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US 11,600,956 B2Granted
Cable connector system
AssigneeSamtec, Inc.
InventorsJohn A. Mongold, Jonathan E. Buck, Jignesh H. Shah, Chadrick P. Faith, Randall E. Musser, Jean Karlo Williams Barnet, Norman S. McMorrow
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Abstract
A cable connector includes a cable including a center conductor and a housing supporting a portion of the center conductor. An imaginary line divides a cross-section of the center conductor into two semicircles, and when the cable connector is mated with a mating connector, only one of the two semicircles is directly connected with a corresponding contact of the mating connector.
Claims22
A cable connector comprising:
- a first cable conductor that defines a first mating end;
- a second cable conductor that defines a second mating end;
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- an insert that carries the first cable conductor and the second cable conductor, wherein
- the first mating end defines a first contact surface,
- the second mating end defines a second contact surface,
- the cable connector is a first connector,
- when the first connector is connected to a second connector, the first contact surface electrically and physically connects to and releasably attaches to a first head of a first cantilevered electrical contact in the second connector, and the second contact surface electrically and physically connects to and releasably attaches to a second head of a second cantilevered electrical contact in the second connector,
- the first cable conductor and the second cable conductor define a differential signal pair,
- a first centerline divides a cross-section of the first mating end of the first cable conductor into a first semicircle and a second semicircle, and
- the first semicircle is devoid of plastic and defines the first contact surface.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.