Abstract: An electrical connector assembly can include a plug connector mountable to a planar substrate and a receptacle connector configured to receive a plurality of cables and that can mate with the plug connector. The plug connector may include a first inline terminal row and a second inline terminal row exposed on a mounting face to conductively contact the planar substrate. The receptacle connector can include a plurality of terminals having termination ends aligned in common wafer plane that can be conductively terminated with the plurality of cables. The plug connector and the electrical connector are configured to establish electrical channels from the termination ends coplanar with the common wafer plan to the first and second inline terminal rows.

Abstract: A broadside coupled connector assembly has two sets of conductors, each separate planes. By providing the same path lengths, there is no skew between the conductors of the differential pair and the impedance of those conductors is identical. The conductor sets are formed by embedding the first set of conductors in an insulated housing having a top surface with channels. The second set of conductors is placed within the channels so that no air gaps form between the two sets of conductors. A second insulated housing is filled over the second set of conductors and into the channels to form a completed wafer. The ends of the conductors are received in a blade housing. Differential and ground pairs of blades have one end that extends through the bottom of the housing having a small footprint. An opposite end of the pairs of blades diverge to connect with the wafers.

Abstract: A terminal module includes a number of conductive terminals and an insulating frame. The conductive terminal includes a contact portion, a connection portion and a transition portion connected to the contact portion. The conductive terminals include differential signal terminals, a first ground terminal and a second ground terminal. The contact portions of the differential signal terminals and the connection portions of the differential signal terminals are provided separately. As a result, the structure of the contact portions and the connection portions are simplified for easy manufacturing. The disclosure also discloses a backplane connector having the terminal module.

Abstract: A backplane connector includes a housing, a number of terminal modules assembled to the housing, and a mounting block. The housing includes a base, a first side wall and a second side wall. Each terminal module includes a first signal terminal and a second signal terminal. The first signal terminal has a first mounting foot, and the second signal terminal has a second mounting foot. The housing includes a receiving groove at a bottom end of the base. The mounting block is received in the receiving groove. The mounting block is made of electroplated plastic. The mounting block has an opening for the first mounting foot and the second mounting foot to extend through. As a result, the backplane connector has a better shielding effect.

Abstract: An electrical connector, comprising an insulating housing, a housing electromagnetic shielding member, and a plurality of terminal modules. The insulating housing comprises a first surface, a second surface, a plurality of terminal plugging hole groups, and a plurality of shield accommodating grooves. The first surface is opposite to the second surface. The plurality of terminal plugging hole groups are arranged at intervals. Each of the terminal plugging hole groups comprises a plurality of ground terminal plugging holes and a plurality of signal terminal plugging holes penetrating the first surface and the second surface. Each of the shield accommodating grooves is formed on the second surface and is disposed on one side of the corresponding terminal plugging hole group. The housing electromagnetic shielding member is embedded on the second surface and comprises a plurality of connecting bumps. Each of the terminal modules comprises a terminal electromagnetic shielding member.

Abstract: An electrical connector includes a conductive body, a terminal module and a grounding element. The conductive body includes a mating cavity and a slot for fixing the grounding element. The terminal module includes an insulating block, a plurality of signal terminals and a grounding piece mounted to the insulating block. The grounding piece includes a ground terminal. The ground terminal includes a ground contact portion at least partially located in the mating cavity. The grounding element includes a ground mating portion at least partially located in the mating cavity. The ground contact portion and the ground mating portion are adapted to be in contact with a same ground pin of a mating connector. As a result, a stable loop can be formed and the shielding performance of the electrical connector is improved. Besides, an electrical connector assembly having the electrical connector is disclosed.

