Abstract: An electrical connector 1 contains a plurality of contacts 31, a first ground plate 32L and a second ground plate 32R facing the plurality of contacts 31 and arranged so as to be separated from each other in a ground plane parallel to the at least one plane in which the plurality of contacts 31 are arranged and an insulator 33 for holding the plurality of contacts 31, the first ground plate 32L and the second ground plate 32R in a state that the plurality of contacts 31, the first ground plate 32L and the second ground plate 32R are insulated from each other. Both of the first ground plate 32L and the second ground plate 32R include an extending portion extending from one of the first ground plate 32L and the second ground plate 32R toward the other one of the first ground plate 32L and the second ground plate 32R in the ground plane.

Abstract: A plug connector adapted for connecting corresponding wires includes an insulative body integrally formed with two rows of plug contacts in a lateral direction and a transverse bar. The plug contacts are categorized with differential-pair contacts and grounding contacts alternately arranged with each other in a longitudinal direction. The transverse bar extends along the longitudinal direction perpendicular to the lateral direction and is unitarily linked to rear ends of all the grounding contacts of each row of plug contacts while being isolated from the differential-pair contacts. All the contacts and the transverse bar are stamped from a same sheet metal initially, and the differential-pair contacts are successively disconnected from the transverse bar after the plug contacts are integrally formed with the insulative body.

Abstract: The inventors describe various exemplary connectors and connector assemblies that allow for design flexibility and cost savings. Some embodiments of an electrical connector assembly include a housing member having a plurality of outer surfaces. They also include multiple wafers supported by the housing member, each wafer including a plurality of electrically conductive terminals and an insulative support member supporting the electrical terminals, each terminal having a contact configured to electrically connect the terminal to another electrical component. Some embodiments also include a satellite connector disposed along one of the outer surfaces of the housing member, the satellite connector including an insulative satellite housing and a plurality of connections supported by the satellite housing, each connection having a termination section, the termination section being operatively connected to a cable.

Abstract: An electrical connector including an insulating body, a plurality of terminals, and at least one grounding member is provided. The terminals and the grounding member are disposed in the insulating body. At least one grounding terminal among the terminals and the grounding member next to the grounding terminal form an integrally-molded structure. A portion of the grounding terminal and a portion of the grounding member are misaligned from each other along an arrangement direction of the terminals.

Abstract: An electrical connector includes a front housing having a front and a rear. The front housing is configured to hold signal contacts and has a cavity at the rear. The front is configured to be mated with the mating connector. A conductive insert is received in the cavity. The conductive insert includes end walls and cross walls extending between the end walls. The conductive insert includes channels between the cross walls configured to receive ground shields used to provide electrical shielding for the signal contacts. The cross walls are configured to be electrically coupled to the corresponding ground shields. The conductive insert is configured to electrically couple each of the ground shields.

Abstract: A bi-directional optical sub-assembly (BOSA) shielding structure is adapted to wrap a BOSA. The BOSA includes a body, and a first terminal group, a second terminal group, and a third terminal group that respectively protrude from different surfaces of the body. The BOSA shielding structure includes a first shielding member and a second shielding member. The first shielding member is adapted to be sleeved on a part of the body close to the first terminal group, so as to separate the first terminal group from the second terminal group and the third terminal group. The second shielding member is disposed adjacent to the first shielding member and adapted to cover the body and the second terminal group, so as to separate the second terminal group from the third terminal group.

Abstract: An electrical connector includes a front housing having a front configured to be mated with a header connector and a rear having a cavity. The electrical connector includes a conductive insert received in the cavity including end walls and cross walls extending between the end walls. The conductive insert includes channels between the cross walls receiving header ground shields of the header connector. The cross-walls include protrusions extending into the channels each having a mating interface engaging the header ground shields. The conductive insert electrically couples each of the header ground shields of the header connector.

Abstract: An electrical connector includes a plurality of contact modules and ground shields. The ground shields are interleaved with the contact modules within a housing, such that the ground shields alternate with the contact modules. The contact modules include multiple electrical signal conductors held by a dielectric body of the respective contact module. Each of the ground shields includes a plate that defines a bridge slot therethrough and a ground bridge extending from the plate. The ground bridge extends from the plate at a location that is spaced apart from the bridge slot. The ground bridges of the ground shields extend laterally across corresponding contact modules. Distal tips of the ground bridges are received within the bridge slots of adjacent ground shields disposed along opposite sides of the corresponding contact modules, and the distal tips engage edges of the bridge slots to electrically connect the ground shields together.

