High speed, high density electrical connector
AssigneeTeradyne, Inc.
InventorMark Gailus
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Abstract
An electrical connector with electrically lossy materials bridging ground members. The lossy conductive members may be formed by filling a settable binder with conductive particles, allowing the partially conductive members to be formed through an insert molding process. Connectors assembled from wafers that contain signal conductors held within an insulative housing may incorporate lossy conductive members by having filled thermal plastic molded onto the insulatative housing. The lossy conductive members may be used in conjunction with magnetically lossy materials. The lossy conductive members reduce ground system do resonance within the connector, thereby increasing the high frequency performance of the connector.
Claims51
An electrical connector having comprising:
- a) a plurality type contact elements, positioned in a column;
- b) a plurality of discrete conductive elements each disposed adjacent at least one of the contact elements;
- c) insulative material securing at least the plurality of contact elements;
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- d) electrically lossy material bridging the discrete conductive elements.
An electrical connector comprising a plurality of regions, each region having:
- a) insulative material;
- b) a plurality of signal conductors, each signal conductor having a contact tail and a contact portion and an intermediate portion there between, and at least a part of the intermediate portion of each of the signal conductors secured in the insulative material;
- c) a plurality of shield members, each shield member having an intermediate portion adjacent an intermediate portion of a signal conductor;
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- d) electrically lossy material positioned adjacent the intermediate portion of the each of the shield members.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.