Abstract: An electrical connector assembly can include a plug connector mountable to a planar substrate and a receptacle connector configured to receive a plurality of cables and that can mate with the plug connector. The plug connector may include a first inline terminal row and a second inline terminal row exposed on a mounting face to conductively contact the planar substrate. The receptacle connector can include a plurality of terminals having termination ends aligned in common wafer plane that can be conductively terminated with the plurality of cables. The plug connector and the electrical connector are configured to establish electrical channels from the termination ends coplanar with the common wafer plan to the first and second inline terminal rows.

Abstract: A communication system includes a circuit board assembly including a mating circuit board having a mating edge and a plurality of mating pads at the mating edge, the circuit board assembly having an electrical component electrically coupled to the mating circuit board. The communication system includes a cable receptacle connector removably coupled to the mating edge of the mating circuit board. The cable receptacle connector includes a connector housing having a connector cavity and a card slot. A cable extends from the connector housing. The cable receptacle connector includes signal contacts each having a mating end mated with the corresponding mating pads and a terminating end electrically connected to a cable conductor of the cable.

Abstract: A modular electrical connector with broad-side coupled signal conductors in a right angle intermediate portion. Broadside coupling provides balanced pairs for very high frequency operation. The connector is assembled with multiple subassemblies, each of which has multiple pairs of signal conductors. The subassemblies are formed from an insulative portion having grooves in opposite sides into which the intermediate portions of signal conductors. Covers, holding the signal conductors in the grooves, establish the position of the signal conductors relative to reference conductors at the exterior of subassembly, so as to provide a controlled impedance. Lossy material is positioned between the pairs in a subassembly and/or contacts the reference conductors of the subassemblies, and the lossy material of the subassemblies is in turn connected with a conductive structure.

Abstract: A midboard cable connector assembly with a board connector and a cable connector. The board connector has terminals precisely positioned with respect to engagement features. A cable connector likewise has terminals precisely positioned with respect to complementary engagement features. When the connectors are pressed together for mating, the terminals of one or both connectors deform, generating a force that separates the connectors until the engagement features engage and block further backward motion. As the mating position is defined by the locations of the engagement features, the connectors can be designed with low over travel and a resulting short stub length, which promotes high frequency performance. High frequency performance is further promoted by a ground conductor interconnecting the beams forming mating contact portions of ground terminals, reducing the length of unconnected segments and by a cable clamp plate with complaint compression features that reduce distortion of the cables.

Abstract: A backplane connector includes a shielded design that has wafers with signal terminals supported as edge-coupled terminal pairs for differential signaling. A ground shield is mounted on each wafer and provides a U-channel that partially shields each terminal pair. An insert can be provided to help connect the ground shield to a U-shield to provide U-shaped shielding structure substantially the entire way from a tail to a contact.

Abstract: A terminal module includes an insulating member, a number of conductive terminals, and a conductive plastic. Each conductive terminal includes a fixing portion. The conductive terminals include a group of signal terminals, a first ground terminal and a second ground terminal. The terminal module includes a first rib, a second rib and a groove. The first rib is adjacent to but not in contact with the fixing portion of the first ground terminal. The second rib is adjacent to but not in contact with the fixing portion of the second ground terminal. The present disclosure also relates to a backplane connector having the terminal module. Compared with the prior art, by making the first ground terminal and the second ground terminal non-conducting, it easier to determine the accuracy of the electrical test.

Abstract: A backplane connector assembly includes a first backplane connector and a second backplane connector. The first backplane connector includes a number of first conductive terminals, a first metal shield and a second metal shield. The first conductive terminal includes a first mating portion, a first tail portion and a first connection portion extending along a mating direction. The first conductive terminals includes first differential signal terminals. The first backplane connector includes a number of shielding spaces. The second backplane connector includes second differential signal terminals and metal shield surrounding members received in the shield spaces. Compared with the prior art, the structure of the first conductive terminals of the backplane connector assembly of the present invention is simplified. By providing the shielding spaces and the metal shield surrounding members, the shielding effect of the present disclosure is improved.

Abstract: 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.