Abstract: An electrical receptacle connector includes a metallic shell, an insulated housing, a plurality of first receptacle terminals, and a plurality of second receptacle terminals. The insulated housing received in the metallic shell is assembled with the first receptacle terminals and the second receptacle terminals. The tail portion of the power terminal of the second receptacle terminals is adjacent to and combined with the tail portion of the power terminal of the first receptacle terminals. The tail portion of the ground terminal of the second receptacle terminals is adjacent to and combined with the tail portion of the ground terminal of the first receptacle terminals. The combined tail portions can be inserted into the same soldering hole of a circuit board. Therefore, the cost and time for the soldering procedure of the connector manufacturing can be reduced.

Abstract: An electrical connector and combination thereof are provided in the present invention. The electrical connector combination includes a first electrical connector being parallelly mounted on a first circuit board and a second electrical connector being perpendicular mounted on a second circuit board. The first circuit board is perpendicular to the second circuit board. The first electrical connector disposes at least one row vertical power port and one row vertical signal port. The signal port is parallel to the power port. The second electrical connector forms at least one row long power slot and at least one row long signal slot. The signal slot is parallel to the power slot. When docking, there forms an electrical contact between the plug power terminal and the corresponding receptacle power terminal, and forms an electrical connection between the plug signal terminal and the receptacle signal terminal.

Abstract: A Quad Small Form-Factor Pluggable (QSFP) transceiver module is provided that is configured to interface with a QSFP host and to send and receive a plurality of data signals at a data rate of up to forty gigabits per second (40 G). A plurality of 10GBase-T ports with Registered Jack (RJ) 45 connectors is also provided, wherein each of the 10GBase-T ports is configured to interface with a 10GBase-T device to send and receive a plurality of data signals at a data rate of ten gigabits per second (10 G). Cables are configured to interface with the QSFP transceiver module and with corresponding ones of the 10GBase-T ports with the RJ45 connectors. Each of the plurality of cables operates as a data channel for data flow between the QSFP transceiver module and the corresponding ones of the 10GBase-T ports with the RJ45 connectors.

Abstract: A terminal plate set and an electric connector including the terminal plate set are disclosed. The terminal plate set includes two signal terminal plates and two grounding terminal plates, and the signal terminal plates are parallel to each other and disposed between the grounding terminal plates. A partition channel is formed between the grounding terminal plates, between the signal terminal plates, between the signal terminal plate and the grounding terminal plate, or between the terminal plates. The electric connector includes the terminal plate set and a front body, and the terminal plate set is installed at the front body, and a front convection hole is formed on a plug side of the front body. The impedance of the signal terminal plates and the grounding terminal plates can be adjusted within the best range to improve the heat dissipation efficiency of the terminal plate set and the electric connector.

Abstract: An electronic interconnect device includes a substrate having a first surface and a second surface. The substrate has a plurality of openings extending between the first and second surfaces. Each opening has a conductive outer via, an insulative barrier and a conductive inner via. The outer via, insulative barrier and inner via are concentric within the opening such that the insulating barrier is disposed between the conductive inner via and the conductive outer via. The conductive inner via is configured to receive a conductor to be inserted therein.

Abstract: An electrical connector including a housing having a mating connector receiving passageway. A pair of first differential signal contacts have solder portions and first contact portions positioned in the mating connector receiving passageway. A first ground contact faces the pair of first differential signal contacts. The first ground contact has a solder portion and a pair of first grounding contact portions spaced apart from each other by a gap and positioned in the mating connector receiving passageway. The pair of first grounding contact portions face the first contact portions of the pair of first differential signal contacts.

Abstract: An electrical connector electrically connecting a chip module to a printed circuit board, includes an insulative housing comprising a top surface, a bottom surface opposite to the top surface and a plurality of passageways penetrated from the top surface to the bottom surface, a number of terminals received in the passageways and a number of shielding plates received in the passageways, the terminals includes a number of grounding terminals and a number of signal terminals, the shielding plates located beside the terminals respectively, the insulative housing includes a number of tubers with strip shape protruding from the top surface, upper surface of the tubers are plated with a metal layer and the shielding plate electrically contacts with the metal layer, as well, the grounding terminal electrically contacts with the metal layer.

