US 5,730,609 AGranted

High performance card edge connector

AssigneeMolex Incorporated

InventorFrank A. Harwath

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Abstract

A high performance card edge connector includes a housing with an elongated printed circuit card receiving slot in a top wall. Terminals are mounted in transverse cavities intersected by the slot. Alternate cavity portions receive a pair of signal terminals and interspersed alternate cavity portions receive single ground terminals. Each terminal includes a downwardly extending board contact portion for connection to a printed circuit board and a card contact portion in the slot for engagement with a contact pad of an inserted card. Each signal terminal pair is flanked two ground terminals on the same side of the slot and is transversely opposite a ground terminal on the opposite side of the slot. A uniform identical cavity configuration permits each cavity portion to receive either a ground terminal or a pair of signal terminals.

Claims3

Dependent claims

An electrical connector for electrically connecting to a circuit device having signal and ground contact regions, said electrical connector comprising in combination:

an insulating housing including top and bottom walls and a side wall;
a plurality of cavities in said housing;
a receptacle in said top wall for receiving the signal and ground contact regions of the circuit device;
a plurality of signal terminals in some of said cavities and a plurality of ground terminals in others of said cavities;
each said signal and ground terminal including a mounting portion engageable with said housing for holding said terminal in said housing and including a contact portion for engaging one of said signal and ground contact regions upon insertion of the circuit device into said receptacle;
and
an electrically conductive shield covering at least portions of said top and side walls;
said electrical connector being characterized by:
said mounting portions of said ground terminals extending to the exterior of said side wall into engagement with said shield.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.