Abstract: A contact assembly includes signal contact modules and ground contact modules arranged in a contact module stack. Each ground contact module includes a ground leadframe having a ground plate and a dielectric body holding the ground plate. The ground plate includes skewer pockets and spring fingers extending into the corresponding skewer pocket. The contact assembly includes ground skewers extending across the contact module stack. The ground skewers are received in corresponding skewer pockets. The spring fingers engage the ground skewers to electrically connect the ground plate to the ground skewers. Each ground plate is coupled to each of the ground skewers. The ground skewers electrically common each of the ground plates together.

Abstract: An electrical connector assembly can include a plug connector mountable to a planar substrate and a receptacle connector configured to receive a plurality of cables and that can mate with the plug connector. The plug connector may include a first inline terminal row and a second inline terminal row exposed on a mounting face to conductively contact the planar substrate. The receptacle connector can include a plurality of terminals having termination ends aligned in common wafer plane that can be conductively terminated with the plurality of cables. The plug connector and the electrical connector are configured to establish electrical channels from the termination ends coplanar with the common wafer plan to the first and second inline terminal rows.

Abstract: 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.

Abstract: An electrical connector includes first and second adjacent electrical contacts that each define respective first and second mating ends, the first mating end of a first one of the first and second adjacent electrical contacts defines a first contact surface, the second mating end of a second one of the first and second adjacent electrical contacts defines a second contact surface electrically isolated from the first contact surface; and a dielectric material positioned between the first and second adjacent electrical contacts. When a mating connector applies a force to the first contact surface and the second contact surface, the first and second mating ends and the dielectric material all move in a first direction.

Abstract: A compact connector for transmitting super-high-frequency signals is adapted to connect a printed circuit board (PCB) to a single or multiple high-frequency signal lines transmitting super-high frequency signals therethrough. The compact connector includes: a male connector connected to the single or multiple super-high frequency signal lines and including a male connector housing receiving, securing, and protecting terminals of the single or multiple super-high frequency signal lines; and a connector socket mounted on the PCB and receiving the male connector housing fastened to the male connector, wherein the super high-frequency signal line terminals in the male connector are brought into direct contact with and connected to signal line terminal pads formed on the printed circuit board, respectively.

Abstract: The invention relates to a control device (10), having a circuit carrier (14), having a plurality of series arranged in the region of a circuit carrier (14) or of a connection body (17) connected to the circuit carrier and of a plug connection body (12), said series each having a plurality of first and second electrical contact elements (26, 27, 36, 38; 38a; 72, 76), which are arranged next to one another in the series and which serve to make contact with the circuit carrier (14) or the connection body (17) and from mating contacts (28, 29) of a plug (100), wherein the first contact elements (26, 27) serve for signal transmission and the second contact elements (36, 38; 38a; 72, 76) serve to form an electromagnetic shielding (40; 70) for at least one first contact element (26, 27).

Abstract: An electrical connector with a contact module includes an insulative body, a plurality of contacts retained to the body, and a grounding bar embedded within the body. The contacts include a plurality of differential pair contacts and a plurality of grounding contacts. The ground bar forms a plurality of spring tangs. The body forms a plurality of cavities and the corresponding spring tangs of the grounding bar extend into the corresponding cavities to contact the corresponding grounding contacts. Conductive adhesive is filled within each cavity and solidified to secure all the spring tang, the corresponding grounding contact and the body together. The electrical connector is formed by a pair of contact modules back to back secured to together by an insulative case either by assembling or via an over-molding process. The cavities and the corresponding conductive adhesive of each contact module is hidden from the exterior.

Abstract: An electrical connector for use in an electrical connector system which controls cross talk and signal radiation. The electrical connector includes a housing having a plurality of modules. The modules have mating ends and mounting ends. Signal contacts are positioned in the modules. The signal contacts extend between the mating ends and the mounting ends and are arranged in pairs to carry differential signals. Ground contacts are positioned in the modules. The ground contacts extend between the mating ends and the mounting ends. Respective ground contacts of the ground contacts are positioned adjacent to respective signal contacts of the signal contacts. Ground plates are positioned in the modules. The ground plates extend between the mating ends and the mounting ends, the ground contacts are electrically connected to the ground plates.