Abstract: A socket connector includes an insulative base (2), a plurality of contacts (3) therein with an engaging portion (32) and a floating cover (5). The floating cover (5) includes a plurality of through holes (53) for receiving the engaging portions (32) extending therethrough. The socket connector includes a metallic shell (4) having a plurality of receiving holes (41) for receiving the contacts therein and electrically engaging with a metallic surface (52) formed on bottom of the floating cover (5).

Abstract: It is intended to provide an electronic component mounting device and an operation performing method for mounting electronic components so that both the operation quality and the productivity can be improved. In operation performing procedures, when an electronic component belongs to the first division, an operating head is made to move up and down based on an approximate operation position height derived from an approximate curved surface of the top surface of a board which is calculated by using the height measurement result obtained by measuring a plurality of height measuring points on the surface of the board, and when the electronic component belongs to the second division, the operating head is made to move up and down based on an individual operation position height obtained by individually measuring the board height at the operation position.

Abstract: The invention relates to a plug-in connection having shielding, in particular a multi-pin, multi-row plug-in connection comprising a male multipoint connector and a female multipoint connector, the plug-in connection comprising signal contacts, which are arranged in a contact pattern of differential pairs and which form a contact group together with an L-shaped shielding element that surrounds the signal contacts, the contact groups being arranged in rows and columns and adjacent contact groups in adjacent columns being offset from each other by a specifiable length dimension in the longitudinal direction of the columns, the plug-in connection being characterized in that the specified length dimension corresponds to approximately half the distance of two adjacent contact groups in a column.

Abstract: An electrical connector has a first shell, an opposing second shell and a circuit board between the first shell and the second shell. The circuit board has a first side and an opposing second side and includes a plurality of differential pair conductive traces on each side. A first drain wire termination device is provided on the first side and includes at least one separator between at least one of the differential pair conductive traces on the first side and another of the differential pair conductive traces on the first side. A second drain wire termination device is connected to the second side and includes at least one separator between at least one of the differential pair conductive traces on the second side and another of the differential pair conductive traces on the second side.

Abstract: A low-profile, right angle connector assembly comprises six cable connectors and six board-mount connectors housed within a PCIe bracket and EMI shell. The PCIe bracket and EMI shell are braced to a low profile PCIe card. Each board-mount connector is designed to receive a cable connector and allows for the transmission and processing of high-speed data with lower latency. A removable latch mounted on the cable connectors helps ensure the cable connectors remain physically connected to the board-mount connectors. The removable latch may be replaced as needed for breakage and wear and tear.

Abstract: A header assembly includes a header housing configured for mating with a receptacle assembly. The header housing has a base wall. Header signal contacts are coupled to the base wall. The header signal contacts are configured to be terminated to a circuit board. The header signal contacts are configured to be terminated to corresponding receptacle signal contacts of the receptacle assembly. Header shields are coupled to the base wall. The header shields at least partially surround, and provide electrical shielding for, corresponding header signal contacts. The header shields have walls and mating tabs that extend from corresponding walls. The mating tabs are configured to engage corresponding ground shields of the receptacle assembly.

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 such that a respective gap is disposed between adjacent 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 gap, and the second surface is recessed into the second surface of the ground plate body.

Abstract: A header assembly includes a header housing configured for mating with a receptacle assembly. The header housing has a base wall. Header signal contacts are coupled to the base wall. The header signal contacts are configured to be terminated to a circuit board. The header signal contacts are configured to be terminated to corresponding receptacle signal contacts of the receptacle assembly. Header shields are coupled to the base wall. The header shields at least partially surround, and provide electrical shielding for, corresponding header signal contacts. The header shields have walls and mating tabs that extend from corresponding walls. The mating tabs are configured to engage corresponding ground shields of the receptacle assembly.

Abstract: The invention relates to a plug-in connection having shielding, in particular a multi-pin, multi-row plug-in connection comprising a male multipoint connector and a female multipoint connector, the plug-in connection comprising signal contacts, which are arranged in a contact pattern of differential pairs and which form a contact group together with an L-shaped shielding element that surrounds the signal contacts, the contact groups being arranged in rows and columns and adjacent contact groups in adjacent columns being offset from each other by a specifiable length dimension in the longitudinal direction of the columns, the plug-in connection being characterized in that the specified length dimension corresponds to approximately half the distance of two adjacent contact groups in a column.

