High frequency cable connector
AssigneeThe Whitaker Corporation
InventorLucas Soes
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Abstract
An electrical connector is shown which is useable with coaxial or twinaxial shielded cables where an inner housing module has a pair of electrical terminals positioned therein for electrical connection with a signal conductor of the coaxial or twinaxial cable. The housing is insertable within a shield member to form a shielded subassembly. A grounding spring clip is positioned intermediate the two shielded sub assemblies, thereby commoning the adjacent shields, and at the same time provides contact portions for receiving pins of a mating pin field.
Claims52
A high density shielded electrical connector for terminating a shielded cable comprising at least two insulating housings, each insulating housing having signal contacts and being enclosed by a shielding member, a grounding spring clip disposed between said shielding members and being in contact with a wall of said shielding members and being retained therewith, grounding spring clip defines a mating contact open in the same direction as said signal contacts.
An electrically shielded connector having an inner housing having signal contacts positioned therein, and a shield member surrounding said inner housing, said connector being characterized in that said shielded connector includes a one piece shield member folded from its ends over towards its center, thereby forming two shielded enclosures, and centrally spaced apart section which carries a shielding contact for contact with a ground pin.
A high frequency shielded cable connector for interconnecting the conductors of a shielded cable to pins of a pin field, comprising:
- four signal contacts for terminating separate signal conductors of the shielded cable and engaging separate pins of the pin field, where each signal contact includes a resilient contact spring arm for electrically engaging the corresponding pin and a conductor terminating portion opposite the contact spring arm for electrically engaging the respective conductor;
- a ground contact having a spring arm extending from a base for engaging the respective pin member of the mating component;
- an insulating body including an inner housing having a linear array of four signal contact receiving passageways extending thereacross and Said channels spaced in two pairs of two channels, the passageway including a front portion extending into a rear terminating portion of the body, where a corresponding one of the signal contacts is received within the passageway such that the spring arm is in the forward section and the conductor terminating portion is disposed in the rear terminating portion, where the ground contact is disposed between the two sets of signal contacts and orientated such that the spring arm is correspondingly disposed with the contact spring arm of the signal contacts;
- and a shield encasing the body such that the signal contacts therein are surrounded by the shield.
A cable connector for interconnecting conductors of a shielded cable to pins of a pin field, said connector comprising:
- four signal contacts for terminating separate signal conductors of the shielded cable and engaging separate pins of the pin field, each signal contact including a resilient contact spring arm for engaging the pin, where each signal contact is positioned with a signal contact receiving passageway formed in an insulating material;
- a ground contact for engaging a corresponding pin of the pin field, said ground contact having a resilient spring arm for engaging the pin, where said ground contact is positioned between two of the signal contacts;
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- a conductive shield member surrounding said signal contacts and the ground contact being commoned therewith, said signal and ground contacts being arranged in a linear array.
A cable connector for interconnecting conductors of a shielded cable to pins of a pin field, said connector comprising;
- four signal contacts for terminating separate signal conductors of the shielded cable and for engaging separate pins of the pin field, each signal contact including a resilient contact spring arm for engaging said pin, where each signal contact is positioned in a corresponding signal contact receiving passageway formed of insulating material and having a forward portion with an open end for receiving the pin therethrough and the resilient spring arm being disposed in said forward portion;
- a ground contact for engaging a corresponding pin of said pin field and having a resilient contact spring arm for engaging the pin where the ground contact and the signal contacts are arranged in a linear array with said ground contact being positioned between two of the signal contacts where both ground and signal contacts are similarly aligned for plugability to the pins;
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- a conductive shield surrounding the signal contacts and having open ends so that the pins are receivable by the connector to engage the spring arms and the cable conductors are able to reach the signal contacts therein, where the ground contact is electrically commoned to said shield along a surface thereof that corresponds to an inner surface surrounding the signal contacts.
A cable connector for interconnecting conductors of a shielded cable having conductors and a drain wire surrounded by an inner shield to pins of a pin field, the conductor comprising;
- four signal contacts, each contact having a resilient spring contact arm for engaging corresponding pins and a conductor terminating section for terminating the respective conductor of the cable, each signal contact is disposed within a corresponding channel defined by side walls formed of insulative material where the channel includes a terminal receiving portion wherein the resilient arm is disposed and a pin receiving opening at an end thereof for receiving the respective pin into the channel for engagement with said resilient spring contact arm, said four signal contacts being arranged in a linear array to define a linear row of signal contacts;
- a ground contact having a resilient spring contact arm for engaging a corresponding pin of the pin field where said ground contact is disposed within the linear row of signal contacts and located between two of the signal contacts said ground contact including a base portion from which the spring arm extends;
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- a conductive shield member surrounding the signal contacts and spanning at least one side of the ground contact with a surface corresponding to the surface of the shield surrounding the signal contacts, the base of the ground contact being electrically commoned to the shield.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.