Abstract: An electrical connector for use in an electrical connector system which controls cross talk, signal radiation and impedance. The electrical connector includes a plurality of modules having mating ends and mounting ends. Each of the modules of the plurality of modules has a conductive first housing. The first housing has at least one second housing recess and ground contact receiving channels provided in a first surface of the first housing. At least one second housing is provided in the at least one second housing recess. The at least one second housing is made of insulative material and has signal contact receiving channels provided in a first surface of the at least one second housing. Signal contacts are positioned in the signal contact receiving channels of the at least one second housing. Ground contacts are positioned in the ground contact receiving channels of the first housing.

Abstract: A connector with contact tails configured to provide a connector footprint enabling a low cost printed circuit board. The contact tails are positioned to leave routing channels, parallel to an edge of a printed circuit board, within the connector footprint. The routing channels may enable routing of high speed signal traces out of the connector footprint on a small number of routing layers. In a connector with 16 columns, each with 8 pairs of signal traces, two routing layers may be adequate to route traces connecting all of the signal vias in the connector footprint to components at the interior of the printed circuit board.

Abstract: A high-speed connector assembly, a socket connector and a grounding plate are disclosed in the present invention. The grounding plate disposes multiple grounding arms and multiple shielding pieces, which are arranged in a serpentine pattern for surrounding front mating portions of each pair of differential signal socket terminals to be in a U-shaped state, thereby providing electromagnetic shielding. The grounding plate further disposes multiple spring fingers, which can be used to connect adjacent grounding plates for forming a common grounding path, and further reducing signal crosstalk of adjacent differential pairs. The grounding plate of the present invention can further contact with a corresponding shielding shell of a plug connector to form a complete grounding path, and ensure more stable and reliable signal transmission quality.

Abstract: An electrical connector assembly for a communication system includes a housing and a wafer assembly including a PCB terminated contact wafer and a cable terminated contact wafer arranged in a wafer stack. The PCB terminated contact wafer includes a first contact array having first signal contacts having mating portions and terminating ends for termination to a printed circuit board of the communication system. The cable terminated contact wafer includes a second contact array having second signal contacts and a second contact holder having a mating interface and holding terminating ends of the second signal contacts at the mating interface for electrically connection to a cable connector of a cable assembly.

Abstract: A straight through type connector capable of repeatedly pulling caps at both ends, including a first shell having a first jack hole, a middle body, a second shell having a second jack hole, a conductor, two elastic pieces and two flip caps. The middle body is arranged between the first shell and the second shell and the first shell, the two flip caps are in one-to-one correspondence and are respectively rotatably arranged in the first shell and the second shell, the conductor penetrates through the middle body and is fixed relative to the middle body, the conductor is located above the two elastic pieces and respectively form a holding space for holding wires, one of the two elastic pieces is arranged in the first shell, the other elastic piece is arranged in the second shell. The connector can be firmly connected with the wires, avoiding bad contact.

Abstract: A high-speed electrical connector, comprising a signal module (1). The signal module comprises a contact (11). At least one side of the contact is provided with a shield piece (12). The signal module further comprises an insulator (13). The insulator is formed on the contact and the shield piece by means of injection moulding so as to combine the contact and the shield piece together. The insulator of the signal module of the electrical connector is encapsulated on the contact and the shield piece by means of injection moulding. Thus, the degree of stability of the signal module is enhanced, and the problem that a signal module of an existing high-speed electrical connector is easily deformed is solved.

