Electrical connector with two ground bars connecting each other
AssigneeHon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
InventorsWEN-HUI YANG, CHIEN-PING KAO
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Abstract
An electrical connector includes an insulating housing and a plurality of contacts. The contacts include a plurality of signal contacts arranged in differential signal pairs and a plurality of ground contacts. Differential signal pairs are separated by signal contacts. A first ground bar connects each ground contact to form a first electrical connection. A second ground bar connects each ground contact to form a second electrical connection. The first ground bar is electrically connected to the second ground bar through at least a bridge.
Claims20
An electrical connector, comprising:
- an insulating housing;
- a plurality of contacts extending in a front-to-back direction and comprising differential signal pairs and individual ground contacts;
- a first ground bar connecting with said ground contacts to form a first electrical connection;
- a second ground bar connecting with said ground contacts to form a second electrical connection;
- wherein the first ground bar is electrically connected to the second ground bar through at least a bridge.
An electrical connector assembly comprising:
- a first electrical connector comprising a first insulating housing with a plurality of contacts and two first ground bars, said contacts includes differential signal pairs and ground contacts, said first ground bars electrically connects said ground contacts respectively;
- a second electrical connector mating with said first electrical connector and comprising a second insulating housing with a plurality of contacts and two second ground bars, said contacts includes differential signal pairs and ground contacts, one of the second ground bar electrically connects said ground contacts respectively;
- wherein said first ground bars are electrically connected to each other and said second ground bars are electrically connected to each other.
An electrical connector assembly comprising:
- an insulative housing extending along a transverse direction;
- a plurality of contacts disposed in the housing and arranged in at least one row along the transverse direction while each of said contacts extending along a front-to-back direction perpendicular to said transverse direction, said contacts being categorized with differential pairs and grounding contacts;
- a grounding device extending along the transverse direction and located at a different level with regard to the contacts in a vertical direction perpendicular to both said front-to-back direction and said transverse direction;
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- means formed on the grounding device electrically and mechanically connecting at least one of said grounding contacts at two spaced positions along said front-to-back direction.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.