Abstract: An electrical connector comprises a plurality of terminal blocks arranged along a transverse direction. The terminal block includes a vertical insulative plate, a pair of first terminals, and a pair of second terminals. The first terminal includes a first deflectable contacting arm and a first connecting foot. The second terminal includes a second deflectable contacting arm and a second connecting foot. The first deflectable contacting arm and the second deflectable contacting arm are arranged one by one along the transverse direction. The first deflectable contacting arms of the pair of first terminals bend in a face to face style to form an inserting space in the vertical direction. The second deflectable contacting arms of the pair of second terminals bend in a face to face style to form the inserting space in the vertical direction.

Abstract: An electrical connector includes a main body mounted to the circuit board, a shielding plate assembly fastened to the main body, and a plurality of conductive terminals mounted to the main body and arranged in two rows. The shielding plate assembly is located between the two rows of the conductive terminals. Each of the conductive terminals has a fastening portion, a contact portion and a soldering portion. A front end of the contact portion has a contact surface. Thicknesses of two opposite sides of the front end of the contact portion are smaller than a thickness of a middle of the front end of the contact portion. The contact surfaces of the contact portions of the conductive terminals are exposed to a top surface and a bottom surface of the main body, respectively.

Abstract: An electrical connector includes an insulative housing, a number of terminals, and a metal shell attached to the housing. The terminals have a number of grounding contacts, power contacts, and signal contacts. Each terminal has a contacting portion, an inclined portion bent forwardly from the contacting portion at a bending point, and a soldering portion. The bending points have a first bending point located at the grounding contacts, a second bending point located at the power contacts, and a third bending point located at the signal contact. A distance between the first bending points of the grounding contacts and the insertion port is larger than that between the second bending points of the power contacts and the insertion port and smaller than that between the third bending points of the signal contacts and the insertion port.

Abstract: A connector including a body, an adjacent pair of first terminals, a second terminal next to one of the first terminals, a third terminal next to the other first terminal, and a fourth terminal. The body holds the terminals at least partially and includes a first recess, a second recess, and a first separating portion therebetween. The first and third terminals each have a portion exposed through the first recess. The fourth terminal has a portion exposed through the second recess. The second terminal includes an exposed portion and an unexposed portion. The unexposed portion includes an area on one side in the first direction of a part in the second direction of the second terminal and is covered with the body. The exposed portion includes an area on the other side in the first direction of the part of the second terminal and is exposed through the first recess.

Abstract: The systems, methods, and apparatuses disclosed herein relate to apparatuses having high density of electrical contacts and/or pins. In some embodiments, an apparatus comprises sets of electrical contacts, and a housing comprising housing portions, each of the housing portions comprising a corresponding planar end that supports a number of the sets of electrical contacts, wherein at least two sets of the sets of electrical contacts are located at different positions measured along a length of the housing. In further embodiments, an apparatus comprises sets of pins, and a housing comprising sets of walls, each of the sets of walls defines a corresponding portion of the elongated cavity, each of the sets of walls supporting a number of sets of the sets of pins, wherein at least two sets of the sets of pins are located at different depths measured along a length of the elongated cavity.

Abstract: A cable connector includes a connection end portion of a flexible board, in which a rectangular reinforcing plate molded of a conductive resin material is fixed to part of an upper surface of a ground plate. The connection end portion of the flexible board is electrically connected to a printed circuit board through the cable connector.

Abstract: A connector includes a housing and a signal plug contact provided in the housing. The housing includes a hole that expands from part of the housing in which the signal plug contact is provided.

Abstract: A connector cover adapted to cover a connector is provided. Two protrusions protruding from two ends of a connector body of the connector have two protrusion inner walls facing to each other and two grooves caved in the protrusion inner walls. The connector cover includes a cover body, having a cover top surface, and at least one cover protrusion disposed at a side of the cover body and protruding from the cover top surface. Each cover protrusion includes two cover protrusion side surfaces and at least one covering portion. Each covering portion, extending from one of the cover protrusion side surfaces and bending along outline of the protrusion protrusion inner wall to cover at least a portion of the protrusion protrusion inner wall, includes a protruding arm adapted to be located in the groove A cover module is further provided.

Abstract: An electrical connector includes a housing stack comprising a front housing and a rear housing coupled to the front housing at a seam. The housing stack defines plural contact cavities that extend continuously through the front housing and the rear housing between mating and mounting ends. A lossy spacer is disposed at the seam between the front and rear housings. The lossy spacer has plural contact cavities aligned with corresponding contact cavities of the housing stack. Signal and ground contacts are disposed in corresponding contact cavities of the housing stack. The signal contacts extend through the lossy spacer such that the signal contacts do not directly engage the lossy spacer. The ground contacts extend through the contact cavities in the lossy spacer such that the ground contacts are coupled by the lossy spacer.