Abstract: Disclosed is a connector for high data transfer rate, including a female element, a male element. The female element includes a housing, a plurality of sheets and a first shielding plate. The male element includes a base, a differential signal contact and a second shielding plate. At least two sheets are provided on the housing, and the first shielding plate is provided between adjacent sheets. The second shielding plate corresponding to the sheets is provided on the base. A signal pin is provided at a bottom of the sheets. The differential signal contact is provided in the base. The housing is matched with the base, and the signal pin is configured to contact the differential signal contact. The connector of the present invention improves space utilization rate in the longitudinal direction, assembly efficiency and fault tolerance rate thereof.

Abstract: A modular electrical connector with broad-side coupled signal conductors in a right angle intermediate portion and edge coupled end portions. Broadside coupling provides balanced pairs for very high frequency operation, while edge coupling provides a high density interconnection system at low cost. Each module has separately shielded signal conductor pairs. The shielding is shaped to avoid or suppress undesirable propagation modes within an enclosure formed by shielding per module. Lossy material is selectively placed within and outside the shielding per module to likewise avoid or suppress unwanted signal propagation.

Abstract: A modular electrical connector with broad-side coupled signal conductors in a right angle intermediate portion and edge coupled end portions. Broadside coupling provides balanced pairs for very high frequency operation, while edge coupling provides a high density interconnection system at low cost. Each module has separately shielded signal conductor pairs. The shielding is shaped to avoid or suppress undesirable propagation modes within an enclosure formed by shielding per module. Lossy material is selectively placed within and outside the shielding per module to likewise avoid or suppress unwanted signal propagation.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of connectors, and in particular to an electrical connector and a fixing bending member thereof. The electrical connector includes a contact with a front end being a plugging end and at least two contact mounting plates arranged left and right in parallel and extending along forward and backward directions, and further includes a fixing bending member for fixing the contact mounting plates. The fixing bending member includes a first portion for fixing onto the top of the electrical connector, a second portion for fixing at a tail portion of the electrical connector and a connecting portion connecting the first and second portions. The first portion and the second portion extend toward the same side of the connecting portion. The connecting portion is provided on the top of the electrical connector.

Abstract: A transmission wafer includes an insulating frame, a plurality of signal terminals each partially fixed in the insulating frame, and a shielding member fixed on the insulating frame. The insulating frame includes a front end portion and a bottom end portion both substantially perpendicular to each other, and the bottom end portion has a plurality of retaining structures. Each of the signal terminals includes a mounting segment protruding from the bottom end portion, and the shielding member includes a plurality of mounting portions each partially protruding from the bottom end portion. The mounting portions and the mounting segments are arranged in a row, and the mounting portions are respectively retained by the retaining structures of the insulating frame.

Abstract: A printed circuit board (PCB) includes a substrate and a PCB connector footprint defined along a longitudinal axis and a lateral axis being subdivided into PCB column grouping footprints in columns parallel to the longitudinal axis. The PCB includes signal vias arranged in pairs along a signal pair axis. The pairs of signal vias are aligned in the columns parallel to the longitudinal axis and in rows parallel to the lateral axis. The signal pair axis is non-parallel to the lateral and longitudinal axes. The PCB includes ground vias with at least one ground via arranged between adjacent pairs of signal vias within the PCB column grouping footprints and at least one ground via is arranged between adjacent pairs of signal vias in adjacent PCB column grouping footprints. This orientation is to allow more spacing between the signal vias and some ground vias to enhance signal integrity.

Abstract: An electrical connector includes a housing, first and second sets of terminals and a spacer. The housing has a first sidewall, a second sidewall spaced apart from the first sidewall and a cavity between the first and second sidewalls. The first set of terminals is disposed in the cavity adjacent to the first sidewall. The second set of terminals is disposed in the cavity adjacent to the second sidewall. The spacer is disposed in the cavity between the first and second sets of terminals.

