Grounding structure for an electrical connector
AssigneeTe Connectivity Corporation
InventorsDavid Allison Trout, Jeffrey Byron McClinton, Michael James Horning, John Joseph Consoli
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Abstract
An electrical connector includes a front housing and a contact module received in a cavity of the front housing having a frame assembly including a dielectric holder holding signal contacts. Each signal contact has a mating end and a terminating end. A ground shield is coupled to the dielectric holder for shielding the signal contacts. The ground shield has a ground pad at the mating end, mating beams extending from the ground pad for mating with corresponding header ground shields of a header connector and ground beams between corresponding mating beams for mating with corresponding header ground shields.
Claims20
An electrical connector for mating with a header connector having header signal contacts and header ground shields providing electrical shielding for the header signal contacts, the electrical connector comprising:
- a front housing having a front and a rear, the front housing having a cavity at the rear, the front configured to be mated with the header connector;
- a contact module received in the cavity, the contact module having a frame assembly including an array of signal contacts and a dielectric holder holding the array of signal contacts, each signal contact having a mating end and a terminating end, the mating end extending into the front housing for mating with the corresponding header signal contact of the header connector, the terminating end extending from the dielectric holder for termination to a circuit board;
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- a ground shield coupled to the dielectric holder, the ground shield providing electrical shielding for the signal contacts, the ground shield having a mating end and a terminating end configured to be terminated to the circuit board, the ground shield having a ground pad at the mating end, the ground shield having mating beams extending from the ground pad for mating with the corresponding header ground shields, and the ground shield having ground beams between corresponding mating beams for mating with the corresponding header ground shields, the mating beams and the ground beams being aligned with the ground pad and aligned with each other in a column.
An electrical connector for mating with a header connector having header signal contacts and header ground shields providing electrical shielding for the header signal contacts, the electrical connector comprising:
- a front housing having a front and a rear, the front housing having a cavity at the rear, the front configured to be mated with the header connector;
- a contact module received in the cavity, the contact module having a frame assembly including an array of signal contacts and a dielectric holder holding the array of signal contacts, each signal contact having a mating end and a terminating end, the mating end extending into the front housing for mating with the corresponding header signal contact of the header connector, the terminating end extending from the dielectric holder for termination to a circuit board;
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- a ground shield coupled to the dielectric holder, the ground shield providing electrical shielding for the signal contacts, the ground shield having a mating end and a terminating end configured to be terminated to the circuit board, the ground shield having a ground pad at the mating end, the ground shield having mating beams extending forward from the ground pad for mating with corresponding header ground shields, the ground shield having ground beams extending forward from the ground pad between mating beams for mating with corresponding header ground shields, each ground beam having an upper tab for mating with the header ground shield above the corresponding ground beam and having a lower tab for mating with the header ground shield below the corresponding ground beam.
An electrical connector for mating with a header connector having header signal contacts and header ground shields providing electrical shielding for the header signal contacts, the electrical connector comprising:
- a front housing having a front and a rear, the front housing having a cavity at the rear, the front configured to be mated with the header connector;
- a contact module received in the cavity, the contact module having a frame assembly including an array of signal contacts and a dielectric holder holding the array of signal contacts, each signal contact having a mating end and a terminating end, the mating end extending into the front housing for mating with the corresponding header signal contact of the header connector, the terminating end extending from the dielectric holder for termination to a circuit board;
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- a ground shield coupled to the dielectric holder, the ground shield providing electrical shielding for the signal contacts, the ground shield having a mating end and a terminating end configured to be terminated to the circuit board, the ground shield having a ground pad at the mating end, the ground shield having mating beams extending forward from the ground pad for mating with interior surfaces of end walls of corresponding header ground shields, and the ground shield having ground beams extending forward from the ground pad between corresponding mating beams for mating with edges of the end walls of corresponding header ground shields, the mating beams and the ground beams being aligned with the ground pad and aligned with each other in a column.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.