Abstract: A connector includes a connector body, a plurality of wafers arranged within the connector body, and a weld tab defined by a unitary member that includes a plurality of weld tab legs and a plurality of weld tab arms. The plurality of weld tab arms are arranged to engage with corresponding weld tab arm holes included in the connector body, and the plurality of weld tab legs are arranged to engage with a circuit board when the connector is mounted to the circuit board. The weld tab prevents the plurality of wafers from withdrawing from the connector body when the plurality of weld tab arms are engaged with the corresponding weld tab arm holes.

Abstract: A cable connector that includes a substrate having a plurality of conductive pads and at least one grounding pad. The cable connector further includes twin axial cable that includes a first conductor and second conductor, a first insulator that surrounds the first conductor, and a second insulator that surrounds the second conductor. The twin axial cable further includes a ground shield that surrounds the first and second insulator. The first conductor is electrically connected to one conductive pad and the second conductor is electrically connected to another of the conductive pads. The ground shield is electrically connected to the grounding pad. A shielding structure is mounted to the substrate and is electrically connected to the grounding pad. The shielding structure includes a cap and a plurality of sidewalls extending from the cap to the substrate. The twin axial cable is positioned between the side walls.

Abstract: An electrical connector includes an insulative housing, a shell covering the insulative housing, and a flange mounted to the shell. The insulative housing has a front face, a number of outer faces, and a receiving cavity extending through the front face for receiving a mating connector. The shell has a front wall and a number of outer walls covering the housing front and outer faces, respectively. The flange has a mating sleeve mounted to the shell and a mating flange portion for engaging a panel along a front-to-back direction. The mating sleeve is bent from a material band, and the mating flange portion is bent from the mating sleeve. The mating flange portion is substantially perpendicular to and resiliently flexible relative to the mating sleeve.

Abstract: A differential signal assembly includes two pairs of differential signal wafers arranged in one row. Each differential signal wafer includes a plurality of mating portions arranged in one column and a plurality of mounting portions arranged in one column. In one of the two pairs of differential signal wafers, each differential signal wafer has a grounding pin and an offset grounding pin respectively arranged at two opposite ends of the column of mounting portions thereof, each offset grounding pin has an offset with respect to the corresponding column of mounting portions, the two distal ends of the mounting portions of each differential signal wafer are two signal mounting portions, cooperating with the two signal mounting portions of the other differential signal wafer. Thus, the grounding pin and the offset grounding pin of each differential signal wafer are configured to shield the adjacent signal mounting portions.

Abstract: Provided is a large current female connector for high-speed transmission, comprising a case, an insulating body, and an upper terminal group and a lower terminal group disposed in the insulating body. The insulating body is disposed in the case. A power terminal in the upper terminal group and a corresponding power terminal in the lower terminal group are connected to form a big power terminal. An insulating body trench for accommodating the big power terminal is disposed on the insulating body. The present invention has advantages in that the fabrication process is simple and cost effective, and a large current transport is possible.

Abstract: A cover configured to cover a base of an electronic device. The cover includes a plurality of sidewalls, a plurality of limiting portions and a plurality of bent portions. The limiting portions are arranged on the sidewalls and protruding inwardly to latch to the base. The bent portions are arranged on the sidewalls and extending outwardly to contact ground portions of the electronic device. An electronic device employing the cover is also provided.

Abstract: In a housing 10 are formed holding grooves 17A to 17D that permit arm-use blades 20A-1 to 20D-1 of various types of blades 20A to 20D to be inserted from the rear, connection components 33A-1 to 33D-1 provided to the lower ends of legs 33A to 33D of conductive bar members 30A to 30D of the various types of blades 20A to 20D are located outside the housing, the arm-use blades 20A-1 to 20D-1 of the various types of blades 20A to 20D are able to move in the vertical direction over a specific range within the corresponding holding grooves 17A to 17D, and the various types of blades 20A to 20D are able to move within a holding space 17.

Abstract: An electronic device may include a housing that may include an opening formed on an outer surface and a space fluidly communicating with the opening, at least one electronic element which is disposed in the space, and at least one terminal which is disposed on the outer surface of the housing and is electrically connected with the at least one electronic element.

