Electrical Connector
Assignee3M Innovative Properties Company
InventorsChin Hua Lim, Saujit Bandhu
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Abstract
An electrical connector (100) is disclosed. In a described embodiment, the electrical connector (100) comprises first and second terminal pairs (102, 104) configured to electrically couple to a same device, each terminal pair (102, 104) comprising terminals (102a, 102b, 104a, 104b), with the terminals (102a, 102b) in the first terminal pair (102) having different first and second electrical lengths and the terminals (104a, 104b) in the second terminal pair (104) having different third and fourth electrical lengths, wherein a sum of the first and third electrical lengths is substantially the same as a sum of the second and fourth electrical lengths.
Claims40
An electrical connector comprising first and second terminal pairs configured to electrically couple to a same device, each terminal pair comprising terminals, with the terminals in the first terminal pair having different first and second electrical lengths and the terminals in the second terminal pair having different third and fourth electrical lengths, wherein a sum of the first and third electrical lengths is substantially the same as a sum of the second and fourth electrical lengths.
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An electrical connector comprising a plurality of terminal pairs, each terminal pair comprising terminals and having an impedance mismatch of at least 10% and being configured to mate with a complementary terminal pair of a like electrical connector, the mating of the two connectors resulting in a plurality of mated terminal pairs, each mated terminal pair having a mated impedance mismatch of less than about 5%.
An electrical connector comprising:
- a plurality of terminal pairs, each terminal pair comprising terminals of different longitudinal profiles;
- wherein each terminal pair is configured to mate with a complementary terminal pair of a like electrical connector to allow electrical signal transmission.
An electrical connector assembly comprising:
- first and second electrical connectors for coupling to respective circuit boards, each electrical connector comprising a plurality of terminal pairs, each terminal pair comprising terminals of different electrical lengths;
- wherein the first electrical connector is stackable with the second electrical connector to enable the terminals of the first electrical connector to mate with corresponding terminals of the second electrical connector;
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- wherein the mated terminals have substantially same electrical lengths.
An electrical connector assembly comprising:
- first and second electrical connectors for coupling to respective circuit boards, the first electrical connector having a first maximum height and the second electrical connector having a second maximum height;
- wherein the first and second electrical connectors are like connectors, and wherein the first electrical connector is stackable with the second electrical connector to form the electrical connector assembly, the electrical connector assembly having a maximum stack height less than a sum of the first and second maximum heights.
An electrical connector comprising:
- a plurality of terminal pairs, each terminal pair comprising terminals of different longitudinal profiles;
- a plurality of ground shields, each ground shield interleaving adjacent terminals;
- wherein each terminal pair is configured to mate with a complementary terminal pair of a like electrical connector to allow electrical signal transmission;
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- wherein each of the plurality of terminals comprises a terminal body having a terminating portion for connecting to a circuit board, a mating portion for mating to the complementary terminal of the like electrical connector, and a step portion joining the terminating portion to the mating portion.
An electrical connector comprising:
- a first set of terminals and a second set of terminals having different longitudinal profiles as the first set of terminals;
- wherein each terminal is configured to mate with a complementary terminal of a like electrical connector to allow electrical signal transmission.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.