Abstract: An electrical connector has a first shell, an opposing second shell and a circuit board between the first shell and the second shell. The circuit board has a first side and an opposing second side and includes a plurality of differential pair conductive traces on each side. A first drain wire termination device is provided on the first side and includes at least one separator between at least one of the differential pair conductive traces on the first side and another of the differential pair conductive traces on the first side. A second drain wire termination device is connected to the second side and includes at least one separator between at least one of the differential pair conductive traces on the second side and another of the differential pair conductive traces on the second side.

Abstract: An electrical connector includes an insulative housing, a number of signal contacts, a number of shielding plates and a grounding member touching the shielding plates so that the shielding plates are jointly connected with each other. The shielding plates are assembled to the insulative housing and disposed between the signal contacts of adjacent columns. Each shielding plate includes a tab projecting into a base of the insulative housing. No mounting tail for establishing connection between the shielding plates and a circuit board is set on any of the shielding plates. Instead, the grounding member comprises a number of mounting tails for being connected to the circuit board so as to establish electrical connection between the shielding plates and the circuit board.

Abstract: A high density backplane connector (100) includes a group of terminal pairs (17, 18, 27, 28) arranged along a first direction. Each terminal pair includes a first terminals (12, 22) and a second terminals (14, 24) substantially aligned with each other along a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. The first terminal has a first engaging portion (124, 224) and a first tail portion (125, 225). The second terminal has a second engaging portion (144, 244) extending beyond the first engaging portion and a second tail portion (145, 245). The first and second tail portions of the terminal pairs are arranged substantially in a line.

Abstract: High-speed backplane connectors systems for mounting a substrate that are capable of operating at speeds of up to at least 25 Gbps, while in some implementations also providing pin densities of at least 50 pairs of electrical connectors per inch are disclosed. Implementations of the high-speed connector systems may provide ground shields and/or other ground structures that substantially encapsulate electrical connector pairs, which may be differential electrical connector pairs, in a three-dimensional manner throughout a backplane footprint, a backplane connector, and a daughtercard footprint. These encapsulating ground shields and/or ground structures prevent undesirable propagation of non-traverse, longitudinal, and higher-order modes when the high-speed backplane connector systems operates at frequencies up to at least 30 GHz.

Abstract: A connector device includes a first connector and a second connector to be connected the first connector. The first connector includes a first housing, a plurality of first signal terminals arranged in the first housing, and a first shell for covering an outer portion of the first housing. The second connector includes a second housing, a plurality of second signal terminals arranged in the second housing, a second shell for covering an outer portion of the second housing, and a first ground terminal disposed between the second signal terminals for separating the second signal terminals. When the first connector is connected the second connector, the first signal terminals contact with the second terminals.

Abstract: An electrical connector assembly includes a housing having an array of compartments, and substantially identical signal contact assemblies arranged in sets, each including a pair of the signal contact assemblies arranged opposite first and second orientations, and selectively installed in a respective pair of compartments. One ground contact may form a signal-signal-ground pattern, while two ground contacts may form a signal-signal-ground-ground pattern. Additionally, an electrical connector assembly includes a housing having at least two substantially identical signal contact assemblies, one in a first orientation, another in a second orientation. At least one recess is formed within the signal contact assembly; and at least one protruding ridge extends from the signal contact assembly. The recesses of the signal contact assembly in the first orientation receive at least one of the protruding ridges in a second orientation.

Abstract: In estimating a curved surface model by approximating the shape of the board surface of a circuit board, auxiliary measurement spots are set other than measurement spots on the board surface, eligibility as a sampling displacement magnitude in estimating a curved surface model is determined according to a difference in a displacement magnitude from a work reference surface. When the sampling displacement magnitude is determined to be ineligible, a new measurement spot is reset. By this operation, a local increase and decrease in the displacement magnitude due to a discontinuity of the board surface exerts no influence on the estimation of the curved surface model, and the curved surface model approximated more closely to the shape of the actual board surface is estimated, leading to an improvement in the work quality with the working height adjusted to the proper height.