Abstract: A header transition connector includes a header housing having a separating wall separating a first cavity from a second cavity. Header signal contacts are held by the header housing. The header signal contacts are arranged in pairs carrying differential signals. The header signal contacts have first mating ends in the first cavity for mating with a first receptacle connector. The header signal contacts have second mating ends in the second cavity for mating with a second receptacle connector. Header ground shields are held by the header housing. The header ground shields have first mating ends in the first cavity for mating with the first receptacle connector. The header ground shields have second mating ends in the second cavity for mating with the second receptacle connector. At least a group of the header ground shields are electrically commoned with each other within the header housing.

Abstract: A repeater includes two connectors to each of which a communication cable is connected and a circuit board on which the two connectors are mounted and which includes a signal transmission section configured to connect corresponding ones of electrodes of the two connectors together, and the two connectors are mounted on different surfaces of the circuit board such that the communication cables are inserted in opposite insertion directions.

Abstract: A connector system is disclosed that can support high data rates over a connector with terminals on a 0.5 mm pitch. A plug connector can include a termination module that has a paddle card and a plug module that includes rows of terminals. The termination module and the plug module can be aligned via the row of terminals and pads on the paddle card. A receptacle connector includes two rows of terminals that are provided on opposite sides of a tongue. The tongue includes impedance notches aligned with terminals arranged as differential pairs. Ground terminals extend past the differential pairs and along the impedance notch.

Abstract: A horizontal printed circuit board (PCB) holder for connection to a first PCB and a second PCB may include a frame having one or more legs extending outwardly from the frame, each of the one or more legs having a passageway therein, and at least one conductive pin fixedly secured within the passageway of at least one of the one or more legs. The at least one conductive pin may convey electrical signals between the first PCB and the second PCB. A PCB holder assembly may include first and second PCBs connected to a PCB holder. A method of providing a PCB holder may include determining at least one characteristic of a first PCB and second PCB, configuring the PCB holder according to the determined characteristic(s), and connecting the first and second PCBs to the PCB holder.

Abstract: A PCI-E connector cover includes a first, a second cover lateral sides, a plurality of bending arms, a cover top surface and a plurality of connecting posts. The first, the second cover lateral sides and the cover top surface are adapted to cover a first, a second connector lateral sides and a connector top surface of a PCI-E connector. The bending arms are connected to the first cover lateral side and lean against a first connector concave of the PCI-E connector so as to keep an interval between the first cover lateral side and the first connector concave. The cover top surface is connected to the first, the second cover lateral sides. The connecting posts are extended from the first and the second cover lateral sides to fix to a main board. A PCI-E connector module is further provided.

Abstract: A connector is configured of a plug connector and a receptacle connector. The plug connector has an insertion convex portion including: a first sidewall portion and a second sidewall portion that are in parallel with each other and a plurality of first connection terminals provided on the sidewall portions. The receptacle connector has an insertion concave portion to which the insertion convex portion is inserted and in which a plurality of second connection terminals that are contacted with the first connection terminals are provided. The respective inner side surfaces of the first sidewall portion and the second sidewall portion face each other across a space, and the plurality of first connection terminals are arranged on the respective outer side surfaces of the first sidewall portion and the second sidewall portion.

Abstract: An electrical connector assembly may include a plurality of signal isolating barriers. Each of the plurality of signal isolating barriers may be positioned around a group of board contacts proximate to a board connecting interface. Each of the plurality of signal isolating barriers isolates the group of the plurality of board contacts from other groups of the plurality of board contacts.

Abstract: A connector is configured to provide a mating side that includes a 90 degree rotation about two different axis when compared to a mounting. The connector, when mounted on a first circuit board is thus suitable for directly mating to a right-angle connector that is mounted on a second circuit board, the second circuit board at a being at a 90 angle to the first circuit board. The connector can include a shroud that supports a u-shield that partially shields contacts positioned in the mating side.

Abstract: This invention discloses an orthogonal type card edge connector and a combination type card-plugged connector. The orthogonal type card edge connector includes a terminal component for transmitting current signal and/or current and a shell component for accommodating the terminal component. The terminal component comprises a first contact part and a second contact part, a spur line of the first contact part is orthogonal or parallel to a spur line of the second contact part. After the terminal component is electrically connected to a first circuit board and a second circuit board, the first contact part and the second connect part are separately connected with the first circuit board and the second circuit board, which are separately orthogonal and parallel to an extend surface of the orthogonal type card edge connector. The combination type card-plugged connector comprises at least two orthogonal type card edge connectors which are assembled together.