Abstract: The contact portions 22, 122 of the terminals 20, 120 of the two circuit board connectors 1 and the intermediate electrical connector 3 have leaf contact point portions 22B, 122B extending in the above-mentioned direction of connection of the connectors and protruding contact point portions 22A-1, 122A-1 located closer to the free end side of the terminals 20, 120 than to said leaf contact point portions 22B, 122B; and, in a connected state, the protruding contact point portions of the above-mentioned terminals are made contactable with the leaf contact point portions of the counterpart terminals.

Abstract: A header connector includes header ground shields each having a main panel, a first side panel extending from a first side of the main panel and a second side panel extending from a second side of the main panel. The main panel, the first side panel and the second side panel define a shield pocket receiving and shielding a signal contact. The first side panel includes a first overlapping segment and a first engagement segment and the second side panel includes a second overlapping segment and a second engagement segment. The header ground shields are arranged in shield columns and corresponding header ground shields in the same shield column engage adjacent header ground shields such that the first overlapping segments overlap second engagement segments of the adjacent header ground shield and such that the second overlapping segments overlap first engagement segments of the adjacent header ground shield.

Abstract: A contact module includes a dielectric holder having first and second sides extending between a mating end and a mounting end. The contact module includes signal contacts held by the dielectric holder along a contact plane. The contact module includes a first ground shield coupled to the first side of the dielectric holder and providing electrical shielding for the signal contacts and a second ground shield coupled to the second side of the dielectric holder and providing electrical shielding for the signal contacts, the ground shield having skewer openings. The contact module includes ground skewers having posts extending from the first ground shield through the dielectric holder. The posts are electrically connected to the first ground shield and extend into corresponding skewer openings of the second ground shield to electrically connect the first ground shield to the second ground shield.

Abstract: An electrical connector for connecting a conductor of a daughter card connector wafer with a blade in the housing of a backplane connector. The daughter card conductor has a body with two elongated beams extending outward from the body. The two elongated beams each have an outer edge and an inner edge, whereby an opening is defined between the inner edges. The backplane conductor has a body with a narrowed tab portion extending outward from said second conductor body. The narrowed tab portion having outer opposite edges and is sized so that the narrowed tab portion fits between at least a portion of the outer edges of the two elongated beams, and in some cases between at least a portion of the inner edges of the two elongated beams.

Abstract: By a simple configuration, contact members can be well retained with a housing in a mutually opposed state, and productivity can be improved. When the contact members in the mutually opposed state are to be attached to the housing, a contact retainer prepared by molding in advance is used by disposing the contact retainer in part of the contact opposed region. As a result, the contact members are stably retained in the mutually opposed state even in injection molding molds. Even in a case in which the contact members normally cannot be retained in the mutually opposed state in the injection molding molds, the housing and the contact members can be integrally molded by well retaining the contact members in the mutually opposed state by using the contact retainer and a contact retainer auxiliary and executing an injection molding process.

Abstract: An electrical connector includes a contact module having a dielectric frame holding conductors. The conductors extend between a mating end and a terminating end and have a transition portion between the corresponding mating end and the terminating end passing through the dielectric frame. The transition portions of the conductors have opposite first and second sides and opposite first and second edges between the first and second sides. The dielectric frame has opposite first and second sides generally parallel to the first and second sides of the transition portions. The dielectric frame has insertion loss control windows in at least one of the first side and the second side defining air pockets exposing exposed portions of the corresponding transition portions to air. The size and shape of the insertion loss control windows controlling insertion loss along the conductors.

Abstract: A receptacle connector assembly includes a contact module having signal contacts and ground contacts and a housing having a front shell and a rear shell coupled to the front shell. The front shell and the rear shell receive the signal contacts and corresponding header signal contacts of a header connector assembly in mating engagement with the signal contacts in a mating zone. The front shell and the rear shell receive the ground contacts and corresponding header ground contacts of the header connector assembly in mating engagement with the ground contacts in the mating zone. The rear shell has pockets receiving corresponding signal contacts and ground contacts. The rear shell has conductors at the front of the rear shell providing electrical shielding in the mating zone.