Abstract: An electrical interconnection system with high speed, differential electrical connectors. The connector is assembled from wafers containing columns of conductive elements, some of which form differential pairs. Each column may include ground conductors adjacent pairs of signal conductors. The ground conductors may be wider than the signal conductors, with ground conductors between adjacent pairs of signal conductors being wider than ground conductors positioned at an end of at least some of the columns. Each of the conductive elements may end in a mating contact portion positioned to engage a complementary contact element in a mating connector. The mating contact portions of the signal conductors in some of the pairs may be rotated relative to the columns. The printed circuit board to which the differential signal connector is mounted may be constructed with elongated antipads around pairs of signal conductors.

Abstract: An electrical connector includes an insulative housing, a number of signal contacts, a number of shielding plates and a grounding member touching the shielding plates so that the shielding plates are jointly connected with each other. The shielding plates are assembled to the insulative housing and disposed between the signal contacts of adjacent columns. Each shielding plate includes a tab projecting into a base of the insulative housing. No mounting tail for establishing connection between the shielding plates and a circuit board is set on any of the shielding plates. Instead, the grounding member comprises a number of mounting tails for being connected to the circuit board so as to establish electrical connection between the shielding plates and the circuit board.

Abstract: High-speed backplane connectors systems for mounting a substrate that are capable of operating at speeds of up to at least 25 Gbps, while in some implementations also providing pin densities of at least 50 pairs of electrical connectors per inch are disclosed. Implementations of the high-speed connector systems may provide ground shields and/or other ground structures that substantially encapsulate electrical connector pairs, which may be differential electrical connector pairs, in a three-dimensional manner throughout a backplane footprint, a backplane connector, and a daughtercard footprint. These encapsulating ground shields and/or ground structures prevent undesirable propagation of non-traverse, longitudinal, and higher-order modes when the high-speed backplane connector systems operates at frequencies up to at least 30 GHz.

Abstract: An electrical connector includes a wafer formed with a ground shield made from a non-conductive material made conductive with conductive particles disposed therein, thereby eliminating the necessity of the metal ground shield plate found in prior art connectors while maintaining sufficient performance characteristics and minimizing electrical noise generated in the wafer. The wafer housing is formed with a first, insulative housing at least partially surrounding a pair of signal strips and a second, conductive housing at least partially surrounding the first, insulative housing and the signal strips. The housings provide the wafer with sufficient structural integrity, obviating the need for additional support structures or components for a wafer. Ground strips may be employed in the wafer and may be formed in the same plane as the signal strips. The second, conductive housing may be connected (e.g., molded) to the ground strips and spaced appropriately from the signal strips.

Abstract: Disclosed are methodologies for defining matched-impedance footprints on a substrate such as a printed circuit board, for example, that is adapted to receive an electrical component having an arrangement of terminal leads. Such a footprint may include an arrangement of electrically-conductive pads and an arrangement of electrically-conductive vias. The via arrangement may differ from the pad arrangement. The vias may be arranged to increase routing density, while limiting cross-talk and providing for matched impedance between the component and the substrate. The via arrangement may be altered to achieve a desired routing density on a layer of the board. Increasing the routing density may decrease the number of board layers, which tends to decrease capacitance and thereby increase impedance. Ground vias and signal vias may be arranged with respect to one another in such a manner as to affect impedance. Thus, the via arrangement may be altered to achieve an impedance that matches the impedance of the component.

Abstract: An electrical connector includes a header connector and a socket connector configured to mate with the header connector. The header connector includes a plurality of signal pins and may include a plurality of shield blades. The socket connector includes a plurality of conductive paths, each conductive path being coupled to a signal contact, and may include a plurality of first shields. The plurality of signal pins and the plurality of conductive paths and signal contacts are configured to form a plurality of transmission lines. The plurality of shield blades or the plurality of first shields are configured to be electrically grounded and provide interrupted shielding of the plurality of transmission lines when the header connector and the socket connector are in a mated configuration.

Abstract: A shield connector includes a housing that has a metal terminal, a conductive inner shield shell that contains the housing, and a conductive outer shield shell that contains the inner shield shell. The inner shield shell includes a first shell body in a tubular shape for covering an outer face of the housing. The outer shield shell includes a second shell body in a tubular shape, and a fixing portion which fixes the inner shield shell. The fixing portion has an annular wall which is formed inside of the second shell body along in a circumferential direction of the second shell body. An inner face of the annular wall is tightly face-contacted on an outer face of the first shell body of the inner shield shell over an entire circumference of the outer face of the first shell body.