairs. The signal contacts of each quad group are configured to carry relational signals with each other signal contact in the quad group. Each signal contact is configured to electrically couple to a signal contact of the mating connector. The connector also includes ground shields held in corresponding ground shield openings. The ground shields have walls surrounding a corresponding quad group of signal contacts and provides electrical shielding from adjacent quad groups of signal contacts. The ground shields have mating ends for mating with corresponding ground contacts of the mating connector.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 11, 2014Publication date: January 14, 2016Applicant: Tyco Electronics Japan G.K.Inventors: Brian Patrick Costello, Michael David Herring, Arash Behziz, Chad William Morgan, Nathan Lincoln Tracy, Masayuki Aizawa
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Patent number: 6840822Abstract: A cable connector is provided. The cable connector includes a connector housing having a cavity for receiving a contact along an axis, and the cavity has a protrusion therein. The protrusion extends through the axis so that as the contact is inserted into the cavity along the axis, the contact is deflected by the protrusion until the contact moves past the protrusion into a locked position. The contact has a body section with at least one wing extending therefrom. The wing contacts the protrusion as the contact is inserted into the cavity along the axis causing the contact to rotate about the axis.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2003Date of Patent: January 11, 2005Assignee: Tyco Electronics CorporationInventors: John Wesley Hall, Hurley Chester Moll, Michael Fredrick Laub, Charles Randall Malstrom, Dmitry Vladimirovich Zhmurkin, John Mark Myer, John Phillup Huss, Jr., Nathan Lincoln Tracy, Sean Patrick McCarthy