Abstract: In some designs, getting a flexible circuit (flex) to assume a bent state can be helpful in efficiently routing electrically conductive pathways. One efficient way to implement soldering of flexes in a bent state during a reflow operation is to manipulate paneling that hold batches of the flexes to reliably maintain a suitable bend in those flexes. In some embodiments, a flex can be surface mounted to a portion or the whole of an electric device during a reflow operation during which the bent state is maintained by paneling that is at least partially attached to a periphery of the flex. Another solution is to utilize vacuum or hot glue fixtures to maintain a bend in the flex during surface mounting and reflow operations.

Abstract: A telecommunications jack, and a method of manufacturing such a jack, are disclosed. In one aspect, the jack includes a housing having a socket sized to receive either a first telecommunications plug of a first type or a second telecommunications plug of a second type having a different arrangement of electrical contacts as compared to the first telecommunications plug. The telecommunications jack also includes a plurality of contact springs exposed within the socket and positioned for alignment with electrical contacts of the first telecommunications plug when the first telecommunications plug is inserted into the socket.

Abstract: An electrical connector includes a housing having a terminating side and a front side that is configured to mate with a mating connector. The electrical connector also includes signal and ground conductors extending through the housing. The signal and ground conductors are configured to engage the mating connector. The signal conductors form a plurality of signal pairs configured to carry differential signals. The ground conductors are interleaved between the signal pairs. The electrical connector further has at least one resonance-control ground bus that includes a ground frame and a support body. The support body at least partially covers the ground frame. The support body comprises a lossy material. The ground frame includes multiple arms that each engage and electrically connect to a respective one of the ground conductors in order to electrically common the ground conductors that are engaged by the arms.

Abstract: A connector can be provided that allows for improved route-out including straight-back routing. Signal and ground terminal tails can be arranged in a single row to help facilitate such functionality. A conductive member can connect ground tails to ground terminals. Consequentially, a connector with two vertically stacked card slots can be provided that allows for straight back routing of the signal traces in four layers while still providing a compact connector design.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an electrical connector assembly comprising: an insulative housing; a metallic plate formed in the insulative housing; a first terminal module formed on a top surface of the insulative housing; a second terminal module formed on a bottom surface of the insulative housing; and a metallic shell assembled to and formed around the insulative housing.

Abstract: A connector is provided with a pair of terminals configured to provide a differential signal pair. A ground terminal is positioned on opposing sides of the differential pair. The body of the differential pair is configured so as to bring the differential pair closer together. In an embodiment, the % coupling on the differential pair is increase at least 10% more than a design where the four terminals are positioned at a constant pitch between the tail and the contact.

Abstract: A ball-lock axial connector assembly includes a receiving member, and a sleeve having one end is received in the receiving member. The sleeve has three apertures defined radially through the wall thereof so as to receive a bead in each of the apertures. A portion of the bead is located within the sleeve. A guide face extends from each of the apertures and toward the receiving member. A positioning member and a push member are mounted to the sleeve. A first resilient member is biased between the positioning member and the push member. The push member has three protrusions which extend through the positioning member and contact the beads respectively. A case is movably mounted to the positioning member and the push member. A second resilient member is located between the bead and the receiving member. The beads are pushed to be removed from the apertures by pushing the case.

Abstract: An electrical connector structure includes an insulating body, ground terminals, and a grounding piece. The insulating body has a divider block. The ground terminals are fixed on the insulating body and arranged in two opposite sides of the divider block. Each ground terminal has a docking portion, a main portion, and a tail portion. The main portions are fixed on the insulating body. The docking portions and the tail portions extend from two sides of the insulation body. The grounding piece is fixed on the divider block. The grounding piece has a first mounting plane and a second mounting plane corresponding to the first mounting plane. The first mounting plane and the second mounting plane are located at two opposite surfaces of the divider block, and have contact portions protruding therefrom. The contact portions electrically contact the ground terminals respectively.

Abstract: In one embodiment, an HDMI connector includes a plurality of conductive paths. The plurality of conductive paths correspond to four channels, i.e., three differential data channels and one differential clock channel. Each channel includes three conductive paths, which correspond to a differential pair and a dedicated ground. Each conductive path has a contact on one end and a pin on the opposite end. The pins of the plurality of conductive paths are arranged to attach to corresponding surface mounting pads in at least two columns of contact points. For each channel, the pad for the dedicated ground is larger than the pads for the differential pair, thereby providing shielding between the differential pairs of different channels.