Abstract: A modular electrical connector with separately shielded signal conductor pairs. In some embodiments, the connector is assembled from modules, each containing a pair of signal conductors with surrounding partially or fully conductive material. In some embodiments, the modules 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.

Abstract: An electrical connector includes a dielectric housing, a plurality of electrical signal contacts carried by the dielectric housing, and a ground plate carried by the dielectric housing. The electrical signal contacts are arranged along a first plane, wherein the signal contacts define signal pairs. The signal contacts further define respective mating and mounting ends. The ground plate includes a ground plate body oriented in a second plane that is substantially parallel to the first plane and offset from the first plane. The ground plate body defines first and second opposed surfaces. The ground plate includes at least one rib that defines first and second opposed surfaces, wherein the first surface of the rib projects from the first surface of the ground plate body in a direction toward the first plane between adjacent signal pairs, and the second surface is recessed into the second surface of the ground plate body.

Abstract: Electrical connector includes a connector body having a front side configured to engage a first electrical component and a mounting side configured to engage a second electrical component. The electrical connector also includes a plurality of signal conductors extending through the connector body. The signal conductors include mating interfaces and mounting interfaces that are positioned for engaging the first and second electrical components, respectively. The electrical connector also includes a ground structure extending generally parallel to and between two of the signal conductors. The connector body has a resonance-control surface that faces the ground structure. The resonance-control surface is shaped to include alternating distal and proximal areas. The proximal areas are closer to the ground structure than the distal areas.

Abstract: An electrical connector includes a housing, a signal contact, and a ground shield. The housing includes a base having a front side and an opposite rear side. The signal contact is received in the base and has a mating segment that extends forward of the front side. The ground shield is received in the base and extends forward of the front side. The ground shield surrounds the signal contact on at least one side thereof. The ground shield includes a deflectable spring tab extending from an inner surface of the ground shield towards the signal contact without engaging the signal contact. The spring tab is positioned forward of the front side of the base. The spring tab is configured to be deflected outward by a mating connector in a direction away from the signal contact during a mating operation.

Abstract: An electrical connector includes an insulating body, a middle shielding sheet disposed in the insulating body, at least one row of terminals disposed in the insulating body and located on one side of the middle shielding sheet, an inner metal shell arranged on the insulating body, and an outer metal shell, enclosing the insulating body and the inner metal shell to form a mating cavity. The row of terminals includes at least one ground terminal. The ground terminal is projected laterally to form an urging portion. The inner metal shell at least partially encloses the terminals and the middle shielding sheet, and is in contact with the plate edge of the urging portion.

Abstract: In accordance with an embodiment, a method for manufacturing an electric circuit that includes providing a support having a first region, the first region having a first conductor that has a first sidewall and a second conductor that has a second sidewall, wherein the first conductor is electrically isolated from the second conductor is provided. A distance between the first sidewall and the second sidewall is increased using a technique such as stamping, etching, or trimming. A first circuit element is coupled to the first conductor and encapsulated in a mold compound. In accordance with another embodiment, an electric circuit includes a support having interconnect with sidewalls wherein notches extend from one or more of the sidewalls into the interconnect. A circuit element is coupled to the interconnect by a bonding agent and protected by a protective structure.

Abstract: A modular electrical connector with separately shielded signal conductor pairs. In some embodiments, the connector is assembled from modules, each containing a pair of signal conductors with surrounding partially or fully conductive material. In some embodiments, the modules 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.

Abstract: A connector system is disclosed that can include a first and second connector. The first connector supports a channel terminal that is U-shaped and includes a mating edge. The second connector includes one or more wafers that support terminals arranged in an edge-coupled manner. Ground terminals in the one or more wafers are configured to engage the mating edge of the channel terminal. Each wafer can include a shield mounted on a side of the wafer. If desired, the ground terminal, the channel terminal and the shield can be electrically connected in the mating interface.