Electrical connector with wafers having ground planes
AssigneeTyco Electronics Corporation
InventorsBrent Ryan Rothermel, Chad William Morgan, Alex Michael Sharf, David Wayne Helster
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Abstract
An electrical wafer configured to be housed within an electrical connector comprising a main body, and a plurality of signal routes, gap routes and ground planes. The plurality of signal routes, gap routes and ground planes may be positioned on each of the first and second sides of the main body. Alternatively, all of the signal routes may be on one side, while all of the ground planes may be on the other side. Each ground plane on one side of the wafer is positioned between two gap routes, or a gap route and a signal route.
Claims20
An electrical wafer configured to be housed within an electrical connector, comprising:
- a main body formed of a dielectric material having first and second sides;
- a plurality of signal routes positioned on a first side of said main body, each of said signal routes comprising a conductive trace;
- and
- a plurality of ground planes positioned on said second side of said main body such that each of said ground planes is located directly across from one of said plurality of signal routes located on said first side of said main body, wherein neighboring ground planes on said second side are electrically isolated and separated from one another by a ground-to-ground gap.
An electrical wafer configured to be housed within an electrical connector comprising:
- a main body formed of a dielectric material having first and second sides;
- and
- a plurality of signal routes, gap routes and ground planes positioned on each of said first and second sides of said main body, each of said plurality of signal routes on one of said sides is located between two of said plurality of ground planes on the same side of said main body, each of said ground planes on one side of said main body being positioned between one of said plurality of signal routes and one of said plurality of said gap routes on the same side of said main body.
A circuit board configured to be housed within an electrical connector comprising:
- first and second sides having a plurality of signal routes, ground planes and gap routes,
- each of said signal routes comprising a signal contact pad at a mating edge of said circuit board, a signal terminal at a mounting edge of said circuit board, and a conductive trace electrically connecting said signal contact pad with said signal terminal,
- each of said gap routes comprising a contact gap located at said mating edge, an intermediate gap connecting said contact gap to a terminal gap located at said mounting edge,
- each of said plurality of ground planes located on one of said sides is positioned between one of said plurality of signal routes and one of said plurality of gap routes on the same one of said sides.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.