Cable assembly with improved grounding member
AssigneeHon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
InventorJerry Wu
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Abstract
An cable assembly includes an insulative housing; a plurality of signal terminals and grounding terminals received in the insulative housing; a plurality of signals wires and grounding wires; a grounding member having a main portion located in a vertical plane and a plurality of fingers projecting forwardly therefrom, the main portion defining positioning cavities separated from each other; the signal wires held in the positioning cavities, with conductors of the signal wires electrically connected to the signal terminals, the grounding wires electrically connected to the grounding member and the fingers of the grounding member electrically connected to the grounding terminals.
Claims20
A cable assembly, comprising:
- an insulative housing;
- a plurality of signal terminals and grounding terminals received in the insulative housing;
- a cable having a plurality of signal wires and grounding wires;
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- a grounding member having a main portion located in a vertical plane and a plurality of fingers projecting forwardly from the main portion, the main portion defining a plurality of positioning cavities separated from each other;
- the signal wires held in the positioning cavities, with conductors of the signal wires electrically connected to the signal terminals, the grounding wires electrically connected to the grounding member and the fingers of the grounding member electrically connected to the grounding terminals.
A cable assembly, comprising:
- an insulative housing;
- a plurality of terminals including signal terminals and grounding terminals received in the insulative housing;
- a cable having a number of wire groups, each of the wire groups including a pair of signal wires and a grounding wire disposed aside the pair of wires;
- and
- a grounding member having a main portion and a plurality of fingers projecting forwardly from the main portion, the main portion defining a plurality of positioning cavities defined in a top and a bottom portions of the main portion;
- the signal wires of the each of the wire groups located in two of the positioning cavities respectively arranged in the top and the bottom portions of the main portion, with conductors of the signal wires electrically connected to the signal terminals, the grounding wire of the each of the wire groups electrically connected to the grounding member and the fingers of the grounding member electrically connected to the corresponding grounding terminals.
A cable connector assembly comprising:
- an insulative housing unit defining a mating port in a front portion;
- a plurality of contacts disposed in the housing, each of said contacts defining a front a mating section, a rear tail section and a middle retention section therebetween, said contacts being categorized with signal contacts and grounding contacts, the rear tail sections being transversely confined in corresponding first groove structures;
- a grounding member located behind the rear tail sections of the contacts and including a plurality of fingers mechanically and electrically abutting against the tail sections of the corresponding grounding contacts, said grounding member defining a plurality of second groove structures;
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- a plurality of wires including signal wires soldered to the rear tail sections of the corresponding signal contacts, and grounding wires soldered to the grounding member;
- wherein
- the signal wires are transversely confined by the corresponding first groove structures while the grounding wires are transversely confined by the corresponding second groove structures.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.