Abstract: An improved termination assembly for a multi-wire cable is disclosed. The assembly includes a carrier member that includes wire nest portions spaced along a base portion. The wire nest portions are hollow enclosures that contact the exterior grounding shields of the cable wires so as to electrically interconnect all of the cable wires together through a common ground.

Abstract: A receptacle connector mounted to a PCB, includes an insulative housing defining a mating tongue and a metallic shell enclosing the housing to form a mating cavity in which said mating tongue forwardly extends. A metallic shielding plate is embedded within a mid-level of the mating tongue wherein a leg of the shielding plate and a tail of an outermost grounding contact share the same conductive grounding region on the PCB. A plug connector mateable with the receptacle connector, includes an insulative housing defining a mating cavity to receive the mating tongue and equipped with a plurality of contacts and a metallic latch beside the mating cavity, wherein a tail of one grounding contact and a leg of the latch share the same conductive grounding region on a paddle card, which is behind the mating cavity and on which tails of the contacts are electrically and mechanically mounted.

Abstract: A signal terminal of a vertical bilayer electrical connector provided forwardly with a plugging surface having thereon an upper plugging hole and a lower plugging hole and provided downwardly with an electrical connection surface includes a conductive body having at least a bump and/or at least a dent at two ends, wherein the at least a bump is parallel to a plane perpendicular to the plugging surface and the at least a dent is parallel to a plane perpendicular to the plugging surface; a resilient electrical contact segment connected to an end of the conductive body and disposed in the upper or lower plugging hole; and an electrical connection segment connected to another end of the conductive body and mounted on the electrical connection surface to thereby electrically connect with a circuit board. Therefore, the signal terminal is effective in adjusting an impedance, reducing loss, and eliminating delay skew.

Abstract: A dual orientation connector having a connector tab with first and second major opposing sides and a plurality of electrical contacts carried by the connector tab. The plurality of contacts includes a first set of external contacts formed at the first major side and a second set of external contacts formed at the second major side. The first plurality of contacts are symmetrically spaced with the second plurality of contacts and the connector tab is shaped to have 180 degree symmetry so that it can be inserted and operatively coupled to a corresponding receptacle connector in either of two insertion orientations.

Abstract: An electrical connection box includes FL accommodating parts that are disposed on a main face wall of a casing that faces a front side of a circuit board and to which fusible links are fit; first bus bars that are erected in a vertical direction from the circuit board and connect the fusible links fit to the FL accommodating parts and the circuit board; second bus bars each of which includes a first vertical part erected in the vertical direction from the circuit board, a horizontal part that extends in a parallel direction with respect to the circuit board, and a second vertical part that extends in the vertical direction and that connect the fusible links and the circuit board; and a block body of a bus bar block that is disposed on the circuit board and holds the first bus bars and the second bus bars.

Abstract: Integrated signal pair elements are disclosed that can be inserted into and removed from a backplane connector housing as a single piece. Each element includes an insulative frame that supports a pair of conductive terminals in a spaced-apart arrangement. The frame is attached to a ground shield that provides a ground plane that extends around three sides of the signal pair. Cable wires are terminated to tail portions of the signal pair and an insulative material is molded over the cable wire termination area to form an integrated signal pair element. The individual signal pair elements may also be commoned together in a linear array of signal pair elements by a commoning member that contacts the ground shields of the array of signal pair elements.

Abstract: A connector set includes a first connector and a second connector. The first connector has a plurality of first connection terminals, a first anchoring terminal, and a first insulative member, and the second connector has a plurality of second connection terminals, a second anchoring terminal, and a second insulative member. When the first connector and the second connector are coupled, the plurality of first connection terminals and the plurality of second connection terminals respectively make contact at the first contact portions and the second contact portions. The first anchoring terminal and the second anchoring terminal make contact with each other to maintain the coupling between the first connector and the second connector, and have a ring shape that encircles a periphery of the first contact portions and the second contact portions when the first connector and the second connector are coupled.

Abstract: A differential signal connector includes a plurality of pairs of signal contacts, a plurality of ground contacts, and an insulating housing holding the signal contacts and the ground contacts. On a first connection side for connection to a connection partner, the ground contacts are arranged on both sides of each pair of signal contacts so that a contact array of a fixed pitch is formed. On a second connection side for connection to a board, the ground contacts are arranged spaced apart from each other in a first row, while the pairs of signal contacts, which are adjacently arranged on both sides of the ground contact on the first connection side, are arranged so as to be allocated in a second row and a third row located on both sides of the first row so that the pairs of signal contacts are arranged zigzag on the second connection side.

Abstract: A tensile-force buffering apparatus interposes a physical structure and a drop clamp having a messenger of an input drop cable secured thereto. The tensile-force buffering apparatus includes an outer housing defining an elongate inner cavity and a retainer, and a spring-strut assembly. The spring-strut assembly includes a central shaft, a retention member at a first end of the central shaft, and a coil spring disposed about the central shaft. The spring-strut assembly is received in the cavity of the outer housing, and the retention member is held by the retainer while a load compressing the coil spring is less than a predetermined threshold load. The retention member is released from the outer housing when the load compressing the coil spring reaches the predetermined threshold load, thereby effecting separation of the spring-strut assembly from the outer housing.

Abstract: A plug comprises a plurality of top contacts embedded in a top insulator, a shielding sheet, a plurality of bottom contacts embedded in a bottom insulator, a front insulator configured to receive every cantilever of the contacts, and a front conductive shell including a base and a sheath. The top insulator, the bottom insulator and the front insulator are coupled together while the shielding sheet is wedged between the top insulator and the bottom insulator. The base protrudes outward to form a shoulder between the base and the sheath. The sheath substantially fits closely around the front insulator. The front insulator has a front edge concaved backward while the sheath has a front edge convexed backward in order to engage with the front edge of the front insulator.

Abstract: A connector includes a plurality of signal contacts and a plurality of non-signal contacts arranged on at least one contact array plane, a ground plate disposed on a ground plane parallel to the contact array plane so as to face the plurality of signal contacts and the plurality of non-signal contacts, and an insulator which holds the plurality of signal contacts, the plurality of non-signal contacts and the ground plate, at least one of the non-signal contacts being disposed between each of the signal contacts and other of the signal contacts, the ground plate having at least one opening at a location facing the at least one of the non-signal contacts disposed between each of the signal contacts and other of the signal contacts, none of the signal contacts being disposed on the ground plane.

Abstract: An electrical connector (100) includes an insulative body (1) comprising a rear part (11), a front widened tongue (121), and a front narrowed tongue (122), a plurality of contacts (2) received in the insulative body, a metallic shell (3) enclosing the insulative body, a spacer (5) assembled to the insulative body for supporting the contacts, and a cable connected with the contacts and comprising two STP (Shielded Twisted Pair) wires (62) for high speed signal transmission, each of the two STP wires having a front section without aluminum foil. The metallic shell comprises a front shell (32) and a rear shell (33) assembled with each other, the rear shell defines a vertical blade (335) bent downwards from a top wall thereof, and the vertical blade extends downwards and is located between the front sections of the STP wires.

Abstract: An electrical connector structure includes a housing and signal modules mounted therein. Each signal module includes an insulating body, conductive terminals and a ground shield. The insulating body has a first side having a guide projection, and a second side opposite to the first side and having a guide groove. When a first signal module has been mounted in the housing, a second signal module is guided and moved to mount into the housing by the guide groove of the second signal module receiving the guide projection of the first signal module, or by the guide projection of the second signal module sliding into the guide groove of the first signal module, whereby reducing relative movement between signal modules in the housing. The signal modules may be mounted one by one in the housing, or may be stacked side by side and then mounted in the housing as a whole.

Abstract: An integrated circuit package substrate may include a core layer and dielectric layers formed on top and bottom surfaces of the core layer. Routing traces such as stripline structures may be formed in some of the dielectric layers, whereas plated through hole (PTH) structures may be formed through the core layer. A first pair of PTHs that carry a first differential signal may be orthogonally intertwined with a second pair of PTHs that carry a second differential signal. Solder balls formed at the surface of the package substrate may include a first pair of solder balls that convey a first differential signal that is orthogonally intertwined with respect to a second pair of solder balls that convey a second differential signal. The package substrate may be mounted on a printed circuit board (PCB). Differential PCB vias could use the same BGA orthogonal pattern described above.

Abstract: A connector assembly includes a receptacle mounted on a first connector mounting surface of a first substrate; a receptacle mounted on a second connector mounting surface of a second substrate; and a relay connector. The relay connector includes a plug to be mated with the receptacle in a direction parallel to the first connector mounting surface; a plug to be mated with the receptacle in a direction parallel to the second connector mounting surface; and a handle that couples the plug and the plug to each other. The relay connector is structured such that a first mating direction in which the plug is mated to the receptacle is substantially the same as a second mating direction (Q) in which the plug is mated to the receptacle.